kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 2 days ago:
Maybe Reus? I enjoyed the basic premise and the first few hours, but then the game’s flaws started to become more apparent (e.g. repetitiveness, upgrade chains becoming unmemorisably complex) and put it down around 12% of full completion.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
I understand their reasoning, but still, it soured me on the game. GenAI models being built from non-consensually mass-scraped art was known from the very start, and yet the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game… They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.
But anyway, we are free to just not agree, and draw the line in different places on what we consider ethical conduct 🤷
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 weeks ago:
Clair Obscur for me too, but because of the AI art controversy. I can’t stand AI, even if temporary, even if just store banners, I just can’t trust the company from then on not to sneak it into other areas.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk 2077 - it still doesn’t go on steep enough sales to justify buying when I have hundreds of unplayed games on Steam. But I’m keeping an eye on its downward progress. Maybe when it reaches £10-13…
- Comment on How to study nature 2 weeks ago:
I enjoyed the first novel, then he just completely dropped the ball with the sequels 😔
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 5 weeks ago:
Thanks, in the end I returned to occasionally wearing earrings, so I’m fine with having the holes, but good to know :)
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if there’s a way to figure that out… Maybe try reading the article?
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 5 weeks ago:
It’s not fully reversible. I had it done with the “gun” method as a young child, and I spent years without using earrings and the hole never completely closed.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
tbh that sounds a lot more entertaining :D
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 month 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 month 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
content warning:
spoiler
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 month 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 month ago:
good!
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
wait it used genAI? It’s coming off my wishlist… :/
- Comment on 🤏🤏🤏 1 month ago:
loads for me, in the UK
- Comment on ribbon seals! 1 month ago:
wow I legit thought this was AI-generated, but apparently they are real :o
- Comment on 2 months 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" 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
wow this is really fun!
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 months 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