NekoKoneko
@NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
- Comment on Happy Father's Day 23 hours ago:
The top left one especially because, in the full photo, they’re sitting on a statue of two parrots having sex.
- Comment on Day 701 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Poomp!
- Comment on Fafo 5 days ago:
Musk is the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect, and his wealth represents the exact monetary value delta of confident ignorance over intelligence.
- Comment on Xbox is closing Ninja Theory, and Double Fine and Compulsion may not be far behind 6 days ago:
The goal of nearly any company in 2026 is to become a passive immovable gate-keeper between a subscription service and a captive customer base.
So I assume they think that Game Pass (the service) is the product rather than the games it supplies, and they can more efficiently extract rent if someone else provides the content.
That’s just the sort of thinking an MBA would settle on, even if any gamer knows it’s idiotic. But nobody has accused these people of being smart.
- Comment on President Trump roundly booed by New York crowd at NBA Finals Game 3 at MSG 1 week ago:
I don’t think he feeds off it, unless you mean that it generates anger and grudges that he uses for energy.
But he certainly doesn’t seek it out. He’s a malignant narcissist. His smirk is that the only way he can cope, to act like (and believe) that everyone booing is deranged, since he is perfect (including in victimhood). But narcissists have extremely fragile egos, which require full time care to protect with their delusions. The booing hurts him to his core.
Unfortunately, despite the smirk and delusion, narcissists often react with long, drawn-out revenge and punishment schemes for even small slights. Good thing Trump hasn’t shown any signs of irrational revenge plots…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think you’re getting piled on here way too aggressively. This is literally “nostupidquestions”.
I’m assuming you asked because you’re open to explanations, not to argue. If that’s true, here are some reasons to be very skeptical and careful with AI (especially corporate AI; I’m neutral myself on fully local home AI);
- They are privacy nightmares. Everything you say in moments of vulnerability will likely be used to sell you something or against you in the future.
- They are not as good as you think they are, which is devious. They will convince you they are “smart” but they are just statistical models. So they will confidently tell you false things and if you trust them, you will believe false things. They can’t do math, they can’t actually “think.” You are just getting a statistical approximation of grammatically plausible language from the training data.
- They train you to not think for yourself and rely on them. There is some ambiguity whether there may be complex benefits, but it’s clear how they’re being used now is harmful to learning and development, even used by people who think they’re being careful.
- They asymmetrically benefit owners versus workers. Corporate AI is being pushed so hard because owners believe it will further funnel more income to them versus workers, and they benefit from this trade even if it can’t do tasks as well as workers. That means less jobs for the workers and worse experiences for the customers.
- Huge environmental costs for all of this.
- Data centers take up huge amounts of water from communities.
- Data centers increase electrical costs to communities.
- Huge increase in consumer hardware prices from corporate AI buying all the graphics cards, CPUs, hard drives, RAM, etc, leading to pricing out many people from home computing or gaming.
Are there benefits? I think there are. But AI has not been allowed to just grow and to be shown useful over time. It’s been shoved down our throats, which, with the above, motivates a lot of legitimate hate.
- Comment on He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut 2 weeks ago:
Ah. They found fingerprints but lack any identifying evidence linked to a single suspect. Guess they gotta close the case!
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 5 weeks ago:
Been out of stock for months. Basically for the same reason we’re here: the RAM and chip costs have gone up.
Honestly, Valve made the better choice in leaving it out of stock compared to everyone else raising prices (and thereby likely permanently increasing what we will pay even after this all ends).
- Comment on Sony and Bandai Namco announce generative AI collaboration to find how the tech can "effectively contribute to realising a creator's vision" 1 month ago:
Fitting that their mission statement sounds written by ChatGPT.
- Comment on Night night 2 months ago:
Not sure why you’re getting downvotes. This is a very relatable experience.
- Comment on The first new Heroes of Might and Magic strategy game in over 10 years will launch this month 2 months ago:
Played it today, it’s great!
- Comment on The first new Heroes of Might and Magic strategy game in over 10 years will launch this month 2 months ago:
Heroes of Science and Fiction
Oh, this looks great!
- Comment on The first new Heroes of Might and Magic strategy game in over 10 years will launch this month 2 months ago:
I’m more excited for this than I have been for a game in years. It looks like HOMM3 with modernized QOL updates and graphics. That’s really all I need.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 2 months ago:
You’re technically correct. The best kind of correct. Thanks.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 2 months ago:
Memory that is embedded in GPUs.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 2 months ago:
You’re sitting on a gold mine - first DDR6/HBM, then DDR5, then DDR4 got expensive. If trends continue, somewhere around 2028 you’ll be able to sell that desoldered 128KB of SNES RAM for a fortune.
- Comment on Content Creator Alanah Pearce Launches Charred Pictures in Partnership With Game Devs; ‘Faith: The Unholy Trinity’ Film Adaptation, Two More Movies in the Works (EXCLUSIVE) 2 months ago:
I don’t know a single thing she’s done, and have been cynical about “content creators” as opportunists lowering the standard of entertainment/art.
But just now I decided, why hate? Seeing all our entertainment being produced by fewer and fewer billionaires every year… All the best luck and support to anyone who isn’t helping prop up that system.
- Comment on New LTX2.3 competitor just dropped 2 months ago:
Should be interesting to play with when they reduce the memory requirements and get a ComfyUI workflow. For now, it doesn’t look usable on non-rich-person local hardware unless I’m missing something. There are some videos on this site too:
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 months ago:
To me, the problem is that this is the Switch Pro, and they called it the Switch 2. The marketing psychology makes a big difference. Switch Pro would imply it coexists alongside Switch and is for those who want to pay for more performance. Switch 2 implies that it’s something worthy of abandoning the prior generation. I think the former is fine (even desirable) and the later is just a bad value proposition.
Also interesting there were leaks about a Switch Pro a year or so prior to the Switch 2 reveal. My guess is the Switch 2 IS the Switch Pro.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 months ago:
Yeah, this is the “tock” part of the “tick-tock” hardware cycle. People bought the Switch because it was refreshing and a new way to play. Now Nintendo is offering to let us pay again and more for nearly the same. It’s a little cynical but true.
They could have called it the SwitchU, but honestly that’s a disservice to the WiiU - its second screen had more innovation.
- Comment on NVIDIA confirms DLSS 5 uses a 2D frame plus motion vectors as input 2 months ago:
I think we’re being too quick to judgment on this. We’re forgetting that this is a vital step in Jensen Huang’s plan to make $1 trillion from selling AI accelerators to new data centers, which I think we can agree is what really matters to most gamers.
- Comment on The Vision Behind iiSU: An Interview with iiSU Developers (my article!) 3 months ago:
Love the article, nice work!
- Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 3 months ago:
Fascinating. Definitely still prefer the Go for retro futurism, though.
- Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 3 months ago:
Beautiful! Love those billboards. Also reminds me to check out a PSP Go, I bet the slide-out design is cool in person.
- Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 3 months ago:
PSP is peak retro tech. The disk drive mechanism is so satisfying to open and close, popping out the UMD cartridge…
But yes, Japan preserves their old tech, books and games by default. Used items are almost always immaculately kept and sent cleaned up. It’s pretty reliable to buy used in Japan.