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  • Clbull@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAI Rule
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    2 months ago

    On the plus side, the sheer power consumption of using an LLM to dish out targeted advertisements will be prohibitively expensive. Any agency stupid enough to do this with current technology is gonna go bust.

    As for hosting the LLM locally on the viewer’s machine… Remember the furore of shady companies burying crypto miners into their software? This is going to be even more wasteful of system resources and is going to result in such a sluggish user experience that the industry will go bankrupt.








  • Clbull@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonecontroversial rule
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    5 months ago

    I think the reason FFXIV is enjoyable is more-so that if you act like a toxic dickwad, you’ll be yeeted out of the community at record pace by Square Enix, because unlike Blizzard, they actually enforce their game rules.

    Healing is fun when the community is supportive and not when people are blowing a gasket over imperfect play.


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    5 months ago

    I’m nowhere near as into MMOs as I was years ago, but I honestly preferred non-DPS roles. Healing was my forte and I actually feel proud of myself for nearly clearing Icecrown Citadel Heroic during my WoW heyday. Had to quit several weeks into joining a decent guild because of sixth form.

    Dunno whether it’s a European thing but I’ve always found MMO (and MOBA) communities to be toxic-as-fuck and that’s what turned me away from hardcore raiding. Things were once so bad that I got bullied and harassed off of a server (Turalyon EU, horde side) during my teenage years.

    I could write an entire novella of negative experiences I’ve had with players in both game genres, but I’d be going off on a massive tangent.

    All I’ll say is that this meme is accurate. Healers get a lot of flak when things go wrong, and it takes a certain level of masochism to actually want to play with the kind of verbally abusive, sociopathic, basement-dwelling turbovirgins that flip out with slur-filled nerd rage, messages telling you to off yourself, and wishes that you’ll die of cancer, all because you didn’t parse highly during a raid boss or didn’t carry their hardstuck asses in a Ranked League of Legends game.

    The hardest part about World of Warcraft (at least from a PvE perspective) isn’t playing your class well. It’s having to wade through a community rife with elitism, gatekeeping, unattainable catch-22’s to join a raid group and toxicity. Final Fantasy XIV is a bit better, but that’s because unlike Blizzard, Square Enix actually invest in customer service and actually enforce their player conduct rules.

















  • I mean I agree in the sense that it’s a weird fuckin meme. I personally don’t get foot fetishes.

    Also, I like being on Lemmy because it feels like I have to self-censor over on Reddit.

    I can’t even use words like ‘cuck’, ‘e-girl’, ‘smurf’, ‘boost’ or ‘incel’ on Reddit without most communities siccing automoderator on me.