jacksilver
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- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 3 days ago:
That’s another great example.
The concept is really cool, and I hope to see some more interesting attempts to incorporate more of that adaptive kind of dialogue and gameplay, but its not going to be easy to figure out how to make it work.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 3 days ago:
It’s not that the dialogue doesn’t sound right, it’s that the dialogue is disconnected from the game.
A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.
Now for animal crossing you could make it work a bit easier cause the character can’t directly interact with the NPCs, but then again it also makes the endless dialogue less impactful.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 3 days ago:
The biggest issue I have with all of these is that the dialogue is never connected to the actual actions of the npcs.
Its easy to have an npc say something, but tying it to gameplay mechanics isn’t. So we end up with people asking for this in new games, but all you get is conversations disconnected from the gameplay. I’m sure there is someway to make it feel more “right”, but we’re a farcry away from making true open world games like this.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Given I think BOTW was just fine, I’m a little worried about Metroid 4.
- Comment on Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Official Nintendo Switch Trailer 4 days ago:
I’m not sure if it’s worse that it’s releasing on the switch and not just the switch 2.
It really shows they held back on 3D All-Stars just so they could re-release Mario Galaxy 2 now.
- Comment on McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 6 days ago:
I understand you’re point, what I was calling out is that what McDonald’s suggests technically shouldn’t be a new burden on restaurants, but you’re probably right that it would be because how broken tipping is in America.
Also, this approach is actually the opposite of what Walmart did to expand. Walmart used its large size to force better wholesale deals and/or operate at a loss to undercut prices that mom and pop stores couldn’t compete with. Walmart is known for cheaper prices than the competition.
McDonald’s approach is more like regulatory capture. Once youre a big player you try to get more burdensome laws passed that make it harder for new competition and/or smaller businesses to thrive. Currently we’re seeing similar things in the online space with things like age verification laws.
- Comment on McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 6 days ago:
If they can’t pay minimum wage then they weren’t a functioning business to begin with. Tipped employees aren’t just paid $2/hour, they are still legally required to make minimum wage. If the tips don’t bring them up to minimum wage the restaurant has to cover the difference.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
Not actual cash, but they require in game currency.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 week ago:
Given that baltoro, monster train, and now silk song have been my most played games recently, you might be on to something.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 week ago:
I thought most equivelant gpus to the ps5 start around $200 on their own.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 weeks ago:
All this stuff works on probabilities, even with a fully visible face the model just says it’s really confident hence articles like this - Facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest.
So the more of the face that’s covered, the larger the confidence interval, or basically the less accurate it is.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 2 weeks ago:
The other thing you didn’t talk about was the size of the market in general.
As onbaord CPUs were becoming popular the biggest reason for a GPU was games or video processing. Which, while significant markets, isn’t huge.
Over the past couple decades, GPUs have made headway as the way to do Machine Learning/AI. Nvidia spent a lot of time and money making this process easier on their GPUs which lead to them not only owning the graphics market, but the much bigger ML/AI market. And I say the AI/ML market is bigger is simply that they are being installed in huge quantities in data centers.
- Comment on Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes? 5 weeks ago:
Baba is you is one of the best puzzle games I’ve ever played
Shapez is a great factory/automation game. Maybe better on a computer, but still good on the phone.
There are also a lot of good boardgames with android apps: Star Realms, Dominon (expensive), Splendor, etc.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you’re saying. But to expand on my point:
A lot of receipts have an area where they show you a “calculated tip” for some %s. Many restaurants calculate the tips using the total (meal+tax) rather than the subtotal (meal).
On those receipts the person still has to calculate the end amount (meal+tax+tip).
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, you shouldn’t tip on the tax, that has nothing to do with the food or service.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
I’m surprised no one mentioned that a lot also calculate the tip after applying taxes.
Example: Meal was $40, then a 20% tip would be $8. But if taxes were $4 (making the total bill $44), then the receipt would show $8.80.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 month ago:
I don’t disagree with you on the first point. I put “unlawful” in quotes to imply that lawful/unlawful is ambiguous and gives Mastercard the cover they need to not really be lying in their statement, even if effectively they are.
Its corporate doublespeak to a T.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 month ago:
What they’re saying is: “we haven’t called out any specific games, but we told steam if they can’t prove a game is “lawful” well cut them off”.
This effectively has a chilling effect because it means anything that could be illegal becomes toxic and risky for steam.
Its a way for Mastercard to dictate what can be sold without actually dictating what can be sold. Now the real issue is that at the end of the Mastercard is in a position where this matters and they can influence things. Should work just like cash and leave the government to decide what items are legal/illegal.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 1 month ago:
I don’t disagree that competency is an element, but your analogy is lacking because the user provided the information that increased their risk (sharing their photo IDs and real information).
Its more like the share buttons on porn sites. If you’re logged into a social media site while browsing porn and accidentally dox yourself, it’s partially your fault for creating a situation where that was possible. Yeah, having the share buttons is a terrible design, but also you have to be doing insecure stuff too.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 1 month ago:
It has nothing to do with the company, it’s an issue about privacy and not sharing personal information so freely.
I mean the company was incompetent, but the primary issue is privacy.
- Comment on if H₂O is so great why isn’t there H₂O₂ 1 month ago:
It’s a good poem, but not a limerick. Limericks have 5 stanzas in AABBA format.
- Comment on crypto investment 1 month ago:
It’s actually the more practical of the crypto currencies from my perspective. It’s setup to enable things like smart contracts and exchanges and was a big driver of web 3.0.
Not that I’m a big proponent of web 3.0, it at least tried to be a currency unlike every other crypto currency.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 1 month ago:
While it got a lot of flack, I thought the smaller contained worlds of Outer Worlds can be a better in between. Open spaces to explore and run into things accidentally, but constrained enough that the world and plot can still flourish.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 1 month ago:
I thought the world and travel mechanics were fun, and the leveling system was cool (basically get better skills by using other skills).
Overall though, it falls into the trap of most open world games. Big, beautiful, and boring.
But I also don’t care for BOTW and TOTK over more traditional Zeldas, so maybe I’m just anti open world games.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Or the reverse, find an 18/19 year old who looks 35!
- Comment on Metroidbrainia: An in-depth exploration of knowledge-gated games 1 month ago:
You can have mysteries where progress and knowledge aren’t tied to each other. For example in Professor Layton games, there is an overarching “mystery”, but it’s a linear game you progress by solving effectively random (and mostly disconnected) puzzles.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 1 month ago:
I think he means that there should be an OS API to tell recall to shove it, or that apps should have to opt-in to recall.
The fact they need to leverage private browser sessions means it’s a workaround not directly built into the OS.
- Comment on My first colonoscopy 1 month ago:
Actually the torso/feet are just wrong in general, as in not a legitamte Lego piece. Such a weird detail for the AI to mess up.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 month ago:
I don’t think it matters in this context. Person is trying to get into reading, nothing roastable about that.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 month ago:
I thought it did a good job at capturing the Star Wars feel, but yeah it feels like every open world game. Lots of fetch quests and running around in a massive world where every encounter/quest/battle feels the same as the last.
It may just be me, but most open world games suffer from trying to be too large. Although I think BOTW and TOTK are some of the weakest Zelda games, so maybe my opinions on open world games aren’t popular.