Overspark

@Overspark@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games similar to hardspace shipbreaker can you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with most of the games in this list that I know, I wouldn’t class Ostranauts as a cleaning game. It’s probably closest to Shipbreaker, at least thematically. You loot derelict spaceships, but can also deconstruct hulls and systems to add them to your own spaceship. Finding a hull with serviceable fusion engine parts is hitting the jackpot, either to sell or for your own ship. While it shares the “I’m in debt for the rest of my life” vibe it’s much easier to climb out of that hole once you understand the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixels inflation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid 320x200 was the best you could do on a (Commodore 64) monitor. With 16 colours! Which was a lot, because PC’s at that time could only output 4 colours at once on that resolution (CGA). We’ve certainly come a long way since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to generate that texture, AI bots have already been attacking every website hosting content on the internet for the past year, to the point that they were basically DDoSed and forced to take extreme measures to stay online. Plenty of copyrighted works have been slurped up without consent from their authors, a massive amount of energy has been used to inference the models and even more energy (far more than all cryptocurrencies combined for example) is used generating things from those models. So yes, a lot of damage has already been done. Far more than killing a couple of cows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One way of looking at it is serving a vegan a vegan meal, after you slaughtered a cow for the first couple of tries. Some of the damage has already been done. Also, we’ve had several kerfuffles already where GenAI “placeholders” were present in a released game, and caused plenty of outrage. It’s far safer to never have those placeholders to begin with. Just draw up something ugly in Paint, at least it’ll be plenty obvious you need to fix it before launching the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No more Jackie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not expect a Guild Wars reference in my Cyberpunk content! Recently picked up GW2 again and having a blast this time, so relevant to my interests. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this. Python was already popular with the early adopters, and it’s a fairly easy language to learn and use. After that it became a network effect thing: all the best tools were already written in Python so people continued to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because this isn’t managing people, it’s bullying people, and proper spelling isn’t really required for bullying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here we go again...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, same here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hilarious how different people respond to playing it solo. Some people say it’s the tensest thing ever but I’ve also seen a video from an elderly cozy gamer who thought it was the most relaxing thing she’d seen in a while. I’m more in the latter camp, been playing solo since launch and it’s been pretty chill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Stop using Imgur for now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you think you’re paying with when you’re using a “free” VPN?