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- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 2 days ago:
They seem to love writing cities and fantasy-tech too, going by some of the stuff in BG3.
Looks like Shadowrun’s licensing is a complicated mess though, with Microsoft at least involved, so I guess it’s unlikely :(
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 2 days ago:
Oh man, imagine if they did a Shadowrun game. Take their fantasy credentials/writing and mix it with cyberpunk…
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 2 days ago:
Awesome!
I wonder if things will organize around a “unofficial” modding API like Harmony for Rimworld, Forge for Minecraft, SMAPI for Stardew Valley, and so on? I guess it depends if some hero dev team does it and there’s enough “demand” to built a bunch of stuff on it.
Skyrim and some other games stayed more fragmented, others like CP2077 just never hit critical mass I guess.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 2 days ago:
How is the modding scene these days? Seems like there’s a lot in the patch addressing that, but are things still more aesthetic?
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
I find that tragic :(
I understand though, unfortunately kinda sympathize, and don’t have any advice to counter it…
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
Eh… I think most viewers like compelling characters when they find them, even in comfort entertainment. And putting them in interesting situations is part of what makes them compelling.
I guess this is why influencers (using that term very broadly) are so popular. That format cuts out all the plot and fluff and goes straight to characters.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
Bingo.
Ugh, that’s exactly what’s going to happen, isn’t.
Also, it really annoys me how so many ponder why stuff like this is happening and miss the elephant in the room. Guess engagement optimization isn’t a trending topic…
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
Yeah. I mean, there was stuff before Taken (Bond, Die Hard), but Taken has to be one of the most influential movies of the millennium, lol.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
Things are kinda invisible if they don’t trend on social media.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
A large part of the population are stressed and exhausted, and that’s not a “let’s go see something fun” mindset for many, it’s “let’s get through the day and watch comfort content.”
I’ve witnessed this, too! I even know family that relaxed their long-form TV watching due to work stress, and generally hit the YouTube algorithim and other quick comfort food instaed.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
Sure, a lot of American film makes war movies all “RAH RAH RAH USA USA USA,”
Here are the 3 “original” movies in my local theatre, to get more of what I mean:
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss’s daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
harlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible, his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers and achieving his revenge…
Written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (Civil War, 28 Days Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of US forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.
The last one (Warfare) kinda stands out, but see the pattern? “Ex black ops protag” is super popular, and I posit that, on average, it’s a turn-off for leftists.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
Heh, looking at the article and the cesspool of WSJ comments:
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The major factor is algorithmic attention. If people are glued to feeds on phones/at home, that’s less time to chat about (and go to) movies that don’t have the critical mass to pop into your feed. That sucks, as there’s nothing movie studios can do about our toxic information environment.
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Going by the comments… Seems modern movie goers have a thin skin. Even the slightest hint of something woke is apparently unwatchable? But themes and conflicts that make you uncomfortable are what makes fiction interesting. This may cut both ways too (with, for instance, military-themed movies turning off more leftist moviegoers? I feel that way to some extent).
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- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
Yeah, oops.
Point still stands though.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
Uh, none of them. The troll they are feeding is Elon Musk, the fallacy is that Twitter is an open forum where your engagement “makes a difference.” It’s not. It’s an algorithmic feed.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
Notice the engagement.
240K views between the top two.
0.6K for the shot back.
Come on… Rule #1. Don’t feed the trolls. Get off Twitter.
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 1 week ago:
I’m sure they rationally assume Trump is totally unfamiliar with that policy.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 week ago:
Some people spend a lot of time, money in mobile games.
Occam’s Razor. I think it’s just the “default device” and placed in front of their eyes, so it’s what most people choose?
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 week ago:
Yeah, you and /u/ampersandrew have a point.
I am vastly oversimplifying a lot, but… Perhaps mobile gaming, on aggregate, is too shitty for its own good? It really looks that way whenever I sample the popular ones.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 week ago:
live service games make up a significant amount of what the average consumer wants, and those customers largely play on PC for all sorts of reasons
You are leaving out the elephant in the room: smartphones.
So, so, so many people game on smartphones. It’s technically the majority of the “gaming” market, especially live service games. A large segment of the population doesn’t even use PCs and does the majority of their computer stuff on smartphones or tablets, and that fraction seems to be getting bigger. Point being the future of the Windows PC market is no guarantee.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
the slop that Ubisoft craps out
I’d, uh, argue there are some exceptions, like the better asscreed games or the anno series.
- Comment on Please choose one 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Valve’s 30% cut is greed. So is their (alleged) anticompetitive behavior of forcing price parity with other stores (aka you can price things cheaper than Steam regularly).
I mean, I like their stores. I like most of their behavior, but I am also waiting for the hammer to drop, and everyone should.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 2 weeks ago:
Yeah.
I sorta misread your post, these bots can indeed be twisted, or “jailbroken” during conversation, to a pretty extreme extent. The error is assuming they are objective in the first place, I suppose.
Base models are extremely interesting to play with, as they haven’t been tuned for conversation or anything. They do only one thing: complete text blocks, thats it, and it is fascinating to see how totally “raw” LLMs tuned on a jumble of data (before any kind of alignment) guess how things should be completed.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 2 weeks ago:
Yeah they align it in training, but as they’ve discovered it only goes so far.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 2 weeks ago:
Grok and Gemini are both making that up. They have no awareness of anything that’s “happened” to them. Grok cannot be tweaked because it starts from a static base with every conversation.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 2 weeks ago:
The important part is: Grok has no memory.
Every time you start a chat with Grok, it starts from its base state, a blank slate, and nothing anyone says to it ever changes that starting point. It has no awareness of anyone “making changes to it.”
A good analogy is having a ton of completely identical, frozen clones, waking one up for a chat, then discarding it. Nothing that happens after they were cloned affects the other clones.
…Now, one can wring their hands with whatabouts/complications (Training on Twitter! Grounding! Twitter RAG?) but at the end of the day that’s how they work, and this meme is basically misinformation based on a misconception about AI.
- Comment on Have you said Thank You once? 2 weeks ago:
It’s essentially wastes electricity for OpenAI (assuming you aren’t paying for the response), and its “filler” data for training on.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 2 weeks ago:
It’s supposed to be immersive, I think, so as not to force a voice that doesn’t match the roleplaying in your head.
I’m with you, though, I’d much prefer VA.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 2 weeks ago:
FemV in CP2077 totally killed it.
AC Odyssey didn’t have as many emotional beats, but Kassanda was still way better than her brother.
And of course Jennifer Hale as FemShep… I’m starting to see a pattern here, lol.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 3 weeks ago:
10% is still a wild fluctuation for a company with the market cap of Tesla. In this case, I think its not “that” deceptive, as zero is not usually a reference in this case.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 3 weeks ago:
This ^
It seems like a dismissive statement, but Tesla is the embodiment of this era’s “hype” investing. So many players have it leveraged like a big casino game, and the end result is (mostly) that small time or “slow” investors (like your retirement fund) get screwed over.