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- Comment on Star Trilogy 6 hours ago:
Marry, fuck, kill…
Marry: TMP. Fuck: Stargate. Kill: Star Wars.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 3 days ago:
No, I didn’t use AI for that. Humans tend to come in many flavors.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 3 days ago:
Keep in mind, a 122b (Qwen3.5 family), is high end for consumer machines, but it is likely that DQX would be using a much smaller model. Currently, we have Qwen models that are 8b, 9b, 27b, 35b, 122b, and 397b. Plus, ‘quanting’ can reduce how much memory a model takes up - at a tradeoff, o’course. I am guessing DQX would have multiple local models, and use the player’s hardware metrics to decide which model to deploy.
Alternatively, the Chatty Slime could rely on cloud AI. Depending on Square’s strategy, that could be a freebie or a paid service. If the Chatty Slime gave options to the player - say, trading a potion for a stat seed, or responding to a quiz, Square could sell player behavior data.
…Anyhow, my room has a mini-split AC. One of the best purchases in my life: my room lacked insulation in the first place, so it becomes toasty during summer. The side effect is being able to just run my GPU and not become a human slushy.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 3 days ago:
On my system, I can play a RPG Maker game and use a 122b LLM at the same time, alongside to a podcast. A model in that parameter range takes up about 70gb of DDR4 RAM and 36gb of VRAM. However, it used to be that a 120b AI would take a larger footprint, bringing the system to the brink. The hardware requirements are going down, and the quality also increased, alongside speed. I believe when the next major sea change of hardware happens, AI will become very practical for gaming.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 4 days ago:
While I think AI will be good in games, the games in question should be built with the AI in mind, rather than just shoving the AI into an existing game.
Square-Enix was doing a remake of an old detective game called Portopia, with the idea of being able to converse with NPCs about the case. That made sense, but they have seemingly abandoned the project. They should have kept working on that, instead of doing this Chatty Slime scheme.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
The pessimist in me says the same thing that happened for many Confederates and Nazis: Forgiven and allowed to return into the folds of society, to fuck over humanity again.
I would like to be wrong. It is my desire to see them overflowing baskets and filling cardboard caskets.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
Throwing down better people is the easiest way to stand above them.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
The Magic Tower genre is definitely that way, and Soulestination moreso, because it has a lot to consider from the mechanics. For example, the Soul system.
You have a capacity of Soul, and for each soul you collect, you increase your stats by 1%. When you get to your cap, you enter a state of Rage - doubling your strength, and being forced to attack any adjacent enemy. This can be good for bosses or removing multiple enemies at junctions from play. However, this resets your Soul pool to zero, and increases your capacity by 1. This means it takes longer to become enraged, but your power potential also increases.
In the Magic Tower genre, the timing of your actions is everything, despite being turn based. Changes in stats dictate which kinds of enemies you can afford to encounter. The defeat of enemies is both a price and reward, so you have to engineer bargains. For example, glass cannon enemies are exceedingly deadly, but if you can strike them down in one blow, everything behind them is a deluge of goodness. But emphasizing attack means that sturdy enemies can take their time tearing you apart.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
On my end, I am playing Soulestination on Novice mode to develop my meta. The idea of the Magic Tower puzzle genre, is that there are finite resources. The order in which you use keys, kill enemies, collect resources, and the application of meta knowledge is fundamental to optimal routing. If you like numbers or exploring possibilities, this genre can be pretty neat.
Unfortunately, Soulestination has a trash translation. I recommend DROD RPG, which is also generally better balanced.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 3 weeks ago:
As it turns out, Doomguy is a robot clone of BJ Blazkowitz, who was deliberately smuggled onto Mars by scientists who knew about Hell.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 3 weeks ago:
I bought a twin pack of Nutella from Costco. The unopened one developed mold after awhile, but the opened jar in the fridge was just fine. If anything, I was expecting at least the reverse.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 3 weeks ago:
Food lasts way longer than what one would expect. I got a bunch of eggs in the fridge from CostCo from about a year ago. They still taste alright, much to my surprise.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 3 weeks ago:
It should be a rule, that a food executive is required to eat at least seven meals a week from the business they are running. Their attitude about food quality would fundamentally change.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 5 weeks ago:
I liked Nexomon Extinction, and am looking forward to Nexomon 3D.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 5 weeks ago:
$5 for a whole generation of games would be fair…and this certainly isn’t. Wario is the true representative of Nintendo.
- Comment on Two sides to every story 5 weeks ago:
Therapist: “Another rube to line my pockets…”
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
My guess is that smaller media are investigating, but quietly. As we have seen in the Caribbean, the Regime is happy to sink “enemies” without warning. Investigators have a real chance of being fed to alligators, if they are caught by ICE.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
At the very least, the major news networks are complicit. Social media and small outlets are our most aggressive and honest sources of journalism within the US. If you want major media that isn’t beholden to the Regime, you have to look beyond our borders.
It sucks that we can’t trust our institutions anymore. 🙁
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 1 month ago:
This is the TRUE American Nightmare. Rest in peace, Mr. Wake.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
It sucks that many projects that I am interested in, such as Touhoumon Puppet Dance Encore and assorted hentai projects are on the platform. For now, I put up with it - but I am very much hoping alternatives are adopted by creators.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
I will use AI image generation, such as “Thispersondoesnotexist”. They can have an imaginary face for their data brokers.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 1 month ago:
It sounds reminiscent of the twist in Wizards.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 month ago:
Just because America is in a crappy state, is no excuse for Australians or anyone else on a given patch of dirt to allow their nation be enshittified. You should consider America as a warning, of what can happen if your politics become rotten.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 month ago:
Australia, a prison state created for inmates, and perpetuated as such by their descendants. As a foreigner looking in, I think that Aussies would be best served by ditching the colonial prison mindset. You and the kids are allowed to have fun, if you ignore the specter of the Crown that created your nation.
- Comment on The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that lowers the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 an hour for teen workers 1 month ago:
Work is work, age shouldn’t have a damn thing to do with it.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
When it comes to teeth, I think 100% taxation should be imposed on people and companies whose wealth exceeds a cap. In the case of companies, their limit on wealth and assets should be based on employees. Someone makes 50k a year? Half of their income’s worth increases the cap for the business. O’course, incomes should be capped, workers voting on leadership, and so forth, to prevent stupid exploits for increasing a business’s wealth cap.
To keep the businesses honest about the book keeping, they don’t handle the accounting and employee records. The state and federal government should have rotations of overseeing them. They can roll a 1d4 dice each year, the first two rolls deciding which quarters of the year that the state government is responsible for. The federal government takes the other two seasons.
This helps prevent corruption, because a company and government observers can’t get too familiar with each other. If a company tries to offer favors to a randomized person, they will eventually be found out by someone honest, who can relate the issue to both the state and federal government. Also, both state and federal governments can compare their fiscal books on a company, to ensure that they match up. Each season a state or government observes, they use a different observer. So a total of four different observers each year to compare records with. Bigger companies, of course, should get more people watching them.
IMO, corruption in general is the biggest reason why America is becoming an awful place. Making it harder to do is crucial, and what I outlined above is just one of many approaches that will be needed.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
Considering that some Founding Fathers wanted the Constitution to be a living document, the answer is obvious: Keep the best parts of the original, incorporate the good ideas from the charters of other nations, remove the awful, and try out wild new concepts that may or may not work.
When it comes to ‘weird’ ideas, I would like economic promises and rules to be added. You cannot pursue happiness nor prosperity, if you are impoverished. A renewed American society should adopt UBI, free education (all levels and types), universal healthcare, the rights of workers to vote on their leadership and the pay that leadership earns, absolute wealth and income caps, ect.
Wealth is a Goldilocks problem, where too much makes people like Trump or Epstein a common sight, while too little creates a caste of people who cannot live their best lives. I feel that creating floors and ceilings on wealth would help make the next American democracy much more healthy.
In any case, MAGA will ‘pick’ our ride anyways. As we have seen in Minnepolis, they make their own law. They murdered Pretti and Good, kidnapped children, ignore the 4th Amendment, ect. So we should consider civil war, and the ramifications that come with that, is creating new laws and institutions of our own. An overhauled Constitution is both functional and symbolic - a statement of intent for what we want our nation to become.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
The issue is, do we get a good choice? I suspect that isn’t possible anymore, so we should try to create the least awful one.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
Personally, I think the Constitution as we know it is starting to resemble the Articles of Confederation: not fit for purpose.
It WAS an useful document, but we don’t have enough people upholding it, and the overall design of the thing is filled with poison pills to democracy. The 13th Amendment’s slave labor exception, electoral college, the lack of ranked-choice voting, not considering one’s body and devices to be ‘effects’ for warrant purposes, and so forth.
That is one of the reasons why I favor preparations for a civil war, because a true successor to America would need a fresh document to light the path towards a better future. It would be a painful thing, but I don’t think we have the luxury of a peaceful reformation anymore.
Of course, I would like to be wrong. But it ain’t prudent to believe that the Donorcrats and Turdpublicans would have a revelation and fix themselves.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
CostCo does? That sucks!
