Fauxreigner

@Fauxreigner@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree (re: Verbal Verdict demo)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you’re willing to put in some kind of response that basically says “I’m not going to respond to that” (and that’s a sure way to break immersion) this is effectively impossible to do well, because the writer has to anticipate every possible thing a player could say and craft a response to it. If you don’t, you’ll end up finding a “nearest fit” that is not at all what the player was trying to say, and the reaction is going to be nonsensical from the player’s perspective

  LA Noire is a great example of this, although from the side of the player character: the dialogue was written with the “Doubt” option as “Press” (as in, put pressure on the other party). As a result, a suspect can say something, the player selects “Doubt”, and Phelps goes nuts making wild accusations instead of pointing out an inconsistency.

  Except worse, because in this case, the player says something like “Why didn’t you say something to your boss about feeling sick?” and the game interpreted it as “Accuse them of trying to sabotage the business.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The march towards an all-EV future hit a major roadblock. What went wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s massive untapped demand for things like mini city cars and kei trucks.

  Not just that, but even the more middle ground small cars. I’d love to have an EV truck sized the way they were in the 80’s/90’s (which was more or less comparable to a midsize sedan, just taller). The push to bigger and bigger wheelbases to take advantage of loopholes in the efficiency standards really doesn’t need to be reflected in EVs, but it’s what all the major automakers are doing.