Given the fact that in the image its smaller, and lacking the left and right arms of the star, I don’t think thats a Gemini logo. That said, the leaf blower body doesn’t look like jpeg artifacting, so that may be AI. Its also possible it was something like AI infill, or AI characters sloppily layered onto a real image, which would explain the lack of AI artifacts in the background.
Edit: higher res version proves its AI.
Do you have another image I could compare against? I still don’t see the logo there. Theres something that looks vaguely like a top and bottom spike, but they aren’t even aligned.
To me, this just looks like photoshop, particularly with the cutoff of the spray cone, the bad lightling, and the lack of AI artifacts.
It is not. Its a separate game, with its own engine and unique content. It’s just inspired in part, by Minecraft.
Even outside of the content being viewed, there may be a huge difference in effect depending on who is viewing it. Almost all of the current studies are on University students, probably western demographic most able to socialize with others due to need, proximity, and free time. Debatably, they’re also among the most impressionable groups as well, given that they’re still not fully grown and are in the middle of trying to figure out and plan their lives. Intuitively, this would mean they’re more able to take advantage of their time off social media, and more impacted by their time on it.
This begs the question of if the effects will be the same in other populations. For example, in populations that are less able to socialize, does social media help reduce the burden, and if so, what platforms or elements have this effect versus more negative effects.
I think social media probably isn’t great, but the data also isn’t particularly conclusive, and much of it is very broad and unhelpful. For example, in the first study you linked, it had a sample of 143 University students accross three different social media sites, measured only using app battery usage. While it isn’t to be completely discounted, esspecially alongside the larger body of work, it’s sample size is tiny, and the data collected isn’t esspecially representitve of what is supposed to be measured, as it includes non-social-media tools like Facebook Marketplace while excluding social media accessed via the browser (among other flaws). The vast majority of studies on the topic, regardless of findings, have similar flaws.
IMO, social media as a whole is too varied to meaningfully lump together, and a lot of the impacts that are commonly attributed to social media are better attributed to deeper causes regarding lack of sociatal trust and support. Tracking the impacts of social media is hard enough, nonetheless the impacts of something like the lack of third places, and impacts of economic inequality on mental health.
I personally played it some time after Portal 2, probably 2015 or so. I found it great, particularly as far as lore and pacing are concerned. Sure, there are bits that drag, characters that aren’t well written, and plot/lore details that are too ambiguous, but I’d much rather that than hand-holdy, surface-level plot of most similar shooters, or plot told through YouTube videos and flavor text like many modern shooters. IMO, its still one of the best at what it does, and its still a personal favorite for that reason.
Have they? Beyond, small, local measures, I haven’t noticed much difference. We still are trying to buy the F-35, we’re just as committed to American software and financial institutions and have no plans nor initiatives to transfer away, we’re doubling down on fossil fuels, much of which will go to the US, and we don’t really even (accurately) label which products are Canadian or not. I don’t know of a single government-led or funded initiative to reduce reliance on the US.
While I don’t think it deserves the win over Blue Prince, it does have some interesting gameplay innovations compared to others in the genre, as well as some interesting tech.
In particular, the included PvE element, as well as the sorter session and decreased death penalty makes the game much more accessible. It also helps offer an incentive to not shoot-on-sight, as the bots serve as a common enemy and shared threat. Its a difference between games like PUBG where games are tense, hour-long affair, and something like Fortnite where its colourful, easy to get into, and despite still being competitve, filled with other diversions for those who won’t win.
Spotify for my partner. Anyone know any good alternatives for those who like listening to a constant stream of new music?
I believe its a mix of the fact that Google favours large websites, and the fact that so much of the Fediverse is hostile to bots/crawling, which also tends to exclude search engines.
The biggest thing for me is searchability. After a post is off the feed, it may as well be deleted. God help you if you’re looking for something new, like a guide or help post. Most of the Fediverse is unindexed by search engines, and the built-in Lemmy search makes Reddit search look like Google in it’s prime. I know PieFed has helpped a bit by adding flairs, so you can at least sort by that, but to my knowledge thats about as far as anyone has gone trying to address this.
Xfrgolszzzxy - pronounced “Surf-goal-see”, not “ex-frogs-ly”
I’ve got a large enough backlog for the time being, but still wanted to say, “thanks for the giveaway!”
I’ve tried Mastrodon and PeerTube, but bounced off both due to a lack of quality content. On Mastrodon, the only person I found worth following was Technology Connections, and on PeerTube, I didn’t find any of the more scripted and/or well-editted videos that I normally enjoy.
I haven’t tried PieFed yet, but might consider switching at some point given Lemmy’s idology, and increasingly present shortcomings.
By the sound of it, it was minimal profit at base price, and while things should get cheaper to manufacture and sell over time, hardware prices are rapidly increasing. I wouldn’t be suprised if they need to increase their prices to break even, going forward - esspecially given that if its too cheap, buisness or industry customers might start buying it.
Its harder on the back-neck than something like a GBA, but compared to the switch, it isn’t night-and-day. With basically anything larger than a phone, you’re probably going to be resting it on your knees or a table anyway.
As someone who admittedly isn’t super familiar with Japan’s military, and only vaguely of their politics, this sounds obvious with the current state of the world. China seems to be rapidly arming, and they’ve seen how unreliable US support is in the lack of support for Ukraine and the increasingly unstable current government.
If anything, I’m really shocked more nations aren’t re-arming.
I’ve having trouble even telling what he’s trying to say or achive. Like, at first, it seems like complaining about mass downvotes from /all, which is reasonable enough, but then it just deteriorates into nonsense.
Edit: Looks like thats all it is. Just very, very immaturely and incoherently. Nothing particularly mental, just a kid (or someone of similar maturity) salty about downvotes.
You’re right. It hadn’t federated across when I wrote my comment. Its definately AI. Theres also more weirdness visible in the background too.