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Experts Warn of Growing Inhalant Trend on TikTok as 'Chroming' Gains Popularity
  • I think the running conspiracy is that the platform is a psyop to get idiots to try doing idiotic things they wouldn't otherwise get exposed to.

    From what I've heard, the Chinese version of the app's recommendations algorithm leans towards educational content instead of topics literally trying to tear at the seams of modern society.

  • 'I'm just doing it for fun, and it isn't fun anymore': Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry is hanging up her gauntlets and retiring from making gaming videos
  • I can respect that. I basically came to the same conclusion regarding most PvP games/modes.

    If I'm playing a game to have fun, and I'm not having fun, why am I still playing it?

    My online friend group never really saw it my way unfortunately, but it always amuses me when we hang out in voice chat and they're getting biblical-levels of salty in a match while I'm just chilling and playing Spyro or something.

    That being said, it sounds like she'd effectively turned the game streaming into her job. That'd sap the fun out of anything eventually.

  • Elon Musk steps up political giving with six-figure donation to House Republicans
  • Doesn't that exceed political donation caps to PACs?

    https://www.fec.gov/updates/fec-announces-2023-2024-campaign-cycle-contribution-limits/

    The limit for contributions by individuals and nonmulticandidate PACs to national party committees has risen to $41,300, while the limit for individual and nonmulticandidate PAC contributions to each of the additional national party committee accounts has increased to $123,900 per year.

  • Nintendo plans to sue Palworld-maker Pocketpair
  • Pocketpair has a pretty good case against Nintendo here, I think, because other games have used these things before.

    I know it was never actually released, but Scalebound had a mechanic that would have allowed a player to tell their dragon to perform a task, albeit, usually destructively.

    Guild Wars 2 Added a mechanic years ago that let players traverse water and land by automatically a switching between mounts.

    'Releasing' a creature into a 3d environment has been done by every minion-mancer class in an MMO since the dawn of the genre.

  • Nintendo plans to sue Palworld-maker Pocketpair
  • Looks like it's over the game mechanics of 'releasing a creature into a 3d environment and having it perform a contextual task' & 'having a rideable mount switch to a different rideable mount depending on terrain'

    I don't think either of these would work in the US, because you can't protect game mechanics here, but I'm not sure about Japan's take.

    Edit: I missed that this was still under speculation at the time of the post:

    https://bulbagarden.net/threads/nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-jointly-file-lawsuit-for-patent-infringement-against-palworld-creator-pocketpair-inc-in-the-tokyo-district-court.303354/

    Based on searching of Japanese patent databases, initial speculation is that these may include (but is not necessarily limited to) patents relating to game mechanics and gameplay features from Pokémon: Legends Arceus, and may include patents such as one for throwing and using Poké Balls in a 3D space (JP,2023-092953,A); and one for automatically switching between ride Pokémon as a player transitions between different terrain, such as between air and the ground (JP,2023-092954,A).

  • Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?
  • Nine Parchments - Top down Magic slinging romp. Similar to the Majica series, but with less knowing how to do certain key-press combos.

    Orcs Must Die 2 - 3rd person tower defense where you place traps and use spells and weapons to take down foes. Continues the story of the first game, which did not have multiplayer, unfortunately.

    Children of Morta - Top down dungeon crawler. Take on the roles of a family trying to hunt down an ancient evil. Like the Belmont's of Castlevania fame.

    Full Metal Furies - Top down action fighter. Fight the Titans as some of the last remaining survivors of Ragnarok. Fun dialing with a good-sized world map to explore.

    Astroneer - 3rd person survival crafting on a randomized planet. Cute component designs and a unique air management system. Plays best with a mouse & keyboard.

    Deep Rock Galactic - Space Dwarves Corporate mining simulator. You and up to 4 friends drive do into infested planetoids in order to make some Gold. Destructible terrain and shenanigans.

  • Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products | TechCrunch
  • While, yes it is not copy and paste in the literal sense, it does still have the capacity to outright copy the style of an artist's work that was used to train it.

    If teaching another artist's work is already frowned upon when trying to pass the trace off as one's own work, then there's little difference when a computer does it more convincingly.

    Maybe a bit off tangent here, since I'm not even sure if this is strictly possible, but if a generative system was only trained off of, say, only Picasso's work, would you be able to pass the outputs off as Picasso pieces? Or would they be considered the work of the person writing a prompt or built the AI? What if the artist wasn't Picasso but someone still alive, would they get a cut of the profits?