DupaCycki
@DupaCycki@lemmy.world
- Comment on 10 miles to escape a bill 5 hours ago:
Honestly, as a European, I’d try and to the same. Not because I’d need to pay 2.7 million dollars for a helicopter ride, but because I’d feel terrible occupying it for an hour, along with the rescue team, when someone else in the area could be dying.
- Comment on A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons 9 hours ago:
For anyone unfamiliar with patents - companies like Sony file a shitload of patents every year that they never end up using. Until more info comes out, the patent itself means little.
For context, Microsoft has a total of 124462 patents globally, not all of which have been granted. These days it files about 3000 new patents every year. A lot of them are very vague, some don’t make any sense at all, and many are never put to any use.
Apparently Sony has even more patents than Microsoft, currently sitting at nearly quarter million. However, only a third of them have been granted so far.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 13 hours ago:
like a mob boss
Who do you think started the first big companies?
- Comment on Do you consider GTA VI overpriced? 2 days ago:
In my country, GTA 6 (like most AAA games), costs about 10% of an average person’s post-tax monthly income. These games just don’t have anything to warrant that kind of price tag in my opinion.
Especially when fantastic indie games release at a fraction of that price. Sure, games like GTA 6 were made by thousands of people over several years, but so what? If the end result is mediocre, it doesn’t matter how expensive it was to make.
- Comment on Do you consider GTA VI overpriced? 2 days ago:
Personally I consider it overpriced in every single country. Video games should not cost this much.
- Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists 2 days ago:
Curious how corporations can get a lot of stuff done for very cheap, practically free sometimes. But when it’s time to ‘calculate damages’, all of a sudden they take the borderline scam options that they would have never used. In addition to multiplying the end sum by 4 for good measure, of course.
- Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job 3 days ago:
I loosely used the term ‘AI’. Most people don’t exactly know what artificial intelligence is or how it works, so using the terms according to their definitions sometimes creates more confusion than clarity.
Of course translation tools like DeepL have always been based on machine learning. The difference is that a few years ago DeepL worked well and its home page wasn’t filled with ‘AI this’ and ‘AI that’. They seem to have transitioned from their old ML models to some of the newer LLMs. From my experience the translation quality is much worse than it used to be.
- Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job 3 days ago:
I don’t mean to hate. The game looks interesting and I’m sure you worked hard on it.
However, you got laid off due to AI, and then went straight to ChatGPT for translations? Sadly, most online translators are highly AI nowadays (and usually produce worse translations than before AI), but there are still better options than chatbots.
It just looks lazy, especially that you completely missed ChatGPT’s commentary. Such an obvious and easy mistake to avoid.
My advice would be: absolutely avoid using LLMs and Gen AI for anything related to your game, because your potential customers will blacklist you for using it. And ask yourself: do you really need to translate the game (or its Steam page) to many different languages if it’s not even selling enough copies for you to withdraw the money?
A lot of indie games are English-only, precisely because translation is too expensive and unnecessary at first. It’s great to make your games available to as many people as possible, but don’t forget about principles and quality. First, focus on those two, then maybe try writing translations for any languages you know well.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
This guy is what you’d get if Trump and Musk had a child.
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 5 days ago:
Well, clearly you’re not left out enough
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 1 week ago:
This is exactly what people said about every single Nintendo console when it launched. Give it another year or two. Maybe the Switch 2 OLED will have launched by then.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Is anyone actually looking forward to this? The new expansion is nothing but a PR stunt.
It’s been 10 years since the last expansion. Every single person from The Witcher 3’s team is gone from the company, never coming back. CDPR still has not addressed the countless lies it told during The Witcher 3’s and Cyberpunk 2077’s marketing campaigns. Not even an apolog. Only gaslighting.
Sure, it’ll probably be better than Cyberpunk 2077. Because almost anything is.
Do yourself and others a favour, and boycott this piece of shit company if you aren’t doing it already.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
releases digital-only game
“hmm, 0 physical copies sold… looks like people prefer digital”
- Comment on After Doom director Hugo Martin denied reports that id Software had been gutted, "current and former employees" are disagreeing with his optimism 1 week ago:
Former employees disagree with director that any employees were fired. Surely the former employees all left voluntarily?
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- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
Some don’t, actually. Driverless trains exist, including metro trains. At least two lines of the Paris metro system - namely lines 1 and 4 - are automated.
- Comment on Pov It's 2035 1 week ago:
There’s a difference between a good shitpost, and a nornalpost that is shit. Learn the art, practice the craft.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 week ago:
I imagine most of this is actually true for a lot of companies. Not because it’s a good or even sensible model. Because most companies are mismanaged due to rampant nepotism, among many other issues.
What percantage of managers you’ve met had any idea what they’re doing?
- Comment on Works for slugs too 1 week ago:
Pretty sure some wooden planks in the middle would do wonders for stability and durability. Maybe some gravel too. Why has nobody thought of this yet??
- Comment on Works for slugs too 1 week ago:
Plot twist: they can’t navigate entire cities. Some very well maintained streets, maybe.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
For once I’m glad a game will be using Creation Engine. That’s how low Unreal has fallen.
- Comment on So unrealistic 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to hear people’s opinions on movies where billionaires are heroes and spend their fortunes on fighting crime, as well as building hospitals and orphanages.
- Comment on Michigan Republicans vote to strip child labor protections 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes. Another episode of my favourite show - ‘Nearly Dead Politicians Making Decisions About Matters That They Know Nothing About, That Do Not Impact Them, and That They Will Never Have to Worry About’. Looks like this will be a good one.
- Comment on Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games 2 weeks ago:
🤓 You see, according to economics that’s actually not true. Microsoft would have lost the potential gains from the person repurchasing all of their lost games + new ones. Any good business should base their strategy on potential gains. Losing potential gains is technically a loss, and so the gamer should cover them. Microsoft is not a charity and cannot give away games just because someone shared their password. /s
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 2 weeks ago:
Technically Sony has the ability to remotely disable any game so that PS5s don’t read the disc. Though that requires the console to be connected to the internet. As long as it’s not, you should be good. Not exactly ‘ownership’, but fairly close.
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 2 weeks ago:
The end of ownership came a long time ago for PS players. Now it’s just the end of fancy boxes and discs that give an illusion of ownership.
Which is still bad, but let’s not mix up facts.
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully there will be no next president. Let the country end with this one.
- Comment on “Teaching crabs how to read” 2 weeks ago:
I don’t remember the last time I had search/browsing history enabled.
- Comment on no one is getting back to me on filling my hole 2 weeks ago:
One of the few non-major American cities I recognize instantly. This one from… a lot of true crime documentaries. Great to know the roads are improving though!
- Comment on Sick as hell 2 weeks ago:
That’s wallpaper material right there. Now give us a source to a 4k image.