brucethemoose
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- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
18 years ago
Prehistoric YouTube is the best.
- Comment on Meanwhile at Meta HQ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I saw a CNBC news segment that delivered literally this with a straight face, but with the addendum of “age verification may affect user retention temporarily.” It was completely wild.
- Comment on We all know that Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI are all horrible people. Why do they still have subscribers? 2 weeks ago:
Because the algorithm loves them.
Everyone is acting like its the sea of kids fault. These guys don’t pop into children’s feeds on accident, or through random selection.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Its just ragebait.
Trump is like an ascended internet troll.
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 2 weeks ago:
Actually, I tried again, and it seems to work on my desktop! It must be some specific incompatibility with mobile?
No, I got no recommendations for an alternative, unfortunately.
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 2 weeks ago:
Tried it again… all 8 sources are down.
This is the thing I dont get about invidious, TBH. A YouTube proxy is never going to work unless its self hosted. Wouldnt it make more sense to use and alt YT client plus a VPN?
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 2 weeks ago:
Also.
…Does anyone else feel like they spend more time doomscrolling gaming drama than actually playing?
Because this is both my struggle, and observation. Like I know a person that watches more influencer lets plays than they actually play.
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 2 weeks ago:
Link is dead for me:
Here is their Patreon link with an embed, for those struggling like me:
- Comment on aurafarming 2 weeks ago:
It usually doesn’t look like that though.
Some weird or really old lenses can have effects like this though.
- Comment on aurafarming 2 weeks ago:
That’s some weird bokeh. What lens is this?
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 2 weeks ago:
It was pretty optimistic, as far as dystopian fiction goes.
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is my purpose? 2 weeks ago:
Other species, too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmosis
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
Well they do talk about video game spending dropping by a whopping 10% compared to last year and hardware spending by an unfathomable 29% compared to the previous year. That‘s unheard of.
I think its more that attention is being eaten by video apps and social media.
As an anecdote, I know a pretty nerdy couple that used to play coop games more regularly, but now just sit down to watch their YouTube feed mostly.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
The AI slop image
I’m not sure why you jumped to this, but its a stock image from 2025, from GettyImages
themirror.com/…/sony-sparks-global-outrage-surpri…
www.gettyimages.com/detail/…/2186493403?slot=11
A PlayStation employee demonstrates how to put a disk into the PlayStation 5, at the Sony headquarters building in central Tokyo on November 27, 2024. December 3, 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the first release of Japan’s Sony PlayStation, transforming the world of video games. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 weeks ago:
I bet you’re crowded out by spam on Facebook/Insta. I hate to say it, but playing the spam game seems almost expeced for businesses now.
…TBH, itd be fair to roll your own advertising spambots. Participate in the corruption of Facebook/Insta.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 weeks ago:
Trump would never bite his handlers like that.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 weeks ago:
The whole world needs this TBH.
- Comment on My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet 2 weeks ago:
You can take the money you’d pay off and invest it instead, as a hedge.
Im not saying its ideal, but its a little better than nothing.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 3 weeks ago:
Well, apparently Nintendo fans and commenters in the linked news section do too.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 3 weeks ago:
First of all, they did do a bad job with their blog post.
…But I’m also shocked by the number of people who think they’re human AI detectors.
I suspect people are a year or two behind, looking for signs of messy Stable Diffusion XL output, like suspiciously styled appendages or that weird framing 1.5 always did. Or maybe the Ghibli-esque style Tweeters used to ape Sam Altman.
Models aren’t like that any more.
I was just sitting here at a TV, looking at my photos side by side, I cannot tell my own mirrorless camera RAWs apart from some generations, even if I zoom in to pixel peep or try to analyze the depth-of-field from my lens.
Videos edited by H3 are shockingly good now, at lower resolution at least.
I did some character design mockups (just for my own thinking), and I can feed the model separate reference images for characters and art styles and poses and it… just gets it. It looks like the original painted style, and I can’t find any distortions that jump out; if anything, the old source material has more “AI” like artifacts in it.
I’m not trying to glaze diffusion or anything, quite the opposite. Besides, that’s not the point, and I don’t even want to get into that.
What I’m saying, outside of really lazy slop or bad models like ChatGPT, people are behind if they think they can spot AI-generated stuff reliably.
Maybe the studio lied.
The blog post certainly makes it suspicious. They could have uploaded some asset at least?
But, as suspicious as the style is, I can’t tell if that “process” picture is AI generated. Certainly not because the 2nd frame has a cartoon style, or the 3rd and 4th look like weird cg.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 3 weeks ago:
OP, can you link the original research? It’s an excellent site:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Does any of that make social media any better?
It’s the reason why they would prefer a first hand encounter from someone via social media without the narrative being twisted.
This is the lie social media sells.
Nothing is vetted. There’s no standard of information hygiene on social media. Anything posted could be a misunderstanding, or fabricated, or deliberate clickbait propaganda.
In fact, that’s exactly what engages the algorithms; its why modern social media is such a cesspool, because clickbait is easier to produce and more engaging than professional journalism.
I’m not really in this thread to argue this thoroughly. Frankly, if you came to Lemmy with the belief that social media is more reliable than news outlets… I don’t know what to tell you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
… that was only heard from word of mouth or tabloids (newspapers).
I think your question is one of perception.
People trusted “tabloids” (newspapers) back then. They were respected institutions, generally. Public payed attention to investigative journalists, and how stuff got out.
They read news. From newspapers. This was normal.
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit or Twitter (X)
…And these kind of took over from sheer engagement, not necessarily reliability.
TBH, if someone on X told me the sky is blue, I’d still be skeptical. Hence I’m the opposite of you, I suppose: I find it wild that these artificial spaces have become the world’s de-facto news feed over professional journalism.
- Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions 4 weeks ago:
Man…
When Discord tightens the screws, it is going to be pain on a lot of communities.
Like, technically these permissions make sense, but some day this is going to bite users in the butt.
- Comment on It's gay to brush your teeth 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, homophobia and a literally shitty ass.
Two qualities women find immensely attractive. Makes perfect sense.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 4 weeks ago:
I’m just saying, from a practical standpoint, it would be like replacing modern commercial planes with the Wright brothers plane.
A modern GPU isn’t something “skills” can make, it’s a collaboration between thousands of highly specialized people and gigantic hyper specialized factories.
Having such a thing isn’t anyone’s right. It either exists, or it doesn’t.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m pro open hardware. I think a great way forward would be RISC-V processors with integrated accelerators targeting Vulkan, and much of this can be communally developed. But the actual fabrication part is extremely difficult, especially if you want it done economically and with some device that isn’t a toy.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 4 weeks ago:
…You think a modern GPU can be crowdsourced?
I mean. You could. Hardware hackers have. But it wouldn’t resemble anything remotely like our desktops now.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 4 weeks ago:
That’s what I mean!
There’s no hiding from this or just “ignoring stupid people who stream games.” It is going to catch everyone, one way or another.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 4 weeks ago:
+1
Another thing I’d like to highlight is the data hoarder/old internet style “you can take my local games from my cold, dead hands” talk.
…Well. If 90% of the market ends up game streaming, that’s what the vast majority of game devs will target, even indies. And there will be no more local games for you to buy. There will be no desktop gaming GPUs to replace the one that dies. Heck, I bet the internet itself gets locked down in the future.
I see this attitude e on Lemmy and some other corners of the internet, along the lines of “who cares what the masses do? We never needed them.” Like we can go back to the usenet days when the internet was a niche.
That’s a nice thought.
But without critical mass, we aren’t going back.
I don’t have a solution, either.
People, in aggregate, seem to always pick convenience over principle/long term health, when it comes to tech stuff.
