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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes? metroid.retropixel.net/games/…/metroid3_map.gif

  Notice how there is always one close to each boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Nintendo hard” isn’t about difficulty it is about entire games being based around knowledge checks, like having to remember to pre-swing when you jump particular gaps or get knocked into the gap in og ninja gaiden for instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when do metroidvanias not have save points right outside boss rooms? That’s been the standard since symphony of the night at least…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually said I like the mega man version. I think the dark souls version is boring and doesn’t do anything of what you’re saying. I don’t even remember run backs from when I played half of hollow Knight because I didn’t even think the game was hard. It just wasted time in so many ways that I decided I’d rather play a different game that didn’t, but if people had to deal with the time wasting design that I remember and also do dark souls boss run backs then I’m not surprised they’re irritated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The other day, I fought the boss of the abyss in the dark souls 1 dlc. It took me 5ish attempts, and I changed my gear to have more magic resist after I got further in the fight and got merked by magic attacks. All spending 2 minutes between each attempt running back to the fog gate did was make me zone out and wish I could just get right back to it.

  Btw, the original runback was mega man, where you get to try the boss until you run out of lives then you have to do the entire level again. Still way more interesting than running past everything in souls games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll admit I don’t even remember doing runbacks in hollow Knight (or even having to fight any boss in the part of the game I played more than one or twice), but in other games where you have to run to the boss you normally just run past everything without fighting it and go into the boss with full resources. No challenge - just running past everything, which not only wastes time but also totally breaks immersion for me.

  In any case, my overall discontent is with all the time wasting added together than any specific thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true that I’d prefer it in no games, but it’s also less frustrating in straight soulslikes. The problem with HK is that it is a synthesis of metroidvania and soulslikes in the most time-disrespecting ways possible. Really most of my frustrations are with map design, and then they add not getting maps until you find the map guy (in samey environments I can’t remember well enough without a map).

  What made me put it down was playing for an hour going through multiple zones without finding either a map guy or a bench somehow then dying. I’m pretty sure just being able to see the map would have been enough to keep me playing.

  For this new fangled soulsvania genre there are numerous better entries that I thoroughly enjoyed. Ender Lilies and Blasphemus are the first 2 that come to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of comments tying runbacks to difficulty, when they have nothing to do with each other. I haven’t playing silksong but I played about half of the original and uninstalled it, despite the fact it is so many people’s favorite metroidvania and metroidvania is one of my favorite genres.

  Not putting checkpoints close to boss fights is not difficulty. It is disrespectful of the player’s time, which is a problem hollow Knight was full of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could AI be better than an encyclopedia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But on a fundamental level, aren’t we just adding an incontrolable step of noise injection in a decent time-tested information flow?

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every kid born in the last decade that I’m aware of which they got, got a tablet first. Small sample size though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They should be more like the Italian dock workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atlassian acquires The Browser Company, creators of Arc browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat maybe another well supported browser will be good for the landscape.

  The enterprise software company believes that an AI-enabled browser is needed as it can be “optimized for the SaaS apps where you spend your day”, meaning it understands the context of what you are doing in Jira or Google Docs instead of treating every tab the same.

  Oh nvm…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  only games I like count as games!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the context that running an ad blocker is a responsible action for security, it’s ridiculous to even be having this discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No to the first part, but we should still do the second part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀🌌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A transformer model isn’t an llm, nor does a type of algorithm/data model/whatever being useful for one purpose mean it is equally useful for all other purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For business use, laptops without powerful graphics cards have been the norm for quite some time. Do you see businesses deciding to change to desktops to accommodate the power for local models? I think it’s pretty optimistic to think that laptops are going to be that powerful in the next 5 years. The advancement in chip capability has dramatically slowed, and to put them in laptops they’d need to be incredibly more power efficient as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re only a few years off from platform-agnostic local inference at mass-market prices.

  What makes you confident in that? What will change?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m unaware of machine learning being used in all kinds of science, but it is not llms and therefore not the topic of discussion here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this argument way to often and it is completely pointless. The argument that this will succeed because something in the past succeeded is exactly the same as arguing it will fail because something in the past failed.

  If you want to draw the conclusion that they’re similar enough to use history in prediction, you’ll have to show that they’re similar and make a case for why those similarities are relevant.

  I haven’t seen anyone making this argument bother with this exercise, but I have seen people that actually look at the economics discuss why they’re different animals.

  There is also the enterprise itself.

  1. internet - connect everything together across vast distances. Obvious limitless possibilities.

  2. smart phones (you didn’t mention here but this is the other one people use for this argument most frequently) - Anything a computer can do in the palm of your hand.

  3. llms - can do some powerful stuff like rifle through and summarize text, or generate text, or generate code… Except you can’t really trust it to do any of these things accurately, and that is a fundamental aspect of how the technology works rather than something that can be fixed, so it can’t be used responsibly for anything critical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fang companies that are in on the llm hype are still lighting money on fire in their llm endeavors so I feel to see how the point that they may be otherwise profitable is relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's 'Jailbreak-Proof' New Models? Hacked on Day One⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “AI” has a massive inability (or is purposefully deceptive) to distinguish the difference between bugs, which can be fixed, and fundamental aspects of the technology that disqualify it from various applications.

  I think the more likely story is that they know this can be done, know about this particular jailbreak person, can replicate their work (because they didn’t so anything they hadn’t done with previous models in the first place), and are straight up lying and betting the people that matter to their next investment round (scam continuation) won’t catch wind.

  You’re giving these grifters way too much credit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's 'Jailbreak-Proof' New Models? Hacked on Day One⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok? Either openai knows that and lies about their capabilities, or they don’t know it and are incompetent. That’s the real story here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any “experienced” developer that says these AI tools have drastically increased their productivity is full of shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, I could just write it myself, instead of ending up like these guys sketch.dev/…/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like ORMs, but I’d rather use a battle tested ORM than some vibe coded data layer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a lot of stupid shit over my career but this AI zealotry just takes the cake.

  Everyone is so convinced these tools will make software get made faster, but I’m not even convinced that it gives even a modest benefit. For me personally they definitely don’t, and it seems to lead junior devs horribly astray as often as it helps speed them up.

  It feels like I’m not even looking at the same reality as everyone else at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or ought to be useful,

  Yes there is. No one wants to listen to us. I’ve had 3 levels of people above me ask me how I’ve incorporated AI into my workflow. I don’t get any pushback because my effectiveness is well known, yet the top down edict that everyone else use these shitty tools continues unabated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think steam is perfect, but they have shown over the years they will go above and beyond to make a good experience for the consumer, including tagging all kinds of negative things on games such as specific DRMs and drastically advancing the ability to run windows games on Linux

  No publicly traded company will ever develop that kind of track record even if you give it a chance.