markovs_gun
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- Comment on It's dangerous to go alone 1 day ago:
Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 day ago:
I think the biggest problem is that steam is like 80+% shovelware and it’s no surprise that a lot of those are using a bunch of AI generated “artwork.” IMO it’s no worse than a shitty asset flip and as others have pointed out, there are a lot of really cool things you could do with generative AI in game dev that aren’t just slapping shitty pictures all over your product, and this doesn’t capture the nuance. I would also assume that this number is lower than reality since it relies on tagging, and nobody is accurately tagging shitty scam games with less than a hundred downloads.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 day ago:
I think the biggest problem is that steam is like 80+% shovelware and it’s no surprise that a lot of those are using a bunch of AI generated “artwork.” IMO it’s no worse than a shitty asset flip and as others have pointed out, there are a lot of really cool things you could do with generative AI in game dev that aren’t just slapping shitty pictures all over your product, and this doesn’t capture the nuance. I would also assume that this number is lower than reality since it relies on tagging, and nobody is accurately tagging shitty scam games with less than a hundred downloads.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 2 days ago:
I mean it’s simple math. Would you rather make more money or less money if you’re the business owner? It’s not good, but it’s easily explainable.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 3 days ago:
I mean from a business standpoint it makes sense. You make more money selling 5 hamburgers at $21 a piece than you do selling 10 at $10 a piece, as long as costs are similar. Having fewer users you’re making more money from can make sense.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 4 days ago:
Didn’t Elon make likes private after he liked pics of her?
- Comment on If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation 5 days ago:
Modern Judaism doesn’t really have this kind of view of the end of the world at all.
- Comment on Pretty woman stepping on you 1 week ago:
This is the shit I come to Lemmy for. This is the real internet I love not censored corporate bullshit.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
Unfortunately this is a pretty common occurrence. There was a big furor about it about a decade ago with a social media fad called the “hot car challenge” where adults would sit in hot cars turned off in the sun to see how long they could last in them ostensibly to build awareness of the problem, and there were all sorts of helpful tips and design changes made to cars and phones to try to make it more difficult to forget your kids in hot cars. Myself I wonder if any of it had any actual impact because surely the sort of people who leave their kids in hot cars aren’t the smartest and probably don’t keep up with safety PSAs about the issue.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
Unfortunately this is a pretty common occurrence. There was a big furor about it about a decade ago with a social media fad called the “hot car challenge” where adults would sit in hot cars turned off in the sun to see how long they could last in them ostensibly to build awareness of the problem, and there were all sorts of helpful tips and design changes made to cars and phones to try to make it more difficult to forget your kids in hot cars. Myself I wonder if any of it had any actual impact because surely the sort of people who leave their kids in hot cars aren’t the smartest and probably don’t keep up with safety PSAs about the issue.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 week ago:
Amazon price mysteriously $7 higher
- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 1 week ago:
Imagine draggin’ deez nuts on your face
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 week ago:
This happens to most things I like. I really liked JoJo’s Bizarre adventure when the anime was first coming out and I read all the manga and then when part 3 got super popular the fandom became completely insufferable to the point where I was stopped recommending the show or keeping up with any updates. I have also been really into AI/language models/machine image generation for years before ChatGPT exploded and now “being into AI” usually means “Exporting rational thought to a chatbot.” I also feel like reddit is like this.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 weeks ago:
I am legitimately surprised at how few people start with the horizontal line here. I can never get the damn thing lined up right if I don’t start with the horizontal line.
- Comment on shrooms 2 weeks ago:
I am pretty sure this is completely illegal
- Comment on You swallowed your siblings! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Old Man with Device that Shoots Oranges 2 weeks ago:
This picture is posted daily on here
- Comment on Religion choices 2 weeks ago:
That’s a subgenre of the last two. In older days it was billy Bob, these days it’s Brody.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 3 weeks ago:
One of my favorite games of all time, The Talos Principle, is on sale for $5. There’s a remastered version but honestly the original holds up really well. It’s a first person puzzle platformer game similar to Portal but the main point is the story, which is a really thought provoking philosophical exploration of humanity, machine consciousness, and self determination. It is legitimately the most interesting game I’ve played in the past 5 years and it has really caused me to think about these topics in ways I hadn’t before.
Myself I am buying Persona 5, Pizza tower, and the Phoenix Wright trilogy. I have been wanting to play Persona 5 basically since it came out, and I got to try Pizza Tower a few weeks ago at a friend’s house and really loved it as a fan of the Wario Land games. Phoenix Wright is just nostalgic for me and there really aren’t similar games out there.
- Comment on I know you degenerates want it 3 weeks ago:
Jesus
- Comment on The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' 3 weeks ago:
Oh no the government might know my name and address! Surely they don’t already know that from me living in society, voting, and paying taxes!
- Comment on They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes 3 weeks ago:
Krispy Kreme actually got in trouble for this once, because a UK based location went rogue and implemented a rewards program called the “Krispy Kreme Klub”.
- Comment on They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes 3 weeks ago:
I think this is actually illegal in most states
- Comment on Casual wear 3 weeks ago:
Pro tip- if you ever see a picture or video of a woman doing something weird or gross on the internet, people are jerking off to it, regardless of whether or not that was the intended purpose.
- Comment on HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK 3 weeks ago:
Warning - this post doesn’t contain specific spoilers, but I would recommend against reading it if you haven’t watched Breaking Bad because it may color your opinions of the ahow
I feel like you missed the point of the show if you thought the point was to show Walter sympathetically or as the good guy. The whole point of the show is that it is his pride and greed are ultimately what drive him to do worse and worse things no matter how much he tries to blame his actions on external circumstances. There are multiple instances where he does things that are completely unnecessary because at his core, Walter White is a bad person. He is not truly driven by desparation or by love of his family, but by his pride. He wants to earn his own money, and he enjoys being above the law and feels that he deserves all his money and power because he is smarter and superior to everyone. As he gets deeper and deeper into crime, it becomes clearer and clearer that his moral decay is entirely his own doing and not primarily driven by circumstances, even though Walter certainly tries to act that way. I can provide specific examples but I wanted to keep this post spoiler free.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s way more than I’ve seen police do for this sort of thing, you got lucky lol
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the heads up. I have ordered things online from best buy in the past but not again if they’re going to do this shit. I know they’re not reading Lemmy for customer experiences but this is ridiculous and nobody should have to go through that. I think a week of “investigation” is more than generous especially if you have video of the guy stealing your shit. I would also file a police report to really add to the evidence but that’s even more time out of your day and then you have to talk to the cops and explain why the felony theft (at least in my state) that you were the victim of is worth the time it takes for them to get off their asses and stop eating doughnuts for 5 minutes to collect the report. A lot of companies won’t do shit without a police report. The driver is also probably going to be pissed if he gets fired over this and also knows exactly where you live, so having a police report is a good idea if he tries some shit. Not that the police will actually do anything about it, again it just adds to the paper trail.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 weeks ago:
Oh I know, I was just using super stereotypical language. Every Latino I know just says Latino or Hispanic.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 4 weeks ago:
You can say black bastards rape our young girls but virgins go without on here. We’re not reddit.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 weeks ago:
Legit I think it’s to shift the focus away from helping other people for the sake of being nice and onto uniting together to fight a common enemy - the bosses, corporations, etc. Dale the machinist from Alabama isn’t going to go to the protest to protect trans latinx PoC out of the kidness of his own heart but he might if he realizes it’s part of a larger project to go out to take back his rights from the people fucking him over, and fuck over his boss. Young men are drawn to masculinity and militaristic language right now, and left wing politics can be easily framed in those terms. Yes, being good to other people should be good in its own right but a lot of people don’t see it that way and we need to get them on our side too.