pasdechance
@pasdechance@jlai.lu
- Comment on Ohhhhh, the year was 1778... 3 days ago:
To the scummiest vessel I’d ever seen
- Comment on Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 1 week ago:
In a very good way!
- Comment on Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 1 week ago:
By
Timnit Gebru
Emily M. Bender
Well, that’s all I needed to know! Thanks for the share.
- Comment on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… 1 week ago:
Many half-assed ideas will never make a full-assed idea.
Between this and Wsocial, it is pretty clear that whoever is making IT decisions needs to be let go.
This is not Doctorow’s enshittification; this is an attempt at domesticating users into thinking it is a normal thing to upload your ID to random cloud servers or hand over your biometric data to use WhatsApp??? This isn’t protecting children. It is giving the social media giants permission to allow ads for things like gambling and line their pockets. If I worked in advertising, I’d be pretty happy.
- Comment on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input 1 week ago:
I see… This is another game about looking cool doing something (at least for this section).
- Comment on Post and user deleted after finding out Ai was used 2 weeks ago:
Tough choice. And tagging things like [Self-Promo] or [Recommendation] will get annoying.
- Comment on Post and user deleted after finding out Ai was used 2 weeks ago:
I saw the post. I believe the dev wrote the post, maybe with an LLM, or perhaps had an agent do it. We know agents are using Lemmy as a pastebin for some reason. I also think the game was made using AI.
Posting on Lemmy about games and loading them with postive sounding adjectives appears to be the sole purpose of these posts. I even saw one on the rather small shmups community which is specific.
I believe that the way the fediverse functions is seen as useful to bots/agents.
Making a post, loading it up with keywords, and providing a link to the project is better than any forum or even reddit. Once the post federates, it will create multiple free backlinks. Also, even if the post is deleted, the content will take time to delete across the fediverse. Other sites and users that use LLMs to write their reviews will find it and repeat the same slop. Slop cited in slop. Insloption. All free.
According to the SEO audits of my personal blog, the majority of my backlinks are from Lemmy instances.
How should a situation like these be handled in the future?
- let them post and deal with it the same way
- provide a template for self-promotion that must include an AI disclosure section
- have a “self-promotion day” during the week
- Comment on Call for help 1 month ago:
I think the woman is the actress Sheryl Lee.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 2 months ago:
I thought there might be at least one shmup. The R9 from R-Type? The Vic Viper? Silver Hawk? Fighting Thunder?
Still really cool though!
- Comment on Sonic turns 35 today—what does this franchise mean to you? 3 months ago:
Sonic is cool, but I have been awful at Sonic games for all of those 35 years.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This one works. I’m a prof and people get me to download papers for them all the time.
- Comment on In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road 3 months ago:
I haven’t seen one yet. Maybe they don’t use them in every part of France?
- Comment on Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers 3 months ago:
Every 3 days those goofs are telling us some new BS (it is good enough to improve itself, it is too powerful, it is whatever so watch out because now it is better at everything) only for it to…not happen. They try to scare people into giving up and giving in. Of course people don’t like it. There is nothing sadder than an individual or company declaring that they like AI.
- Comment on Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store 3 months ago:
Breakout 71 and Shattered Pixel Dungeon are super addictive
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 3 months ago:
Your game looks considerably better.
I would not want my work to be confused with another’s.
Even so, a non-litigious option is to contact the dev to propose a bundle.
The “Experiments” Bundle?
- Comment on 340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking The Internet Archive 3 months ago:
Those 340 outlets should be first in line to be scraped for training data in that case. Their argument is weak, they just want us clicking on their site instead.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 4 months ago:
I’m originally from Canada. Barely any christian rock made it to radio. Probably because they didn’t want to be on the same station as the evil rock bands. I didn’t know it was a thing until university when my neighbour tried to get me to listen to Switchfoot after hearing me listening to Skinny Puppy or something like that.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 4 months ago:
When I first moved to France, I was surprised by how much English-language rock/pop music was on the radio. I was also suprised that sometimes christian rock would be played between something like Nirvana’s Rape Me and Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad Touch. I mentioned it to my colleagues and they were like, “wtf is Christian rock?”
- Comment on Someone created a public domain version of Netflix 4 months ago:
Is WikiFlix not the same thing?
- Comment on What do I need to know about GrapheneOS? 4 months ago:
Banking apps:
- Comment on StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal 4 months ago:
This will be one I’ll wait for my friend to buy. I’m good with Rogue Flight and Starlink until then.
But, I do like Star Fox and missed out on the 64 version so if I ever get a Swith 2, I’ll probably get it.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 5 months ago:
I’ve seen JBL Endurance wired earphones at my local big box store
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 5 months ago:
That form factor is standard in the IEM / hi-res audio sector, I never got used to them.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 5 months ago:
Is this what you have?
What is your source? DAP, phone?
You can take a peak on here: crinacle.com/rankings/iems/ just to have an idea of brands and prices.
- Comment on Metaverse inventor Neal Stephenson says VR goggles are dead 6 months ago:
Stephenson uses Substack? I really would have imagined him using something more bespoke or Ghost.
- Comment on List of 3rd person shooter-3D platformer hybrids I know of (and looking for more) 6 months ago:
Too bad, but I guess that’s what happens when a site is crowd-edited. Changing the genre might not be something people stop to change. Pragmata and Akimboy are just listed as a “Behind View” “Action” games. The filter uses AND operators which means that users would need to mark up games with all 3 tags to work that way.
Fun to see that 2D side scrollers are considered 3rd person by some users though!
- Comment on List of 3rd person shooter-3D platformer hybrids I know of (and looking for more) 6 months ago:
You can try this
www.mobygames.com/game/genre:behind-view/
In the genre filter you can add Platform and Action and Shooter
- Comment on Nier Automata 6 months ago:
Loved this one and the anime too.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 6 months ago:
I’ve been playing games since the 80s. I wouldn’t call myself a gamer. Here are a few personal hallmarks…
- Crash ‘n’ the Boys: Street Challenge on NES was the first time I had fun playing multiplayer.
- Metroid II: Return of Samus was the first game I was addicted to. Super Metroid is still my favourite game.
- UMKIII was the first game I actually got pretty good at.
- Starcraft. My brother played this and I loved being a spectator, in hindsight I realized that gaming could be a sport that people would watch at this moment.
- Quake and Descent were the first times I got motion sickness playing games!
- Counter-Strike because everyone played it at university.
- FFVII because I never played it and it is apparently kinda famous…
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 6 months ago:
I play this version at work sometimes
