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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
That’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day.

Now its basically required.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
So… Microtransactions.

They want more microtransactions?

Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, is there any game dev or gamer currently dissatisfied with existing payment systems? Are people in certain countries struggling with the mechanics of paymernt? Like, there are tons of ways to shoehorn in random charges or in-game ownership systems, and I don’t see what crypto brings other than moving the purse-holder.

Again, devil’s avocate: one could argue current platform fees (30%) are very high, but this is more of a monopolization issue than a fundamental payment system one,
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah honestly I agree with you.

But like others said, not sure iffy translations would be enough to save the company.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Not following that at all…

AI Bro is pretty specific. To me, its evangelists worshipping nebulous ideas and figures like Altman or maybe Musk, looking down on others for not “understanding” how amazing their vision of AI is, all in on the enshittification and impracticality, all in on the raging hype.

It feels very much like crypto fanaticism.

Even if we interpret OP as cynically as possible (lazy AI-only translation when they have another option)… that’s bad, but not “AI Bro” to me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think OP came off as “AI Bro.”

Pure machine translation would indeed be sloppy, but games have done it before. An automated 1st pass with a last check from a human contractor seems reasonable for a studio about to fold.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What shows are perfect to watch during a specific season (spring, summer, autumn, winter)?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
All 7 seasons of Avatar are.
- Water is cooly colored. Technically it’s summer/winter, depending on the hemisphere, but very cold, stormy, and ‘cozy’ feeling.
- Earth takes place in spring and is more colorful and earthy. Characters are getting their footing.
- Fire Takes place in the summer and is hot/tropical. Very… fiery.
- Air Has late fall vibes. Urban noir mood with colored trees turning fall colors, then snow blanketing the city.
- Spirits is solidly winter, pretty much all in snow and kinda bleak/magical, except for the hint of spring at the end.
- Change is spring. Energy is coming back to the characters, it’s bright out. Trees are green, but there’s a lot of vivid rocky/sandy terrain.
- Balance, is well, out of balance and probably the least seasonal, but I think that’s the point. The protag’s scenes are more unsaturated and dark, and it feels like a turbulent summer elsewhere.
Aside from that:
- Bloodlines smells like the Florida wet season. Speaking from experience, there are only two seasons in Florda.
- The Fallout TV show (at least season 1) feels whimiscally summery.
- Eureka diabetically and hilariously summery
- Batman: TAS, some other DCAU, and Samurai Jack are incredibly stylized and seasonal feeling, but its more per episode.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Doesn't look like anything to me.*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a plausible trap. Depending on the architecture, the image decoder (that “sees”) is bolted onto main model as a more discrete part, and the image generator could be a totally different model. So internally, if it’s not ingesting the “response” image, it possibly has no clue they’re the same.

Of course, we have no idea, because OpenAI is super closed :/
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The best of TV is still really good.

Also you are generalizing a lot. I know a few young folks who are into older TV. I find this fascinating, as they really have more access to the world’s back catalog than other generations ever have.

…I’m less enthusiastic about movies specifically. The big ones people actually discuss are like Marvel junk food, and in generally I find that TV has much more time to build and play with characters.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Comment from the source:

Microsoft poisoned their own well with all the changes they have been forcing on users lately. The update nagging, resetting the default browser to edge, the the ads in windows features, and integrating bing into the start menu have all trained users that when Microsoft starts pushing something new, it probably isn’t great and should just be ignored, like ads in phone apps.

That ^. So much that.

Also, the copilot llm itself sucks. Local models are neat within their limitations, and they’d be even better if Microsoft made them trainable/customizable, did better RAG, or whatever, but they just shoved a bad thing down user’s throats, and now they’ve poisoned another well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think OP means “the mediocre, least bad intersection between critical mass and topical discussion.”

Like, you can probably find users/subs about universities/fields and actually find people in them to respond. Lemmy is great, but good luck finding a mass of discussion around a niche location/field.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian Studios Talks About Its Future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Vincke says the team finds DLC boring to make, so they don’t really want to make it anymore.

I find this driveby comment rather significant.

It means they are trying to conform to the developers’ strengths, desires, interests. That’s just good for everyone, as opposed to devs inefficiently, dispassionately grinding away at something they don’t like.

That’s huge. I’d also posit “happy devs means happy business.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neutronium would like a word.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.

Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Heh, looking at the article and the cesspool of WSJ comments:
- 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.
- 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).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, oops.

Point still stands though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.