At this rate, maybe we'll get lucky and NDP will (at least breifly) get some power and push for electoral reform. Its a long shot, but at point, it seems like the only way to get a better election system.
Thank you for the giveaway! I'm not exactly in desperate need for games, but think it'd be a nice gift to pass on to my girlfriend. Please only pick me if no one else valid responds.
I don't want or need incentivizing to play a game I enjoy.
The whole point of what I said was that it shouldn't be an incentive to play the game, it should be an incentive to try new things within the game that you already enjoy, should you chose to.
For example, me and my friend group put 1000+ hours into CS:GO. Almost all of this was in competitve because that is the mode the game is built around and the mode that is considered the "real" game. At the same time, playing the same game day after day, while enjoyable, is also repetitve. When operations (battlepasses with missions) began, we'd organize to complete those tasks as well as playing normal comp. Most only took 15-20 minutes and while the games were less refined, they were still fun and injected some variety into our otherwise repetitive gameplay. The game as a whole was made more fun because the tasks convinced people to leave the better gamemode in favour of adding variety. At the same time, not all of us completed all the tasks, and not all of them were needed for all the battlepass rewards. It was just a way to encourage exploring other parts of the game you might not have touched since you learned the meta, or found your favorite gamemode.
If not overly manipulative or overly forced on the player, they can be a fun bonus for the game. Overwatch 1 comes to mind as an example, and War Thunder's battlepass missions are sometimes good.That said, it should be basically offering an alternative approach to playing, rather than the more abusive, "Log in daily and grind for 8 hours" that is so common. "Play 3 arcade mode games for a free skin" is encouraging you to take a break from comp and try a more casual mode. Its a great way to reward less serious play. "Kill 3 enemies with small, medium, and large caliber guns for a new decal." encourages trying new equipment and playing off-meta equipment. Theres lots of boons for this sort of content (if implemented well), regardless of the monitization.
Edit: To put it another way, players optimize the fun out of games - examples could be playing only the meta, or taking the game way too seriously. Good battlepasses and missions encourage trying other ways to play for variety or for fun.
True, although at the same time, even most of the general AIs are quite good at it. I've tinkered with it a lot, and AIs are an amost perfect blend of knowledge of the aethetics of common human spaces, and a complete lack of consideration of their function or design. Things like subtly misaligned geometry, dark corners, and impractical layouts are all common and all fit the tone of Liminal/Uncanny imagery perfectly.
I'd love to see one of the "AI worlds" trained on games, trained on enviroments like this. It would be really cool to see.
It isn't absolute, but its rare for a politician not to be corrupt in some way. Generally to get into power, you have to be willing to put yourself above others or abuse the system. Then, once you're in power, most systems encourage corruption, or even make it hard to avoid. Generally the more powerful the position, the worse it is. That said, just as you should never underestimate the amount of evil in the world, you shouldn't underestimate the amount of good. Even if the system is stacked against them, some good people do manage to get through and genuinely do good things for their people.
Well, seeing as your post seemed to be much closer to an excuse to post a news article (and one that is particularly iffy sounding at that) rather than an open ended question, I can see why they would have assumed it'd be an attempt at astroterfing.
Personally, I'm not too opposed to one-way federation, at least for the moment. They're not a large platform, nor particularly competitve with the more open Fediverse (for the moment). The lack of attribution on the other hand, is iffy, both in terms of giving OC creators proper attribution for their work, and in terms of reducing misinformation (IE showing .ml posts as standard news posts).
All that said, I don't think its a large enough issue to be concerned about for now. Give it like 3-6 months and see if things have changed (or if the problem has disappeared). This isn't like Threads where we have to worry about a billion dollar Embrace Extend Extinguish campaign. Who knows, if we're esspecially lucky, the site might grow into a better Fediverse alternative to Lemmy, or will grow and die in a way that sends positive users our way - something that would greatly benifit the Fediverse in it's current state.
For all my concerns and distain about AI generated images, they are exceptionally good at creating uncanny, liminal, and dreamlike images.
The vast majority of those machines are very rigged, with a configurable winrate. I'm guessing that machine was set to just never pay out the large prize.
Russia breaks agreements whenever they're inconvenient. Past cease-fires have been broken almost immediately by Russia. I don't see why they would expect this time to be any different.
Oh, I'm definately not expecting NDP to win the next election. My though it more that if the Liberal party keeps imploding at the rate it is right now, it might be possible that NDP might be able to breifly take power once people are tired of CPC rule and the pendulum swings back. I don't expect they'll stay in power long (or at least not with any integrity) but at that point, it'd be in their best interest to pass electoral reform to avoid splitting votes with the Liberals.
I know its a long shot, and its unlikely they'd implement anything better than instant runoff / ranked choice, but at this point, thats the only hope for better goverment that seems at all feasible.