calcopiritus
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- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 6 days ago:
Factorio does have high quality graphics, sounds an animations. It is just in 2D instead of 3D.
But if you price a product based on its cost instead of its value, you do you.
I prefer to pay 30k€ for a car than pay 60k€ for a worse car that happens to have a steering wheel made out of solid gold.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 6 days ago:
That was not the point. The point is that Factorio is in a similar level of quality. That is the top one. If you believe that 3X€ is too expensive for a top game, then you are saying that every game out there that is >30€ is overpriced.
If you believe that, you are honestly way out of touch with reality. 30€ is on the low side of a price for a game. Most AAA games are >60€.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 6 days ago:
No AAA value? It’s up there with Minecraft and terraria as one of the best games.
I’d say it’s better than any AAA if you consider the games above “indie”
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
The UN is not a society. There are many groups without a leader. But when talking about anarchism, people usually mean anarchist society.
That’s like saying FAANG is anarchism, because they talk among themselves without there being a leader.
- Comment on meow 1 week ago:
The DoW is over 45000! I said over a big number, so it must be good right?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand how asking that question to “my politicians” would achieve anything.
“My politicians” are not arguing that prices increasing by a bit makes it okay for prices to increase by a lot. I’d argue that most of them would say that a little bit of inflation is good for the economy while hyperinflation is bad. Which I interpret as them knowing that “a little” is not the same as “a lot”. Which the above commenter doesn’t seem to know. Or at least knows only when it is convenient. Schrodinger’s knowledge perhaps.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 weeks ago:
Funny how that only works one way. It’s never “they are gonna tax me anyway, so I’ll pay double the taxes”.
If you are not fine with paying more than you should, why are you fine for prices increasing more than they should?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 weeks ago:
So everyone is either a farmer, a thief, or an unethical food-obtainer. Got it.
Always fun to find out other people’s values and ethics.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 weeks ago:
These are not losses. They’ll just push up the price of goods based on their chance of being stolen.
You’re not stealing from the store, you’re stealing from everyone else that actually pays for the products.
Unless you’re stealing from a small shop that doesn’t have the time and resources to calculate price based on theft. In which case, you are an asshole for stealing from a small business.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 weeks ago:
So every working person is an asshole and the only ethical way to obtain food is to steal it?
Doesn’t seem too ethical to me. Sounds like a justification for being an antisocial asshole.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Not a movie, but death note.
If the dude didn’t take the obvious bite every episode there’s no way of catching him.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
I used to. Yes
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
I used to be shoes on.
You just wake up, put on underwear, pants, shirt, socks and shoes, in that order.
- Comment on Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' 2 months ago:
The words of someone that has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Are you 0.00113636 miles tall though? We use centimeters for height. You are 191cm tall, not 1,91m.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
What a weird argument. There is no practical difference between 180°C and 180,5°C. No need for ovens to have decimal precision.
Thermostats do have increments lower than 1°C though. My car’s AC increments in 0,5°C steps.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 2 months ago:
First of all, I’m going to replace AI with LLM, since that’s probably what you meant.
There are 2 distinct questions asked in this post:
- Why not use LLMs to provide different levels of automation? (Like, manual, medium, auto)
Answer: you don’t need LLMs for that. You can just code it in like any other feature. It’s not particularly hard, game developers know how to do it since they are used to programming automation for NPCs.
- Why not use LLMs to procedurally generate NPC dialogue?
Answer: games are primarily a form of art. NPC dialogues are written with a purpose. Different characters have different personalities. Some dialogues are meant to drive the plot. Other dialogues are meant to teach the player how to play. Others are meant to show the player things that they may have missed, or things that are interesting.
Procedural dialogues removes all the control from artists. They would all be generic npc n#473, with the personality of the LLM, maybe slightly varied if the developer writes a different prompt for each character.
Procedural dialogues would have the same issues as procedural world generation or photorealistic graphics, it would just not be interesting.
There is a practically infinite amount of Minecraft worlds, yet they all feel the same way. The thing that differentiates a Minecraft world from another is that which the player has built. The only part of the world that wasn’t procedurally generated.
There is a great amount of photorealistic games. And they all look very similar. You may only distinguish one from another by looking at their handcrafted worlds or their handcrafted characters. But not by staring at a wall. You can stare at a wall in non-photoreslistic games and know what game it is.
So if you put procedurally generated dialogues, no one will read them, since you’ll be bored by the time you read the same thing being said by 5 different NPCs from 5 different games.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 months ago:
Because the British empire was absolutely huge. Which lead to many countries having English as an official language. Which means those countries would conduct trade in English. Followed by American dominance, which also has English as its main language.
And that American dominance includes dominance in media, especially films because of hollywood. Technical documents, research and especially computer-related technical documents are mainly in English for the same reason.
Sure, English is not that hard of a language. But it’s not the easiest either.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 months ago:
It didn’t make me repeat the curriculum. The curriculum is the same for everyone.
I didn’t use basque outside school, but I barely used English. Inside school, it was ~7 hours every day of basque. And ~3h per week of english.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 months ago:
Not research, personal experience:
Even after many years of school/high-school in basque, I learnt it at a way slower rate than English, which was just 1 subject.
I didn’t speak neither basque nor English outside school. At most, the difference might be that I consumed a little bit of media in English while none in basque. But all subjects except spanish and English were in basque, so that should make up for the difference.
And I don’t think it’s just a me thing. Since the curriculum has mostly been the same for all those years of school:
Learn how to say a verb.
That’s it. Many years of school just to say verbs correctly.
The exams where mostly just fill in the blank exercises, where the blank was a verb.
I still don’t know how to say verbs that aren’t the simplest ones.
So to your question I’d say yes. Even though neither are my native tongue, I learnt both since I entered school, but learned them at wildly different rates.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 months ago:
They didn’t when 8GB was the norm. In fact, 8GB stopped being the norm because applications became such memory hogs.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 2 months ago:
Who said it’s okay to invade Greenland? And of course it’s not ok to invade ukraine
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 3 months ago:
Why would you make a post about slurs and then censor all of them.
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
I believe this comment chain is about spanish, not french.
In Spanish the last letter of the word is right most of the time. We do say “una Fanta”.
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
I don’t know what dialect you speak where “Mano” is masculine. In Spain it is feminine, and I’ve never heard anyone say “el mano”. I’ve also never heard anyone say “el manita”.
I don’t think “ser” and “estar” being different verbs is at all wrong with spanish. They are very clearly different concepts.
You can be something because it is part of you “I am tall” or you can be something situationally “I am at the library”. What is weird to me is that English uses the same verb for those clearly different concepts.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 months ago:
Idk why you are choosing to imagine anon like that. But that is a pretty normal and socially acceptable behaviour in a bar
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 months ago:
He wasn’t listening to the conversation for 3 hours. He was seated there for 3 hours, and then he overheard a part of a conversation.
Overhearing is not the same as actively listening. Talking in public is public. They are at a bar, which is an extremely social place, it is normal for strangers to join conversations.
And what place and context is more appropriate than a bar for asking someone out? It has been the de facto place exactly for that purpose for millenia.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 months ago:
Talking to a stranger is extremely rude?
How are you supposed to find a partner if you’re not allowed to talk to strangers?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 4 months ago:
That only happens in the US because of first past the post system. In European countries new parties with significant vote share are created all the time.
In fact, in my country the opposite of what you say happened. First we had a dictatorship with a single party. Then democracy came and we had a 2 party system. No we have 4 major parties, in addition to some minor ones.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 months ago:
Bookmarks are even harder to clear than tabs, since they are more “long term”. furthermore, they require more effort. Opening and closing a tab is 1 click each. Bookmarks take 1 click to create at least, but 2 to delete at least.
The browser history requires a lot of effort to find what you want.
Basically I use tabs because they require less effort than any other method.