I got permabanned from /r/askhistorians for posting a link to reveddit, a site where you could view deleted posts. I did that to inform people that they could use that site to see all the posts that the mods remove (in that subreddit they remove any post that does not provide references).
I thought that the worst case would be that my post would get deleted and I would get a warning. No, they just permabanned me.
I was mad so I appealed telling them that it's wrong to permaban people for reasons like this. I understand permaban for offensive content. But I still don't understand their action.
Discussing with them proved that while one of them one reasonable and understanding, the other was completely mad about my action and wanted me to be almost on my knees pleading to remove the permaban. Eventually they "did a vote" and I stayed permabanned. I tried again one year later to no avail - I figured, maybe one year later they would get over it. Nope.
I just stopped checking and recommending /r/askhistorians ever since.
Il casse les idées reçues de certains média comme quoi un jour l'IA pourra complètement remplacer l'être humain.
Il explique (grosso modo) que l'IA ne sera jamais meilleure que nous sur l'ensemble des domaines. Tu peux faire une IA spécialisée dans un domaine, et l'IA sera sûrement meilleure que toi (par exemple aux échecs). Si on était capable de produire une IA pour chaque domaine concevable - alors peut-être que l'IA nous dépasserait. Mais le nombre de domaines étant infini, ça ne sera jamais le cas.
Même dans les domaines spécialisés, l'IA est complètement inefficace en terme de ressources par rapport à un être humain. Les deux exemples majeurs qu'il donne pour illustrer ça :
- on a entrainé une IA pour reconnaitre des chats. Il a fallu l'entrainer sur 100000 images de chat, après quoi l'IA reconnaissait les chats à 98%. Un enfant de 2 ans serait capable de reconnaitre un chat après avoir vu seulement quelques images de chat, et à 100%.
- le data center qui a battu le champion de Go lors de la défaite historique contenait des milliers d'ordinateurs soit des centaines de kW de consommation. Le champion de Go, avec son cerveau qui consomme environ 20W, a réussi à battre cette IA.
La conclusion de sa vidéo c'est que l'IA c'est juste un outil. Un outil très puissant et qui sera certainement meilleur que nous dans certains domaines pour lesquels il a été conçu. Mais qu'il y aura toujours besoin d'un être humain pour le manier, et qu'on est à des années lumières de l'IA "Hollywoodienne" qui serait réellement intelligente.
Discours d'introduction de la conférence "IA & éducation", organisée par France Université Numérique, et qui s'est déroulée les 8 et 9 juin 2023 à Pantin.htt...
I have! Many times. I am one of those who is not nostalgic with D1 simply because I did not finish it until late (the first time I seriously dived through it was 5 years ago).
Could you point out things that I said that are inaccurate or incorrect?
If you are interested I highly suggest DevilutionX, it's a modern engine for Diablo 1 with lots of modern features (like alt highlighting) and modern windows compatibility
Good question, I think both games are masterpieces each in their own way.
I personally prefer D1 because it's more focused on tactical gameplay than D2. If you play it right you can tackle the whole game without drinking a lot of potions. D1 rewards both the "skill" of the player aka how good they are at the game, and also the character progression in itself. However D1 lacks a good endgame (although some fellas did engage in PvP fights and PvP tournaments). But there are mods out there that expand the challenge in interesting ways.
D2 is more focused around build and playstyle variety, character progression and trading. It does have a bit of tactical gameplay but it's mostly common sense.
I think D1 is more single-player oriented where D2 is more multi-player oriented. I enjoyed a lot D2:R when it came out so I do like D2 too! I only place it below D1 because of personal taste.
I have played the campaign of Diablo 4 - I did not have much expectation but I got bored fairly early in the game. With each new game, franchises are supposed to get better, but I am not sure that is the case with Diablo.
Here are all the points where I think D4 is actually worse than D1, even though it was released 27 years later
Variety of enemy in terms of gameplay
In D4, there are more or less 5 archetypes of enemies:
- melee who runs fast and chase you but are weak
- melee who walks slow and are more sturdy and hit harder
- ranged who does nothing but shoot
- ranged who circle strafes and shoots
- enemy spawner that you must usually kill first
Enemies end up having different bodies of course, but in essence that's really all they give and you update your gameplay based on which of them you face.
In D1, there are many more:
- fallen ones who hit you then retreat when one of them dies
- skeletons that are almost "typical" melee except that they hesitate and don't engage instantly
- bats that teleport to you when you hit them
- goats (melee or archers) that try their best to surround you by circling you
- scavengers and gargoyles that heal up (on carcass for scavengers) when you stop chasing them
- mages that teleport around and flash you if you get close
- balrogs that cast inferno, making it dangerous to escape (if you escape in the same direction as inferno you get a ton of damage) and tricky to beat
- vipers that can rush toward you and double strike you
In D1 there are so many enemies to get to know, you really need to change your playstyle based on the enemy you face (unless you are high level enough of course) which makes it all the more thrilling and interesting to play the game. In D4 I just played the same way for each enemy really, more or less.
Variety of dungeon layout
That one is easy. In D1 you have no idea where the stairs can be. Or where rooms are. You can find anything anywhere. The labyrinth can take endless shapes (well, up to 32 bits anyway). You are always hyped to enter a new level because you don't know exactly what shape it's going to be or how enemy packs will be organized. Sometimes you get a really nasty selection of enemy and you get a hard time. Some other times it's a breeze. The randomness of enemy selection further increases the thrill of getting there.
In D4 almost all dungeons are : do something on the left of the dungeon. Do something on the right of the dungeon. Press on to the boss area. It's boring and I think that's part of why I just stopped doing side quests after a while.
Oh, I did forget one other possible thing to do in a dungeon: "Look at all clues in a room". I'm not sure it has a place in a game like Diablo where it's supposed to be hack'n'slash ; not hack, look around, and slash.
Difficulty progression
In D1 you get a progression wall at each new zone. Church is fairly easy albeit with difficulty spikes on Butcher and Leoric. Catacombs is where players start to struggle with all the goat men, nasty dogs ; vicious monsters start to get introduced. Caves is another ramp up in difficulty as you are forced to fight in a mostly open area with little cover and tons of elemental damage. Hell is the ultimate test, you need to single out most enemies to beat them (until you get strong enough at least).
In D4 it's all.. the same? I never got the impression "Wow that content is harder now". All acts have been more of the same in difficulty. The only exception is the Capstone dungeon because I tried it at clvl 46 (I was too eager to ramp up the difficulty, I could not set myself to wait to clvl 50).
Character progression
Again, in D1 you do have strong character power spikes. Like getting that first tier 2 armor (changing your look). Or getting a good weapon. Or getting that nice +40% fire resistance ring. Such drops allows you to kill monsters more easily, and you do feel the difference!
In D4 it's "Oh cool I have +3% crit damage" and it's unnoticeable. The only noticeable effects are from legendary items (I only speak of the items you get through the campaign) but it's not like a big power spike neither, it's more like a cool gimmick. Also, you never really say "I used to have trouble killing these monsters and now it's easy" because it's always easy.
I keep hoping that one day, there will be a game that surpasses Diablo 1. But so far, D1 remains the best experience I ever had in the genre.
At least you are going to the dentist. My uncle was not brushing his teeth. And never to the dentist. Eventually they had to remove all of his teeth because it was all infected and it was too unbearable for him.
I had a depression period of my life where I was doing the worst possible treatment to my teeth - was eating a lot of sugar and would skip brushing here and there; also I was not brushing effectively. My teeth are not in very good condition right now. I wish I had kept a good mouth hygiene even when I was depressed.
Maybe in your country. Here in France AirBnB are both cheaper and the rooms are nicer than hotel. Some of them could be landlords and profit.. but some others rent something that would not be fitting as a location (like a vacation flat or a subpart of a house) but is OK for staying just a couple of days.
So I disagree heavily with your generalisation
J'ai quitté Reddit pour de bon. Facebook j'y vais jamais - d'ailleurs ça m'est déjà arrivé de rater des événements car on m'avait invité sur Facebook mais comme j'y vais jamais.. je pense que éventuellement je vais carrément enlever Facebook.
Les autres réseaux sociaux j'ai jamais trop regardé. Instagram et TikTok sont arrivés après que j'ai fini mes années lycée. J'ai quand même regardé vite fait.. mais ça m'a pas convaincu donc j'ai désinstallé
Du coup maintenant j'utilise juste Lemmy, Discord et quelques groupes Signal
I disagree that you owe a face to face conversation. No one should forced to go meet someone if they don't feel like it.
In the context of dating, if you get ghosted, consider that the person is not interested in you after all - and just move on. No big deal.
Negativity. It's ok to criticize, but there was something about Reddit that encouraged people to bash each others until one side wins instead of agreeing to disagree and move on.
Be positive! If people find it fun it hurts no one
J'adore Star Realms ! Parties courtes, jeu très facile à transporter, et pourtant une sacré complexité de jeu qui peut aller très loin (il y a même un site dédié aux tactiques du jeu : megahaulin.com ; et des tournois).
C'est un deckbuilder sur un thème de combat spatial. Au début tu achètes des vaisseaux (que tu piocheras par la suite) qui te génèrent du commerce et des vaisseaux qui enlèvent les cartes nulles de départ ; puis au fur et à mesure de la partie tu transitionnes vers des achats de gros vaisseaux qui font beaucoup de dégats ou qui te protègent. Il y a 4 factions, chaque faction définit vraiment un archétype ; et il y a des rapports de force entre les factions (rouge => bleu => jaune/vert => rouge), ainsi que des bonus si tu joues des vaisseaux d'une même faction.
Le jeu de base est déjà très complet (je conseille de commencer par la version "Frontières" qui contient de quoi jouer jusqu'à 4 ainsi que des missions coop). Les extensions rendent le jeu encore plus intéressant. Et le jeu est vraiment pas cher
Parmi les choses qui m'ont aidé :
- laisser la lumière allumée le soir (éviter de geeker avec juste la lumière de l'écran)
- réduire la lumière bleue le soir (par exemple avec f.lux)
- ne pas jouer juste avant de dormir. Prévoir 1 heure avant le coucher où je ne geek pas.
- boire beaucoup, et bien manger aussi
Avant j'en avais 1 fois par mois voire deux. Et effectivement je geekais beaucoup trop (jusqu'à 2-3h du matin chaque nuit..), j'avais un mauvais rythme de sommeil (très chaotique); ça survenait dans les moments de grosse fatigue, mais aussi si je faisais un effort physique sans avoir assez mangé.
Au fil des années j'ai amélioré nettement ma qualité de vie, maintenant ça m'arrive peut être deux fois par an maximum.
Les médicaments c'est bien pour traiter les symptômes (et c'est bien d'en avoir sur soi), mais je pense que le mieux c'est de chercher à corriger pourquoi elles arrivent. Si c'est possible ! (c'est pas toujours le cas)
I don't want them making money out of the content I voluntarily and freely created. I was contributing in subs like C_programming to help newcomers. I have been thinking that all these posts I made will help the next AI - and Reddit (not me) will get paid for it.
So I mass edited each post and comment I made. They won't get away with my data. My data belongs to me, not them.
D1 has a couple of tragic moments (the Butcher encounter as witnessed by the townsfolks, the end of the story itself) but overall it's more a story in a dark universe than a dark story where everyone loses people they care about.
D2 also has a couple of tragic places (I am mostly thinking of the Act 3 Zakarum Temple filled with blood; or the massacre in the Act 2 Palace) but you arrive after it happened. You don't see the deed happening. So it's more of a power story in a dark universe rather than a sad and dark one.
D3, well, is D3. Characters have as much power as gods, villains keep rambling endlessly about how they will shatter your world until you kill them, rinse and repeat.. It's power fantasy
But D4 is really a dark story. You don't just arrive after the fact like in D2, you really see massacres, dismemberment, sadism, blood sacrifices etc.. happening all over. And it's not just in a couple of places in the story. It's really everywhere. It's like the D4 writers passed the message "Each quest should have a grim ending". Or rather, they saw how people wanted Diablo to get darker after the D3 fiasco, so they listened (a bit too much) and cranked the button all the way to "grim" and "sad".
In general I have very mixed opinion about D4 story. It has just too much grimness. It's like every other person in Sanctuary is on a frenzy rampage to kill, eat or chop parts of their neighbors. And, on the opposite side of the spectrum, we have a certain prime evil reduced to bargaining with humans where they should be the very essence of terror/hatred/destruction... It does not make any sense
Larger instances will either have more donators or close their subscriptions if it really is unsustainable.
The more Lemmy grows, the more instances will show up, which will help spread the load.
You speak of sustainability but Lemmy survived the wave of incoming Redditors without much downtime. It's really impressive that this growth could happen. That's the power of decentralized systems: they scale!
Je ne suis pas trop Youtube ou les blogs du coup je ne peux pas te conseiller..
Mais je trouve ça super de poster en français alors que tu ne maitrises pas encore la langue :) N'hésite pas à participer aux différents sujets ici, je pense que tu peux apprendre beaucoup
Reddit broke my trust. No way I'm going back there unless a major change occurs such as the CEO leaving to make place for a new one who is not as profit driven. But no way that's gonna happen
Ich spreche nur ein bischen Deutsch aber ich verstehe dieses Meme !
Hello,
First of all thank you so much to the developers of jerboa, the app is simple and responsive (coming from reddit it's a huge plus), and it just works!
One thing I am personally missing is the ability to easily discover communities. You can search by keyword and that works great, but I would rather have an exhaustive list of them all, especially as I am new here and I might be missing on some of them because I did not enter the right keywords.
The alternative i found is to search for each vowel 'a', 'e' etc.. because all communities names have at least a vowel, but it would be more practical to have an actual listing
What do you think?