brucethemoose
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- Comment on 2 days ago:
IDK, lots of the TW3 sidequests seem to be very good… from my time watching them on YouTube, heh.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
It might be a “watch the cutscenes and scenery highlights in a YT play though” games.
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 3 days ago:
Moving a capital isn’t trivial.
Maduro’s #1 concern was likely consolditating power internally, not external military hardening.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 days ago:
Looks like its only a few errors. Does the BIOS support any overclocking/tweaking?
I’m not familliar with Rocket Lake (your CPU generation), but you may be able to bump the voltage or loosen the timings a bit to get it stable. For free.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Also possibly oil.
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 4 days ago:
My hot take:
Slop is slop based on context.
It’s SEO spam. It’s thumbnails and autogenerated video for attention farming, it’s lazy Twitter posts parroting Sam Altman’s Ghibli meme, it’s disinformation. It’s faking and lying for internet points or actual money.
If you spend hours tweaking your original digital painting with some controlnet workflow so complex it puts photoshop layers to shame, and post it somewhere unmonetized just because, how is that slop?
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 6 days ago:
Gemini is pretty uncensored with certain workarounds, and you can still use all sorts of LLMs over API to do that.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 6 days ago:
Yes, actually.
The “preview” version are often pretty good, before Google deep fries them with sycophantic RHLF. For example, Gemini 2.0 and 2.5 Pro both peaked in temporary experimental versions, before getting worse (and benchmark maxxed) in subsequent updates.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 week ago:
I like this take.
It seems like there are ‘victims’ sinking way too much money into SC. But if the gameplay is enjoyable, and fits your budget? Enjoy it. Hell yes.
- Comment on Behold! The Ultimate Recipe! 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I missed the joke, but street corn is so delicious it’s unreal.
Try some if you’re in Texas.
Is the joke that is AI slop b/c the recipe is so wonky?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Again, they’re tools. Some of the most useful applications for LLMs I’ve seen are never even seen by human eyes, like rankings, then ingesting documents and filling out json in pipelines. Or as automated testers.
You just need to put everything you’ve ever seen with ChatGPT and copilot and the NotebookLM YouTube spam out of your head. Banging text into a box is not AI. “Chat” tuned decoder-only LLMs are just one tiny slice that a few Tech Bros turned into a pyramid scheme.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
An OpenAI subscription does not count.
Otherwise, yeah… but it helps them less, proportionally. AAAs still have the fundamental Issue of targeting huge audiences with bland games. Making them even more gigantic isn’t going to help much.
AAs and below can get closer to that “AAA” feel with their more focused project.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Then most just won’t go on the Game Awards, and devs will go on using Cursor or whatever they feel comfortable with in their IDE setup.
I’m all against AI slop, but you’re setting an unreasonably absolute standard. It’s like saying “I will never use any game that was developed in proximity to any closed source software.” That is possible, technically, but most people aren’t gonna do that. It’s basically impossible on a larger team. Give them some slack with the requirement; it’s okay to develop on Windows or on Steam, just open the game’s source.
Similarly, let devs use basic tools. Ban slop from the end product.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Now my blood boils like everyone else’s when it comes to being forced to use AI at work, or when I hear the AI Voice on Youtube, or the forced AI updates to Windows and VS Code
You don’t hate AI. You hate Big Tech Evangelism. You hate corporate enshittification, AI oligarchs, and the death of the internet being shoved down your throat.
…I think people get way too focused on the tool, and not these awful entries wielding them while conning everyone. They’re the responsible party.
You’re using “AI” as a synonym for OpenAI, basically, but that’s not Joel Haver’s rotoscope filter at all. That’s niche machine learning.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Yeah.
Maybe a technically too. The rule said “no AI,” and E33 used AI, though in hindsight making such a hard restriction with the intent of filtering slop games was probably unwise.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
If we’re banning games over how they make concept art… I’m not sure how you expect to enforce that. How could you possibly audit that?
Are you putting coding tools in this bucket?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Then you’re going to get no games.
Or just get devs lying about using cursor or whatever when they code.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
That’s just not going to happen.
Nearly any game with more than a few people involved is going have someone use cursor code completion, or use one for reference or something. They could pull in libraries with a little AI code in them, or use an Adobe filter they didn’t realize is technically GenAI, or commission an artist that uses a tiny bit in their workflow.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Oh, yes. Big publisher will do it on a huge scale.
And they’re going to get sloppy results for it. If they wanna footgun themselves, well, it’s their foot to shoot.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
I think AI is too dumb, and will always be too dumb, to replace good artists.
I think most game studios can’t afford full time art house across like 30 countries, nor should they want the kind of development abomination Ubisoft has set up. That’s what I’m referring to when I say “outsourced”; development that has just gotten too big, with too many people. And yes, too many artists working on one game.
I think game artists should have a more intimate relationship with their studio, like they did with E33.
And it’d be nice for them have tools to make more art than they do now, so they can make bigger, richer games, quicker, with less stress and less financial risk. And no enshittification that happens when their studio gets too big.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair.
But the Game Awards should reconsider that label next year. The connotation is clearly “AI Slop,” and that just doesn’t fit for stuff like cursor code completion, or the few textures E33 used.
Otherwise studios are just going to lie. If they don’t, GA will be devoid of bigger projects.
…I don’t know what the threshold for an “AI Slop” game should be through. It’s clearly not E33. But you don’t want a slimey, heavily marketed game worming its way in, either.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
I understand the principle. Even if E33 is not “slop,” people should fear a road that leads to dependence on “surveillance state AI” like OpenAI.
That being said, I think a lot of people don’t realized how cheap and commoditized it’s getting. It’s not a monoculture, it’s not transcending. This stuff is racing to the bottom to become dumb tools, and honestly that’s something that makes a lot of sense for a game studio dev to want.
And E33 is clearly not part of the “Tech Bro Evangalism” camp. They made a few textures, with a tool.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
So is the source.
If they’re paying a bunch of money to OpenAI for mega text prompt models, they are indeed part of the slop problem. It will also lead to an art “monoculture,” Big Tech dependence, code problems, all sorts of issues.
Now, if they’re using open weights models, or open weights APIs, using a lot of augmentations and niche pipelines like, say, hand sketches to 3D models, that is different. That’s using tools.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
That’s precisely not what happened with E33.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Yeah.
A lot of devs may do it personally, even if it’s not a company imperative (which it shouldn’t be).
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
And giving studios like this an edge over AAAs. It it’s the start of negating their massive manpower advantage.
In other words, the anti-corpo angle seems well worth the “cost” of a few generations. That’s the whole point of AI protest, right? It really against the corps enshittifying stuff.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Seems a bit excessive.
There’s AI slop games, the new breed of asset flips.
And then there’s “a few of our textures were computer generated.”
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Because, to be blunt, a lot of apps seem to get away with it without getting sued. Especially mobile clones
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually very cool. There’s a lot of talk of molten salt energy storage anyway, and this just integrates it.
Maybe it could be built closer to other renewables or cities, and use a big vat to store heat from other power sources, when needed.
…Still, though.
AFAIK, the (silver?) mirrors on mounted servos are a pretty significant fixed cost.
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 2 weeks ago:
Yeah.
At some point mounting them statically becomes the more cost-effective than the sun-tracking mount, I guess.