ranandtoldthat
@ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org
- Comment on 1 day ago:
You can’t buy anything in Next Fest. It’s all demos.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Many people are really bad at detecting AI at that level. And gamers get vengeful. The review process you propose would be immediately overloaded.
I released a game on steam 100% human made and still got a few accusations of using AI in reviews. Who knows how those reviews have hurt sales.
Next time I make a game I’m going to use AI in a way that helps me realize my own vision. It’s really not worth keeping a line in the sand anymore since enough people can’t actually tell the difference.
- Comment on Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. The quality drop on discussions was wild. I used to spend hours a week discussing on reddit. Now despite still using it to keep up to date on various topics, I rarely comment.
The post quality dropped quite a bit as well at that time. But that has always been a steady “eternal September” type of decline so it’s harder to isolate the cause.
Reddit will become less and less useful to the AI giants for training if it doesn’t contain new and ongoing deep communication like it once did.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Were they? They took one of the most recognizable brands of the century and made something people tend to avoid referring to because it’s hard to.
- Comment on Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel All Fled California’s Billionaire Tax. Nvidia’s CEO Isn’t Going Anywhere. Even With an $8 Billion Bill Coming His Way 4 weeks ago:
It’s not an oppressive society for Sergey when Sergey is an oppressor. Forcing him to be slightly less of an oppressor? That would be real oppression.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers 5 weeks ago:
The app store is the biggest video game storefront in the world by revenue (play store beats it handily on volume), so it makes sense to start selling video game accessories.
I just hope the controllers are long lasting and easy to self service, like valve makes. I have my doubts with Apple.
- Comment on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin 1 month ago:
Yes! Too much hate for Firefox for imperfections while the chromium-based browsers are so much worse.
Sure use Librewolf or waterfox if you want, but people have to stop poisoning the well that is Firefox. That just pushes people back to chrome and edge.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I find that how much I care about achievements parallels how well they are done. Some games I care almost nothing, especially when the achievements feel tacked on. Other games, the achievements represent thought-out developer-suggested goals or progression and feel right. If I trust the developer’s choices in creating achievements, I enjoy the achievements.
As such I don’t care about RwtroAchievements at all. The achievements aren’t a part of the game. They end up either trivial or tedious. If I want a tedious challenge and can’t come up with one myself, I’ll see what people who love and have mastered the game tend to aim for.
- Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font 2 months ago:
Yup. This project is cutting off the nose to spite the face. So easily worked around by any scraper, but makes the website worse for actual users. Accessibility is usability.
- Comment on AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books 2 months ago:
Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge basically predicted this.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 2 months ago:
That’s not what the person you responded to said.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 3 months ago:
Same with Goat Simulator and Goat Simulator 3
- Comment on There Is No Reason To Buy Another PlayStation Or Xbox 3 months ago:
But how will they make games if they have no studios.
- Comment on Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch 3 months ago:
This is a moment where workers have a lot of leverage.
- Comment on 340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking The Internet Archive 4 months ago:
Archival is vital to society. Intentionally blocking archival should literally be illegal.
- Comment on Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record—then it crashed 5 months ago:
I feel like a healthy dose of skepticism is important lest we end up with only puff pieces. In fact, the Wright Brothers were dismissed for years: bigthink.com/the-past/wright-brothers-ignored/
- Comment on Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website 5 months ago:
Red reader is pretty good. There’s also patches in revanced to make rif work. But yeah, reddit is a shell of what it once was.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 5 months ago:
They’re not beholden to public investors. If they go public or sell to a public company it will change.
- Comment on The Case Against Gameplay Loops 6 months ago:
Agreed. To me, this blog post felt like a elevated rant. There’s not much meaningful analysis or substantive criticism of actual games or game design. There’s some comparative insight that is worth thinking through, but in the post it’s all wrapped up in rants about how one side of the comparison is bad and doesn’t really hone in on the nuances of the comparisons.
Notably, the discussion of game length (a key point of this post) is thin, especially when discussing the comparison to film and music.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course. Overall, for the comparative insight, it’s probably worth reading for people who like to think about these things, despite the issues within.
- Comment on The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep 6 months ago:
9 minutes less sleep nightly sounds pretty significant for a single cause. That’s about 2%. If anything I think this article demonstrates that blue light does affect your sleep.
- Comment on Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year 7 months ago:
Not to defend Google, but they have said they will leave a way for people to sideload. Still sucks that they feel justified in making it more annoying androidauthority.com/google-android-17-sideloadin…
- Comment on FAA launches flying taxi pilot program spanning 26 states 7 months ago:
Civil engineering and aerospace engineering almost always use Z axis to represent the vertical.
- Comment on Volvo invented the three-point seat belt 67 years ago; now it has improved it 8 months ago:
It’s an article published on ars technica, written by a journalist with more than a decade of experience writing about the automotive sector. Sometimes a story about a product is just a story about a product.
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 8 months ago:
Duo enforcement, for example. It’s pretty robust and hard to spoof. Some companies are willing to pay a lot of money to control their employees.
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 8 months ago:
Some workplaces require chrome, unfortunately
- Comment on Ian's Is Still The Best Site For Tying Your Shoelaces 9 months ago:
I’ve recommended Ian’s site to so many people over the years. Such a great resource for such a simple task.
Personally I like Ian’s fast knot. Took me a few days to master but I’ve been using it ever since.
- Comment on Don't call it a Substack 10 months ago:
Yeah it’s a blog platform that has a variety of functionality built in, including their big one: newsletter-style email subscriptions. Everything can be optionally paywalled by the blogger.
- Comment on The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement 10 months ago:
Let them fight.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Less clickbait and more reblogging, but yeah it’s not a good piece. It attempts to set a little context but overall fails miserably to explain the complexities around this and fails to evaluate how much credence should be given to the original poster.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns 11 months ago:
I just found a recent video from Chris Wilson that does a much better job distinguishing dark patterns from game mechanics some people might enjoy and shared it here: beehaw.org/post/23297295