MoogleMaestro
@MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip
- Comment on The Steam Frame Is More Than Just Another VR Headset - Aftermath (Chris Person) 1 week ago:
My understanding is that the battery life is pretty poor even when only streaming. 1:45 to 2 hours is the estimate I’ve heard.
This admittedly sounds pretty bad as it means you’ll likely need to be plugged in, which kind of defeats the point of a wireless headset. I imagine there’ll be some last minute attempt to eek out more battery life wins, but considering the brightness and refresh needs for VR, it might not be possible to get much more out of it.
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- [Opinion] If Hideo Kojima Games Aren't Safe, No Games Are Safe - Aftermath (Luke Plunkett)aftermath.site ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- Comment on Valve Adds "Big Art Mode" to Steam, Following Its Popularity in Third-Party Decky Loader Utility 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, I’m looking forward to check it out.
- Valve Adds "Big Art Mode" to Steam, Following Its Popularity in Third-Party Decky Loader Utilitywww.digitalfoundry.net ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 15 comments
- Xbox's Disc-to-Digital Programme Is Official, and It Starts Next Week - Digital Foundry | Latest Updateswww.digitalfoundry.net ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 4 months ago:
You can thank legal weed for that. Oregon weed prices have stayed pretty cool and low for a long while now. Helps that this stuff is pretty easy to grow.
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- StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson)aftermath.site ↗Submitted 5 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 6 months ago:
Good shit to him. He’s 100% right here.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 6 months ago:
“I don’t like crack myself, so I get community concerns around it” – said the local crack dealer, when reached out for comment on the story. “I only profit around the stuff, I wouldn’t want it myself.”
- Comment on Capcom says it 'will not implement assets generated by AI into our game content,' but still plans to use AI to 'enhance efficiency and boost productivity' in game development 6 months ago:
This feels like a way for them to say fuck generative AI, but also, hey investors, don’t pull out we can find something else to do with it I guess…
Ultimately, if you’re a publicly traded company, the calls to “use AI and use it now” are too strong for tech companies to completely ignore, so it’s at least good that they’re drawing a line from an ethical and artistic standpoint.
- Comment on UK Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry 6 months ago:
Well, I mean, good. Because the old policy fucking sucked for artists.
- Comment on ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ 6 months ago:
That is interesting, I’ll make a note of it.
but that kind of separate intranet system is difficult to search the way the Internet is.
Yes, but node operators would probably be best encouraged to run simple indexer searches, especially in a system where agreements could be made about how hard-hitting said searches should be (and a mutual respect for robots.txt and the like). I’ll be honest and say that the Internet has been barely searchable for at least half a decade, if not a whole decade if I were critical.
- Comment on Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC 6 months ago:
This has been one of the craziest stories in gaming in a long while.
So does this mean that the old Unknown Worlds founders are back in as well?
- Comment on ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ 6 months ago:
I think that technology like Tailscale has sold me on the concept of on-internet intranets, as in subnets with extreme firewall policies that doesn’t prevent you from accessing the broader net when necessary but gives network maintainers strict control on how their networks are bridged. I’ve been thinking about this to the degree that I’ve been trying to do more research into how this can be achieved with open source technologies like Headscale.
Ideally, you’d want to have a peer-to-peer relay server option for bridging multiple “trusted” networks which would then provide a broad DNS resolution to let you access services that are advertised for bridged networks. So it would be like if, via tailscale, I could connect to another person’s tailnet using specific domain names if those services were exposed via a “bridge node”, so to speak.
Tailscale themselves have no reason to implement this though; As a business, they would actually prefer you buy larger client counts. I don’t blame them for this, it’s the basis of their business. But I think, long term, multiple intranets will be really important for digital sovereignty for both smaller nation states and individuals. We can no longer trust the broad web as it was. The fediverse is the first step, the next is tighter meta-networks in tandem with federated internet services.
- Submitted 6 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Even Silicon Valley Says that AI Is a Bubble 6 months ago:
Can’t read the whole article because of paywall.
But the implication that AI is a “good bubble” is pretty rich, as I think that the degree at which they’re ripping people off left-right-and-center by stealing their information will become less palatable to the US government once it’s clear that they caused the market to tumble. They’re literally dependent on the idea that people think AI is “irreplaceable” to the daily lives of most people in order to withstand a crash in terms of political capital, which I think they’re very far from establishing at this point.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 6 months ago:
I like the idea that they think that educated jobs only belong to women. That’s an interesting thought.
The sad truth is that this shit isn’t going to replace “highly educated” jobs, and that the AI gravy train will end once people start to enforce basic intellectual property enforcement. Time is ticking, and the market taking a hit now is making them scramble.
- Comment on Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign 6 months ago:
“This is an Xbox” now replaced with “Nothing is an Xbox.” 😈
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- Comment on "I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)" by batty 7 months ago:
Yeah… As someone who uses fightcade occasionally, moderation on these services when they’re non-federated are a real problem.
- Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 7 months ago:
Used products in Japan are generally stupidly cheap. Something about the culture makes it so that people generally look at old devices as worthless and non-new devices are occasionally shunned.
Anyway, good write up and grats on the PSP. Good luck with the next one too.
- Comment on What's your preferred version to watch Deep Space Nine? Is AI upscale worth it? 7 months ago:
Upscaling can be ok but I honestly hate the way upscaled content looks. Faces end up looking mushy and motion is often awful (since some nerds think the frame rate needs to be interpolated, which makes it look awful.) So I still watch the DVD SD rip which is good enough for me.
I won’t poo poo the idea of watching it upscaled if that’s what you want, but I’d stress that you should keep good notes on your files (via filename) so that you know what modifications have been made. This is only because metadata of video files are too lacking in this new era where videos are often modified, and it’s becoming really difficult to fine the original authentic files for anything these days. Assuming you care about that sort of thing.
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 8 months ago:
I wish Europe would just embrace the fediverse. The techno oligarchs are not your friends and most of them are invested in the US.
- Comment on ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself 8 months ago:
Yikes, this god damn timeline.
Needless to say, you’re literally better off coming to the fediverse and talking to us than talking to an AI about thoughts of suicide. He had a therapist, he should have trusted them over some snake oil sold for the investment class. If you, yourself, need help, make sure to treat yourself well and find someone real to talk to instead of fake bots.
Bah, the fact that the AI helped push him toward suicide instead of away from it shows just how misanthropic this whole tech space is. Needless deaths, needless thefts and an immeasurable pile of grief as we walk a circuit guided path to a dark inhumane future. RIP
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 8 months ago:
I think it’s just the amount of love for game consoles is much higher than phones, where people are a bit complacent.
I do agree it should happen more often.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 9 months ago:
I won’t bother engaging with the “gamergate” false equivalency. I think it’s disingenuous to try to tie any of what I said so far to a some fearmonger induced culture war, biggotted nonsense when we’re talking about a much broader wealth extraction mechanism and misanthropic tech movement. I think you’re saying this from a well-meaning place, but I actually don’t think what I’ve said is overzealous at all. The CEO is saying he’s using AI and, if you’re opposed to the social and financial repercussions of this, it’s fair game to boycott a product over this.
To pick a true real world example, some people won’t eat meat that isn’t free-range. This isn’t about the quality of the meat really, it’s about the inhumane treatment of animals. Not everyone subscribes to this, sometimes I don’t buy free-range meat either, but it’s not “wrong” for people to choose to not buy meat that isn’t free range. The same can and should be true about the media we consume, whether it’s games or films.
If it’s like an image/video model, they could start with existing open weights, and fine tune it. There are tons to pick from, and libraries to easily plug them into.
If it’s not, and something really niche, and doesn’t already exist to their satisfaction, it probably doesn’t need to be that big a model. A lot of weird stuff like sketch -> 3D models are trained on university student project time + money budgets (though plenty of those already exist).
…Look, if Divinity comes out and it has any slop in it, it can burn in hell. If it comes out that they partnered with OpenAI or whomever extensively, it deserves to get shunned and raked over coals.
I won’t get into this too much, but “open weights” is not “open source”, and even “open source” is not real “open source” when it comes to AI. Really, what you should be talking about is an open dataset based model, which there are very few of in reality. The issue isn’t the weights, the issue is the data that was used to generate the weights in the first place.
It’s not impossible that they’re using some bespoke model derived from an open dataset model, but considering the full transcript is now out and he name dropped ChatGPT in particular, I don’t really have much confidence that there’s some kind of ethical silver lining. Since he was the one who mentioned using AI in previs development, it’s actually up to him to clarify what models they’re using and whether they’re ethically sourced. I don’t really have to prove anything beyond them using AI and not thinking AI is to my personal pallet. That’s fine, everyone has their own tastes. To me, I was excited about the new Divinity until this news dropped, and the hype is simply deflated because it is against my morals. That’s on them, not on me.
If he wants to push for open datasets as an AI industry counter play, then fine – fair play and good riddance to closed source (closed data) AI industry players. But until that happens it’s actually just a fantasy and not based on reality. I’ll stick to what has been said and not extrapolate what could-be.