An interesting lesson people will learn is that what we, with child-like wonder, believe will be cool, will turn out to just be a Disneyland of propertyhodgepodge which will not make for an interesting game per-se.

But those that will persist through the awkwardness, might find gold. Zelda Four Swords was a banger after all

Right - you can't let players edit everything. Second Life had that and it was a digital junkyard.

I'm working on a game right now that tries to find a nice balance between player made stuff and gorgeous assets they can't change.

Oh. Well - if it's an MMO you control what the world may contain via the server. They can add stuff to their local version, sure, but others won't see it unless they want to.

They can create their own world but then they need to get people to migrate to it.

We could get what we need to survive on a fourth of the farmland if we kicked the addiction to meat, arguably a more malicious crime against animals and the planet

> We could get what we need to survive on a fourth of the farmland if we kicked the addiction to meat

100%

> arguably a more malicious crime against animals and the planet

Personally disagree, it entirely depends on your moral and ethical alignment though, of course. Generative AI will be used to divide and conquer us at a pace never seen before, it will destroy the internet/digital realm by burying it in generated content.

The future will judge us harshly for what we've done to the animals and the environment.

Who decides what is or isn't a crime? Are you a Fruitarianist for making such claims?

We don't need to be fatalists to agree that most people, when confronted with the realities of factory farming and the ecological consequences of our diet, would describe them as abject moral failures

Many people have a severe misunderstanding as to the purpose of morality, after all. They also cannot answer who decides what is right and what is wrong.

The "purpose" of morality, insofar as any naturally occuring thing can be said to have a purpose, can be assumed to be a group survival mechanism - a way for genes to cooperate with copies of themselves in other individuals.

However, somewhat paradoxically, effective morality demands that you ignore its instrumental value. To be a useful engine of cooperation, it must be trustable - people need to be able to rely on you to do the "moral" thing even if it's inconvenient. Much like the irrational violence accompanying the emotion of 'anger' is seemingly maladaptive in the individual level, yet the threat of violent rage is game theoretically powerful (and is undermined if perceived to calculated rather than "genuine emotion"), so morality also demands that you prove yourself to be a "true believer" by doing irrational things that incur a personal cost.

tl;dr the "purpose of morality" is scientifically interesting but you are not permitted to entertain the question as it pertains to yourself and still call yourself moral.

Correct, the purpose of morality is to enable cooperation among groups of genetically close humans to improve their survival chances.

Now what does this purpose of morality mean in regards to factory farming?

Huh? Not eating meat is not the same thing as Fruitarianism.

Plenty of delicious (if prepared properly) and healthier plant-protein alternatives to meat. See: Tofu, Seitan, Lentils, Chickpeas, Tempeh, Edamame, TVP, Lupins, Hemp seeds, Pumpkin seeds, Peanuts, Nutritional yeast, Oats, Quinoa

Strange phrasing. Who a person is is irrelevant to the value of their argument, one way or another.

Neat! I'm working on a similar thing but mine is not as far along, and slightly more focused on what I call "subtitled reading" (interleaving source and target language lines of text).

Small UI feedback: the WORD LOOKUP sheet has UI design disease, i.e. imo too much text. I'd drop "WORD LOOKUP" and "CURRENTLY SAVING". Also behind the latter the current word is repeated (it's already the title of the sheet), so I'd drop that too.

Awesome, let me know when your ready for testers, happy to help!

Thanks for the UI feedback, will sort that today :)

It's now fixed!

* That was meant to say "AI UI design disease". I find them to default to overtexting

I never understood how that flies by Apple's review. Aren't all code changes supposed to go through their review and thus OTA is effectively illegal?

Power on pluggable bundles. So you can change the business logic, but if you want to change any native dependency then you do need a new app binary which needs the same app store review process.

Been a pretty happy user of https://www.languagereactor.com

Not seeing a reason to switch atm tbh

That’s fair enough! I am curious tho, are there any issues you face while using the app that could be handled better? Or any features that would make it easier to use?

ASR in LR is down often from my experience.

I tried Language Reactor a couple of years ago and bounced off of it because of its absolutely atrocious support for traditional character Chinese. Its page literally says there is none on Netflix despite most their Chinese content being from Taiwan.

Migaku is flawed, but better. This tool seems like a much less polished version of Migaku or Lexirise with just a local media player and no ability to use it on YouTube, Netflix, Bilibili, etc.

I can't even login to languagereactor.

While I do not know anything about DHH's parenting, rarely have I heard of a racist shithead being a good dad, so I'll keep my reservations, thanks