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- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 10 hours ago:
So we call them what they are: megacorp games!
I just don’t like the term “AAA.” It feels like these mega studios are hiding behind that as a badge of quality.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 11 hours ago:
And Valve/Apple/Google getting a 30% kickback.
They are absolutely fine with all the garbage because it buys them many, many yachts.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 day ago:
Depends what you define as “AAA”
Baldurs Gate 3, for instance, has no nonsense, and every word out of the director’s mouth is “we made this decision because it’s what our developers wanted.” But while the dev team is “AAA” large, Larian doesn’t really fit the mould of Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, Blizzard or whatever.
I think we need a new designation for what are basically megacorp operations.
- Comment on why dont android phones have a bios like computers and be able to load a generic arm linux iso or windows one,or be easily rooted? 6 days ago:
And better security, theoretically.
TBH most Android users would absolutely install all sorts of malware if it wasn’t literally impossible with the OS’s architecture. Not that Google Play isn’t a scam-infested bog, but I do get the locked-down approach.
- Comment on ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs 1 week ago:
I mean, even as-is, it’s a very useful tool. Especially as the capabilities we have get exponentially cheaper.
What people don’t get is AI is about to become a race to the bottom, not to the top. It’s a utility to sift through millions of documents or run simple bots, or work assistants, or makeshift translators or whatever; you know, oldschool language modeling. And that’s really neat as the cost approaches “basically free.”
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
On the contrary, to quote Wikipedia’s article on him:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
Since Sanger’s departure from Wikipedia, he has been critical of the project, describing it in 2007 as being “broken beyond repair”.[8] He has argued that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility and accuracy due to a lack of respect for expertise. Since 2020, he has also accused Wikipedia of having a left-wing and liberal ideological bias in its articles.[9][10] Sanger’s effort to change Wikipedia was seen by some as part of a right-wing attack on Wikipedia.[11][12]
Which lines up with external articles by him I’m reading, including his take on Grokipedia: larrysanger.org/2025/10/grokipedia-a-first-look/
Of course Wikipedia is biased (probably western/liberal biased), astroturfed, and such. But calling it something like a CIA misinformation tool falls into “perfect is the enemy of good” at best, and sounds more like the efforts to tear down its credibility from actors who don’t like what it says abou them.
- Comment on ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs 1 week ago:
Others have explained it well; splitting calls up and programatic prompt engineering.
And what is the limit of AI non theortical limit of AI?
Who knows?
But practically, transformer models are kinda hitting an “innovation” wall. Big companies aren’t taking risks to try and fix (say) the necessity of temperature to literally randomize outputs, or splitting instructions/context/output, or self correction (like an undo token), self learning, anything. All this has been explored in papers, but they aren’t even trying it.
Their development is way more conservative than you’d think, and that’s the wall LLMs are smacking into.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
Yeah, there’s all sorts of crazy political purity tests on Lemmy, and associated misuse of slurs.
And on Wikipedia:
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On one side, my MAGA-adjacent family is starting to question it as “liberal biased”… as they leave Fox News blasting in the background.
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On the other, tankies and some different leftist extremist leftists dismiss it as propaganda.
That’s a good sign, to me. Its never been perfect and has problems, but extremists trying to tear its credibility down is a sign of just how valuable it is.
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- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 week ago:
It’s not an accident.
It’s probably not a conspiracy.
If seeing that so much as pauses your scrolling, the algo counts that as “engagement,” and that gets modeled into your profile for all of time. That’s all it cares about, not incel stuff specifically… though rage bait happens to work very well, which is how these jerks make a living.
You might fix it with a new account from a different IP.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like fud, from all angles. No one but Tech Bros and their bots care about crypto, porn has always been porn. There are literally thousands of great, dirt cheap games to play.
But anecdotally, I observed YouTube suck away a lot of attention from games and TV in my family. It’s lower brainpower, so if one is (say) dog tired from work, the algorithm has a lot of appeal vs a hardcore KCD2 session or an intense TV drama.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 2 weeks ago:
It’s an ongoing scam for the ultra wealthy and Tech Bro influencer con artists.
That’s not an exaggeration. That’s what it is.
Hence, it will keep going as long as social media keeps boosting it.
- Comment on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet 3 weeks ago:
Architectural improvements could help, but the big guys can’t even get away from “basic” problems like high temperature sampling. Corporate development is way more conservative than you’d think.
And it’s not getting better. See the “all star” ego teams and Meta, OpenAI and such vs. those that quit.
The Chinese are testing some more interesting things (and actually publishing papers on them), but still pretty conservative all things considered. They drrm content with LLMs as modest coding assistants and document processors, basically.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 3 weeks ago:
Not sure why you’re so sure that cloud would be the next winner either.
Because, in aggregate, gamers are stupid consumers.
I hate to be so blunt, but they have, repeatedly and demonstrably, made uninformed purchases. They buy bad games on launch day, complain, then turn around and do it again. Heck, they’ll hardly even look at AMD or Intel GPUs now simply because there’s isn’t even the minimum amount of effort made to shop around.
They are going to just buy the cloud gaming subscriptions if that’s all that’s financially viable
Keep in mind that I’m talking about the bulk market. Sure, plenty of us will turn our nose up. But the R&D required to even develop consumer hardware requires volume, so pickings and refreshes will get slimmer with less money in the pool.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 3 weeks ago:
Which would you rather have as the dominant platform. Consoles, or cloud gaming?
Because if “market conditions” kill consoles, they will shrink PC gaming hardware sales too, and I don’t want a world where devs target cloud gaming first.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
1st party engine devs have been stuck in dev hell, mostly. There are some exceptions, like you said; I’d cite Decima as another success.
But think of EA’s Frostbite, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo Infinite, Clausewitz, BGS, many more. Especially indies that try.
It’s not just that old games crunched, but making a new engine that supports modern platforms and modern hardware is just an immensely complex task. There’s just too much to worry about.
The best success seems to either come from:
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Hyperfocus your engine’s scope to one game niche. Larian’s divinity engine, for example, makes BG3-likes; that’s it, that all it does.
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Engine shop very, very carefully. For instance, KCD2 leaned into CryEngine’s strengths hard, especially the dense, well-lit foilage.
And either case needs a lucky roll of the dice anyway. See: Cyberpunk 2077 in utter dev hell (even if they eventually pulled out) from wrangling their engine. Or the latest Borderlands being a technical wreck even though they basically invented Unreal Engine alongside Epic.
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- Comment on Rage for the machine? 3 weeks ago:
globalists
This person is so close.
Billionaires. He hates billionaires. He just doesn’t realize it yet.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
AAA expectations are astronomical, AAs take some extra time to keep up, and indies that actually make it take the time to do their own thing, otherwise they’d be lost in the largely unseen sea of failed indies.
Also, oldschool game dev was toxic. It had some serious crunch culture, just to start. But I think it also attracted all star devs into “sweet spot” dev team sized; not too big or too small to sap efficiency. Now, if you do software and want to make any money or provide for a family… well, you don’t do game dev.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah.
It’s less trouble for, like, a two-person burger truck. Perhaps that’s what OP is seeing. But get more cash flow going and it’s is plenty of trouble.
- Comment on Next-Generation Xbox Could Launch in 2027, Hints AMD - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Shame they didn’t go Intel. Xe’s good, and they could have gotten around TSMC supply constraints.
- Comment on I got banned from Fuck AI community, anything I can do? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mean if you want to hear a contrary opinion, seek out the local LLM crowd.
Sam Altman and his pyramid scheme can go to hell, but I like local LLMs. As tools. They’re kinda what Lemmy is to Reddit.
- Comment on I got banned from Fuck AI community, anything I can do? 4 weeks ago:
If you can’t message the mods, move on.
Fuck AI is an echo chamber. A lot of Lemmy is an echo chamber TBH. But that’s the community moderators’ call to make.
- Comment on An oopsie occured 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I saw the community and even I have to think of it.
It “nottheonion” adjacent.
- Comment on Sure, Jan 4 weeks ago:
That’s what gets upvotes on Lemmy, sadly.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 4 weeks ago:
I was kidding, heh.
…They do need to get on that, though. My completely layman’s impression is that Japan has some cultural issues with immigration, but that’s becoming an existential issue.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 4 weeks ago:
They desperately need more immigration though, don’t they?
Maybe they could say “you can come to the festival, but only if you don’t leave.”
- Comment on We need to get to the bottom of this 5 weeks ago:
Puuuuurge
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 5 weeks ago:
Who fucking cares?
Credit card companies.
And their ad buyers, maybe.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 5 weeks ago:
Depends how much you have to pay attention.
First off, I am not a fitness expert. YMMV.
But sometimes I do variations of bodyweight exercises in front of a TV, yes.
One day, for example, might be arm day. I sit and do leg curls for biceps. I straight pushups or tricep dips, use a pull-up bar if I have one; even just hanging is great.
Another day might be push up variation day; wide, narrow, inclined different ways, push up and “reach to the sky with one arm,” knee pushups at the end.
Yet another is leg day. Squats, jumping squats, lunges, butt kicks, heel lifts, other positions to get different muscles. Another day may be core, another day is more shoulder/back, and so on.
Your eyes will drift away from the TV, and you get exhausted doing this stuff, but you can keep up with a show if you want.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I was being casual, and I’m not an expert by any means.
I bring it up because, for me, sets of specific bodyweight exercises (like legs one day, shoulders/back another, and so on) is just more time efficient. It gives enough resistance to get sore, and gets me exhausted, all in one setting, instead of running separately. It’s easier on my knees, with no risk of shin splints and less risk of injury than heavy weights.
