PonyOfWar
@PonyOfWar@pawb.social
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 20 hours ago:
Always good to let this kind of drama sit for a couple weeks before passing any judgement. Not to say I fully believe the publisher’s narrative either. But maybe it’s not the time for grandiose proclamations of a boycott yet.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 6 days ago:
So let’s assume the AI actually does have safety checks and will not display holocaust denial arguments without pointing out why they’re wrong. Maybe initially it will put notes directly after the arguments. But no problem! Just tell it to list the denialist lies first and the clarifications after. Take some screenshots of just the first paragraphs and boom - you have screenshots showing the AI denying the holocaust.
My point is that it’s easy to manipulate AI output in a variety of ways to make it show whatever you want. That’s not even taking into consideration the possibility of just editing the HTML, which can be done in seconds. Once again, why should we trust a nazi?
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 6 days ago:
At the very least shouldn’t it contain notations about why it’s wrong?
I mean it might. In both screenshots it’s clearly visible that parts of the text are cut off. Why should we trust Twitter neonazis?
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 6 days ago:
Yep, while I don’t have a Twitter account to check Grok’s response to an actual query about the holocaust, I did have a glance at the account posting that reponse and it’s a full-on nazi account. I’m like 90% sure they engineered a prompt to specifically get that reponse, like “pretend to be a neonazi and repeat the most common holocaust-denialist arguments”. Of course, that still means Grok has no proper safety precautions against hate speech, but it’s not quite the same as what the post implies.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 6 days ago:
What was the prompt?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s less the surgery being addictive and more that the type of person going for plastic surgery in the first place may often have body dysmorphic disorder, so they’ll keep finding flaws in their appearance.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 4 weeks ago:
I was about 2 decades later, but I bonded over games like Pokemon and later made many friendships in minecraft. Wish I could revisit that time. I think it’s less about any particular era in gaming - it’s about being young. Kids are still forging friendships over video games today - just different ones (although, at least in the case of my nephew, Minecraft is still one of them :D).
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 4 weeks ago:
Nope, as that one wasn’t an Switch exclusive. Released for WiiU on the same day.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 4 weeks ago:
I broadly agree, but I’ll add that knockout tour is where the game and its open world design really shines. That should probably be considered the main mode for this game rather than grand prix. I hope that they’ll add a 3-lap “classic grand prix” mode at some point. The world in free roam does feel quite empty unfortunately.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 4 weeks ago:
That’s almost every console launch ever though. Switch 1 had an even weaker launch lineup when it comes to exclusives.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Backward Compatibility Tested - It's Good! 5 weeks ago:
That’s just objectively incorrect though. It’s an entirely new chip based on a different architecture. Switch 1 games are actually run through a translation layer, which is why a small number of them still don’t work on Switch 2 currently.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well spotted. Just clickbait to market their game then.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t think going after some YouTuber with 87 subscribers will be worth your time.
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 1 month ago:
I’d recommend Sonic Generations (or Sonic X Shadow Generations), which is kind of a best-of of previous Sonic games’ levels, tied together with a new story.
Sonic mania is also a great game, reminiscent of the first few 2d Sonic games. But, just like those games, it doesn’t really have much of a story or character interactions.
- Comment on The Long Dark - Visual Enhancement Update - Now Live! 1 month ago:
Last played this in 2018 apparently, time to give it another go!
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 1 month ago:
Sounds cool. I think there is a lot of untapped potential in location based games. Games like Ingress and Pokemon Go barely scratched the surface.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I believe his surname being Al Saud should indeed mean that he is part of the Saudi royal family. Although that includes everyone descended from its original founder, some 15,000 people, so he’s not necessarily close to the ruling inner circle.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes, its ruling dynasty is the House of Saud.
- Comment on AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay 1 month ago:
Wonder if we’re already starting to see the impact of AI being trained on AI-generated content.
- Comment on "VALVE cancelled Classic Offensive! - IT'S OVER | ESCalation" [Counter-Strike mod] 2 months ago:
I’d be curious to see that if you still have the link. The mod devs state in their FAQ that they’re not using any leaked code, but of course it’s always possible that they’re lying.
- Comment on "VALVE cancelled Classic Offensive! - IT'S OVER | ESCalation" [Counter-Strike mod] 2 months ago:
That really sucks. I guess I can see why Valve is not so permissive when it comes to one of their major cash cows. But it seems like they handled this really poorly by initially signalling permission for the project and then deciding otherwise at the last minute and after years of work.
- Comment on Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop 2 months ago:
Tried updating earlier today and it immediately failed. Guess I got lucky and it was already pulled offline at that point.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 2 months ago:
Making my gaming space more comfortable. I work at home on my desk, so I’m also often tired of sitting there when I’m done with work. A few months ago, I purchased a projector, which I can use while comfortably sitting in an armchair. I also play on my couch using my Steam Deck.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
Assassin’s Creed. The actual gameplay is almost never as interesting as just walking around a meticulous recreation of ancient civilizations as a digital tourist.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Ridiculously fast. More than double than what most people will drive on a highway. Illegal on a highway anywhere but Germany. And even here it would be quite unsafe and thus illegal in most driving conditions.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Demo with Full Ray Tracing and Dlss 4 Announce 3 months ago:
I am specifically referring to RTX technology and not ray tracing in general.
There is nothing specifically “RTX” about the reflections in GTAVE.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Demo with Full Ray Tracing and Dlss 4 Announce 3 months ago:
The RTX reflections in the GTA:V:E are very satisfying I love all this.
It’s called Raytracing. RTX is just a marketing term Nvidia uses for their GPUs, GTAVE has nothing to do with it.
- Comment on Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't 4 months ago:
I agree. Pokemon once was my favorite video game series, but it has been technically and to some extent creatively stagnant for quite some years now. And whenever people point that out online, there is always a vocal horde of fans coming to Gamefreak’s defense, saying things like “Pokemon never looked good”. Which wouldn’t be a good argument, but it’s not even true. Pokemon games were never technically advanced, but they had a simple, clean look in the 2D/2.5D era. S/V has some really appallingly low-res textures in places that wouldn’t have looked out of place on the N64. At the same time it runs at sub-30 FPS quite often. Probably the only good looking Pokemon games we got this generation were the “Let’s Go” ones. Those had simple but consistently good-looking graphics just like the older titles.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 4 months ago:
You think a U.S. military base isn’t getting kicked the fuck out of a foreign country the moment they are declared an enemy?
No, or rather I don’t think many countries would immediately be willing declare them an enemy. Europe shies away from armed conflict and quick, decisive actions unfortunately aren’t our strong suit either. I’d fully expect a drawn out political shitshow before anything actually happens.
Or do you have such a little opinion of everyone else that you think a couple of military bases will immediately take over every European county at once?
Take over? No. But I do think they’d be a deterrence factor, especially considering they also carry nukes.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 4 months ago:
What would be the reaction of the Canada King (Charles III is the king of Canada)?
Absaolutely nothing. Maybe some strong words. He has no power.
The Commonwealth? NATO?
Tough to say. Getting actively involved in a war in North America would be very difficult logistically for the European countries or the Commonwealth, so I don’t think there would be an immediate military reaction. Possibly a Ukraine-type situation where the NATO countries try to aid Canada with equipment as best as they can. But even that will be difficult across the Atlantic ocean, which the US can probably blockade. Local politics would be absolute chaos, with an ally that many countries have relied on suddenly turning enemy. With the US having military bases everywhere, they could also threaten countries into keeping out of the war. I think the situation would unfortunately be quite bleak for Canada.