MentalEdge
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
- Comment on this is wrong 1 day ago:
2014
You mean 2004, right?
Right?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
In the rest of his talk, titled “What Makes an Indie Game Successful?,” Yoshida walked through twelve standout indie games that resonated with him and the reasons why. They included:
One of them is Marvel Snap.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
How is Marvel Snap indie?
It’s clear he has a love for games that not enough decision makers do, but is he using the terms to refer to games and publishers that are “small”?
The article includes the term “indie publisher” which is an oxymoron.
- Comment on Public service 1 week ago:
Until the guards spot you and put you in there with them.
- Comment on Distro for upgrading a 15 year old Mac? 2 weeks ago:
I usually go with Kubuntu.
Set up up flatpak, share internet from phone via usb to install broadcom wifi drivers, and modify the desktop to work more like MacOS.
Hand it back to the post-MacOS-user. No complaints so far. In fact one came back with another Mac and asked me to do it again.
- Comment on Do I need to say anything else? anyway my waifu is calling 2 weeks ago:
her: “autisitic yapping about military history”
me: falls in love
- Comment on Former Nippon Ichi Software president says the “salaryman-ification” of Japan’s game industry is why there are fewer “individual creators” like Hideo Kojima and Suda51 - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
It’s either “the antithesis” or "is antithetical’.
- Comment on Sony Has Apparently Shut Down Dark Outlaw Games 4 weeks ago:
Like I said, WipEout and Gravity Rush weren’t played by everyone. But almost every gamer I know, has a niche genre they’re into or nostalgic about.
Few individual indies are gonna hit it big, but as a group, their chunk of the industry is growing, and fast. Because together they cover all the types of games the giants won’t make anymore.
Even Requiem is technically niche. Horror is usually not for everyone, but RE since 7 has been doing actual innovation. Even with the remakes they’ve been developing their in-house engine and gameplay mechanics. Tweaking. Adjusting. Improving.
And players can tell. Add to that that while they did take a few shots at live-service partner titles, they didn’t ruin the main titles to do so. And once each game was done, they moved on to making the next one even better.
The RE franchise isn’t part of the problem. It’s one of the few AAA IPs still being developed the way single player titles should be developed: listen to player feedback, and just make a good game.
- Comment on Sony Has Apparently Shut Down Dark Outlaw Games 4 weeks ago:
I like Sonys current crop of IPs (GoW and Horizon) but I really hate how they’ve completely abandoned niches and innovation.
It’s like they don’t care about their first part titles having any variety anymore.
Studio Japan and Studio Liverpool hurt me personally. Neither made games played by everyone, but everyone who did play WipEout or Gravity Rush, loved them.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 4 weeks ago:
He is.
Doesn’t mean we can’t take him out of context and use his words to advocate for more than just the things he thinks they advocate.
He has it right here. That he doesn’t fully know that is his problem.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 4 weeks ago:
And I wasnt replying to you.
Why you replying to the corrected to someone else after I deleted the accidental one?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 4 weeks ago:
Did I say it did?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 4 weeks ago:
Corporation, you mean.
The word business covers honest people making an honest living running their own thing, too.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
The first is to defend the status quo.
I want change. I thought I made that clear.
What I don’t agree with, is laws being pointless. Their ideal is to use violence to reduce and prevent violence.
Human society needs that. Done well they are a net good.
And you’re just doing that with ideas you misunderstand so badly i can’t even bring myself to correct you on.
“You’re so wrong I can’t even describe it”, and you’re saying I’m the one trying to be edgy?
Really convenient excuse to not actually engage.
Things are sometimes simple though. Violence indeed bad. Best avoided. Not a good thing.
Yes.
And yet, it can be used to do good.
Youve clearly lived a very sheltered life and violence to you is just an abstraction. Youve never experienced the world so its really easy to imagine its all as flat and consequence free as your abstractions.
Ok? Figuring someone out, even if you pull it off, doesn’t invalidate their logic.
And you’re picking and choosing among the things I’ve said. I’m not gonna repeat myself by pointing out the contradictions in these conclusions with what you should know about me.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
So to start off with, youre using one example of game theory, the prisoners dilemma, as a stand in for right/wrong.
I’m not. People can also co-operate to do bad things. The principle still applies.
You either screw over others for individual benefit, or co-operate for collective benefit. That collective benefit can still be bad and come at the cost of ypur group defecting against another. Like a nation going to war.
Or a small group in an advantaged position co-operating to enforce laws against a far larger group.
Your oversimplification is stuff like “laws bad” or “violence bad”. Far more egregious imo.
At least I apply logic that can be adapted to describe multiple scenarios, instead of boiling things down to flat statements.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
Poetic.
Violence is to defect.
Some will always choose to defect.
To wish for a system where such defectors are not dealt with the only way which is effective, is naive.
That you think I need to be told that that’s still violence, even more so.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
No, you’re right. Murder being illegal hasn’t saved a single life.
Whatever “justice” system you’ve been witness to, must have you seriously confused if it has you thinking it is the only one that can exist.
Bad systems should be removed. But their existence does not mean good systems are not possible.
And you will never see the real picture until you ditch simplifications like “laws bad”.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
Instinctively? No.
Due to learned experience and principles of game theory? Yes.
Don’t you try to find out which people will defect and which will co-operate, and act accordingly, instead of just screwing over everyone around you all the time?
Stop putting words in my mouth.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
A better world.
And I happen to believe that humans will co-operate more than defect. And game-theory supports my view. Not yours.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re confused about what it is I’m rejecting.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
At the moment, in a lot cases, yes.
I reject the idea that that is the only possible state of things.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
Let me paraphrase your comment: “world bad, good things only possible through bad”
I’m gonna go ahead and reject that, and ask that you re-evaluate when you should contribute.
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 4 weeks ago:
We’re gonna need new laws. This shit is creating new fucked up incentives to violate people.
- Comment on Now this is an interesting question. What sound would you like it to make? 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on vivipary in tomatoes 5 weeks ago:
!morphmoe@ani.socail is leaking.
- Comment on SBA #59 5 weeks ago:
What? I’ve always worn this hat. No? I’m nit blonde under there. Definitely not.
- Comment on When you know you have great friends 5 weeks ago:
For the meme.
These are fictional characters.
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 1 month ago:
I feel like we can see the light at the end of tunnel, finally.