mhague

@mhague@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My single 996 MEGAhertz processor, 512mb ram, 128mb vram setup could just about run Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. These games often had higher minimum requirements but I managed.

  Balatro, a modern card game, starts off with minimum requirements of two 3 GIGAhertz cores and a gigabyte of ram.

  Comparing AAA Valve with an indie dev isn’t fair but it’s objectively true that relatively simple concepts now require substantially more resources. That’s like 6 Battlefield 1942 instances to 1 Balatro instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars First Logistics, an open world Mars colonization game where you can develop and control vehicles (rovers, flying vehicles) to make money completing construction projects, released on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me a bit of Colobots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  John Carmack: We couldn’t figure out how to perfect virtual texture streaming. I’d walk backwards and turn and the world would reload textures. It was just a problem with the implementation.

  Randy: The technique is fine you just need to play differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worth checking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re just gonna have to form human relationships with artists like a bunch of squares

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now it's stuck in my head⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always makes me think of the ending of 40yo Virgin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A half baked idea I want to see implemented is using local LLMs to generate the most vile / ragebait / unhealthy responses to trending topics and then use that like an inoculation.

  ie in natural settings humans are better at detecting dead ends / performative rhetoric / etc. But online it’s different.

  I think it’s a bad idea but I can’t stop wondering considering LLM bots, dead internet theory… I’d like to have a taste of what others might be cooking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I declare bankruptcy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Russian number

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are helping⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to map out the bunkers / assets of our elites. To better play chicken with them. Let’s all live like they do and if their example destroys the world, we make sure to clean up our mess on our way out… for the people who come after us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I have a Divayth Fyr kind of thing going on? Please advise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being racist and wanting to enjoy it instead of making it political. In the US it’s culture war shit. In Europe you can go to a football match and throw bananas at the black players and it’s chill. It’s just easier to be casually racist in Europe because racism doesn’t exist there, and if it does, it’s not as bad as America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a you all? You’ll

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the context of aggressive foreign policy where we bomb the shit out of people… They are probably referring to how in the 1910s USA was stumbling through an incursion into Mexico to fight rebels / raiders. As we joined WW1, some saw us as a rowdy militia, like cowboys. We had to borrow materiel because we weren’t yet a proper war-machine like European countries were. Exactly 100 years ago that wasn’t the case though. Yet there would still be quite a ways to go until the era of “top 3 air forces” and super carriers patrolling the globe while drones blow ‘terrorists’ to smithereens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train your brain⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They spent a lot of money and political capital to train their AI just for it to get leaked back to the masses.

  If only every AI company scraping the internet would have their model be given back to the people. It’s the minimum they could do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it would be a better look⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean St Peter held his gun sideways?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finished while ago Khamelion (MK Armageddon), by me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the gall of a dying warrior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much do you know about transformers?

  Have you ever programmed an interpreter for interactive fiction / MUDs? It’s a great example of the power that even super tiny models can accomplish.

  Also consider that Firefox or Electron apps require more RAM and CPU and waste more energy than small language models. A Gemma slm can translate things into English using less energy than it requires to open a modern browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But even before recent tariffs, modern console prices weren’t dropping nearly as fast as history suggested they should. In fact, Sony first raised the nominal starting price of the PS5 Digital Edition back in 2023, way before Trump’s current trade war was even on the horizon.

  I’m not saying Trump is to blame but this is misleading. Trump hurt our economy with tariffs during his first term nearly 10 years ago. During 2023 he was releasing “Agenda 47” policies, in which he specifically mentioned more tariffs. Here’s Trump threatening tariffs 8 months before Sony raised the price

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s two types of gamers.

  People who like sandboxes with the understanding that there are some toys / structures to play with.

  People who just like playing in sand and don’t care if a sandbox is literally just a box of sand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He made adult music knowing it would be listened to by children. At some point in his career he must have realized he was talking directly to children while in the studio.

  I’m sure he cares about kids and isn’t just a stupid asshole saying a line because something pulled his string.

  You got a stick in your ass, Snoop!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you guys talking about Battlefield? A AAA fps with 128 players? With absolute bangers like 1942, Vietnam, 2142, 2, 4, and 1?

  No idea why people like it. Dead franchise imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No server browser btw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of when I got an ad showing intense heat and wildfires in my state, but the city names were AI generated Cyrillic text. Felt like a Russian was saying exactly that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WrestleMania was running wild on you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two possibilities.

  1: It’s the calm before the storm. It implies nobody was egging this on. People were simply going on with their lives, when suddenly a thing happens. “Out of nowhere.” It’s a common trope both visually and in writing.

  2: It makes autistic people mad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 skeletons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  13 skeletons is the max. To raise more you need a Bonelord. 13 Bonelords and you need a Lich. 13 Liches and you need a Titan.

  After 13 Titans, 169 Liches, 2197 Bonelords, and 28561 skeletons… you reach Khali.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An article about microtransactions, riddled with distracting, screen-dominating ads. They used a massive interstitial before the article even began!

  I assume the article is praising Ubisoft for their scummy practices? "If you don’t like hundreds of ads microtransactions just subscribe buy premium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck it, more surrealposting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just that Jurassic Park game with fps sections isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Asmongold just says stupid things and then only responds to the lowest hanging fruit.

  He’ll say we can’t refugees because XYZ, then people will respectfully counter his arguments, but he effortlessly ignores them.

  Then someone calls him a loser or makes a silly argument and that’s when he’s “You see? This is the problem.”

  Just a circus act for idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Find luigi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of trying to find the odd symbol out on Commodore 64 using the blinking characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather have another team try to execute Subnautica. Unforgivable to make a survival game where enemies go through walls, you can fall through your ship, and your save becomes corrupted if you build too much.

  It’s a AA game that was rough around the edges. Not much there to make you think “without the original devs the game will be totally wrong.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA for those in America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny to see lemmings not like fireworks. First time the reaction to fireworks has been to cry.