Everyone is biased. Every AI we would make would inherit any biases of the pre-existing programmer/company/society/culture.

I think in general there are some valid good-faith (honest intentions) fears and arguments that stem from them on both sides (I'm not saying that both sides are equal and the Truth lies exactly in the middle). The problem arises from the fact that there are probably some bad-faith (malicious intentions) actors mixed in. People who pretend to fight for valid, honest reasons, but actually just want to harm or destroy the other side. And we need to speak out about those who on our side of the argument step out of line. Who seem to fight to harm others, rather than for fairness. Because as we know full well from US politics, this behavior - of excusing any behavior as long as it is on your side and condemning any slightest misstep on the other side - will take us nowhere.

Quoting: PatolaToxic is not an informative world. Usually it is just meant to convey "bad" but is lacks any descriptive power. What is toxic? Histrionic words? Extreme points of view? Right-in-your face insults like "idiot"? Acid sarcasm? Left-wing views? Right-wing views? Victorian moralism? I've seen this word used with all these diverse meanings. Which depends heavily on the reader. So in fairness you should not use that word as a criteria to exclude people.

I would say perhaps:
Toxic - One who is (assumed to intentionally be) uncaring and hurtful towards others without any provocation or justification.
Privilege - A speck of (additional) personal power and prestige and identity transferred to a person due to their background (perceived ethnicity, perceived gender, perceived sexuality). A source of ever so tiny benefits from natural biases of others stemming from our shared cultural background.
Trolling - Bad-faith discussion disguised as good-faith discussion. Not actually engaging the other person, but pretending to for the sake of personal amusement at the expense of that other person.

I think people with some privilege are unintentionally blind to how much harm they might do to others who have a more fragile position and identity in the world than others (Giorgio Armani probably has more power than any straight white males here). Also generally anyone with any smidgen of power will want to keep it. It is always a problem maintaining power calls for attacks on others. Some white people (metaphorically) punching down on the (statistically speaking) relatively powerless ethnic minorities might often be doing this to protect their advantageous position in society. To defend the "natural order of things". Those who happen to be on the top are assumed to be there because of merit not because of historical happenstance. Since this defends one's own position as the rightful ruling class. Practically anyone would have that bias in such a situation.

And some people on the right are legitimately offended that people step out to defend these minorities from attacks on their identity and personhood while some of the same "privileged" people also suffer in poverty and e.g. poor mental health.

But some people on the left feel this doesn't invalidate neither the suffering or marginalized people of color nor marginalized people who are white. Both suffer. Statistically speaking marginalized people of color probably have some extra suffering sprinkled on top due to the cultural biases against them. In any case, all marginalized people should be defended, not attacked.

[not patronizing!] I think again, the solution (for all of us) is remembering to breathe deeply and slowly to be less fearful (whether the reason for fear is takeover of society and retribution by toxic persons who care about social justice or by toxic persons who are reacting to the persons who care about social justice), since fear shuts down higher thinking. Also if we were to have a culture of consideration of the other person's viewpoint and their personhood, then I believe hate crimes, doxxing and trolling become impossible for the majority of people. Cultivate the culture you wish for.

Quoting: Baemir

Quoting: slapinWell, there is very big difference between receiving negative comments and being banned - when people have a chance to talk out of the problem they eventually solve it or agree to disagree, but when one side is constantly banned for what they say you remove all the discussion and all chances for a problem to be resolved.

Oh, the problem is definitely resolved on their end. I call it the Genghis Khan method.

There are people who intentionally abuse this right to discussion. People who pretend to be discussing the problem, whilst actually sneaking in more personal attacks like with a trojan horse. It is because of such people that we cannot have nice things. Very similar process can also happen unintentionally, but does not change much. If the person is unintentionally hurting others, but fails to communicate within a limited time frame (or to a moderator later) how their intentions were good, but they actually have social ineptitude. You generally turn to CoC when people are way out of line. When normal talking no longer works.

Also on the topic of the effects of proper CoC vs DBAJ ("Don't be a jerk"). I would argue that a CoC is less useful for blanket bans. Implied or real DBAJ meanwhile will allow moderators to ban people based on political preferences or attractiveness of their face or the naming scheme of their commits - they don't need to give a reason or justify their ban. With CoC there is some oversight. And there is always some trust needed.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: trawz[Woops! I don't see it though? I remember it being there before now that you've said it but it doesn't seem to appear on mobile.

Not sure how people miss it, the text is in bold before you get to the comments section...and yes on mobile too in exactly the same place.

I can explain it from my side, but you probably need a professional designer to look at this (if you don't have any better choices I know one or two designers).
Idk about mobile, but on desktop, I ignore everything above and to the side of the article content. And then at the bottom of the article content there are 3-6 horizontal lines, some of which have text, and I ignore all of those as well, till I get to the comments. I guess solving this problem would probably be about putting it in a place where users would search for such a thing, when and if they need it, rather than make an arms race of UI elements - one flashier than the other.

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Quoting: trawz

/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/

Tiny nitpick: you forgot a tilde :) -> ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/

There's a separate albeit perhaps hard to notice button between the article and the comments titled

For spelling, grammar and other corrections to our article—click here

. I believe that lane goes through faster than comments.

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Quoting: robvv

Quoting: chrDo you know the max limit of players in hot seat in GWYF?

12.

Wow, that's awesome. There are hotseat games that just cap it at 4 for no good reason. If I got 12 people together in the room to play it and if we think we want to have long turn turn-around times, then maybe we should be rewarded for that accomplishment.

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Quoting: robvv

Quoting: chr

Quoting: robvvWas playing GWYF this morning with my 14-yo daughter. She thought it was great fun!

To avoid seat-swapping, I used a small portable USB keyboard and my daughter sat in the hot seat. It worked very well and avoided too much frustration.

So this game has local multiplayer (couch gaming with kb or controller)? It is not listed as such in Steam user tags or dev-set categories [External Link] nor on PCGamingWiki [External Link].

Yes. The mode is actually called 'Hot Seat'.

Do you know the max limit of players in hot seat in GWYF?

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Quoting: robvvWas playing GWYF this morning with my 14-yo daughter. She thought it was great fun!

To avoid seat-swapping, I used a small portable USB keyboard and my daughter sat in the hot seat. It worked very well and avoided too much frustration.

So this game has local multiplayer (couch gaming with kb or controller)? It is not listed as such in Steam user tags or dev-set categories [External Link] nor on PCGamingWiki [External Link].

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This looks so Japanese, are you sure this isn't Japanese? :D

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If anyone makes a gameplay video of this (preferably multiplayer), let us know here.

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Quoting: Shugyousha

Quoting: chr

Quoting: TheSyldat

Quoting: ShugyoushaNow I just have to start with the Japanese translation of the library documentation...

Dude if you can perform a translation of that magnitude on your own then get on it right now the quicker the better.

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So if you can translate

DO IT NOW !!!

The sentiment is respectable, but could be perceived disrespectfully. Ask yourself if you honestly are capable and motivated to persist in pouring hundreds of work hours into this project for a "thanks" yourself? If yes, then you are a very rare human being indeed.

It is presumably not trivial by far. The translator should be familiar with low-level game architecture and programming terminology in both Japanese AND English. I think that is a very rare talent to come by and probably have better things to do with their time.

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I have majored in Japanese Studies and am currently working as Backend Software Engineer (doing mostly HTTP API development and devops though) so I got the basics covered.

My Japanese is quite rusty since I haven't used it that much since graduation but I hope to be able to produce at least an understandable first version of the documentation in the upcoming weeks. The first translated parts have been committed to the repo already.

I am not only doing it for a "thanks" but also for selfish reasons. I am a (bad) Guilty Gear player who would really like to see better netcode in upcoming Japanese fighting games... :P

It's very well possible that it's not the translation that holds back the Japanese fighting game developers but it's better to have tried and failed than to have done nothing.

Epic. A lot of respect from me. And best of luck.

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Almost related, but was I the only one who didn't know that Groogy (one of the public-facing devs) works and plays on Linux? [External Link]

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