kakes

@kakes@sh.itjust.works

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kakes , to Technology in Toys 'R' Us Riles Critics With 'First-Ever' AI-Generated Commercial Using Sora

In case anyone is curious - as I was - here's the commercial:
https://youtu.be/uTVlnehpRHQ

(Not the Toys R Us channel, in case you don't want to give them direct views.)

kakes , to Microblog Memes in Think of the children!

Yep. Alberta is currently breaking up Alberta Health Services in a clear "Divide & Conquer" attempt.

kakes , to Microblog Memes in The moon

Not in my experience, haha. Love you guys though!

kakes , to Today I Learned in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

Sounds like the kind of thing a paranoid schizophrenic would lose their mind over.

kakes , to Ask Lemmy in What games did you have a good time with that you just never finished?

I feel like everyone has their preferred builds they kind of gravitate to and feel comfortable with. That, and for me, a lot of luck to make up for my lack of skill lol.

kakes , to Ask Lemmy in What games did you have a good time with that you just never finished?

Noita.

I've gotten the Greed ending once (defeating Kolmisilmä and "completing" The Work), but I've never even considered attempting the true ending.

kakes , to memes in Almost all of the American ones I've heard of are terrifying.

Seems like OP is not familiar with fae mythology.

kakes , to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren't bound to license agreements, turns out it's actually very easy to have a "massive" content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

kakes , to Technology in A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels

Haha literally what planet do they live on?

kakes , to You Should Know in YSK: StreetComplete app for Android, a way to fill map data in a game like way

Oh hey, I think I'm the guy from that post! Lol

Glad you're enjoying it! I've been having a lot of fun with it too - even if my wife sometimes thinks I'm crazy when I "just quickly run over here" to check the hours for this place, haha.

My "Global Rank" is a bit over 5000, but I'm not sure if that's the same number as you're looking at, given the range. 400th in Canada, though!

kakes , to Asklemmy in what Lemmy communities don't exist but you wish they did?

Honestly I wish there were less communities. I've said this before, but people treat Lemmy like late-stage Reddit, expecting niche communities for everything, and we end up with hundreds of communities with no (or one, if we're lucky) active members.

This problem is then amplified by the fact that these niche communities are split even further across several instances, so our userbase ends up completely dissipated.

I would love to see users focus on a smaller number of more general-purpose communities. Of course, these should still be shared across instances, but I think we would benefit a lot from having, say, a "video games" community instead of 500 specific game communities.

As a side note as well, I don't think we shouldn't be "allowed" to create more niche communities (though if an instance admin wanted to regulate, that's their call). I think this should be more of a user culture shift, if anything.

kakes , to Asklemmy in What is an underrated/forgotten video game that you think deserved a second chance?

The only way to play, imo.

kakes , to Asklemmy in What is an underrated/forgotten video game that you think deserved a second chance?

Man imagine this game with a proper modern physics engine.

I mean, I guess it inspired a lot of what we see in modern physics games, so I don't really need to imagine, but still, I would play it.

kakes , to Asklemmy in Have you ever, given someone a major step up in life, been a mentor, and measurably altered the trajectory of their life for the better?

I've done this a few times through my life, especially lately as I've finally been getting my own life stabilized. Here's some more "notable" examples.

A family member, where I've been trying to mentor them and help them in every way I possibly can - sometimes at great personal cost - but as the saying goes, I've led them to water but I can't make them drink. Still won't give up, though.

Another family member I've done the same for has actually been trying to take me up on it. Still early stages, but they've started on applying for college in a field they're interested in. I'm helping them study since it happens to be adjacent to my own field, and I'll help cover the bulk of the cost if they don't qualify for gov't funding. I'm really hoping things work out for them.

The only time I've really actually seen obvious results is in my students where I volunteer teaching English. One student in particular really struggled to read even a single word, but in less than a year, they can now read most sentences on their own - which is honestly just insane to me.
Obviously it's like 99.999% their effort rather than mine, but I like to think I'm helping lol.

...writing this all out makes me feel like I'm bragging or something. Really I've just been in a rough spot for most of my life, and now that I'm getting my life together I'm just trying to give back a bit where I can. I just want everyone to be happy, lol.

kakes , to Ask Lemmy in If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?

(?<!MagnyusG)

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