Zos_Kia
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 1 week ago:
The jargon thing is pretty rich coming from the most jargon-dense place on the internet
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 2 weeks ago:
Yeah i see your point honestly, and at some point there’s no debating either it does it for you or it doesn’t. I’m thinking maybe it’s not a game for you cause that’s a gameplay loop that’s generally enjoyed by players.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 2 weeks ago:
the zombification exploit is an exploit (unless they fixed it? idk I haven’t played since before the update with the warden), setting up a farm with the desired villagers is an absolute chore
Not sure what you mean ? Villager curing is a legit mechanic, and it’s not absolutely required. Personally i never bother, as emeralds are so easy to farm they’re basically infinite. I see what you mean about building villager “trading halls”, though, i used to hate it too. But it’s not really required either i guess. You can just pop into a village, convert 3 or 4 villagers to librarians with the trades you want : mending, unbreaking, efficiency & protection will get you most of the way even if it’s not maxed-out gear you’ll already see the difference. For more marginal enchants you can explore the End and combine equipment you looted from there.
It’s what i like in that mechanic, there’s various paths to acquire good equipment, a minimal setup will take minimal effort but if you geek out you can make yourself a god-tier kit that will stay with you forever.
Anecdotally I used to roll with a crew that had a bunch of PvPers who’d lose equipment all the time, so we had this huge kit-farming district in our base that was really fun to design and build. The system is pretty in-depth and i wouldn’t call it badly designed (even though it might not be to everybody’s taste).
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 2 weeks ago:
I think what makes the game great is that it contains a number of game mechanics, which are all interlocked and play nice together. That gives it enormous versatility. You can be a nomad explorer, or a builder who stays at base and never sees a hostile mob. You can be a redstone engineer, or a farmer accumulating insane amounts of resources. You can create map art and barter with other map artists on the server. You can hunt bases and either grief them or contact their owners and get to know their history. You can play mini games on commercial servers or code your own mods and play PvA (player vs admin) on anarchy servers.
You can find the exact combo and dosage that fits your playstyle, then switch gears a couple months later and turn the game on its head. I don’t know of many games with that kind of variety.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 2 weeks ago:
Remove the XP cost increment upon repairing items, so that Mending is not an end-game necessity anymore
Yeah i see your point, it can get frustrating at first. Personally i don’t hate it, getting to keep your tools forever is an endgame perk and as such, it needs a bit of organization and knowledge. You’ll have to have at least some basic villager breeding (for a Mending librarian), and some basic farms (auto-furnace for XP generation & storage, or just some mob farm).
That’s kind of why i think the game is well designed. To get endgame perks you need to interact with different game mechanics at least on a surface level, it’s great for discoverability and inspiration.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 2 weeks ago:
What would you want to see different?
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 2 weeks ago:
it’s about the pixel-art and the cubes, am i right ?
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 2 weeks ago:
The irony of these projects is that they only seem to appeal to people who don’t really like Minecraft, or used to like older versions but not recent ones. They have zero traction among active Minecraft players.
I’ve tried most of them and honestly they don’t hold a candle to the original - not that they are bad games, but rather they entirely miss the point of modern Minecraft and why it is so appealling to so many people. Although (some vocal fraction of) the community likes to nitpick every single detail of every single update, it is an incredibly well designed game.
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 4 weeks ago:
Kind of tangential but I’ve always found the start of fallout 3 (the iconic scene where you exit the vault) to be a lesson in game design. Here’s a completely open world but I can guarantee in ten minutes you’ll be at the entrance of megaton. No direct prompting, just subtle framing and environmental clues.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 4 weeks ago:
They’re just immature. The lovey-dovey part is as fake as the disdain, they’re just a kid cosplaying adult interpersonal relationships.
They’re most probably a cunt too.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely not
- Comment on Hell 5 weeks ago:
No irony, this is a core skill when you’re in tech leadership. If you’re the people pleasing type, always replying immediately is a classic trap.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 5 weeks ago:
Social media bros virtue signaling the most basic social skills, episode 3257
- Comment on MEN. 5 weeks ago:
He’s a hero to us all! Without him, how would you have ever heard of the clerical necromantic underground ? (Which will be the band of my next black metal band, yes, thanks for asking)
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 1 month ago:
Don’t stop it. It’s healthy.
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 2 months ago:
That is, almost certainly, not the reason. What you’re describing is “model collapse”, a situation which can be triggered in certain extreme laboratory conditions, and only in small models. It may be possible on larger models such as OpenAI’s flagships, but has never been observed or even proved to be feasible. In fact there probably isn’t enough synthetic (ai-generated) data in the world to do that.
If i were to guess why hallucinations are on the rise, i’d say it’s more probably because the new models are fine-tuned for “vibes”, “empathy”, “emotional quotient” and other unquantifiables. This naturally exacerbates their tendency for bullshit.
This is very apparent when you compare ChatGPT (fine-tuned to be a nice and agreeable chat bot) with Claude (fine-tuned to be a performant task executor). You almost never see hallucinations from Claude, it is perfectly able to just respond with “i don’t know”, where ChatGPT would spout 5 paragraphs of imaginary knowledge.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 2 months ago:
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s not necessarily baked into the models, but rather part of a style guide in the system prompt
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 months ago:
Good luck finding enough wood for that ! Energy was reaaaally expensive back then.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 months ago:
They had sewage and toilets since Roman times. It wasn’t affordable to many (and you couldn’t make it affordable) but they definitely knew how to make it.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 months ago:
I’d just like to interject that while traveling was rare in medieval times, it did happen. People usually didn’t get thrown in jail for it, even if they didn’t speak the local language.
Regular people didn’t really speak Latin beyond a few bits of prayer. The lingua franca was a mix of various coastal languages (think of the belter patois in the expanse), but even that was only known to traders.
You’d have a tough time for sure, but wouldn’t necessarily get in trouble.
- Comment on What show are you surprise managed to finish, or get many seasons out of it at least, and avoid cancellation? 2 months ago:
Honestly that made me realize that he’s a really, genuinely funny guy. From the outside you may think “yeah his shows have good jokes cause there’s a whole team in the writing room and they can rewrite a scene until it’s a banger” but then you hear him improv 20 minutes of MC non-binary chicken or some moronic shit, while drunk out of his mind, and it just fucking works.
He also came off as a pathologically sincere person, which is a trait i like a lot. There was this borderline me-too story between him and one of his assistants, and he was so sincerely apologetic in his response that the victim basically praised him for apologizing right…
Kids, take a look at this fat alcoholic narcissistic piece of junk cause he may teach you what it means to be a man.
- Comment on What show are you surprise managed to finish, or get many seasons out of it at least, and avoid cancellation? 2 months ago:
I’m still sad from Harmontown ending. It was a hell of a podcast.
- Comment on Black Mirror Question 2 months ago:
Black mirror is inspired by the great scifi anthologies such as the twilight zone, which themselves are an offshoot of scifi short story anthologies (as in books). The formula is pretty well established, you’ll get a cold open, some rich world building based on technology, and, most of the times, a bleak and existential ending.
Sorry but that’s kind of baked in the entire genre…
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 months ago:
Yeah i don’t know much about TS but as an extreme metal fan happily married to a K-pop & K-drama fan, I agree with your point. But again, there’s a lot of signal in those various situations.
The girl in the story has clearly signaled that pop-culture tastes are important for her in a potential partner, while you and I have clearly signaled that it isn’t. Both are very valid.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 months ago:
I was actually agreeing with you. She rejected him for liking anime just like he may have rejected him for liking Taytay & reality TV. As you said, dating is not a speedrun to making some random person like you - it’s a search for someone you like and who likes you back. Personal interests and hobbies are a great proxy to finding that person. But of course you have to be in a good place mentally, and not ready to ditch your dignity for validation from a random person you might not even like if you were frank with yourself.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 months ago:
Yeah I’d Anon had asked first and she had replied “Taylor swift and watching reality TV” how would he have reacted?
- Comment on oopsie 5 months ago:
I have to keep my LinkedIn for business reasons but recently I noticed a big uptick in fascist-adjacent posting. At first it depressed me big time but then I started blocking and a couple weeks and dozen blocks later it was over. Turns out a small number of people can really give the impression of a crowd and fuck with the whole experience.
- Comment on Anon comes up with filenames 5 months ago:
Yeah the filename is fsdfsdf like always
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 6 months ago:
Be me
SPQR-fag enjoying the steam at the bathhouse
Romanon comes in, agitated and talking to himself
claims he is shooting the shit with Plato
tfw Plato’s been dead for centuries
someone’s feeling the effects of lead poisoning extra hard today
Delenda est Carthago
- Comment on Oh fuck no 8 months ago:
I don’t remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game