jacksilver

@jacksilver@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Meat Boy 3D, coin-pushing chaos and other new indie games worth checking out⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I ended up grabbing it and I think they did a pretty good job. Sometimes the angle or wall running feel a bit off, but for the most part it feels like more Super Meat boy (which I actually only played a couple months ago).

  I did find that using the dpad was the best approach. Something with the joystick made wall running not work right for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always wary of the idea learning should be “practical”. You never know when something will matter and there is an intrinsic value in learning for learnings sake.

  Learning needs to be tangible, but I’m not sure it necessitates practicality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you send old camcorder cassettes to a digitising service, do they watch the contents?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can look past the sex dungeon, but peanut M&Ms?!

  You disgust me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Hell is this Bull shit ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the same, but they still make the 20 Oz bottles. Looks like the vending machine company is either cheating people or forgot to update the placards - www.target.com/p/…/A-12979694

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sources: Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there has really ever been a 3D Zelda remake. WindWaker, Tiwlight princess, and skyward sword were all HD remasters. The 3DS versions of Ocaraina of Time and Majoras Mask might count as remakes, but didn’t modify too much.

  The only real “remake” I can think of is Links Awakening for the switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of 3rd person shooter-3D platformer hybrids I know of (and looking for more)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saints Row IV, the other ones not so much, but with the super powers in this one there are a number of platforming elements.

  Crackdown series may potentially fit.

  Sunset Overdrive and the Infamous series are both made by insomniac (ratchet and clank) and fit the description.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greek Court Bans Kosher and Halal Slaughter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the headline sounds worrying, but it’s for animal welfare. Which means it’s holding the religious practices to a higher standard and saying you can’t ignore the law just cause of religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One that came out more recently that I thought was decent is Don’t press the button

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I actually think from a narrative perspective it’s very fitting, maybe anticlimactic, but fitting.

  You have this guy trying to get away from the realities of life, he wants things to be more than what they are, but in the end that just isn’t the case. It’s melancholic, but also cathartic in a way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It feels like homogenization of art. The filter pays no attention to the original art style and just conforms it to nividias Ai style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s fair. I haven’t jumped into the whole agentic side of things as I find LLMs consistently fail at lower level stuff.

  Everyone says it’s great at prototyping or writing documents, etc, but I think that’s just cause people have low standards. When coding I find that it quickly messes things up or lacks good quality control (which you only notice if you’re familiar with the domain). For writing it’s fine, but the tone and language always feels off and certainly doesn’t sound like me.

  Either way, I would suggest playing around with them to see how they fit into how you do things. I think we’re starting to see things finally slow down on new implementations, and they aren’t going away, so it may be a good time to see if all the fuss is worth it to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The underlying issues, in my opinion, regarding LLMs is their indeterministic nature. Even zeroing out the temperature (randomness of outputs), you can get significantly different results between two almost identical texts.

  However, building out an ecosystem supporting new technology is a fairly common progression. If you compare it to the internet things like browser caches, CDNs (content delivery networks), code minifiers, etc. are all ways to help combat latency (a fundamental problem for the internet).

  As for the effectiveness of these solutions, RAGs do help a lot when generating text against a select corpus. Its what allows the linked sources in things like ChatGPT and Googles AI results. It’s also what a lot of companies are using for searching their support pages/etc. It’s maybe not quite as good as speaking to a person, but is faster.

  Similarly, the reasoning models and managing the models “context” both have shown demonstrable improvements for models in benchmarking.

  I’m not sure I personally believe this makes LLMs a replacement for humans in most situations, but it at least demonstrates forward progress for GenAI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you may be mixing a couple of things together, but I’ll take a crack at this.

  When you get an Ai generated response from a search engine, this is usually a modified RAG (retrieval augmented generation) approach. How this works is that the content from web pages are already pre-processed into embeddings (numerical representations of the text). When you perform a search, your search text is turned into an embedding and compared (numerical similarity) to the websites to get the most related content for your search. That means that the LLM only parses and processes a very small subset of the returned websites to generate its response.

  Another element you might be asking about is how can these agentic AI systems handle larger tasks (things like OpenClaw). That is a bit more complicated and dependent on the systems design, but basically boils down to two things. The first is the “reasoning models” first break concepts into smaller tasks meaning the LLM only has to worry about a subset of a larger task. Secondly, a lot of these systems will periodically merge all past context into a compressed state that the LLM can handle (basically summaries of summaries) or add them to a database for future/faster reference.

  At the end of the day, your understanding of the limits of LLM are correct, all the progress we’ve really seen with LLMs (over the past couple of years) has been the creation of systems to work around their limitations. The base technology isn’t getting much better, but the support around it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 5 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Demon Tides⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the prequel (at least it looks like it’s tied to this game) called Demon Turf. The animation was really interesting and the world building was cool, but the platforming itself was only okay and some of the boss battles just felt broken. Hopefully they learned from that game to make this one even better!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest Phil’s just done a bad job at the helm or maybe wasn’t empowered to do the things that needed to be done. Everything since the xbox360 has been weak from Microsoft, although Sony has really only held on due to some banger first party games.

  Nintendo continues to understand that you need to offer something different in the console space to remain relevant. While the steam deck (and other handheld) are coming for the switch, they at least offer something unique.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, at that point a lot of games are also gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s be honest with ourselves combocore is really just another phrase for rhythm games, which let’s you aggregate things like guitar hero (rythmncombos) and DMC (actioncombos), as it’s all about hitting buttons at the right time interval. Surprisingly many darksouls also fall into the combocore/rythmn category - sekiro and Lies of P (with their parrying/dodging timing) which we’ll now call soulcombos.

  Now we just need to start promoting this through the steam tags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet I tend to like most games that fall into the “rouge lite” category. It feels too broad and yet also seems to work to classify games.

  I think it may just be a bit like “RPG” or “Action” that are actually very wide categories that now have a lot of subcategories to help better explain them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Sons of Sparta - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, if your preference is pixel graphics then Blasphemous 1 & 2 would probably be your pace if you haven’t played them.

  To me, the GoW gameplay looked a little to heavy and stiff (especially for it being GoW).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Sons of Sparta - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think this looks good, then the newly announced castlevania game will blow you away - www.konami.com/games/castlevania/…/en-us/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it felt kinda empty and repetitive. I think if the combat was better I might have kept playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, I guess I was focused more on the bigger players in fighting games which usually focus on fictional worlds/fighters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really weird

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  Are there fighting games with real people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bookmakers than wealthier ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also such a detriment to sports. In the US they relaxed sports betting laws a while back and it’s ruined watching sports on the tv (and in some ways in person).

  Its also been frustrating to watch sports betting scandals continue to pop up over and over again. The most ridiculous is the recent NCAA basketball point shaving, where a bunch of players on college teams (even low ranked ones) were purposefully rigging games to make millions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Mario World is a game that shows artistic design outlasts everything else. That game still looks and plays amazingly.

  But I think the real issue is “looks good” is very subjective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly we’re in the minority, but I did not think it sounded good at all. It’s a hard event (even acoustically), and he clearly was singing live, but it felt like he was struggling to keep up with the beat. Although I’m also very hit or miss with rap, so I’m also probably biased.

  The message and showmanship was good and regardless of how it sounded, I think people will talk about this performance for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its both a huge event and platform so it makes sense why artists would want to perform at the superbowl.

  As for why he was picked, I think I’ve read some reports that the NFL is really trying to grow the sport in South America. Between the fact that they’ve saturated the US market and that every attempt to expand in Europe has been rough, I think they realize they don’t have many other choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean an obvious break in the decades was covid. There has been a fair amount of shift in a lot of different things pre/post covid that maybe doesn’t stick out due to the gradual shift, but will definitely be more apparent to anyone looking back on the 2010-2030 time period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep half expecting to hear ICE took her.