kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 6 days ago:
Sorry, your reasoning sounds ridiculously arbitrary and elitist. Yes, reading a single wiki page won’t give the same depth of knowledge as studying the topic for years, but it’s still increased knowledge compared to what the reader had before. By your reasoning nobody learns anything before they go to university? Because in what other educational environment you would read multiple books’ worth of information about a single subject…
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 week ago:
I feel like you’re nitpicking. For physical activities personal experience is obviously best, but for most topics, reading about them is the same as learning about them. Except for PE and art, nothing I learnt in school was through direct experience. Also how is anyone supposed to learn about stuff that cannot be experienced personally, like history or space?
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 week ago:
tbh that sounds a lot more entertaining :D
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 week ago:
I hated chemistry in school, because it was teaching us irrelevant shit like electron structure of atoms. But when I’m interested in something, I’ll look it up, and may get lost in a Wikipedia wormhole for hours about the most random topics. (some recent ones were: image file formats, the history of feminism, Serengeti National Park)
Imho the difference all lies in when knowledge is shoved down our throats vs exploring it out of curiosity.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 week ago:
Tangentially related: the fucked-up experiments they were doing on dolphins, like giving them LSD or keeping one in a flooded, human-style house and trying to teach it English: The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong | The Guardian
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it involves a caretaker routinely jerking off the dolphin she lived with, then the project got shut down, and the dolphin was kept in so bad circumstances that it committed suicide after a few weeks
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 1 week ago:
that meme format makes me feel old… I used to see it in like 2008 👴
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 week ago:
good!
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
To me it seems the main issue is not even AI, it’s capitalism. If artists didn’t need to sell their art to survive, we wouldn’t even have this discussion.
Absolutely. It seems like 90% of the issues we have in society is because of this fucked-up economic system :/
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
That was the point I was trying to make too. The question of “is it theft” is moot, it still causes harm.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
For me it boils down to: were the artists, whose work was used to build the large commercial models, asked about this and agreed to it? No.
Piracy only affects existing work, genAI affects all the future artwork they would try to make a living from. See AI hitting cultural sector hard: Fifth of freelance artists have lost income, work | NL Times
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Reality is that people on platforms like Reddit or Lemmy (or the tech side of the Fediverse in general) can be incredibly fervent about their AI hate, but they don’t represent the average people, whose work has become ever so slightly more convenient thanks to AI
According to research, the overwhelming majority of gamers across all ages and genders do hate genAI though:
In a recent survey, we explored gamers’ attitudes towards the use of Gen AI in video games and whether those attitudes varied by demographics and gaming motivations. The overwhelmingly negative attitude stood out compared to other surveys we’ve run over the past decade.
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Overall, the attitude towards the use of Gen AI in video games is very negative. 85% of respondents have a below-neutral attitude towards the use of Gen AI in video games, with a highly-skewed 63% who selected the most negative response option. - Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
I still don’t like it. The models being built on non-consensually scraped artwork has been known from the very start. If they still thought these were ok to use, I don’t really want to get involved with their output… It’s the same as when a company quickly pull the genAI art when busted, “oops we didn’t mean to include it” - then maybe don’t use it in the first place?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
wait it used genAI? It’s coming off my wishlist… :/
- Comment on 🤏🤏🤏 3 weeks ago:
loads for me, in the UK
- Comment on ribbon seals! 3 weeks ago:
wow I legit thought this was AI-generated, but apparently they are real :o
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I recall an estimation that about 1/20 players leave a review, but this probably depends a lot on genre and other factors.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad for those disclosures (because I’m not touching AI games), but tons of devs don’t disclose their AI usage, even in obvious cases, leaving us to guessing :/
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 5 weeks ago:
Oh this might be what pushes larger companies to drop kernel level anticheat! That would remove the main issue that keeps my gaming on Windows.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 weeks ago:
I guess Genshin also counts. The monetisation is horrible, the character designs are facepalm-worthy, the localisation is so bad it makes me wince, Paimon is the worst, but damn, I love the exploration gameplay, landscapes and music 🤷 (Also it helps that I’m f2p, so at least I’m not supporting Hoyo’s predatory practices…)
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 weeks ago:
all those Artifex Mundi hidden object games :D
They’re essentially reskins of the same simplistic gameplay and weak stories for like 15 years, but sometimes I still get in the mood for one :D
I love the better ones’ environmental art, but I’d be wary to pick up ones made in the last few years bc I’m pretty sure they started to use AI as soon as it became available, due to the conveyor belt nature of the genre.
EDIT: Ok apparently I was wrong, and they just altogether stopped releasing their games on PC since the pandemic O.o
- Comment on Powdertoy: FOSS falling sand 1 month ago:
wow this is really fun!
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 month ago:
Hmm sadly that’s a very different gameplay to Just Dance, here’s an example. In JD they record dancers with motion capture, and you need to follow that choreography, while the game tracks your accuracy with a phone, console controller, or camera.
So it needs a bigger production team than FLOSS indies can probably manage :c
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 month ago:
The only Ubi game I play is Just Dance Now. Sadly I can’t think of a non-Ubi alternative to that gameplay :/
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
this extension seemingly only lists third party DRM.
That could be the case! Unfortunately I can’t see any documentation about it on their website or github repo.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
I’m playing with mouse and keyboard, so not sure that’s possible with the Android version.
I saw a Linux Genshin launcher on github a while ago, but iirc it carries some ban risk that I don’t want to expose my account to.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
I don’t know of a bulk tool, but the Augmented Steam browser extension shows a DRM warning above the purchase button when you go on a game’s Steam store page.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
And many games haven’t been assessed either. I plug my Steam account into ProtonDB, and apparently 51% of my games can be made to run perfectly on Linux, 10% are various levels of broken, but the remaining 39% has no information. I guess it’s because I have many indie games in my library.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
The only thing I want to say is that the “10%” that don’t work are usually pretty popular.
Yeah, like I’m glad Linux support is increasing among games, but my main daily driver game (Genshin) still doesn’t support it 🤷 And I don’t think Hoyoverse will be spending work on Linux support when they are raking in so much cash from their mostly mobile playerbase. From what I can see Linux userbase hovers around 0.3% in China, and that’s Hoyo’s main market.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
website
this is such a cute idea 🥹 now I imagine them running little Wordpress blogs
- Comment on one bright second 2 months ago:
Reminds me of that Kurzgesagt video about Optimistic Nihilism:
“Close your eyes. Count to 1. That’s how long forever feels.”