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- Comment on Suikoden US vs JPN Box Art 1 day ago:
A list of several boxarts for Suikoden: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/…/boxes
The PAL version uses the original art from Japanese release. I think it even improves on it by having a white background, which looks more classy to me: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/…/10236
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Director Shares That He And His Team Were Just Laid Off 3 days ago:
How many were laid off? Did they hire another people maybe? I would be careful with premature conclusions based on this single event. It would be hilarious if those laid off people go to work on Overwatch…
- Comment on OpenAI board rejects Musk's $97.4 billion offer 4 days ago:
Given enough money, everything in the market is for sale. This is just a tactic to make the value higher.
- Comment on I Spent 1 YEAR Remaking Super Mario World In 3D! by Bobby Ivar (YouTube: 18:25 min) [Jan 30, 2025] 5 days ago:
Did you reply to the wrong person?
- Comment on I Spent 1 YEAR Remaking Super Mario World In 3D! by Bobby Ivar (YouTube: 18:25 min) [Jan 30, 2025] 5 days ago:
And whats bad about it?
- Comment on I Spent 1 YEAR Remaking Super Mario World In 3D! by Bobby Ivar (YouTube: 18:25 min) [Jan 30, 2025] 6 days ago:
As long as he does not make any money and it is not about a current gen game, its not as bad as you might think. He does not directly use assets from Nintendo, as everything is self created. The only thing in the way is, that he is using the IP (Intellectual Property) and names. But you know what, there are thousands of fan made games like that - ton of them even using assets directly ripped off Nintendo games, and they are not sued. People do this kind of thing since decades.
- I Spent 1 YEAR Remaking Super Mario World In 3D! by Bobby Ivar (YouTube: 18:25 min) [Jan 30, 2025]youtu.be ↗Submitted 6 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 week ago:
You did not just give feedback, but suggest me not posting here. No. I will post here. About games you are not interested. Just dont click them, dont be annoying.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 week ago:
Well I’m not going into all posts I dont like and tell them that I’m not interested into. Do i? If you dont like post, dont click. Or do not use this sub forum. Because its not just for you.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 week ago:
Why do people click the post if they are not interested? The title says it all. And I don’t post update notes usually, its probably my first time here. I posted this because of some noteworthy thing about supporting a specific Linux distribution, as explained in my post.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 1 week ago:
Paid subreddits. I mean look at the free to play live service games, how people like to buy stuff that not everyone has. We can laugh as much as we want and think how dumb this is. But people are dumber. It will drive away some people from Reddit, most won’t care and just stay using the “Free” stuff. Some will pay for the subreddits.
Maybe NSFW content or support subreddits for paying customers.
- Comment on Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations 1 week ago:
That’s because they had not the money to pay for.
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 1 week ago:
HAHA
- Comment on Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations 1 week ago:
Copyright violation doesn’t get you arrested.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 week ago:
So we are allowed to post in this sub only games you are interested in? How about unsubscribe or shutting up?? Just a suggestion.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 week ago:
Game Crashes
While we are at it, the game crashes my system after some time. It was even worse a week ago, when every second game crashed. Its so bad that if it crashes, then I have to hold the physical button on my computer; which is obviously not healthy. It happens more often in competitive. I’m on a modern computer with AMD+AMD system, using EndeavourOS. Other people have issues too and they have other PC specs, even using Windows. So its hard to say what causes this issue. Here is one tracking issue for Proton: github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8300
- Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 15 comments
- Comment on Gaming on Linux, How openSUSE Stacks Up for Gamers 1 week ago:
The distribution doesn’t matter, as long as you can install Steam on it.
- Comment on SimCity Classic in RetroArch - Who needs Windows 11 when you can play on Windows 98? 1 week ago:
lol yeah I use the Turbo button on RetroArch often. In example on boot. Love the turbo button. :D Its still Windows, so you have to figure out the drivers stuff. I researched a lot and recommend the drivers I mentioned in first paragraph (in Edit). And I never setup internet connection. I really don’t want Windows 98 to connect to internet.
- Comment on SimCity Classic in RetroArch - Who needs Windows 11 when you can play on Windows 98? 1 week ago:
I have not much experience on Android. Would be interesting to see how it runs there.
- Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement 1 week ago:
Didn’t they lift the PSN account requirement on PC just a few days ago? Imagine if they could not play the game during the outage, if Sony didn’t lift the requirements. I kinda would have loved to see this, because it could mean a huge shift in gaming based on real world proof.
- Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 7 comments
- Comment on Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50 | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Using another LLM model to fine tune it and then saying they spend a fraction of the money of those who created the model its based on, is just ironic. They used the Google model and fine tuned it. Its like someone building a car for millions of Dollars, I take the car and make some changes for much less money. Then I claim that I build a car for 50 Dollars. This is the level of logic we are dealing with.
- Comment on Mozilla's New AI Detector Add-On for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
I think that I can decide better than an Ai tool if a text is written by an Ai. Not a fan of this. I find it weird to use an Ai tool, to detect Ai text. Also I wonder if those Ai fake tools can utilize Fakespot detection to improve the actual fakeness. They can train their Ai until Fakespot does not detect anymore.
They talk about their proprietary model, plus several other tools. Highlight any text online and request an analysis. Nowhere in the article, the download page and their Fakespot website is once mentioned if this is local and offline. So, I’m 99% sure the data is sent to their server for analyzing the highlighted text.
- Comment on Apple reportedly excited to power Apple Intelligence with DeepSeek 2 weeks ago:
I think its only about the iPhone released in China. So the US Bill has nothing to say there. From article:
But despite the heavy marketing for its AI features Apple is yet to introduce them in China which is a major region for the iPhone.
One major reason that Apple Intelligence has still not made its way to China is that the company needed to approve an AI model that would run it.
- Comment on Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. 2 weeks ago:
What are you talking about? What bad faith are you saying to me? I ask you to show me the repository that contains the source code. There is none. Please give me a link to the repo you have in mind. Where is the source code and training data of DeepSeek-R1? Can we build the model from source?
- Comment on Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. 2 weeks ago:
Nobody releases training data. It’s too large and varied.
That’s why its not Open Source. They do not release the source and its impossible to build the model from source.
- Comment on Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. 2 weeks ago:
Can you actually explain what in my reply is “Fear, uncertainty, and doubt”? Did you actually read it? I even linked to the specific github repository, which is basically empty. You just link to an overview, which does not point to any source code.
Please explain whats FUD and link to the source code, otherwise do not call people FUD if you don’t know what you are talking about.
- Comment on Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. 2 weeks ago:
Define “open sourced model”.
The term itself is actually shockingly simple. Source is the original material that was used to build this model, training data and all files that are needed to compile and create the model. It’s Open Source, if these files are available (preferably with an Open Source compatible license). It’s not. We only get binary data, the end result and some intermediate files to fine tune it.
- Comment on Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. 2 weeks ago:
None of the code and training data is available. Its just the usual Huggingface thing, where some weights and parameters are available, nothing else. People repeat DeepSeek (and many other) Ai LLM models being open source, but they aren’t.
They even have a Github source code repository at github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 , but its only an image and PDF file and links to download the model on Huggingface (plus optional weights and parameter files, to fine tune it). There is no source code, and no training data available. Also here is an interesting article talking about this issue: Liesenfeld, Andreas, and Mark Dingemanse. “Rethinking open source generative AI: open washing and the EU AI Act.” The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. 2024
