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- Comment on Why are Pokemon Showdown Moderators SO against the discussion of "Eating Pokemon"? 5 days ago:
I mean, while it is cannon, they mostly avoid it nowadays because there is so much weird stuff around it. While Pokemon are depicted as animals, many are suggested to be sentient and/or just as intelligent as humans, so things get very messy even within the universal canonical stuff, nonetheless stuff that they’ve swept under the rug.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 week ago:
But like, they can already do that with exclusivity deals if its just for games, nonetheless bad looking ones. The only way they would benefit them is if they genuinely think this actually looks good, or they’re trying to further inflate the AI bubble, and one of those two options seems far more likely than the other.
- Comment on Where do I go for unbiased news in the world without it having an ulterior motive or kissing ass to the establishment of said country? 1 week ago:
Its not the worst, but even this chart has some pretty significant issues. For example, both BBC and The Economist are said to have left-wing bias, which in and of itself is weird, but even weirder is that the BBC is said to be both more accurate and less left-wing than The Economist.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 week ago:
I mean, given that they previously said it was only running on multi-gpu systems, I can’t see one generation of advancement being enough to make this feasible on consumer hardware. At this point, I’m thinking that this is just a paper product meant to help inflate valuations without any intention to launch it.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 week ago:
Maybe there is eventually a way of making these filters look good by adding (many) additional parameters, but they’re still ignoring the much more important question: how are they going to get this to run on anything other than the compute server they’re currently using.
- Comment on If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead? 2 weeks ago:
As a disclaimer: I’m not an expert (or a lawyer) on the subject, but am interested in it and have done quite a bit of hobbiest research.
From my understanding, you can, but have to be able to defend your claim in court. For example, there can’t be significant evidence that you were previously looking at the celebrity, and you obviously can’t use features specific to the given celebrity. That said, its going to be very easy to prove if you are the lookalike or are working directly with them.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 3 weeks ago:
Generally, terrorist attacks are more about creating terror or (attempting) demoralizing the public, rather than targets that would impact an ongoing war effort or similar. That said, that and “military strike” are not mutually exclusive and seeing as intentions are hard to prove, it tends to be more about branding than anything else.
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- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 4 weeks ago:
With Google, wasn’t the issue that they were on other devices, or were paying others to use their defaults or something? To be clear, I’m working from memory here, and am too tired to read a bunch of legal stuff to confirm one way or the other.
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- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 4 weeks ago:
You can’t have a platform dictate everything about how it sells merchant wise without having an antitrust involved.
Didn’t the EU, who have some of the strictest rules in that regard, rule that walled garden ecosystems are allowed in their case against Apple?
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- Comment on Is there any privacy-friendly options for shared todo list services? 4 weeks ago:
I do have an old mini-pc with an AMD A10 in it. Do you think that might work? If so, what sort of software should I be running on it, since even with its current Kubuntu install, it really struggles to run YouTube.
- Comment on Is there any privacy-friendly options for shared todo list services? 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I don’t have enough money to buy a PC decent enough for a home server - or really the space for that matter.
- Comment on Is there any privacy-friendly options for shared todo list services? 4 weeks ago:
I couldn’t find any that even the top priorities, nonetheless other stuff.
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- Comment on What games meet this criteria? 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, its really hardware-intensive. It uses ray-tracing, so it struggles to run even on my 5th-gen Ryzen, RTX3050 system.
- Comment on What games meet this criteria? 5 weeks ago:
I’m open to pretty much anything genre-wise, although I editted the post to narrow down the criteria a bit more.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 26 comments
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 5 weeks ago:
All AI work is public domain, but also, its thought that Spotify themselves likely create some of that AI content.
- Comment on Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up 1 month ago:
Mentioned one in the middle, although focused more on their inefficacy rather than the noise.
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Unironically have already been doing this. Marks lost from typos are much less than those from AI false positives.
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- Comment on Is It a Bad Idea to Combine Survival, Extraction, and 5v5 Modes in One Game? 1 month ago:
Honestly, my immediately reaction is that all three of these genres are basically live-service MMOs. Getting and maintaining a large enough playerbase would not be an easy feat. The different gameplay loops may make things more difficult, but extraction shooters and survival games have a lot of overlap, although I can’t picture how a 5v5 shooter would benefit from being built on top of this.
I would also warn that large-scale projects like these tend to be exponentially more difficult, without significantly increased odds of success. If this is a long-term passion project, no reason not to pursue it, but if you’re hoping to turn it into a buisness, you’re probably better off looking into something with a lower playercount required.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 month ago:
Lemmy’s core developers are Tankies (radical supporters of the CCP and anyone else claiming to carry on second world ideology, such as Putin) as are many of those running older instances. This includes older instances such as Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml, which makes them very entrenched. Still, they seem to be a very vocal minority, since larger instances like Lemmy.world lean away from that, and PieFed (an alternative but still intercompatible Lemmy alternative) is popular in part from those wishing to move away from Lemmy’s tankie developers.
- Comment on When making a game level in a modern engine, is the (main, static) level geometry big one model, or many smaller pieces? 1 month ago:
For reference, I’m coming from older engines like Source or Quake engine, where levels are unique files separate from other entities, unlike modern engines where level geometry is treated the same as any other entity.
I’m assuming this is for a fairly tight, enclosed space, but am mostly concerned with the static level geometry rather than than props or other repeated details. So if I’m understanding right, that would mean generally the geometry is broken into a number of peices, such as each room being a single model.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Most people aren’t super involved with AI, and basically use it passively. In the same vien, up until fairly recently, social media was generally seen as a good thing because people enjoyed it and it wasn’t common knowledge (not that evidence didn’t exist) all the negative impacts it had. That not to say social media, or generative AI shouldn’t exist, but the topic is more complex, and most people don’t engage with that complexity.
surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage
Investors throw money at stupid stuff all the time. Tech in particular tends to be volitile and speculative. I mean, right before AI, it was NFTs, and before that, “the metaverse”, and befors that blockchain. All of these were said to be gigantic new technologies that would revolutionize every industry and every aspect of life, and each had billions (trillions?) of dollars invested in them. Each of them lasted about a year before their value collapsed and they were realized to be overpriced dead-ends and empty marketing.