PonyOfWar
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- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 1 day ago:
Seems like a great opportunity on PC. No GTA 6 there and no big multiplatform releases either because all of those made way for GTA.
- Comment on How would you integrate AGI into society? 4 days ago:
For one, I think it would be immoral to create an actual intelligence to work for us. With a Human-like intelligence, we’d have to assume that it’s conscious, as we have no way of determining the opposite. We’d essentially create a caste of digital slaves.
That aside, I think the potential for abuse is far greater than any benefits. Making the human mind a replaceable thing, and thus diminishing the value of a human, would be incredibly dangerous. Right now, people in power can’t keep that power without some level of human support. Humans can employ their free will to rise up if need be. Giving that up would not be worth the cheap doctors.
- Comment on How would you integrate AGI into society? 4 days ago:
Outlawing it entirely would be best IMO. “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind”, to quote Dune. Create something like the Geneva convention that makes it a crime against humanity.
- Comment on Why does Australia tend to censor games A LOT despite a copy having a foreign classification rating? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s a banned title in Australia, it’s still just as banned even if the box has a foreign rating on it. That rating doesn’t apply to Australia, so why would it be relevant?
- Comment on CounterSide is fully free and single player now 2 weeks ago:
Anyone played it? Is it a good game?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
True, but that’s also a live-service title (in the form of GTA-Online), where the main source of revenue isn’t game sales but in-game shark cards.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 1 month ago:
I fully admit that there are AI-generated images that could fool me. But that’s beside the point when like in this case, the images are in a very typical AI-style. It doesn’t look like they’ve put any effort into generating something that could fool people, but just went with what one of the more common models shat out. And those are still fairly obvious to detect IMO. Besides that, their process pictures really don’t make a lot of logical sense. I also find it quite unlikely that a human artist would miss a visual gag like the cow using a milk churn and just replace it with a generic blaster.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 1 month ago:
Sure, but you wouldn’t just render one horn and add the other one in photoshop. That makes no sense at all.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 1 month ago:
Yeah, I really don’t want to falsely accuse anyone but… the human 3d-artist forgot to model one of the horns? That redraw has a very, let’s say, familiar style as well.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 1 month ago:
Vintage Story, a Minecraft-like game that focuses on a tough, realistic survival experience. There are climate zones and seasons. Things like smelting ores or growing food are much more involved than they are in Minecraft, which makes for a strong sense of progression when you’ve finally managed to make iron or build a windmill.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 1 month ago:
It’s in system settings -> accessibility -> button mapping
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 1 month ago:
They didn’t remove anything - the button has the exact same functionality that it had at launch. You can also rebind it to any other button, so the whole premise of supposedly having to pay for using the button is kinda bullshit.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 1 month ago:
You can already rebind it, no CFW needed.
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 1 month ago:
Dude sounds like a slightly more coherent Trump. Even included the obligatory “I don’t even know her” line.
- Comment on South Korean stock market at three-month low as AI sell-off intensifies 2 months ago:
Are we finally getting there?
- Comment on Do you consider GTA VI overpriced? 2 months ago:
Take a look at the exchange rate of the Yen compared to for example Euro over the last 10 years and it should be clear why the Japanese prize is “cheap”. The Yen has lost a lot of its value, while Japanese wages haven’t risen accordingly. So prizing the game at an equivalent prize to EU or US would mean that the game would simply be unaffordable to Japanese people.
- Comment on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months 2 months ago:
Mistakes happen but even then, convicting someone with that little evidence is pretty fucking egregious. He was clearly presumed guilty.
- Comment on The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80% 2 months ago:
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 2 months ago:
The one-child policy was abolished in 2015, but birth rates have continued to decline after that. They currently have one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.
- Comment on Contemplating on playing a controversial developer's bought game 2 months ago:
Play it. You already have it, and playing it will have no measurable impact on Blizzard whatsoever. If anything, it will cost them (a marginal amount of) money.
- Comment on Should I buy a Switch 2 despite owning an OLED? 2 months ago:
The main issues of Switch 2’s display are an extremely slow response time as well as prominent ghosting/blur. You can see some measurements here for example. It’s not too bad when it comes to color reproduction and of course it’s higher resolution, so I guess it depends on how much you care about motion clarity and response time compared to that.
- Comment on Should I buy a Switch 2 despite owning an OLED? 2 months ago:
Do you mostly play in TV-mode or portable? In the latter case, I’d wait for an OLED version of the Switch 2 personally, as the current model has a screen that’s pretty mid and which will definitely feel like a downgrade from Switch OLED.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 2 months ago:
The entire games industry, and software development in general, is unstable right now. The few companies that are still stable aren’t hiring. If you have a job, you try to keep it. Because trying to get a new job will be an absolute nightmare. I’m in that situation myself right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think I know what happened here, as I just searched “Steam TOS” and this site came up, simply titled “Terms of Service”, which includes that passage. But that’s actually the TOS for the game “Rec Room”.
- Comment on Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership" 2 months ago:
Best possible outcome for those studios at least. Whether all the other changes have any positive impact, I guess we’ll see. I’m not too hopeful though.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 3 months ago:
Can’t confirm. Especially if you live directly below a roof.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 months ago:
My point is that you can’t take the price out of the equation. If your standard for “potential customer” is everyone for whom a Steam Machine would be an upgrade, that’s not a useful metric in my opinion. As many of those either can’t afford to pay that much or wouldn’t want to pay it for an upgrade they don’t necessarily need. Dota plays just fine on older systems.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 months ago:
If you ignore the price, sure.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 months ago:
I believe it. I’m sure there are millions of people using Steam to play Dota or CS2 on stuff like old laptops. But how many of those are willing and able to spend 1000+ for an upgrade?
Ultimately, stocks may be so low that it doesn’t really matter though.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 months ago:
Yeah, but Steam Deck had an extremely attractive and competitive price when it launched.