Semjaza
@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 days ago:
The new ones are either flat open spaces or lines.
The 2D games at least had spaces to explore rather than just run forwards.
- Comment on The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies 1 week ago:
Thanks for correcting me.
- Comment on The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of stuff, but we don’t call Alphabet/Google a US Military company do we?
Though I’m down to call them both military companies.
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 3 weeks ago:
That’s good, and I’m glad to have been informed of it.
Thank you.
My copyright change is the 17 years from first publication. Feels maybe still a little long, but much better than what we have now.
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 3 weeks ago:
OK, if you ignore the hyperbole of my pre-christmas stress aggressive start, how much of the rest do you disagree with?
Less combatitively, I’m of the stance that just make AI generated materials exempt from copyright and you’ll at least limit mass adoption in public facing things by big money. Doesn’t address all the issues, though.
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 3 weeks ago:
If you take that image, copy it and then try to resell it for profit you’ll find you’re quickly in breach of copyright.
The LLM is, in most cases, being licensed out to users for a profit off of the input data without which it could not exist in its current form.
You could see it akin to plagiarism if you think ctrl+c, ctrl+v is too extreme.
- Comment on Whimsy 4 weeks ago:
Have we A.I.ified “whimsy” into a synonym of “cute” now, have we?
Well not me! No, never I! I shall stand firm!
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 4 weeks ago:
I’ll also add on that, for its many many flaws, the keighleys is pretty good about being aware of this kind of thing based on a few outlets that talked about how they were judges in the past and then suddenly never mentioned it again after an acquisition or the loss of a core editor.
Is that /s?
Because that last sentence really gives me pause for thought… - Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 4 weeks ago:
The last three weeks or so of Chinese video game reporting has basically been:
“They’ll never shortlist us for GotY. They’ll never choose a Chinese game for GotY. It’s all a Western ploy to denigrate and deny Chinese achievement because They are jealous that the first Chinese AAA game is so good.”
It’s been tiring.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 5 weeks ago:
I love it when a game is about exploring and half of the content is optional.
- Comment on US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam 1 month ago:
I recall from the interview when the UK blocked it the creator said “you do nothing in it you don’t do it Black Ops. But only mine is terrorism, it’s purely political.” (paraphrased)
I’ll confess that I’ve not played either of them, so I don’t know how true that holds. But I do know that a lot of those console shooters are very political and the world seems fine with it when it’s a US avatar shooting up Arabs.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 1 month ago:
Woke is also an exonym, so it doesn’t really have a hashed out definition people who it’s used to describe would agree with.
On the more pertinent issue, yes - AI can’t create new things or really do anything that hasn’t been done before. And yes, no one really plays an engine, as much as the Occulus Rift fanbois wished about a decade ago.
I think the article flows reasonably well, though is more a hit piece/jokey opinion piece rather than an actual interrogation of anything Musk said. It’s the lowest kind of news, someone’s musings on someone saying something about someone saying something. The main push is his hypocrisy, with the whole “too many big corporations, so my big corporation should do it” lines.
But yes, it’s just brainless easy dunking on Musk without giving the whole thing anymore thought than Elon himself has. - Comment on Dying Is a Form of Education - On Elden Ring 1 month ago:
Really good article. This is the best kind of games journalism. Thoughtful and engaged. Doesn’t really address the headline much, but that’s headlines for you. Still a very nice read.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 1 month ago:
Scrofula.
Anyone checking for a actual executions should look about 3/4 down the first column.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 1 month ago:
You would be correct.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 1 month ago:
I don’t agree with you, but you are onto something.
Your use of “wokeness” is a good description for the way “Woke” is used to keep minorities in their place, c.f. Simpsons writing Apu out, despite dozens of subcontinent ethnicity comedians all openly saying they’d love the role, or streaming companies just stopping access to “problematic” content for an easy headline, c.f. Many streaming services and Community’s first D&D episode.
It is shown in people too, usually comorbid with a white saviour complex, where the being seen in the act of “helping” is more important than listening to the voices of whoever is being helped and the actual effectiveness, or desire, for the “help” given.
I wonder how neatly it maps onto a Liberal/Leftist divide… Probably not especially as everyone has blindspots and hangups over Race and Class that can be buried quite deep in the subconscious.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 month ago:
You can’t see them without a microscope, duhhh.
That’s why they’re called MICRO-chips.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 1 month ago:
Only lines with voice work for me, even though there are plenty of great unvoiced lines across games. Sorted by game… I think this post certainly puts me of a generation.
“My emperor! I’ve failed youuuu!” “Fox, get this guy off me!” “You’re good, but I’m BETTER!” “Never give up, trust your instincts!” “IF THIS DOES NOT WORK!”
Honestly one of the most quoteable games ever made.“Stay a while and listen.”
“My hotel’s as clean as an Elven arse!” “Whaaaat?!” “Tiax shall smite ye.” “Heya, it’s me Imoen.”
“MASSACRE!” “Not yet!” “hyut hyut hyut”
“My fists never betray me!” “Don’t stand behind me.” “I’m gonna sleep well tonight!” “The feeling… It’s… coming back!” “Good vibrations!”
“Hello brother! […] I live on in this arm!” “Laugh, and grow fat!” Love a good ham. We need more of them in video games.
“I’mma Luigi, number 1.” “Falcon PUNCH!”
“You’re going the wrong way!” “Retired!”
“You require more vespene gas!” “All crews operational.” / “Battlecruiser operational.” ? “En’taro Adun executor.” “I do this for Auir, not you!” “Your base in under attack.”
“So what shall it be? Will you join the Unity or will you die here? Join… DIE! Join… DIE!”
“Doctor required in inflator room.”
“[…] to the last place uncorrupted by Capitalism! SPACE!”
- Comment on Show Us the Gay Kiss Scenes Cut From ‘Gladiator II,’ You Cowards 1 month ago:
This is where all the rude and lewd graffiti comes in handy!
- Comment on Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you 2 months ago:
We acknowledge that the game is a work of fiction. Historical fiction, but fiction none-the-less.
If every fifth character is also black, I think there is a point that can be made about verisimilitude and taking liberties; but since we know he really existed and that there has been debate on what he did, having a work of fiction that portrays him as a samurai under Nobunga doesn’t seem unreasonable.
To compare, we know that Leonardo Di Vinci didn’t hand out guns to people or build functional flying machines - but we know he designed all sorts of stuff ahead of its time, so it kinda fits in a fictional story with him in.
But only one of those seems to draw huge amounts of complaints online… And it’s actually the less historically accurate one.
- Comment on Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism 2 months ago:
That’s a potentially interesting definition.
Dream Daddy, the daddy dating sim isn’t a woke game in this context because the conceit of it being an LGBT friendly town with a bunch of single gay dads makes it all make sense.
But a game set in 1300s Japan with a lesbian white protagonist would be woke because that seems incongruous?
- Comment on Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism 2 months ago:
But Dragon Age was never good, either.
The first one was mediocre at best with some good ideas, and it was all downhill from there.
- Comment on Lifestyles of the Bronze Age Famous 2 months ago:
Actually, octopi is the “erroneous” one. Although it is a very common mistake so might make the shift to recognised before too much longer.
Everyone still understands it, so it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire 2 months ago:
The writer here, rereporting another interview seems fairly Musk tolerant.
RDJ probably is too. But at least he’s calling him on a few things.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 2 months ago:
By most accounts they were large and slow, but also curious me friendly birds that would waddle over to check what sailors were doing.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 2 months ago:
Fair enough.
Be the change you want to see and all that.I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don’t.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 2 months ago:
They’re old English letters used for writing the two different “th” sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 2 months ago:
It’s certainly simpler, I’ll give you that.
It takes too much mental energy to read that document.Can I ask why at all?
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 months ago:
Thanks for the callout and link! 🙏🏽
Nature is fascinating.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 months ago:
Many of the comments being “penis worms!”, but no one is asking about that Red blood is only in the “majority of vertebrates” leaves me wondering which vertebrates have what other colour(s) of blood.