The saga continues. Fame always came with the curse of knowing there were weirdos out there that fantasize about committing sexual violence against you. This new reality is just…something else, man. Pervs cooking the ocean to see counterfeit nudes of famous actors, when there are 10s of thousands of models on the internet that will show you their tits consensually. What is wrong with people.

We will miss your voice! Do what you gotta do and be(e) well!

interesting, i don’t remember the feedback being quite so…mid. I remember this game getting pretty positive reviews, but maybe i’m muddling it with my memory of the other “hex” games.

I don’t think “destruction vs. licensed cars” is the binary in racing games. NFS3 Hot Pursuit had licensed cars, and that probably added to the fun of the game. I think we def need more games with destructible cars and destruction-focused racing, and I agree that you need unlicensed cars to get the most out of that these days, but there are plenty of other ways to make a fun car game. Beam.NG is there for the people that want truly next-level destruction simulation, and it has multiplayer support via mods but we could use a more mainstream version of that. Wreckfest is out there, but maybe that is too “demo derby” for die-hard burnout fans. We had games like OnRush and NFS Unbound come and go, and those games were probably the closest we got to Burnout in recent times, but audiences didn’t show up for those games so they have all but died.

Forza Horizon (which I mention all the time bc it is the only modern car game I have played) is plenty fun and arcadey with a whole smorgasbord of licensed cars. The cars get smashed up a decent amount, though it obviously isn’t quite like a Burnout game. Tweaking the driving settings can make the game feel even more arcadey, if that is your style. If you want the destruction to affect how your car handles, that is a setting you can turn on. If you want a more simulationy driving experience, you can tweak the settings to turn that on, too. It isn’t Burnout exactly, but something about it scratches a similar itch for me. I know the Horizon series is one of the most popular racing series in the current scene, I wonder sometimes if its popularity and live service model are eating the lunch of those other, smaller arcade racers.

I love this. Out of curiosity, do you play any modern racing games, like maybe the Forza Horizon series? If you’re still buds with those buds, no reason you couldn’t be having this kind of experience online (assuming y’all can find the time). I am curious what all the former NFS fans play these days. There isn’t anything QUITE like it but a few modern games get close.

finally, the line went up enough! they have achieved the golden number! Now they will chill and stop hoarding all that money! Or stop laying off thousands of people a month! . . . Right?

well, who@feddit.org already covered it, but i added an archive link to the body.

Idk if I have a solution to your problem, but i agree that sometimes browsing beehaw feels like an exercise in gritting my teeth and exposing myself to the horrors of the world. I wish this space was a little more like reddit in the sense that it would be nice to be here and have conversations that are not about current events, which are so exhausting lately. I make a point of mostly posting about things besides US politics for this reason, bc i feel like other users really have those topics covered. I used to post more in Jokes and Humor because I thought this server really needed some more levity, but I was getting all my memes from Facebook, and then I was trying to not be on FB after the 2024 election, and now the only places I see memes are places where the memes are pretty political. Not so good for the levity problem.

One idea that might help you: subbing to active non-Beehaw Lemmy communities that are less serious. Most of those communities post more than any one beehaw community, so if you go to the “subscribed” feed and sort by “hot”, the majority of posts you see will be from those outside communities. I subbed to 196 for a little while before realizing that that one community dominated my feed bc people be postin on there constantly. I didn’t want that, but maybe that would be a boon for you.

is sign-up wall the same as paywall? don’t think that’s the same thing.

Lollll I edited the headline for clarity. I felt that the base headline didn’t make it clear enough that revenge porn was the focus of the issue. AI porn in and of itself is a separate issue. And all AI is exploitation, so I’m not sure what you are trying to get at. My preference would be for real people to be paid for sex work, rather than tech companies.

They can call it what they want to deflect scrutiny, but the fact is that it mirrors breeding mechanics from other games, like FF7’s chocobo breeding. So calling it “breeding” as a joke is not really that wild or unusual.

I think you’re laser-focusing on a weirdly specific thing, I think it’s just a joke. Gita clearly enjoys the game, the subheader is just a funny elevator pitch for the game.

Did u read the article? Gita seems to be in love with the game, I wouldn’t say they were shaming it at all!

That makes sense actually. I’m guessing they have been sued for similar stuff in the past and as you said, the small revenue stream is not worth the cost in lawsuits.

can anyone speak to why payment processors care about AI porn at all? With the duopoly of PayPal and Stripe, I’m not totally clear why the payment processors think that AI Porn will impact their bottom line in the slightest. If people take issue with the payment processors’ implicit approval of these practices, what are they gonna do? It’s not like there are any viable alternatives.

Do we think this is because of anything other than the fact that last year was a presidential election year? The opinions of the masses are VERY malleable to messages of political campaigns. Less active campaigns = fewer strong opinions about wedge issues.

This must be Grok’s ultimate mission, create an AI in Elon Musk’s image so he can live on forever in the AI. It would totally track with his weird mission to pollute the planet with his progeny. His main goal in life seems to be legacy, having as many people as possible say “Elon Musk is cool” for as long as possible.

right? it was like the only thing that made me sort of okay with the lack of sales.

damn, good to know. strange for someone to post what they posted, defend biased sources, and then come here and complain about “corporate news outlets will never be trustworthy”?

i guess my point is that I understand why the researchers are doing it - the UN gave them money to research ways the UN could use AI, so that is what they did. It’s not like the research is unethical in the sense that it directly harms participants. Maybe it’s a dumb waste of money, but at that point, the question is more for the UN leaders that said “we should give someone money to research AI”. And I don’t know that 404 Media has the pull to interview those people.