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- Comment on Why I won't be participating in No Nut November 1 day ago:
Who would you like to moderate your nutting? /s
- Comment on Goteem 2 days 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 days ago:
That’s on acceptable!
- Comment on Put in the back window of your car for tailgaters 5 days 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 5 days 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. 5 days 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 😞 1 week 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 1 week 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% 1 week 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% 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 5 weeks 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).
- Comment on After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism 2 months ago:
You know as well as I, that I don’t have time to play it!
A prison then….
Return to Castle Wolfenstein immediately!
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 3 months ago:
Maybe not in this particular case: but what if you buy a game intending to get 10 hours out of it and after 1h you get greeted by the final credits. Shouldn’t you not be able to refund then? (Depending on the price of course.)
- Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma named as adviser to US Federal Reserve on ‘Jobs and Productivity’ 3 months ago:
„You have balls to gut a company like that. Wanna put that talent to use? We got just the right opportunity here …“
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 months ago:
Looks like those that do badly are those that went on an acquisition spree over the last years.
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 3 months ago:
But Microsoft released Windows… /s
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 3 months ago:
I‘ll buy and play it on day 1…. for PC. Until then it doesn’t exist for me.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn - Something is Coming... - GameSpace.com 6 months ago:
One of if not the best sci-fi series. Grounded but thrilling. Fantastic cast too.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 7 months ago:
Yes, and I didn’t say that. I even argued in favor of his response thoughout this whole post (getting a shit ton of downvotes all along). But I think that doesn’t invalidate my point either: without this one sentence, his whole chain of arguments would have been pretty good and reasonable. It was just unnecessary to then add this snarky remark. It’s understandable if he’s pissed, but just because you are pissed when you say something doesn’t make what you said a clever move.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 7 months ago:
The response is only nuanced until the last sentence. If he swallowed that it would be an almost perfect response.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 7 months ago:
Thanks for that long answer. I agree completely with the second half of it. I also agree with most of the first half of it, but I have to add a remark to it:
My understanding is that it’s harder to get AI code in general because when it hallucinates it may do so in ways that appear correct on the surface, and or do so in ways that don’t even give a significant indication of what that code is attempting to do. This is the problem with vibe coding in general from my understanding and it becomes harder and harder even for senior code engineers to check the output because of the lack of a frame of reference.
That is mostly true, but also depends on the usage. You don’t have to tell an agent to “develop feature X” and then go for a coffee. You can issue relatively narrow scoped prompts that yield small amounts of changes/code which are far easier to review. You can work that way in small iterations, making it completely possible to follow along and adjust small things instead of getting a big ball of mud to entangle.
And while it’s true that not everyone is able to vet code, that was also true before and without coding agents. Yet people run random curl-piped-to-bash commands they copy from some website because it says it will install whatever. They install something from flathub without looking at the source (not even talking about chain of trust for the publishing process here). There is so much bad code out there written by people who are not really good engineers but who are motivated enough to put stuff together. They also made and make ugly mistakes that are hard to spot and due to bad code quality hard to review.
The main risk of agents is, that they also increase the speed of these developers which means they pump out even more bad code. But the underlying issue existed before and agents don’t automatically mean something is bad. That would also be dangerous to believe that, because that might enforce even more the feeling of security when using a piece of code that was (likely) written without any AI influence. But that’s just not true; this code could be as harmful or even more harmful. You simply don’t know if you don’t review it. And as you said: most people don’t.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 7 months ago:
What you’re taking issue with though is deeper than ai. It’s online discourse that is so rude and nuance-less.
I guess that’s a fair assessment. It’s just recently quite annoying that we have tons of AI-hate, age-restriction-FUD, etc., while at the same time war rages, the economy goes to shit, and more and more governments turn right-wing or outright fascist.
We have so many problems, yet we rip each others throat out for topics that are ultimately irrelevant.
But no, he was a dick about it and is now hiding his use of ai moving forward.
I am with you that his last sentence was completely stupid. I am not with you regarding the “hiding” part. I was actually surprised there even were commits marked by claude. The way I use agents is typically completely local, then I review each diff, adjust as necessary and then commit. The commit is then obviously by me; not claude or whatever agent I am using at the time. I am pretty sure a lot of people work that way. So I actually think the default is to not see the involvement of AI. And I don’t do this to hide anything … that’s just a consequence of the workflow and how git works and I didn’t even consider that this should be done any differently.
That’s why I also understand his point - that he shouldn’t have said so bluntly: if that marker was never there, probably no one would have noticed to begin with.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 7 months ago:
Depends. If you are generally careful about what products/projects you use and audit them, and you notice that the owner has horrible code hygiene, bad dependency management, etc., then sure. But why judge them for the tools they use? You can still audit the result the same way. And if you notice that code hygiene and dependencies suck, does it matter if they suck because the author mis-used coding agents, because they simply didn’t give a damn, or because they are incapable of doing any better?
You’ve likely stumbled on open source repos in the past where you rolled your eyes after looking into them. At least I have. More than once. And that was long long before we had coding agents. I’ve used software where I later saw the code and was suprised this ever worked. Hell, I’ve found old code of myself where I wondered why this ever worked and what the fuck I’ve been smoking back then.
It’s ok to consider agent usage a red flag that makes you look closer at the code. But I find it unfair to dismiss someones work or abilities just because they use an agent, without even looking at what they produce. And by produce I don’t mean the final binary, but their code.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 7 months ago:
Ok maybe I mis-use the word. If that’s the case, sorry about that. But I hope my point comes across anyway: I really really dislike that the community (or multiple communities, even) get split between people who are ok with AI and who are against AI. This is, IMO, completely unnecessary. That doesn’t mean everyone should be ok with it, but we should not judge or condemn each other because of a different opinion on the matter.
If you notice a project goes downhill, it’s fine to criticize the author (or the whole project) for the degredation in quality. If there are strong indicators that AI is involved, by all means leave a snarky remark about that while complaining. But ultimately it’s the fuckup of a human.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 7 months ago:
The way flat earthers act? Yes. They treat it as a culture war. Just like anti-vaxers.