mrmaplebar
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- Comment on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics 2 weeks ago:
Personally I have major ethical objections to the way that the vast majority of generative AI is done today, so I'm pretty much against it regardless of the hypothetical perceived quality of the end result.
The ends really don't justify the means, and I want to support the human beings working hard to make authentic media in the future.
I don't want to play someone's lazy and exploitative AI slop game any more than I want to look at someone's slop art or listen to slop music.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 2 weeks ago:
What I think the average person who may not have an eye for art or an attention to details might not understand is, a lot of AI art that comes across as convincing to the untrained eye is still, at the very least, living deep in the uncanny valley.
Much in the same way that an AI voice or video can look somewhat convincing but a little bit off, the same thing is true for AI artwork. People who are artists or who have at least learned to see the nuance in art can often see the weirdness in generative AI "art", even if it is sometimes hard to explain exactly why it feels off (maybe it's the subtlety of the lighting, the shape design, the line quality, etc.).
Can you make AI art that is convincing enough to fool an untrained eye? Easily.
Can you make AI art that is convincing enough to feel a trained eye? Sure, but it's going to be a lot harder.
In the case of these guys, they really aren't fooling almost anyone with their obvious slop.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 2 weeks ago:
Sure... I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, to some degree.
Unfortunately however, we do now exist in a zero trust world where you can't always naively believe what you see to be authentic and legitimate... If I was going to commission or hire an artist to do some paid work today, I would need to at least see some kind of "proof of work".
Because of the ethical implications of generative AI, people have every reason and right to be suspicious and critical of work that looks like it could be generated by AI.
But beyond that, what I think the average person who may not have an eye for art or an attention to details might not understand is, a lot of AI art that comes across as convincing to the untrained eye is still, at the very least, living deep in the uncanny valley.
Much in the same way that an AI voice or video can look somewhat convincing but a little bit off, the same thing is true for AI artwork. People who are artists or who have at least learned to see the nuance in art can often see the weirdness in generative AI "art", even if it is sometimes hard to explain exactly why it feels off (maybe it's the subtlety of the lighting, the shape design, the line quality, etc.).
When people make something like this, which to me is so obviously AI slop, and then is bold enough to try to deny it, it just adds insult to injury, frankly. "You can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool all the people all the time." These dudes want to pee on our legs and tell us it's raining...
- Comment on 2XKO Active Development Will End in December 2026 2 weeks ago:
Pretty wild to see considering how many years the game was in development and some of the names behind it.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 2 weeks ago:
100% AI slop. These people must think we were born yesterday.
- Comment on What's your MarioKart character and why? 2 weeks ago:
Right from the first Mario Kart I was a Koopa Troopa fan. Acceptable alternatives being Yoshi and Dry Bones.
- Comment on Cracked version of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC runs better than official release - Variable 2 weeks ago:
How's the crack work on Linux?
- Comment on Fogey-assed old dude says 3 weeks ago:
Listen to unc this time kids, he knows best.
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 3 weeks ago:
Stella who? I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her.
Man, these people have lost their fucking marbles...
- Comment on A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons 5 weeks ago:
I hereby dub this the "nocontroller" or alternatively the "zeroshock".
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 1 month ago:
Nobody (aside from China, for purely geopolitical reasons) really wants to invest billions of dollars in a multiple years long process that could be instantly undermined by the popping of the AI bubble.
This level of demand is not sustainable, and the big tech companies know it.
- Comment on Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71 1 month ago:
I was just speaking with Lindsey Graham. We had a 20 minute conversation about how alive we both definitely are, just like Mitch McConnell.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 month ago:
Iran is probably going to make Iraq look like child's play.
America is now at a crossroads of bad choices: we either surrender and retreat (further entrenching anti-American power in the region for decades to come), or we commit harder to winning by putting boots on the ground (beginning what will be a long and bloody war for no reason).
Trump may think there's an easy out on Iran, but when our best option is surrender it's already a shit show.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 month ago:
I thought George W Bush and his admin was the worst Republican America could come up with... that was, until 2016...
I'd take W over Trump any day. Before the Iran War maybe there was an argument in Trump's favor. But today? No contest.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 month ago:
Not really sure why anyone would hate any other president more...
I guess there's like Andrew Jackson, but even then we're so far removed from that time it'd be weird to say you "hate" him.
- Comment on Box3D | A revolutionary new physics engine developed by Erin Catto in collaboration with a Valve dev 2 months ago:
Cross platform determinism
This sounds like a big selling point to me.
From what I understand, many of the existing physics engines are non-deterministic, which can make networking physics interactions in certain types of games pretty difficult.
- Comment on The perfect day alone starter pack 2 months ago:
This but gimmie sunny, [diet] soda, and Age of Empires 2.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
I get what you're saying, but it's worth mentioning that even a Mini ITX board has a larger foot print (6.7" squared) than the Steam Machine's absolutely tiny 6" cubic form factor. It's really a very small device!
FWIW, I've always found that small form factor parts are a little more expensive too.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
To be fair, i'd say the Steam Machine is relatively cost competitive with other PC pre-builds. DIY will save you money but you'll never end up with a system that's as small or quiet, and you have to really know what you're doing.
The Steam Machine is not such a bad deal really, aside from the fact that every PC is a bad deal in 2026.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
"Told you Sheela had no friends."
- Comment on Sonic Game Recomendation? 2 months ago:
- Sonic 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles on the Sega Genesis.
- Sonic Generations
- Sonic Mania
- Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (Fan Game)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Crazy how by simply rebranding "gambling" to "prediction markets", it went from being something illegal to something where people can now bet on anything at any time.
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 2 months ago:
Yep, that's slop alright.
One big tell to me is how highlights always get slightly brighter just before hitting the outline. It's kind of a similar effect to when you turn the sharpness filter up on a TV, and it looks terrible. And yeah, there are a ton of strange noisy messy shape salad parts that are a defining characteristic of "AI" "art".
- Comment on Girls is it just me that gets really emotional when singing and I cry so hard that I have to change my blankets? 😭 2 months ago:
Some people really want to believe that there's an elusive magical mystery female sex organ that holds a large amount of liquid, I guess. Anything but accept a little pee in their love life I guess... 🫠
- Comment on Girls is it just me that gets really emotional when singing and I cry so hard that I have to change my blankets? 😭 2 months ago:
To be fair, "squirting" is known to be mostly just urine.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says "YouTube monetizes Xbox better than we do", ahead of expected layoffs | Satya Nadella bemoans performance of Xbox 2 months ago:
That's an insane thing to say, especially considering most people streaming and making videos about games are probably not using an Xbox to do it, let alone making any money doing it.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 2 months ago:
Although I'd say it generally skews to the political left, it's a mistake to think of the fediverse as a monoculture. Lemmy as an open source technology is politically neutral, as is ActivityPub as a federation protocol.
At the same time, there are a few hard left communist "tankie" servers, and the creators of Lemmy identify as Leninists, and these types of people tend to be blindly pro-China and pro-Russia.
Personally I do not view either China or Russia in a favorable light... Having said that, I'm not sure I view any country in a favorable light right now, aside from I guess Canada and I guess New Zealand.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
"We noticed it was some nazi shit but we did it anyway, except in Germany where it's illegal." Pretty wild defense.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 2 months ago:
Fair enough! I'm genuinely not trying to be a hater.
However, there is a line between mythology (a set of tales and myths spawning from a specific historical culture) and fantasy (a fictitious construct from the start). This particular game seems to be going pretty far into the realm of fantasy with the jello cube and the cinematic universe style storytelling, but maybe all of the God of War games have been like that, I don't know.