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- Comment on Oh It Gets Worse. Much Worse. 6 hours ago:
Sorry, to apply here you should have went to _di_versity.
- Comment on ## Lacoste Intolerant 1 week ago:
- Comment on 'None of these people have ever made a game,' BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: 'They just don't know how it works' 1 week ago:
Same with AI usage. If we allow people and companies to get away with “the AI did it; it wasn’t my fault” we are fucked. If you fail to supervise your tools (or the people you hire), you failed your job/duties and should be on the hook, unless there is clear malicious cheating by the other party (if you probably tried to do everything right and were cautious but the other side subverted that and acted in bad faith, then it’s a different matter).
- Comment on 'None of these people have ever made a game,' BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: 'They just don't know how it works' 1 week ago:
Also, we need to seriously regulate consulting companies, they are a tool to diffuse responsibility away so no one has to take it
Consultants aren’t an issue by themselves. The issue is accountability of decision makers. A consultant — per its name and role — just consults. They don’t decide. If a manager uses consultants in their decision making that is fine, but the decision to do so and to follow their advise is on the manager.
The bigger issue is that (seemingly) managers get bonuses for short term monetary goals and don’t get punished for longterm ill affects. If, after shit goes south, you could sue a former manager for damages, this could change. Although it might also cause managers to avoid any and all risk, which is also bad.
It’s tricky
- Comment on Anon hears a dying wish 1 week ago:
If they speak German, they can’t be a bad person.
- Comment on The 2048 world record was just beaten by P-shiyi592 2 weeks ago:
But I need The Game. Oh wait; I just lost. Never mind.
- Comment on Quickly, before November arrives! 2 weeks ago:
Knowing that deeply satisfies me.
- Comment on Quickly, before November arrives! 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t end of November still November?
- Comment on Karma 2 weeks ago:
A fan moves air. If anything, the energy needed to move it would slightly warm it even (but that can be ignored). How should it improve air quality? It can neither turn CO2 into O2 nor can it get rid of smells nor can it reduce humidity. It moves air around. Nothing more.
- Comment on Karma 2 weeks ago:
A fan doesn’t cool your apartment or improves the air quality. Maybe you should smoke less, it seems to degrade your brain functions.
- Comment on Karma 2 weeks ago:
Counter point: the smoker closes his door, but the neighbor might have their window open. Especially in summer months this can be really annoying having smoking neighbors.
- Comment on Reincarnated As My Best Friend’s Kid in Another World 2 weeks ago:
That comes after the physical relieve of having the baby out. Also the pregnancy and the birth itself can kill people; don’t need the potentially following depression for that.
But anyway: this thread is clearly not serious, is it?
- Comment on Reincarnated As My Best Friend’s Kid in Another World 2 weeks ago:
The relieve once it’s finally out is probably close enough after the hours of “fighting”.
- Comment on Reincarnated As My Best Friend’s Kid in Another World 2 weeks ago:
That kid was deeper in his wife than he could ever be. It also likely made her scream more than he could ever achieve. He really didn’t think this through.
- Comment on Why I won't be participating in No Nut November 3 weeks ago:
Who would you like to moderate your nutting? /s
- Comment on Goteem 3 weeks ago:
OTOH, if I was traveling to China every so often, I would likely be also cautious with writing such things. For a similar reason I likely shouldn’t enter the US any time soon.
- Comment on 🥲🥲🥲 3 weeks ago:
That’s on acceptable!
- Comment on Put in the back window of your car for tailgaters 3 weeks ago:
Problem is that they still endanger you. Being right while being seriously injured or dead doesn’t help you a lot.
- Comment on Put in the back window of your car for tailgaters 3 weeks ago:
It still tracks. You can be the tailgating asshole and be inspired by this to add it to your car to flip off other tailgating assholes.
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 3 weeks ago:
I fear this might be another push for live service shit or even game streaming. I absolutely like services like GeForceNow as an option to play games on less ideal hardware. But I wouldn’t want to be forced to that.
- Comment on Happened More Than Once 😞 3 weeks ago:
Had a teacher go through the tests, held up one of a class mate and announced “this is the worst I’ve ever seen”. A few pages later she holds up mine with “oh, this is even worse”. 😒
- Comment on When you're in a rush and need to eat on the go 4 weeks ago:
I guess it doesn’t simply turn into some kind of potatoe soup?
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 4 weeks ago:
I was actually a little disappointed. Friends of mine were huge GT fans and played the shit out of it, but when I played it I found the AI opponents horribly stupid and the missing damage model was mildly weird, to say the least. I expected more than what I got. It wasn’t a bad game, but just not what I expected.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 4 weeks ago:
That’s how I ended up buying a PS3 back when GTA V was released. Well, that and Gran Turismo and wanting a Blu-ray player. But it was still not really worth it.
- Comment on AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running 4 weeks ago:
Typically scales fractional to the user count and often in steps. These costs stay relatively stable no matter if you have 1 or 10000 players (for example), then rise a bit to support 18000 players, etc. And they should not start out high enough to require a loan just for them.
If you build an MMO and get a sudden influx of millions on players… ok. Then maybe. But they typically also grow somewhat organically.
Each user causing you direct costs that even increase with their usage is… not optimal. But hey, it’s worth a shot, I guess.
- Comment on AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running 4 weeks ago:
If the game uses the Steam SDK, they “of course” can at least check that the request comes from an authorized game (SSO via Steam). But sure, people who bought the game can still easily troll the dev, unless they also employ some kind of anti-cheat system. But from what it sounds like even then a troll could simply play the game excessively and then ramp up costs for the dev.
- Comment on AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running 4 weeks ago:
Only if the client is making the requests directly. If your own infrastructure is in between (which it should), you can limit the kind of requests and their rate at will.
Of course that’s an architecture I am not sure someone who develops something like this has on their mind.
- Comment on AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running 4 weeks ago:
But loans don’t scale with the amount of players and played hours. They purely factor into the cost of development and support.
- Comment on AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running 4 weeks ago:
Actually sounds like the perfect use case for a model like Jev. I think Jevos should be able to handle that locally.
- Comment on Diablo V Teaser 1 month ago:
I liked it gameplay wise, but the story … urgh. Typical comic book vilain tropes. Taunting you with how awesome and cunning they are, just to vanish and leave you with one of their henchmen that you then slaughter. Repeat a few times, until they finally pretend to be really pissed off now and decide to spill their whole plan any why you have no chance of stopping them … just to be stopped.
The only thing the villains in D3 had was arrogance. Everything else was forgettable (to me).
