What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?

  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
    965·
    28 天前

    Modern magic. We tricked crystals into thinking by drugging them and zapping them with electricity. Then we used those crystals to trick matricies into hallucinating by forcing them to guess the answer to math questions and smacking them when they get it wrong and kept doing that until they get it right. Ethics and hype aside, it’s pretty fucking wild.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        37·
        27 天前

        They’re talking about computer chips. We dug up rocks, melted them down, and extracted the parts we wanted. Then we engraved arcane and imperceptible runes on and inside of them, using an extremely expensive and delicate process. Then we trapped lightning inside of them, and told them to show us videos of cats.

        • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          27 天前

          You missed the bit before engraving them where we grow the rocks into crystals and “drug” (using the OP’s term) them by infusing them with the essence of different rocks, to turn them into slightly different kinds of rocks, which need to be very precisely combined for the engraving to produce the intended result.

  • hactar42@lemmy.ml
    744·
    27 天前

    Superman

    A lot of people dismiss Superman as being “too powerful” or “unrelatable.” They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers. But seriously, how many of us can actually relate to being a billionaire playboy with unlimited resources? In contrast, Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America. He is as much Clark Kent as he is Superman.

    People call him a “boy scout,” as if that’s a flaw. But that misses the point. The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary. He sets an ideal for people to strive for.

    Yes, in the hands of a bad writer he can become a walking deus ex machina. But in the hands of a good writer, Superman becomes the core of some of the most powerful and iconic stories in comics. His greatness doesn’t come from what he can do, it comes from the choices he makes.

      • Honytawk@feddit.nl
        151·
        27 天前

        That is probably because Batman doesn’t pay taxes, Bruce Wayne does.

        And Bruce Wayne is known for spending tons of the Wayne foundation on helping the poor and criminalized. Tons of charities, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, … are funded by them.

        And if Bruce gets tax breaks because of that, it is because that is how the law works, not because he wants them.

        Bruce is far from the average Billionaire you get in our dimension.

        • biofaust@lemmy.world
          3·
          26 天前

          I love Batman (currently replaying the Rocksteady games for the 3rd time) and I grew up with him and cannot really relate to Superman since I am not a farm boy. But it is very easy to see how Batman is in fact a fascist-capitalist fantasy.

          A rich man who takes things in his own hands on a whim, infiltrating public order tech, hoarding personal data on virtually everyone in Gotham (at least) if not resorting to real-time surveillance by infiltrating personal devices (in The Dark Knight).

          The idea that he “does good” by deciding a subset of all possible activities on which to spend his money and never spends himself on releasing that decision power to the public is exactly what brought the US where they are and what they hate viscerally about the EU (even if the sliding is real here as well).

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
          2·
          26 天前

          By your reasoning, is also because Superman probably doesn’t pay taxes, Clark Kent dies

    • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      27 天前

      Overly Sarcastic Productions has done a number of videos they call detail diatribes that have focused on Superman. The summary of many of them is that Superman is his most interesting when saving people and not when punching villains. Even in larger team fights, he could save everyone or hold off the threat, but he can’t do both so he needs the help of others.

    • trslim@pawb.socialOP
      12·
      27 天前

      I actually love superman being a normal dude who saves people with a smile. He should be a good person in stories, because his strength isnt the point, his willpower to help everyone is.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      27 天前

      They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers.

      Okay, but he’s a billionaire super-scientist who occasionally uses occult magicks. How does none of this qualify?

      Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America

      Sure, but how many modern day Americans could relate to growing up on a farm? Or getting a job in journalism?

      The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary.

      I think superheroes are largely defined by their villains. And Lex Luthor - as an individual who regularly does struggle to dominate the world (and periodically succeeds with mixed results) - makes an excellent foil for this exact reason. Superman is, at his heart, just a guy trying to do the right thing. Luthor is an ego-maniacal fascist who cannot conceive of having less than total control.

      The best Superman stories are ones that illustrate the practical limits of a seemingly omnipotent individual. It’s Superman’s struggles - his poor choices, his desire for human affection, his naive optimism, his inability to be everywhere at once - that make him relatable. The idea of Superman as a maximal human who still can’t do everything has a way of taking the load of us, comparably weak and vulnerable people, who strive for just as much as a fictional demigod.

      • hactar42@lemmy.ml
        7·
        27 天前

        It’s a good one. That one and All-Star Superman are the two I always recommend to people.

          • ContriteErudite@lemmy.world
            2·
            27 天前

            All-Star is what made me change my mind on Superman. I never really liked him when I was younger, and it was for all the same complaints that people have already listed above. But All-Star was a blast to read, not in spite of it’s (at times) cheesiness, but because of it. All-Star Superman is relatable because he embodies the best traits in all of us; he is incredibly intelligent and kind, leveled and patient. Without going into spoilers, I think what I love most about All-Star is that it shows that even the best among us have our weaknesses, and that it’s not the huge, planet-level threats that define who are and what we do, but the small, innocuous things that can most affect who we are in the moment.

        • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
          2·
          26 天前

          All star Superman the DC movie is easily the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen. Every moment is dumber than the one before it. I laughed so hard I nearly died. Seriously go get messed up and watch it with your friends!

          • hactar42@lemmy.ml
            2·
            26 天前

            It definitely wasn’t one of DC’s best adaptions. They really tried to squeeze too much in for the run time. They totally could have dropped the whole Atlas and Samson thing and concentrated more on the main story.

            • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
              2·
              26 天前

              Honestly, if they fixed a few things it would just be an extremely mediocre and bad movie so it’s better off that it’s an unbelievable cavalcade of nonsense

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      27 天前

      Yeah, the fandom is… Not great. It’s basically just an American anime, but the online fans are rabid.

      It honestly reminds me of the fandom for Undertale. If you only ever play the game, you’ll have a wonderful time. But if you ever do some online searches to try to dig into it further or find people to discuss it with, you’ll quickly discover that the online fandom is extremely toxic.

    • binarytobis@lemmy.world
      8·
      27 天前

      I think the fandom is so crappy about it because the show had to cut out most of the redemption arc of the big bads because it was prematurely cancelled. If so that’s pretty silly because it came about after the creator stuck up for a lesbian wedding being included.

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    591·
    28 天前

    I was an early adopter of No Man’s Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.

    • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      27 天前

      I actually preferred the early days, I don’t like most of the recent updates and I haven’t played in probably a year. I can’t really explain why except now it feels too busy.

    • gdog05@lemmy.world
      6·
      28 天前

      Dude, next time use a healthy badger and you’ll only have to deal with blowback from NMS.

    • uhmbah@lemmy.ca
      5·
      27 天前

      stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.

      lololololololololol

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        15·
        27 天前

        A space exploration video game. It had a famously bad launch, because the director had over-promised on basically every single feature. It was massively anticipated because the director had hyped it up so much. And when it launched, players quickly discovered that many of the promised features were only half finished, or were missing entirely. The backlash was swift, but the company said they planned to keep working on the game.

        And now many years later, the game is actually fairly solid, and basically meets the original promises. But at launch, it definitely didn’t.

        • Kacarott@aussie.zone
          5·
          27 天前

          I have a lot of respect for the Devs, as shining example of “how to recover from a mistake and make it up to your players”

          Many other dev teams would have probably taken their payday and disappeared into the wind after that launch.

        • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          26 天前

          I’ll forever be mad about it because I thought I was buying a planetary physics/ecology simulator and I got “we have Spore at home.” I don’t care that it has Minecraft in it now, it still doesn’t do the thing I cared about from the early hype.

      • HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        26 天前

        I enjoy the heels (what I’ve called the ends of the loafs) because the crust helps with the structure of the sandwich. The fillings are less likely to break through the crust and spill out compared to the open pocket structure of the insides of the loaf.

        • Mose13@lemmy.world
          2·
          26 天前

          Ok, hot take, you can’t judge the bread as a slice by itself. It’s the context around the slice that matters. For example, dry foods can be good when paired with non dry foods. But on their own, I’m not a fan of dry foods. I can see the end of the loaf being good when paired with the right filling. But in the context of a slice of buttered toast, I don’t really want the end of the loaf.

            • Jarix@lemmy.world
              2·
              26 天前

              If you care, and I think you might, the size of the holes inside bread is called the crumb. At least, in some places I’ve seen(entirely too many bread baking videos at one point)

              Useless information is still fun to share sometimes

                • Jarix@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  25 天前

                  I don’t think it’s super common knowledge, I only know it from watching vidyas on the net. I got the sense you enjoyed the bread so would be a shame to not say anything if you would have found it useful if you didn’t know it, but figured someone else on here might not have known it either

  • woodsie@ani.social
    33·
    26 天前

    Speed Racer (2008)

    Uniquely colorful, silly, wholesome, every single one of its frames oozes style and creativity. It’s exactly what an animated adaptation should aim to be and will forever stand out against the blue and orange, brown and bloom palettes that plagued that era of media.

    It’s simply so visually exciting and fun.

  • zebidiah@lemmy.ca
    3312·
    28 天前

    The Force Awakens The Last Jedi was the freshest and most creative star wars movie since Empire and Rian Johnson is a hero for trying to take the franchise in a new direction

    • MrGabr@ttrpg.network
      222·
      28 天前

      My main gripe with TLJ is that the editing is a total mess. Multiple scenes lose continuity between shots. The most egregious example is the milk scene, which in addition to being gross and unnecessary, was clearly jammed in between two shots meant to be continuous. Rey and Luke start walking down a skinny peninsula, no space cow in sight, then hard cut to space cow and Luke milking it, then hard cut back to the end of the peninsula and Luke setting down his stuff.

    • Runaway@lemmy.zip
      15·
      27 天前

      Ooh that is one I vehemently disagree with lol. It was a ok movie if it was its own thing, but it wasn’t a good star wars movie, it was worse for being in the sequel trilogy as opposed to a stand alone star wars movie, and it was even worse for being the middle of that trilogy. The more context you add the worse it is imo

    • M.int@lemmy.zip
      12·
      27 天前

      I like scenes, many scenes in the movie; the whole movie? Nah, it’s not as horrendous as people make it out to be, but still…

      I love the whole scene in the throne room. Nice supversion of expectation, great execution.

      • njm1314@lemmy.world
        10·
        27 天前

        This right here is the way. Yeah they had some singular scenes that were very nice. They also had a Casino heist in the middle of a Chase sequence. It was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen. That’s that movie in a nutshell some really cool scenes right next to some of the stupidest shit you’ve ever seen.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      28 天前

      I didn’t hate the movie, but it shouldn’t have been the middle part of a trilogy that he didn’t have control over.

    • trslim@pawb.socialOP
      4·
      28 天前

      I agree that TLJ was the best in the sequel trilogy. I still have very mixed feelings about it, but I do like a lot of it. And at least it was something different and unique, and I appreciate that.

      • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
        6·
        27 天前

        It’s difficult to describe if you haven’t tried drugs. Maybe a lessening of your ego and a different perspective on your life. The combo of psychedelic and dissociative gives a powerful experience. Best approached with a definite question or two about life for when the psychedelic bit calms down and the introspective bit starts.

        But also like Alan Watts says, once you get the message, hang up the phone.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          2·
          26 天前

          I love lsd, no other drug has made me sit down and shut up and work on myself and still leave me thinking it was fun enough to want to do it again

    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
      3·
      26 天前

      I don’t feel the k is really necessary, I just recommend the psychs alone. It feels dumb that this is illegal.

  • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
    16·
    28 天前

    I like listening to some of the shittiest songs ever made mixed in with some of the best songs ever made, on shuffle. About 6400 songs now, extremely different genres. Digbar was my 3rd biggest artist last year lol

  • 0x01@lemmy.ml
    239·
    28 天前

    Ohh people are aren’t going to like this

    AI coding, “vibe coding”

    • ReCursing@feddit.ukEnglish
      262·
      28 天前

      Vibe coding has a niche, which is people who can read, understand, and debug code, but can’t remember the syntax or can’t be arsed to write everything manually. It’s good for blocking in right now, basically, and that’s an entirely valid use of the technology

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        81·
        27 天前

        Yes please.

        • I’ve found ai useful as a tool especially when switching context to a different language or framework, as a quicker way to get the syntax and features, to generate a first approximation. It works and saves time
        • vibe coding is a horrendous waste of my time doing code reviews. Don’t people look at the slop their tool generates and try to refine it? Why is it ok to waste my time like this?

        Edit: just did yet another code review generated with “vibe coding” and there is so much slop that will create maintainability issues in the future - did everyone forget the truism that code is much more expensive to maintain than to create? So much duplicated code, misleading names, useless and excessive tests, hard-coded strings duplicated, etc. …… and I found an entire generated function very close to identical to one the same guy already created

        • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          27 天前

          The parallels with the Dotcom bust continue. Dreamweaver would barf up copious amounts of horrendous HTML that we would get paid decent amounts to clean up. A huge waste, really, but we have forgotten the lesson.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        51·
        27 天前

        Yeah, vibe coding is fantastic for “I want to give this input {a}, have it do {function}, and return result {z}” types of code.

        The issue is that being able to articulate that to an AI already basically requires you to think like a programmer. And many of the people getting into vibe coding don’t have that kind of mindset. They want to just go “give me a program that does {z}” and expect it to work.

        • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          27 天前

          Yes! You’ve nailed what I’ve been thinking about. The valuable parts of my work are on a whiteboard with boxes and arrows, not typing code. LLMs are great to use like an interactive reference.

      • Honytawk@feddit.nl
        21·
        27 天前

        Not everything AI generates is slop. It is only when used by commercial instances, like businesses and people who want to sell their art.

        Let me guess, you frequent the “Fuck AI” sub?

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      71·
      28 天前

      Nice an actual controversial take. Im glad more people are getting into coding because of AI honestly. Anyone can code (not just a saying).

      Me im impressed sometimes, but its only good for scripting languages. Start getting into compiled or anything beyond templates and it falls on its face.

      • spittingimage@lemmy.world
        7·
        27 天前

        Anyone can code (not just a saying).

        Anyone who is willing to invest the effort in understanding program flow can code.

      • 0x01@lemmy.ml
        11·
        27 天前

        That was my experience a few months ago as well, but recently I’ve actually been using it almost exclusively with rust, the extra type safety and language safety features have helped a lot with the end code quality.

        Claude in particular has been really impressive with compiled languages, it does take a bit more hand holding to get something workable out than with javascript or python though.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      63·
      28 天前

      Yeah, take the enshittification out and +1.

      How many corporate man hours are wasted re-inventing the wheel a bajillion times? Wouldn’t it be awesome if people could do less of that, and do more personal stuff like “make this niche program to cuz I want to, and share it,” or “make a game as a passion project” because the bar to entry isn’t an expensive CS education?

      • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        28 天前

        How many corporate man hours are wasted re-inventing the wheel a bajillion times? Wouldn’t

        Honestly, very little. Unless you’re in a “not designed here” environment. There’s a lot of open source applications/libraries out there that can be added to your project to get what you need.

        But I do agree, vibe coding can be great as long as it’s just for one off small projects. Need to do a quick computation or a quick POC and don’t want to spend the time setting everything up? Great!

        But if you want to build an application that’s used by 1000 or even millions and receives regular updates? Please follow best practices / design patterns, etc… otherwise you’ll be rewiring the entire codebase every time you want to add a new feature.

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
          1·
          28 天前

          I dunno, my experience is teams of people grinding away designing systems that are likely 95% the same as what several other companies already constructed, if not hundreds. It’s great if they use (much less contribute to) some open library for the functionality, so the wheel doesn’t get re-invented, but how often is that the case?

          Of course one doesn’t want to distribute slop. I’m talking more theoretical, especially if more formal code verification becomes standard.

          • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            28 天前

            Mind you, a lot of this reimplementation is because those 1000 other implementations that came before all haven’t had their source code released to the public. No amount of vibecoding is going to help there because those LLMs were never trained on code that was never publicly released.

            • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
              22·
              28 天前

              They’re trained on plenty that’s similar enough, as long as its Python or something in the dataset.

              It’s also been shown that LLMs are good at ‘abstracting’ languages to another, like training on (as an example) Chinese martial arts storytelling and translating that ability to english, despite having not seen a single english character in the finetune. That specific example I’m thinking of is:

              https://huggingface.co/TriadParty/Deepsword-34B-Base

              Same with code. If you’re, say, working with a language it doesn’t know well, you can finetune it on a relatively small subset, combine with with a framework to verify it, and get good results, like with this:

              https://huggingface.co/cognition-ai/Kevin-32B

              chart showing kevin 32B outperform openai

              Someone did this with GDScript too (the Godot Game Engine scripting language, fairly obscure), but I can’t find it atm.

              Not that they can be trusted for whole implementations or anything, but for banging out tedious blocks? Oh yeah. Especially if its something local/open one can tailor, and not a corporate API.

              • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                27 天前

                Auto-writing boilerplate code doesn’t change the fact that you still have to reimplement the business logic, which is what we’re talking about. If you want to address the “reinventing the wheel” problem, LLMs would have to be able to spit out complete architectures for concrete problems.

                Nobody complains about reinventing the wheel on problems like “how do I test a method”, they’re complaining about reinventing the wheel on problems like “how can I refinance loans across multiple countries in the SEPA area while being in accord with all relevant laws”.

  • Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    173·
    27 天前

    Vlogging is not vanity. It’s a special way to capture memories to share with others currently. And to view yourself and others in a time capsule, a stasis where you can view the old world

    I want to view my vlogs as an elder and appreciate my memories, even more than I thought I did when I filmed them