Vodulas
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- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 3 days ago:
Ah yes, getting angry over someone appealing to fascists is just tribalism. My bad
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 3 days ago:
You mean in 2017 like the article pointed out. And maybe there should have been backlash for it. It was a shitty thing to do then, and an even worse thing to do now
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 3 days ago:
Shit take. There is a difference between seeing something out on the street and choosing not to support a developer because of their shitty behavior
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 3 days ago:
The political implications were the point though. Or do you think he had no idea what he was doing? The “We didn’t know it would be taken as a political statement” BS is just damage control
- Comment on Some people defended Ars Technica in my previous post, here is a proof about how Ars Technica parent company secretly manipulate Reddit for their own benefit. 1 week ago:
lol, fair, but I thought it was a smaller part of your post and figured that if it was coming from someone who did not have a dog in the fight it might hammer it home
- Comment on Some people defended Ars Technica in my previous post, here is a proof about how Ars Technica parent company secretly manipulate Reddit for their own benefit. 1 week ago:
Pretty much everyone here knows Reddit and Conde Nast are bad for a multitude of reasons, but that does not mean the journalists at Ars are bad at their jobs. They also have nothing to do with any alleged anti-not Conde Nast bias of Reddit mods (I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but the evidence you posted here is a lot of nothing). People can do good work at shitty companies, and a lot of shitty companies don’t have a hand in day to day operations in companies. Hell, in the US, that is becoming the rule and not the exception. Again, I am not saying Conde Nast doesn’t necessarily have a thumb on the scales at Ars, but you have provided no evidence of that.
And once again, even if we take everything you say as true, the fact remains that the journalists at Ars have absolutely nothing to do with Reddit. The heads of Conde Nast might, and for sure read articles from their outlets with a critical eye, but those are two different things.
Finally, bringing your problems with Reddit to a completely different platform is just silly, especially on Lemmy, and especially especially to Beehaw. If you want to have a bitchfest, that is fine. This just isn’t the place to do it.
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
It is super tough to get more than a ballpark for sure. The 1.4 million players from average daily players over the past year. 30 million is the all time peak, I believe.
As far as how much Epic/Disney is willing to spend, that is another grey area. Do they consider this marketing? Do they consider this a test bed for AI generated actors for shows and movies? The motivation and how much they are willing to spend is even more opaque than the energy use numbers
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
Sorry, I said “no” because it is clearly not just 6 year olds playing fortnite and interacting with the bots, but did not elaborate at all. Brain fart on my part
If the number of video cards running Fortnite weren’t cause for worry 3 years ago, why would this use of AI be concerning today?
Because it has the potential to be way worse, but it depends heavily on actual energy usage, which we don’t have in this case. What we do have is estimates on ChatGPT, and the estimates are pretty bad
web.archive.org/…/energy-ai-use-electricity-water…
We can only speculate, but if 100 words of text takes .14kWh we can assume 100 words of voice production is worse.
And maybe if the novelty does not stick it is not something to be concerned about, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be asking about the energy cost
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
No, my point is one player on a single video card is going to interact with the bots multiple times to try and get it to say something funny (or racist as real life played out). That takes more than a single interaction
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
For sure that is true for Vader, bit the point of the article is to roll out several new bots to keep the novelty up
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
Sure, that is true specifically for Vader, but the whole point of the article is that they are rolling out several new bots to keep the novelty up.
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 1 week ago:
Other than the obvious missing numbers, this is also missing scale. Sure, one response likely takes less energy than playing the game, but Fortnite averaged 1.4 million daily players the last year. Granted not all of them are going to interact with the bot, but a whole hell of a lot are going to, and do it multiple times in a row.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 1st 1 week ago:
1.1 is out on the 10th, so should be even better!
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 1 week ago:
Oh, they are already causing traffic issues in California. Plus the Waymos have been doing a lot of cacophonous honking when they try to park for the evening. Just chaos every where they go
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 1 week ago:
Texas in a couple weeks and California has some trials in San Francisco. Waymo is expanding to other cities, though. They are 100% not ready for live testing, yet here we are
- Comment on Scientists created contact lenses that make farts visible 1 week ago:
Agreed. The actually discovery is so cool, and the joke means people probably won’t read the article.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re all good, just my brain being one track
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 2 weeks ago:
Oh, that kind of taint. Having played the game instead thinking about it in the corrupted sense
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 2 weeks ago:
The leveling curve on this game is pretty rough, making it tough early on, but damn if it ain’t a great first person RPG.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Arthurian legend/the quest for the grail has been around for like a long time before Monty Python.
- Comment on Philips to Offer Free Downloadable Files to 3D Print Replacement Parts - Core77 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t wildly complex, don’t would be dobale for sure
- Comment on Philips to Offer Free Downloadable Files to 3D Print Replacement Parts - Core77 3 weeks ago:
It was a super fast print (about 16 minutes) so I went ahead. I think it’ll be fine, and I even had a random layer issue on the back side. Put it on the razor, and it used the angle of the blade to lock it in place, so I don’t think there will be much issue.
Lemmy is not letting me upload images on mobile, but I’ll see if I can do it on desktop
- Comment on Philips to Offer Free Downloadable Files to 3D Print Replacement Parts - Core77 3 weeks ago:
I’ll give it a shot too, since I have the razor for the one model they have released
- Comment on Philips to Offer Free Downloadable Files to 3D Print Replacement Parts - Core77 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what you’ve experienced, but I have been 3d printing things for about 6 years now. With any decently tuned printer, these would be fine for the use they will get. I have the one razor they have released a part for, and the 3d printed parts are not going to experience much in the way of force that would separate the layers. It doesn’t help that I don’t think they followed their own guidelines when printing the examples. The layer height is huge which makes the layer lines stand out. I bet that was so they could more easily be identified as 3d printed with an FDM printer, but it looks really bad.
- Comment on The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I understand you think it is 75% board/tabletop/comics and, at least at PAX west, that is untrue. Nintendo literally did a mini event inside PAX two years. Larian has had a huge presence since BG3 was announced. There are esports events the whole time. Most of the panels are video game related. It may be that you don’t do the AAA stuff, but there has historically been a huge presence
- Comment on The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East 3 weeks ago:
PAX’ audience are primarily comic and board game nerds, they’re historically light on video game booths in their expo hall
That is entirely untrue. PAX has a specific tabletop convention (PAX Unplugged), but the main cons are very heavily video game focused. The expo hall have an indie game section, but the vast majority of the expo hall is major companies (Nintendo often has the largest booth). I have been to PAX West nearly every (I missed the first year and last year), and board games are there, but never the focus
- Comment on Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps 3 weeks ago:
Is there an outfitter like REI in your city? They often have classes and clubs as well. You could also try something new. Maybe since you like video games, give board or tabletop games a try and go to a local game shop for a game night.
- Comment on Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps 4 weeks ago:
Join a hiking group/club, and don’t do it with the express intent of dating. I’m not saying don’t hope, but don’t because you enjoy the activity
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 4 weeks ago:
$150k is not necessarily a lot of money in a lot of cities. The article just mentions New York, but typically that would not be enough to buy in most areas even close to NYC
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that is the worst thing about modern cars. They just produced their first fully drivable prototype, so I am cautiously optimistic.