PonyOfWar
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- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 3 days ago:
But why do Visa/Mastercard give in to them? If it were governments, or even a very large popular movement I’d get it, as there might be consequences to ignoring those. But Collective Shout is really quite small, there would be no backlash to just ignoring them. I guess maybe they have powerful connections.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 3 days ago:
I really don’t get it. What makes this one radical organization from Australia seemingly have so much influence and power? Frustrating as hell seeing how people’s livelihood can just be taken away from one day to the next due to one organization’s puritan values.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 4 days ago:
I hope nobody will trust them with their data after this. Just leaving their databases open to the public is horrendous. Though I fully expect this kind of stuff to happen way more often over the next few years, with the rise of “vibe coding”.
- Comment on itch.io now seemingly affected by payment processor rules as Steam 1 week ago:
You can see some examples on SteamDB’s Bluesky.
- Comment on itch.io now seemingly affected by payment processor rules as Steam 1 week ago:
The games removed from Steam were removed globally. They didn’t remove all adult content games (yet?) though, just ones related to certain topics like incest.
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 1 week ago:
I’d suggest Guild Wars 2. It’s an MMO that can be played quite casually and doesn’t require massive time investment or grinding. It has a fun gameplay loop that encourages free exploration. Collaboration with other players arises freely from gameplay.
- Comment on Why doesn't Sega care about Sonic? 2 weeks ago:
One factor that probably plays a role is that Sonic is much more popular in Western countries than in Japan, where Sega is from. So the Japanese management might not see Sonic as such an important franchise.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 weeks ago:
The problem with that is that all of these platforms also use the same big payment providers, meaning they’re just as likely to remove these sorts of games.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 weeks ago:
They’d never do that, as it would severely limit their userbase.Throwing out a couple games, especially when it’s ultra-niche stuff like “futanari incest” games, is the much easier and more sensible move for Valve.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
What was the prompt?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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! 1 month 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] 2 months ago:
Well spotted. Just clickbait to market their game then.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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 2 months 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! 2 months 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? 2 months 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] 2 months 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] 2 months ago:
Yes, its ruling dynasty is the House of Saud.
- Comment on AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay 2 months 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.