Feyd
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- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 3 days ago:
Ehhh I know a lot of people that play indie games, but generally they only play one or two genres of them. Part of it is that the terminology gets confusing because people mean different things. Like, other than baldur’s gate, I couldn’t tell you the last western AAA game I played. But I played FF7 rebirth which is definitely AAA but not what people are always talking about when that talk about AAA sinking. There are also tons of studios that you probably wouldn’t call AAA but you also wouldn’t call indie. Like, I probably play more games from Falcom than any other studio. They’re not huge headcount-wise or cutting edge technology-wise but they’ve been consistently making games since the 80s. I think a lot of people don’t bucket those types of developers in their heads at all.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 3 days ago:
The question is who funds these theoretical new studios? Indie studies more often than not have to make deals with the devil so they can eat. Then, even if their game is a smash hit, the investors take the lion’s share of profit and still control the actual devs by the purse strings. This society is sick.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s make-or-break year: can the OpenAI CEO cash in his bet on the future? 1 week ago:
Lol. Lmao even
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 week ago:
Why would “all this talk of AI not being profitable” be what triggers discussion about LLM use in games? I would think making games fun and interesting should be what triggers any discussion about using anything in games. Are you Satya Nadella trying to find some way to make LLMs profitable? All this ignores that people have actually been talking about exactly what you described for 2 years already.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 week ago:
Why would we?
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
When I finish a game naturally I look at the list of stuff I didn’t do yet, and think “how much time will this take? Will I even remember doing completionist stuff in 5 years or would it be better to start a new game?”
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 3 weeks ago:
Declare tab bankruptcy and start a new tab life
- Comment on My mouse needs internet to function 3 weeks ago:
I’ll actually put the blame for this on Apple. The fact that the operating system is so hostile to power users and customization is the reason you have to have a third party application to get the scroll to work how you want and assign functions to mouse buttons in the first place.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
Even the benign psychological manipulation away from just starting a game and enjoying it that is achievements is annoying
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 5 weeks ago:
Don’t listen to people saying you should keep extra accounts open. If you have 1 credit card open that you use regularly and pay off every month you’ll pay no interest and have a good enough credit score.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 5 weeks ago:
Pfft you can’t trick me everyone knows towels are single use
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say they’re evil. It’s basically like thinking you can be friends with a tiger. They’re on a completely alien ethical framework to humans. Killing humans is the natural thing to do, so of course they do it.
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 5 weeks ago:
They also act like the show doesn’t explore the dynamic at all, and that somehow it’s not legitimate to say the manga has answers the show doesn’t have when the manga is several arcs ahead of the anime. This person just wants to accuse people of being Nazis.
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 5 weeks ago:
That also wasn’t the answer they received on stack exchange. The anime is also still being adapted, and the manga isn’t even finished.
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 5 weeks ago:
Wow the only thing true in this post is that you asked a question on stack overflow
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 1 month ago:
I dunno that seems very compatible with
AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.
Also here is a link to the posts mastodon.social/…/115740500373677782
Also, the dev says the following and I think they have a point.
I’m not asking for faith in our direction - the thing I love about the Firefox community is how open, honest, and technical it is.
But I do ask that you don’t have the opposite of faith. Like, try not to be determined that we’re going to do the wrong thing here.
- Comment on Anon is a linguist 1 month ago:
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 1 month ago:
Running those power hungry gpu based data centers is going to cost beaucoup bucks regardless of the usage.
- Comment on If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these. 1 month ago:
I don’t use retro achievements because games are supposed to be fun rather than about checking boxes.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 month ago:
I don’t understand why you keep replying without even pretending to engage the points and arguments that I’ve made.
Do you think saying “the game is available elsewhere” addresses what I said about marketplace dominance at all?
Do you think anything you’ve said that only applies to this specific game addresses anything I said about systemic problems?
You aren’t even trying to have a discussion. You’re just saying “I don’t like the game anyway so it’s good it’s not on steam” and pretending it being available on other storefronts and that it happened to go viral has any bearing on any of the points I’ve made when it obviously doesn’t.
In any case, it’s pretty clear at this point that you’re not going to engage with me faithfully, so I’ll be on my way. Have a good day!
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 month ago:
They are getting loads of marketing from this
This particular game is. It won’t always apply to every game, which is why I want digital marketplaces that have so much market dominance they can make or break studios to not choose which games they allow on their platforms to not be based on vibes.
This seems pretty straightforward and your argument is incoherent at this point. They are getting loads of marketing from this
My argument isn’t incoherent just because you have terrible reading comprehension.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 month ago:
Yeah and what I am saying is this is stupid shit to do that for.
You need to work on your reading comprehension.
So what you are arguing for really is for Steam and Epic to distribute this.
Yes, I am. There doesn’t appear to be a non-moral-panic reason for it to be barred, and being barred from steam will have a deleterious effect on the game and on the studio’s ability to keep making games. I wish company didn’t have that power, but they do.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 month ago:
You’re not even trying to understand what I’m saying if you think that deciding if this particular game is what I care about. I don’t give a shit about this particular game. I care about maintaining the principles of not letting moralists dictate what art and media is appropriate for everyone else.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 month ago:
- The person in these comments that has actually played the game said there isn’t actually a single child in the game.
- I’m never going to decide to just accept bullshit “because it’s not surprising”. That’s completely asinine.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 month ago:
I literally don’t care if they had a little girl talk to a naked horseman (who is being treated by the game like a regular horse and not a man at all to make a point). My point is that banning things that aren’t child porn because of moral outrage leads to the moral crusaders escalating. Next thing you know they’re gunning for lgbt themes, then going after violence. It’s ridiculous and should be ridiculed and dismissed instead of pretending things are child porn just because you don’t like them.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 month ago:
Submitting to moral panic bullshit doesn’t placate them. It only emboldens them.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/believe
“To consider to be true or honest”
I don’t know what you think believe means but you’re wrong
- Comment on OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts 1 month ago:
Is the space pope reptilian?
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 months ago:
After work is exercise, which you need anyway, but it also shakes off the doldrums and provides a clean break between work and evening
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
continues playing trails games in the corner