Darkassassin07
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
Rough day to be a snake…
- Comment on Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation 5 days ago:
Just to clarify a little bit (I was a little confusing myself):
Postal was developed by the studio Goonswarm. The publisher Running With Scissors cancelled their games release because of the AI claims, and in response the developers have closed their studio, probably due to the financial strain of having your game completely cancelled by your publisher.
“After revealing POSTAL: Bullet Paradise, a title Running With Scissors was planning on publishing but not developing, we’ve been overwhelmed with negative responses from our concerned POSTAL Community,” reads a statement from Running With Scissors founder Vince Desi, emailed to RPS this afternoon. "The strong feedback from them is that elements of the game are very likely AI-generated and thus has caused extreme damage to our brand and our company reputation.
“We’ve always been, and will always be, transparent with our community,” Desi continues. "Our trust in the development team is broken; therefore, we’ve killed the project. We have a lot of good things coming (some you know and some you don’t).
“Since forming Running With Scissors in 1996, we’ve always said that our fans are part of the team,” it concludes. “Our priority is to always do right by the millions who support the POSTAL franchise. We are grateful for the opportunity to make the games we want to play, and will continue to focus on our new projects and updates coming in 2026 and beyond. We can’t wait to share more!”
Postal: Bullet Paradise was once “a timeline-hopping, dystopian bullet heaven first-person shooter with POSTAL’s signature darkly humorous personality”. The project is “no longer available” on Steam, though it still has a page as of writing.
Desi’s statement doesn’t mention which elements of the game may have been AI-generated, or whether they’ve taken any steps to confirm this with Goonswarm.
It seems like the publisher hasn’t done much to work with the devs, finding the true story instead of reacting to knee-jerk public opinions, and has just pulled the rug out from under them to protect themselves instead.
The devs have adamantly insisted there is no AI in their work; and if true, this really really sucks.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I’m not going to inflict life on two innocent souls; particularly not for selfish reasons like ‘I don’t want to clean up after myself’.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 1 week ago:
Hmm; so about 14Gs + a good long barrel and I should be able to launch a baby at least to Mach 2 or 3.
Stopping might be a problem, but that’s one for whoevers gonna catch it.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 1 week ago:
I wonder what the maximum muzzle velocity for a child would be (without just killing it immediately).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
However I don’t have a guaranteed number of hours. Some months it’s only a few :(
I need to get a 9–5 again I’m running out of money 🤷♀️
Damn, I feel you there. After 5 months of job hunting while unemployed, I took a part-time job (it was all I could find) which has slowed down for the winter. I’m lucky to get 13hrs in a week.
Struggling :(
- Comment on 1 week ago:
… Does it pay well?
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 1 week ago:
HP
Well there’s your problem…
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 1 week ago:
Leaking valve stem, or less likely a cracked rim. A 5$ fix while the tires were off; but more work just to fix on it’s own. If it’s a slow leak you keep ontop of, you may as well wait till the next tire rotation; make sure you request they replace the valve stem(s).
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 4 weeks ago:
You might just be overthinking a joke…
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 4 weeks ago:
For some reason my brain dropped the ‘L’.
Sitting here wondering how Kevin does it…
- Comment on "Pro"gression 5 weeks ago:
GameFaqs.com was one of the most used websites in my home for a while…
- Comment on "Pro"gression 5 weeks ago:
L1, L2, R1, R2, L, D, R, U, L, D ,R ,U, X
Health, Armor, $10000, in GTA:SA
Couldn’t tell you any of the others without looking them up, but that ones permanently burned into my memory…
- Comment on anime titles be like 1 month ago:
I certainly didn’t, stopped scrolling to see if I was the only one.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
I’ve not seen one of those in use in the half dozen servers I’d looked at; but I’ve barely used that shit show of a platform.
Regardless, it’s not publicly accessible/indexable and I’m not willing to enter into their new binding arbitration agreement just to look around. (the new ToS)
Discord can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
I fucking hate Discord and how it’s absorbed what should be forums.
When I’m creating a discussion online about a particular game or project, I’m looking to hear from the broader community over a longer term; not just limited to whomever happens to be online on this one specific platform at the time of posting.
People have different schedules, we’re not all online together at the same times; especially when you factor in timezones. Discord however makes it massively frustrating if not impossible to hold a discussion unless everyone you want to talk to is present and ready to read and reply now. Otherwise your conversation gets burried in the mess of other people having their own conversations and nobody wants to scroll through thousands of messages in the history of when they last logged on.
You can break out conversations into their own rooms, but that only goes so far and at that point you may as well just have a damn forum; that’s what they are for.
Then you get into the problem of repetition and searchability. People often run into common problems or ask the same questions; but with Discord, you’ve got to re-explain the same things every time they’re brought up, instead of just pointing the user to an old forum post that already solves their problem (they may have even found it themselves through a web search, saving them from even having to ask and waste people’s time. Discord isn’t indexed by search engines so old conversations/solutions are lost).
A group chat platform is not an acceptable replacement for a forum and I will die on that god damn hill.
- Comment on Dawg... 2 months ago:
What. the. fuck.
I think this graph just gave me a migraine.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 2 months ago:
That can be found right here:
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 2 months ago:
That’s very subjective.
Both platforms have the option for mods to tell you exactly what you did wrong; and on both, sometimes they utilize that option sometimes they don’t.
It’s entirely up to the individual mods in each specific community.
Lemmy does generally tend to be a bit more open; just because it’s a growing platform looking to expand its userbase, so the mods make a bit more of an effort to create peace/understanding vs just ban hammering any problems into oblivion.
Reddits grown big enough that it can throw its weight around a bit carelessly and have less worry of the userbase collapsing.
- Comment on The universe thinks you're gay. 3 months ago:
Or just that “haha rainbow gay”?
Just because there happens to be a rainbow in the image? I’m not sure where you’re getting this at all… There’s absolutely 0 reference to LGBTQ content here.
Seems very clearly ‘the universe is laughing at how small your range perception is’ to me.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 3 months ago:
Note, this was over 15 years ago; their policy has shifted in that time. I don’t believe the shipping requirement was that strict at the time.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 3 months ago:
Yup, that was really stupid. A hard lesson learned for literally the first package I’d ever shipped myself.
If I remember correctly though; ebay took the buyers side and refunded them before even informing me of the dispute. While I didn’t have evidence to refute it besides a receipt for shipping, they hadn’t really given me the opportunity to even try… Plus at 14 I wasn’t willing to lose $1k and the cards. :/
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 3 months ago:
That was well over 15 years ago now; I do not. I’d imagine the price has also risen a tad, not something I’ve looked into in quite a while. (I had sold at a similar price to comparable sets on ebay at the time)
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 3 months ago:
I’ve been permanently banned from ebay since I was 14.
Sold an original Alpha set of MTG cards for over $1k. Shipped it without tracking like a moron. Buyer disputed, claimed they never received it; ebay immediately refunded them and came after me for the funds. I said f that and walked away. They didn’t do much to try and collect (not sure they even can against a minor in Canada), but banned my account.
Since; I’ve tried to make a couple other accounts once or twice, and buy or sell stuff. Those got removed and orders cancelled within 24hrs.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 3 months ago:
Did anyone call him out for this during the meeting?
There’s a public comment section, right? Straight up ask why he feels it’s appropriate be deciding matters of public saftey while actively endangering the public himself by distracted driving during this very meeting.
- Comment on These shipping tape things 3 months ago:
They work great until someone drops it and bends the frame. As soon as there’s misalignment it’s becomes frustrating garbage.
Working warehousing, I bought my own and tethered it to my push cart because every one in the building kept getting destroyed by other employees.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 3 months ago:
Until this; I’d never heard of that rapper, and this drove lots of people to at least find the song that supposedly led to the C&D/stranding(real or not).
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 3 months ago:
And everyone is just like “that’s totally something they would do! Lol”… What?
Keep in mind pretty much everyone on this platform already hates Tesla and does not nor would they own a Tesla vehicle. There’s also a certain ‘you got what you deserve by buying that’ kind of attitude towards Tesla owners.
This is behaviour we expect from this shit company and it doesn’t directly effect any of us commenting on it. We just get to point and laugh (for now).
The discussion might be a little different if it was a less expected brand like IKD, Audi. But who’s to say for sure; there’s been a lot of ‘cattle’ behaviour lately.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 4 months ago:
A smart TV is primarily a surveillance device that also happens to display video.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 4 months ago:
Yeah, thermodynamics are a thing. I’m not trying to claim some free energy system saying you could power the whole data center; but if you could re-capture some of the waste heat and convert it back into electricity, putting that energy to work instead of just venting to atmosphere, it could potentially help offset some of the raw electrical needs. An efficiency improvement, that’s all.