I mean I don’t really consider him a deplorable person… He was a dumb edgy teen 15 years ago that happened to strike a cord with the overwhelming amount of dumb edgy teens on youtube, and strike it rich. I haven’t paid a ton of attention to him, but from what I saw of his linux and gadget crafting videos, it sounds like he’s grown up a fair amount from his days of scream streaming.
I mean you are welcome to do some research as well, but so far, I’ve done a lot of searching, as I said I found results on Silver and Garlic, but I can’t find anything that predates 1922 in which vampires seem to have any kind actual death. There’s a few notes of vampires that are non powered normal people around sunlight, which I guess could count as a weakness. But that wouldn’t make any actual tattoos like the shower thought we’re discussing here.
Garlic would indeed be covered in one of the precursors, Pijavica (a slovic monster caused by leading a sinful life, warded away with garlic). The albanian Striga can be warded with a silver coin coated in blood. But sunlight, hard to find any old references to that, Some forms have vampires as purely human by day, or their powers get stronger at night. Stoker’s vampires in fact did walk in the sun unharmed.
Is worth noting, that a lot of vampire lore seems more or less to have been written more or less as personifications of Plagues/Diseases. Of which silver and garlic both have anti-microbial effects for, and oddly many cultures considered them as tools for fighting diseases before even understanding germ theory (Hippocrates recommended silver for treating wounds and storing food in 400 BC), Garlic was used in primitive medicine going back at least 1000 years.
Sun, while obviously modern knowledge of UV light killing virus’s exists. Doesn’t seem like that was particularly noted in the past, most likely because very few people lacked exposure to the sun. It seems it wasn’t till around the mid 1800s that sunlights effects on microbes was discovered and tested.
I mean obviously depends on the lore etc… whether sun leaves scars, or burns the whole body evenly regardless of where the point of contact is. If it can be done light enough.
Or god forbid… just causes the vampire to look glittery. Now I would go on to say that that’s obviously a very modern tweak to the folklore… but actually sunlight itself as something to cause significant harm to vampires appears to have originated with Nosferatu in 1922.
I mean… has there ever been a movie about an alien that goes through proper migration paperwork.
Course I’m up for the next predator movie having that intro. "These species specifically only have interest in earth because they like to hunt humans and rip their spines out.
Yeah true, but he bought a gold immigration card for a million dollars so. Welcome to america!
I don’t see how anyone can blame you for this oppinion, and I’ll happily say I agree 100%. It’s basically known for a fact that anywhere sex work is unregulated, unmonitored etc… are almost universally used by traffickers, underage participants etc… and if we are talking video hosting, then revenge porn etc… Gotta fully agree, this is the category I want the site operators across the board to have the government breathing down their neck saying “You better damn well do everything humanly possible to prove this video was made with uncoerced consent of someone old enough to make that choice”.
lol I did that for a while when I was broke… for quite some time I rigged up my linksys router with wrt, set it up as a repeater for my neighbors wifi after cracking it.
Of course the real irony was after cracking it, I realized I could have cracked it much easier with a phone book (after realizing my local ISP, just used the persons phone number as the WEP key)
Well the rich people part is kind of silly.
In the past it was only rich people who had celphones, now it’s everybody. Before that it was only rich people who had computers at all.
Of course with cameras, I do have to note the bigger irony to me. IE I remember it largely being the tin foil hat nerds that were terrified of the government showing up at their door, watching for black hellicopters.
Now of course, the typical home buyer has cameras with internet access that gleefully share everything to the government, while the tinfoil hats either go way out of their way to make sure to get cameras that don’t go to the internet (or block them from doing so), or just avoid them altogether.
yeah, but emacs still wins out in capabilities. https://xkcd.com/378/
Want to add in a potential extra as well… even if you DO find a service good and worth continuing to use, It’s a good idea to try and cancel it anyway. Why, because a lot have special automations to attempt to retain you by offering you deals.
“are you sure you want to leave, what if we gave you 3 months at half off?”.
Well yeah but I believe the idea is in short the uncertainty, why it’s saying “in 10 years”. Think of it now as you have a kid graduating high school this year, and asks you what to major in in college that’s likely to make enough to pay off those killer loans it’s going to take.
Setup for the overused joke - I’ve been using vim since I first started using a computer, I just can’t quit.
also worth noting you open vim the first time, you get a huge ass splash screen telling you how to exit
Haven’t really done much in game design, but if I’m understanding right.
In game design, lets go with 2d first. You mark position with numbers. In 2d you have X and Y. So you say to move to 5,5. then from the starting point that will be 5 right, and 5 up.
3D you have the same thing, but a bunch of different groups were working on it in different ways without working together. So you wound up multiple systems that had X, Y and Z meaning different things. In the majority of 3d systems Y represents up/down. (the other 2 directions are still kind of half and half between systems)
I mean not elder scrolls specifically, but LLM NPCs are in fact being experimented with. There’s a game called Suck Up, in which you play as a vampire with the goal of convincing LLM NPCs to let you into their home. I’ve seen some videos of DMs that as random experiments generated a town.
actually also sounds like modders have done, exactly that for skyrim
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/98631
I think calling the LLM stuff just generally AI makes things increasingly confusing.
I think you also got mixed up in terms.
No Generative AI Content would be the badge he needs.
Unless I’m misunderstanding things LLM, or large language model, would only apply to text.
Exactly why on so many things it’s like… even when it looks like they are getting it, they don’t get it. Kind of like watching bluesky rising right now. Unless I’m majorly missing something here. It looks like it’s kind of open and kind of federated…
Except in a form that no one can feasibly create their own node. One change in leadership or goals of leadership away, and it can turn into the same neo nazi trash that people are joining it to get away from.
I mean if the game is in standard files on the phone… sftp server is more or or less enabled by default, or 1-2 commands to turn on in most linux distributions (“sudo systemctl enable sshd --now” would do it on distro’s that don’t have it on by default). and plenty of sftp clients available for ios and android. I’ve never used localsend, but it’s pretty explicitly cross platform, snap is default on ubuntu based ones so in their examples it would install from the single command “snap install localsend”.
Now running the game assuming it’s a made for windows one, just requires wine to be installed. Which is default on some distro’s, or a checkbox or single command to install on others, but unlikely to be a huge challenge.
I mean ethically it’s kind of in the air. Personally I only recomend pirating when there isn’t a viable FOSS alternative, and without very specific reasons IMO there’s some nice linux distro’s out there. Personally I feel so bogged down when forced to use windows for work or to help others etc… and these days you can run pretty much anything beyond certain online games that refuse to allow linux through their anti-cheat.
Now when it does come to software in general, I guess it depends on the view. IMO there’s 3 categories that make a big difference there.
Software is bad/not worth the price: Well if you believe that why use it at all.
Software is good, worth the money but you are broke: Honestly on the whole I agree with pirating in these situations… however I would actually recomend buying it when your finances allow. You should want to support products that you use and help you.
software is good, but exploitative in methods: IE say adobe with their forced subscription models etc… To me that one makes the most sense and probably agree with you.
software is good, but their anti-piracy is stupid: IE a lot of good software programs, throw in anti-piracy measures that wreck the game. IE things that require you to always be connected to a server, that may be unreliable, to access resources that are on your computer. Yeah fuck those guys, definately pirate it.
I mean, I don’t know of him now… he’s way older and, seems significantly less immature than he was in the past, it’s possible a good portion of his fanbase has also grown to be more tolerable.