Mordikan
@Mordikan@kbin.earth
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
Stupid little slop piggy was the one started with the hate and now can't take it, huh? Easy to make you look stupid, but I didn't expect you to break emotionally like that lol
- Comment on Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware? 1 week ago:
I'd say the blunder was them really just staying the course. Starfield isn't a bad game, it's just not ground breaking (which is what everyone was expecting). I think the ship building was probably the most fun I had in a Bethesda title for a long time, but it wasn't the focus of the game.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
oink oink oinkSilly slop piggy
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
oink oink oink
Yes, using some AI by that definition is still using AI.
oink oink oink oink!
Well, yeah that makes you a hypocrite if you have some magical reason why you can use it, but how dare anyone else.
oink oink!!
Sorry you feel that way, but it looks like your weak ass argument got smashed. Better luck next time, piggy.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
You love slop. You can't get enough of it. You just don't like anyone else using it. You're like a little slop piggy lol.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
That's a lot of writing for you to say you're a hypocrite who uses slop.
You really can't give it up can you? - Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
I'm not even going to give you the answer.
Thank you for your non-input.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
I hate when people outside a given space with zero knowledge of that space decide that their input should be of paramount value to the people living there. Don't really know what else to tell you on that one.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
I disagree that everything AI generates is garbage, but I do agree with the "contributing anything real" comment. That might seem like it is at odds with each other, but I have a one word reason: perl.
Back in the day, I worked extensively in perl and really did believe in TIMTOWDI. The problem with TIMTOWDI is TIMTOWDI, though. Not every system I built needed to be some unique butterfly. I just needed it to function (preferably with high efficiency). Then I started working in group projects. Perl is awful outside of single-developer environment. Imagine 5 people all declaring their own best practices and refusing to compromise as it would "violate best practices" that they had just set for themselves.
There is value in NOT creating new ways to do things simply because you can. This becomes clear the first time someone approaches you about building our own security library for something. You have no idea the amount of code copied from stackoverflow that exists in production unattributed. It simply works and no one is going to care (usually not even the people posting these solutions - which includes myself).
Even outside of that, if I sat and wrote a sub() to do some recursive file handling, I don't own that code like some intellectual property regardless how cleverly I wrote it. I combined several documented parts into a single idea. If I don't own those parts, I don't see how I can own the idea that was built from them.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 week ago:
That's not an AI issue, that's a developer issue (and one that's existed for a long time). I remember all the shitty C&C clones back in the day that just copy pasted design elements.
I think AI has made that process easier but ultimately it's "shitty devs making junk" and not "AI making junk". Even if design is being delegated to AI, it is still a human delegating that authority.
- Comment on Layoffs Hit Ghost Of Yotei Developer Sucker Punch 1 week ago:
Unfortunately that is how game studios function. Especially those operating as a subsidiary of a larger company. The money is made and no current project is lined up. You keep the core dev staff and terminate the others. When another project comes in, you higher more people.
Inconsistency is terrible in that area.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I'm highlighting the fact that none of these other points are ever mentioned. Only the debunked one is mentioned. That's by definition is not whataboutism as I don't have to address the validity of an already debunked claim.
FYI for you, if someone raises a point, that point gets debunked, and they keep raising it anyway as if it's still valid, then the other person pointing out "that specific claim was already debunked" is not committing whataboutism. That would be:
Rejecting a straw man: refusing to re-litigate a claim that has already been shown to be false.
Holding the line on established facts: insisting the conversation move past a disproven talking point.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Me: States facts based on USDA published data.
Internet Nobody:I guess one way of winning a debate is to just bore everyone to death so bravo.
Ad hominem means you have no actual point that can stand against what I said.
So, yes, I did win lol. - Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That would only be a straw man if that is an oversimplification of the issue (not sure how "drained half a lake" is not a distortion/oversimplification, but I'm guessing you read that with blinders on). My following comment in this thread clearly shows that is not the case, so I'll take what you say as ad hominem.
If you really want to get into fallacies though, sure he's the others you committed:
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The phrase "the actual issue and reason a lake could just vanish" implies there is only one real issue and that I'm ignoring it. This frames the debate as a binary: either you care about vanishing lakes or you're making pathetic arguments. That's a false dilemma.
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Phrases like "a lake could just vanish" and "global warming isn't getting easier" are designed to evoke alarm and urgency without connecting them logically to the original point. That's appeal to emotion.
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Your comment pivots from the original topic (water usage comparisons) to a different issue: "permitting... which is the actual issue". That's a red herring.
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Motte and Bailey also as the whole "Well, they still use a lot and many are unpermitted" (that's a motte: a hard-to-dispute claim). Those shifts are used be people without a point to appear victorious without defending the original position.
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- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There's been lots of reports done on the subject. In the end, low estimates put it between 68-75 billion gallons annually, high estimates closer to 230 billion gallons. That seems like a lot, right? The USDA reports total agricultural usage at 26.4 trillion gallons. That means 0.88% of the water used for ag.
This is where the the argument usually breaks down because someone will argue that:
- Water is a scarce resource
- US-Ag provides something of substance
If it is a scarce resource, than why is only 0.88% of that resource important enough to save? That then transitions to providing something useful, but usefulness doesn't magically remove the scarcity that exists. Is destroying the resource for almonds really a valid reason?
AI datacenter water consumption does have a footprint (especially when factoring in hydropower used not just cooling), but to say it's "draining lakes" or destroying the environment while ignoring everything else is just bad faith.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
These are slop, but it opens up to an interesting idea. Reverse engineering software isn't exactly an easy or quick process. AI could greatly accelerate that work. I'm not thinking for mashing two games for a quick video, but more like for Icewind Dale 2 rebuilds (the original source code is missing so no true enhanced editions exist). Or remastering old titles like Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura or even older games like Menzoberranzan and Stone Prophet.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The water usage thing was debunked and really needs to stop being used. It just invalidates the argument when used.
Fun fact: The California almond industry uses more water than AI datacenters.
- Comment on AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running 4 weeks ago:
Another engineer I work with had a really well put description of proper AI implementation that really applies to this:
"AI should help you build the automation, AI should not be the automation."
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 5 weeks ago:
Because now you can build it into a franchise. Intergalactic: <INSERT_TITLE>
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Is this meant as a rhetorical question or are you seriously asking?
- Comment on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: 2 months ago:
And what did you actually do?
- Comment on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: 2 months ago:
The fact that all of your posts have been involved in sleazy ad campaigns doesn't give any legitimacy to this one.
- Comment on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: 2 months ago:
Yeah, I'm going to have some doubts about the "AI replaced me" part. My company works heavily with AI now and no one has lost their job. What their job was is EXTREMELY important here. Did they make birdhouses at a financial firm?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I'm not going to that site because I don't want malware.
I'm guessing the titles include such classics as:
- Hitler Simulator 2026
- A border tower defense game that's just gunning down migrants
- A digital version of the game Operation, only it's all children, and they're just asleep, and you aren't a doctor.
- Comment on Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits] 2 months ago:
I don't see how game streaming at least in the US market would ever work without higher performance infrastructure anyway. Functionally, it's not a matter of bandwidth but latency. Xbox servers are centralized regionally, so even with latency within WebRTC range (like sub-20ms), cross-country traversal can add up to 30ms which makes games feel awful in terms of control.
- Comment on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs 2 months ago:
That's wild. So basically a user asking for compensation is treated as the same threat level as that user walking into their offices armed.
That "considered reasonable according to social norms" is REALLY open ended, too. That sounds a lot like social norm they've been trying to push for "you won't own anything and you'll like it". - Comment on "Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy 2 months ago:
It has gotten to the point where devs are just being asked to disprove a negative, though.
"Ok, well you didn't use AI in what you showed but you used it somewhere else."
Short of devs wearing body cams to try and prove literally every step in every process, people are going to have to have some faith that developers aren't using it. - Comment on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics 2 months ago:
There is a game that is upcoming that I was interested in that clearly used generative AI in a gameplay trailer. I should say I'm not pro/anti generative AI. I'm right down the middle, I see the issues and the potential, so the presence of AI itself for me isn't a deal killer (Crimson Desert for example).
But, the issue is that this game falsely represented what is going to be in the game. The lighting isn't planned to be that good. The model rigging isn't meant to be that fluid. Etc, etc. The problem is a matter of dishonesty.
If a developer uses generative AI for test assets and placeholders, I don't see that as an issue (especially if they admit to and own that fact). If they use that for material for trailers to showcase their work when that will not be part of the work, then that is a different story as that introduces that dishonesty.
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 2 months ago:
I'm just going to end this here with a final comment:
I know I'm not going to change your mind on this. It doesn't matter what evidence I provide, you just aren't ready to have that conversation. And that's ok.
This has never really been about you. It's been about all the others. It's about showing how while there is a lot of AI hype, there is an equal amount of anti-AI hype. Misinformation is misinformation. Doesn't matter your stance.
We have for 4 years now both simultaneously and perpetually been 3 months away from the AI bubble popping and 3 months away from AI stealing everyone's job.
So, for those that see this insane comment history, understand as well intentioned as some of these posters are, most everything they say is completely fabricated. They are just passing it along without knowing any better.
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 2 months ago:
I'm just going to end this here with a final comment:
I know I'm not going to change your mind on this. It doesn't matter what evidence I provide, you just aren't ready to have that conversation. And that's ok.
This has never really been about you. It's been about all the others. It's about showing how while there is a lot of AI hype, there is an equal amount of anti-AI hype. Misinformation is misinformation. Doesn't matter your stance.
We have for 4 years now both simultaneously and perpetually been 3 months away from the AI bubble popping and 3 months away from AI stealing everyone's job.
So, for those that see this insane comment history, understand as well intentioned as some of these posters are, most everything they say is completely fabricated. They are just passing it along without knowing any better.