Jack in BL2 was funny and entertaining tho.

I adore both of the FF7 remakes.

They aren’t flawless, and the obfuscated story that requires a lot of theorycrafting to keep up with isn’t for everyone.

But damn. The way these games make me feel like a pre-teen exploring my first game again, is pure magic.

Who mentioned piracy?

I get the files from bandcamp and quobuz. Unlike movies, you can still legally buy music, and get actual files.

Are they going to switch to a reward system that doesn’t allow botfarms to steal money from legitimate artists?

No?

That would reduces apparent user volume?

Oh noo…

I’m happy it works for you. In my case it simply wasn’t long-term stable, as such I’d never return to it, or recommend it.

Also, giving manjaro a hard time is the style at this time.

Manjaro, twice?

Surely no-one is that foolish?

That is such a chad move.

It’s going to sell no matter what the price. But knowing that, they set the price low, trusting they’ll still make a profit on volume.

If MS, EA, UBI, or any other publisher were in control, they’d set the price high, no matter how big the actual game was, knowing they’d make even more because of the hype train around the game.

The increase is recent, and still rising.

That’s not really my point.

You can’t cancel out bad things with good things.

That China averages out to stats that look OK, doesn’t make the stuff happening in HK or Xinjiang go away.

If you cut up the population groups into multiple population sized chunks with the compared countries, they each will still have a better number.

Not necessarily. If you average everything, that hides any outliers.

The bigger the sample size for your stats, the less it tells you. You could have an entire country’s worth of people in China, living in conditions that lead to horrible stats, and have that essentially disappear in the stats of the whole country.

You should break stats down into smaller chunks. But not just arbitrarily. Do it by province, city, district. That’s how you find the problem areas. The bigger the area you measure, the less the stats tell you about the individual citizens.

Every 100 000.

This is formatted to imply percentage, but for that the decimal points on these should be moved three digits over.

That 16.6 is 0.0166%.

Well yeah.

You’re not going to see a significant suicide rate, if the people who might kill themselves, are killed by something else first. Mostly looking at NK.

As for China, their population is so large that almost any bad stat looks small. Zoom in on someplace like Hong Kong, and the stats go right back to concerning.

Unlikely. 5 is just all of OpenAIs previous models in a trenchcoat.

Was the statue at least US made?

Engagement is any interaction, including viewing, from a user.

I don’t maximize for that. The only “engagement” I actively look for is the positive kind. You think I wouldn’t start marking things nsfw if it got a ton downvotes when I didn’t?

Currently, the reality is the other way around. Pointlessly tagged posts receive significantly less votes, because people looking for porn don’t vote, and people browsing normally, are less likely to check a post tagged nsfw.

Why is Thighdeology marked nsfw on reddit, yet still a hugely popular subreddit, but somehow that would be a deathknell for it to be the same on lemmy?

Critical mass. Tons of things are a death-knell to fediverse activity simply because it is tiny. Reddit can support a shitload of duplicate communities any one of which outweighs the single equivalent fediverse community by orders of magnitude.

Your list includes none of the many AI-specific anime art communities that are out there, I think you need to be a bit more proactive in your browsing.

I actively refuse to engage with AI content. There are active communities besides !share_anime_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com that aren’t on porn instances?

Asking people to specify every word they don’t want to be exposed to is absurd, when there’s already one single and very easy to append word - NSFW - that you are ardently rejecting on the basis that it would damage your interactions.

Finding a common word used in content you don’t like is no harder that blocking. The feature becoming generally available would allow us to implement arbitrary tags. Why does this suggestion offend you? It’s a genuine win-win solution.

if you don’t want sexualized (but arguably non-explicit) images of anime girls in your feed, you’d have to go through and view a bunch of them before you can block it. Surely you can see how that’s… pretty ridiculous? Potentially very demeaning?

That’s true for any category of content. Are you saying anime girls are somehow inherently bad or damaging to users, as compared to for example sports content?

I blocked music content from my feed this way. Should I feel demeaned for having been made to see things other people enjoy, but I don’t care for?

don’t want to see that content as worth less than the people who do

Why are people who want to see the content worth less than the ones who don’t? Anyone can block content. No-one is likely to find content they don’t even know is there.

why is engagement more important to you than curating an appreciative audience

What is the difference between engagement and an appreciative audience? I aim to minimize the number of people I offend, while maximizing the people I reach. What’s wrong with that? What more can I do?

The only certain way to offend no-one, even if I marked every single post nsfw, is to stop posting entirely.

given how many new highly specific “anime moe tiddy thigh-gap colored hair” communities crop up daily

I keep seeing this argument. What new communities? With a couple exceptions, I run them! I haven’t made a new one in over a year, and I’ve only recently had to add half a dozen new entries to my list.

even just bringing out a different tag that isn’t blocked by default (which god, we really need even if just for spoilers) is a perfectly valid request.

Several clients offer word filtering. Asking for the feature in lemmy itself is fine, and something I fully support.

I run a ton of these communities.

And I care about the fediverse as a whole.

Marking an entire category of content as nsfw because a tiny minority can’t be bothered to block it themselves, without good reason, will immediately kneecap community and content discovery.

I saw this in the numbers immediately.

I do still use the feature. And I calibrate the line of what is and what is not, based on votes, comments and reports.

One, single, upset person, is not reason enough cut off dozens or hundreds of people from encountering content they might like.

I’m good with nipples. And porn for that matter. I just don’t want it in my feed.

I have nipples in my phone wallpaper rotation. Female ones. But the relevant pieces fall into the artistic rather than pornographic category.

NSFW is a insanely fuzzy concept that allows you to draw the line essentially anywhere. It’s why I’m on an instance that blocks porn, rather than just using an account with nsfw tagged content disabled. Because that way I can keep nsfw enabled, and not miss stuff I want to see, because some people will mark stuff I would never in my wildest dreams think is nsfw.

Or they just use it to mark spoilered content, nevermind that people with nsfw disabled wont then see the post at all.

My instance manually blocks instances and communities that are pornographic. Because that’s literally the only way this can work.

There will always be someone who thinks any given piece of content should/shouldn’t be considered nsfw.

It’s a gradient that allows you to slightly lean in one direction or the other, saying it should “at least” do anything isn’t useful. It does not draw a clear line, and there is no way to shift online culture so that it could.

They better not go outside then.

Lota of people dress lightly in public, not to mention public art and adverts show quite a lot.

We have several statues of nude men and women in my city!

Requiring that social media be more “sanitized” than normal public life is ridiculous.

What are these new communities btw?

I maintain the list available here, and I’ve only needed to add half a dozen new communities in the last year.

You’re welcome to use it for blocking.

I will not be marking any of my communities nsfw, only content within them which warrants it.

I’m on an instance that blocks nsfw instances. Because I don’t want porn in my feed.

I DO want the anime girls though.

Are you suggesting I should deal with a feed full porn in order to get that?