Planning on hopping on as soon as the kid’s in bed!

Someone at BuzzFeed is reading our Lemmy conversations:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurengarafano/the-hunger-games-characters-ai-vs-the-movies

Did you know that mastodons were relatively short? Despite being nearly 40% more massive than modern African elephants, the American Mastodon was 25% shorter on average!

It’s not a minimum before a check is issued. If you do not have a certain number of annual listeners on a track you never get paid out for it. If you had 100 tracks that were each streamed by 999 listeners who each streamed them 100 times per year every year, Spotify will no longer pay you a dime, ever.

I think a key point of confusion is in the way they presented it. They talk about how many songs have “less than 1000 listens” and that those would only make $3, but then their new policy is to deny payment for “less than 1000 listeners.” If each of those listeners streamed the song once per month, you’re talking closer to $40 than $3, and that’s on a per song basis.

The newest part, which is Spotify refusing to payout what small artists are owed if they don’t hit a certain streaming threshold, is 100% on Spotify.

For alternatives, Tidal allegedly pays better and at least doesn’t do this. Qobuz is not owned by any big tech company.

https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500006084082-What-are-Bandcamp-s-fees-

They charge a 15% fee. So the artist (if independent) or record label (if not) gets 85% of whatever you pay.

I did, I cancelled Spotify and switched to Tidal because of this, and noted the reason in my exit survey.

It’s tricky because the data itself is going to be biased here. Think about it - even the video game is specifically called “Spider-Man Miles Morales” while the one with Peter Parker is just called “Spider-Man.”

Katniss is actually a good example. I was not aware of the details, but the books apparently describe her as having “olive skin”. The problem though is that if you image search her all you get is Jennifer Lawrence.

That said, Homer is yellow.

If a request is for a generic person, sure. But when the request is for a specific character, not really.

Like make one of the undefined arms black.

Not a new discovery, but I rediscovered Torchlight 1 and 2. The Steam Deck controls make it a lot smoother to play than a mouse.

It’s the Tetons, specifically seen from Glacier View Turnout. You can see Grand Teton on the right.

Hey, I’ve been to that very spot.

Why can’t we just have cool multiplayer modes in games instead of a separate game?

Agreed, so let’s celebrate the progress and find alternative ways for people to provide for their families rather than act like robots are taking the desirable jobs.

I do find it funny that just a couple years ago people were talking about the horrible conditions in Amazon warehouses and now we’re concerned about humans not needing to do those jobs.

For survival/crafting/whatever games - let me adjust drop rates and toggle things on and off individually, rather than just choosing a difficulty.

What I mean by this is looking at something like Ark versus Subnautica. Ark gives a super fine grained level of customization around spawn rates and other settings. You don’t even need to strictly enable or disable hunger but can set the decay rate, for example.

How have I never read that? That’s amazing.

I think we’re arguing two different points. Chicken nuggets taste like breading, not chicken. And you can throw anything in sauce or chili and it’s going to taste like the sauce.

Saying “if you cover meat substitutes in curry sauce or dip them in ketchup you can’t taste the difference” is not the same as “meat substitutes taste the same as meat.”

Do you eat meat? The vegan meats like impossible and beyond are not “basically equivalent.” They are fine, but easy to distinguish from meat.

Those compounds would be the proteins that make meat taste and feel like meat.