PonyOfWar
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- Comment on Big Walk Used AI In 'The Final Stretch' Of Development, Kicking Off Intense Awards Debate 17 hours ago:
I think the example cases they’ve provided are pretty good example of where an LLM can actually be useful. For example, if you need to find and fix a bug in third-party code, it can be an absolute pain, as just getting a basic understanding of an unknown codebase by yourself could take days or weeks. An LLM can analyze the code in seconds and if not fix the bug, at the very least point out locations where to look for it. It’s not necessarily about telling the LLM to overcome the technical challenge by itself, but it can definitely assist in it.
- Comment on Big Walk Used AI In 'The Final Stretch' Of Development, Kicking Off Intense Awards Debate 18 hours ago:
I guess so, but I’m not sure where you’ve read it because I sure haven’t written it.
- Comment on Big Walk Used AI In 'The Final Stretch' Of Development, Kicking Off Intense Awards Debate 18 hours ago:
No, I’m saying things I know a lot about because developing 3D multiuser apps in game engines is a large part of my job (and has been since well before AI).
You can throw a couple GameObjects into a scene and synchronize them pretty quickly, but that does not a multiplayer game make. Every single script you write will be more complex when you need to keep multiplayer in mind and testing anything you’ve written becomes much more involved. This is especially true for a large Open World like Big Walk’s.
- Comment on Big Walk Used AI In 'The Final Stretch' Of Development, Kicking Off Intense Awards Debate 18 hours ago:
It’s really not. A multiplayer open-world game is inherently complex to develop, even with modern engines.
- Comment on Big Walk Used AI In 'The Final Stretch' Of Development, Kicking Off Intense Awards Debate 19 hours ago:
Developers House House told Aftermath via email that “LLMs were used sparingly by House House to help work through difficult technical challenges and bugs”, and that they “estimate that well under 0.1% of Big Walk’s code had anything to do with this usage”.
Meh, if that were enough to exclude a game from GotY awards, you’d end up with a very short list of mostly unknown games, half of which probably did use LLMs for those sorts of tasks and are just lying about it.
And honestly, if AI-debugging can replace having to spend days of horrible crunchtime fixing those bugs, I’m all for it.
- Comment on Do you cheat in games? 1 week ago:
Very rarely. Pretty much the only recent instance I can think of is spawning some items for me and others on my own Minecraft server. Other than that, I don’t really bother with cheating and prefer playing games how they were designed. Back in the day, it was pretty fun spawning cars in Age of Empires though.
- Comment on furries in shambles 1 week ago:
Yep, there’s a little bit of overlap, but it’s mostly two separate things entirely.
- Comment on furries in shambles 2 weeks ago:
Whoever you interacted with certainly wasn’t representative of Pawb. I’ve been here 3 years and I think I’ve genuinely never seen a tankie on this instance. Wouldn’t be a good instance for them either, as we’re defederated from Lemmygrad and Hexbear.
- Comment on Can admin actions show up as "mod" actions in the modlog? 2 weeks ago:
No point in censoring that picture. Everyone’s modlog, including yours, is public.
Regarding the topic, I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that tab say anything other than “mod”, even when a user was instance-banned, presumably by an admin. So they might be telling the truth. Considering who moderates the community, I wouldn’t really trust them either though.
- Comment on What is Kratom? A friend of the family just died today. And that was the last thing he was using. Is it like K2? What type of high is it? 2 weeks ago:
My condolences. I don’t have any personal experiences with it, but a while ago I saw a video by Evan Edinger about his Kratom addiction which I found pretty informative.
- Comment on XBOX Job Listing Suggests Discs Aren’t Going Anywhere 3 weeks ago:
where the game isn’t fully on the media.
That’s already the norm for most games on XBox.
- Comment on Why is the US receiving the short end for OoT pre-order bonuses? 4 weeks ago:
I think steelbooks are pretty lame though, even by preorder bonus standards. What am I supposed to do with a second game box?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s probably some AI crap. They’ve previously done crypto stuff, so I don’t think they’re above it.
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Anyone played it? Is it a good game?
- Comment on 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
It’s in system settings -> accessibility -> button mapping
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months ago:
Are we finally getting there?
- Comment on Do you consider GTA VI overpriced? 3 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 3 months ago:
Mistakes happen but even then, convicting someone with that little evidence is pretty fucking egregious. He was clearly presumed guilty.