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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Last time I’ve played on Ascension they also had another project in development, called World of Runescape (basically total conversion fully-custom WoW). Don’t know its current status but it looked amazing in videos.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Good to know, because it doesn’t make it clear on the site, I always assumed it’s the same membership model as WoW.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Yep, but also some pservers offer new content (like new locations, classes, skills), and some offer different gameplay altogether, like classless servers where you roll skills for any classes as you level and try to build something that makes sense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Pirated old WoW on pirate servers is quite nice imo. Vanilla, The Burning Crusade and The Wrath of the Lich King. Never give Microsoft Activision-Blizzard a single cent btw. OSRS seems nice, but I never played it myself. It’s not free at all though.

Old School RuneScape (OSRS) membership prices in USD as of June 2025 are: 1‑month plan: $13.99/month 6‑month plan: $11.99/month (total $71.94) 12‑month Premier plan: $8.29/month (total $99.48)-
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If you think some of the opinions he’s getting on the internet are propaganda/untrue/manipulation, you should explain it to him. You don’t have any moral right to sneakily hide/block anything from other person just because you have different views.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate coldplay?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

anything that is very popular is by definition bad

More like, it’s the lowest common denominator type stuff. In other words, average at best.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we humans love music so?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I agree that might be one of possible motivations, but I also think there are countless other motivations for it in the wild. The “We get to choose exactly what is included and what is not” thing I personally think is more a “minimalism” mindset than realism, but that’s just my perspective. A lot of people who do realism, just go there and draw exactly what they see, or they have people pose for them. They ofc choose the scene and pose, but they don’t deliberately strip detail for artistic value like minimalists do, which means minimalists push way heavier into this “control what’s included and what not” territory.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we humans love music so?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, but why do we love art of nature then? If you go further, some people love hyper-realistic art of nature, while others prefer surrealistic or abstractionist/minimalist stylized art of nature. If we talk about scale between absolute chaos and absolute order, art covers it all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I get my online friend for their birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Idk, but if you want some cool indie game recs: Pseudoregalia, Dread Delusion, Demon Turf.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we humans love music so?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

It’s the breaking of the patterns that sound good in music, but only in specific ways. Other ways sound discordant.

I like a lot of different music and I also like harsh noise, when it’s adventurous like Merzbow. It sounds discordant, but it sounds great and I enjoy listening to it. Maybe you should go more fundamental, “why do we humans like information entropy” or something like that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve are now removing a bunch of sex games from Steam to keep banks and card companies happy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Visa been doing similar things for a while.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve are now removing a bunch of sex games from Steam to keep banks and card companies happy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, but we need something like Lustercard, Rizza and Pornpal here, since the problem isn’t on content company level.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Friendslop' Isn't Real, But People Love Posting About It Anyway | Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I like the term. It’s punchy, memorable, can be used jokingly and with sympathy, or in critical way to refer to the formulaic/generic side of a certain game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This is not even exclusive to US. Those payment processors actually even tried to shut down some specific japanese dating sites/apps.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That capacity is something that no one could ever count on now when considering a platform for their porn game. Those particular games being shovelware is either a coincidence or maybe they intentionally decided to not show the full list in article with higher quality ones on display.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI use so much power?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I also asked ChatGPT itself, and it listed a number of approaches, and one that sounded good to me is to pin layers to GPUs, for example we have 500 GPUs: cards 1-100 have permanently loaded layers 1-30 of AI, cards 101-200 have permanently loaded layers 31-60 and so on, this way no need to frequently load huge matrices itself as they stay in GPUs permanently, just basically pipeline user prompt through appropriate sequence of GPUs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI use so much power?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So do they load all those matrices (totalling to 175b params in this case) to available GPUs for every token of every user?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI use so much power?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

That’s how llms work. When they say 175 billion parameters, it means at least that many calculations per token it generates

I don’t get it, how is it possible that so many people all over the world use this concurrently, doing all kinds of lengthy chats, problem solving, codegeneration, image generation and so on?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I find forums about specific things?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It is what it feels like, but it’s not really 100% this way (yet). It is a bad self-reinforcing cognitive bias: we think “forums are dead, that’s why we stick to the sitename” instead of actually finding dozens of still alive forums and going there, in turn sitename gets more populated while forums feel more dead. But there are still plenty alive. Also, there are relatively new kinds of forums which sometimes work very well for their niche, like Discourse communities for example.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
After you use ChatGPT for a bit, you will start recognizing its style of writing in posts and comments. I’ve seen dozens of obviously ChatGPT generated posts or replies on Reddit and Lemmy. Usually there will be a person who already replied to them something like “Thanks, ChatGPT”, because it is that obvious. This only happens with naive prompts though, if you ask ChatGPT to present its answer to your prompt in a different style (for example, mimic some famous writer, or being cheerful/angry/excited and avoid overly safe language), it will immediately start writing differently and there’s likely no limit on variety of writing styles you can pull out of it with enough effort of just asking it to write this or that way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Let me explain how Honkai Star Rail handles gearing. Every single character has six relic slots: head, hands, body, feet, planar orb, and planar ornament. These relics go from level 0 to level 15, and four of them have a randomized primary stat. They all feature four randomized secondary stats, and every three levels a random one of those secondary stats gets a bonus. Each relic also belongs to a set of relics, and characters benefit from having two or four pieces of a given relic set. That means for every character in your party, you need to get the right items at the maximum rarity, the right primary stats, the right secondary stats, and the right level-ups for those secondary stats.

This is min-maxer mindset and I would hope randomized systems like this will prevent it but unfortunately no: even here some people think they actually need to roll every dice exactly the right way. I don’t think it’s true that this is really necessary. And no, it is not necessary to do top 10 world parses; you can just beat endgame content on modest, casual difficulty and call it a day, rather than try hard to set a record.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Even co-op in gacha games doesn’t qualify as MMO, because for that you need hundreds or thousands of players being simultaneously in the same persistent world. This is the same reason why games like Dota, League of Legends or Counter Strike aren’t considered MMO.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

we’ll just pay artists to produce training data en masse’.

If they want to make sure it was actually drawn specifically for them and not generated by other AI or stolen from internet, they’ll need to ask timeline of work. And people doing commissions like this with also timeline provided will ask considerable payment. The smallest I’d expect is like maybe 30$ per small drawing of beginners. But it might as well be 300$ or more per drawing for pro works. Even with 30$, are they really able to pay that? How many drawings they need? Can they spend millions on this?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe it’s just your subscriptions? I don’t feel the same way. Just curate your list more actively and make sure to browse communities from global pool of instances.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That looks like the perfect outfit for a stroll to the Totem of Earth!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Like I mentioned before, “tutorial pulls” are part of that hyper-generosity that gachas will commonly have for new players

I don’t feel it’s “hyper”, it’s only 8 crystals instead of 10 for guaranteed Noelle. Other pull categories have something guaranteed for 10 crystals, what exactly they guarantee changes depending on current events and such. Classic pulls category is 10 crystals for guaranteed 4+ star something, which can be character or weapon.

to give them enough of a dopamine rush to hang around and be more likely to spend more later

“Dopamine rush” sounds like a bit of a stretch, because normal gameplay here with tons of randomized minibosses, minigames and puzzles, all of which reward you fancy chests with random loot in open-world, gives way more dopamine every few minutes, and the whole gacha thing feels quite underwhelming compared to that in terms of neurochemistry.

Give it another week and you will find that the supposed good luck runs out, as well as the free currency offered for things like logging in, and then it will start requiring a ton of grinding or real world money to acquire the necessary currency to get to the “pity” in order to ensure you get a top-rarity item. That’s how gacha systems work.

Sure, I will be looking carefully at this dynamics as I progress. I find it quite surprising what you’re describing is still not there.

and can’t last or elee the game will not make nearly as much money

Who knows, maybe it makes enough money even without being that pushy? For me it’s too early to say.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Also, I’m personally more interested in “no money” challenge. I like “gambling elements” tbh and enjoy all kinds of RNG in games: starting from randomized items stats in Diablo and procgen in roguelikes and ending with randomized perks in roguelites and stuff like pulls in Genshin. So for me “gambling elements” themselves aren’t something inherently bad and definitely not something I would want to avoid. For me, it’s social implications of gambling mechanics that are sometimes bad (in context of people who can’t control their spending), but not randomness or mechanics themselves.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well, all I can say for now is that my week of playing wasn’t enough to be able to say whether this is even possible at all. Maybe there will be more unlocked characters from regular questing later in the game, but so far I only got a single dendro character (Collei) from a random pull. And I think there were some open world mini-puzzles activated by dendro. I don’t think there were a lot of them though. Also they are definitely optional and not a big deal. Could also be possible it was intended for later game players going back with their dendro characters unlocked organically in the later questlines.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

vulnerable people are paying more than they can afford to finance the game for everyone

Well said. I think a lot of things in the world work like this, unfortunately. Like, some people have to work long hours or hard jobs because they didn’t choose a career path that would allow them to work less and earn more. I mean, it sounds very different, but it’s also kinda similar in a way. There are people suffering for the benefit of other people. Saying they could choose another job is the same as saying vulnerable people could choose to not be vulnerable.

Legislation that effectively adds an upper limit to unlock the entire game with a sensible maximum monthly cost for new content, is needed in my opinion.

Agree, this is a great idea.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The only “pity” I dealt with at this point is guaranteed 4star for every 10 pulls. It can be anything though, not necessarily a character. But there are sometimes special offers (like tutorial pull) that indeed guarantee that you get a particular character or item for 10 pulls.