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- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 8 hours ago:
What a waste, make all these people spend years of their lives building a whole videogame and then immediately make it impossible for anyone to ever play it again. A company shouldn’t have the right to erase a game from existence, even if it is a bad one.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
The headline says “roguelite”, the Berlin Interpretation is safe for now
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this is what people do with the multiplayer games where they are allowed to be mean to each other
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 2 weeks ago:
I like that they’re also banning anyone not doing a similar ban
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 2 weeks ago:
Would if I could but they banned me recently
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 2 weeks ago:
The truth is we don’t actually know because the zebras don’t want us to:
So, the question why zebras have stripes have proven very difficult and not without risks – Stephen Cobb has been bitten in the arm and admitted to hospital twice. Despite the extra vigour of recent work, the answer remains inconclusive.
- Comment on Is Dungeon Meshi worth it if I'm not into anime? 2 weeks ago:
Characters don’t talk or hint about sex at all
This is sort of true and the relative lack of traditional fanservice type stuff is refreshing, but I don’t think it would be fair to say Dungeon Meshi isn’t horny, because a lot of its thematic focus is indirect, allegorical commentary on sexuality, even if it is generally very tasteful about it.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 2 weeks ago:
A consumer incentive to use cash seems like a good thing. It’s not like there’s ever a scenario where credit card companies aren’t taking a fee to use their cards.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened 2 weeks ago:
Like, how does that even happen?
Poorly designed journalism-bot it sounds like. Ethics of not writing this yourself aside, it should be trivial to check that whatever is in quotes is at least a substring in the source text. If the LLM is the top layer, and any research it does is a tool call that is purely at its discretion, it’s going to end up failing silently like this.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened 2 weeks ago:
The date on this blog post:
13 February 2026
- Comment on OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ 2 weeks ago:
If their reason for getting rid of it is lawsuits about harm it caused, my guess is that giving all the details of how the system is designed would be something the prosecution could use to strengthen their cases.
- Comment on Not that limit 3 weeks ago:
There’s no way ChatGPT would be creative enough to put a number on its side
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 3 weeks ago:
Really hate this, the article focused on other platforms but I want to call out the stuff Reddit and many of its moderators did to actively prevent debate from happening, like generally regarding disagreement as something to be moderated away, the way the updated block feature works, and locking any thread with a contentious topic that people wanted to argue about.
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 3 weeks ago:
IMO verbal debate is a poor substitute for writing, where you can take more time to consider what is being said and look up or cite information. Anonymity also helps a lot in various ways, when in person social considerations normally trump the interest of crafting good argument.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 3 weeks ago:
The video gets into this a bit; what the workers are threatened with for not working is stuff like being put in a more dangerous environment and not being able to see their families.
- Comment on Whoever thought it was a good idea to let me legally own a welder should not have done that. 3 weeks ago:
Most likely. Being able to figure out that shitting in your neighbor’s yard will make people mad at you is pretty basic stuff.
- Comment on Whoever thought it was a good idea to let me legally own a welder should not have done that. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a cool idea if you pretend he did it for some entirely different reasons though
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
To me it entirely hinges on what kind of features. The Firefox local website translation feature is cool and useful. A chatbot reading my emails and giving me dialogue options, a program harvesting data on everything I do on my computer and sending it to a server, those kinds of things I do not want and will go out of my way to avoid. Normal rules of what makes software good or bad still apply.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
and once you make amazing entertainment you have to market it worldwide, and the people who are best at marketing entertainment worldwide are big, significant entertainment enterprises with the balance sheet to actually support those launches, companies like us. So I feel more optimistic than ever that new technology is going to allow us to supercharge our business.
So the argument is basically that their company will not be overshadowed because they’re using AI too, and because the important part of making a successful game is advertising it.
- Comment on OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
Not your server, not your waifu
- Comment on Anon looks back 4 weeks ago:
Saying no because you don’t feel like it and/or you’re being asked on a date in a demeaning way shouldn’t be trumped by the feeling that you might not get another chance and you’re pathetic for being a virgin.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 4 weeks ago:
In the US, virtually no one has been legally prosecuted for consumer level piracy since around 2010. The only exception is a small group of copyright trolls that focus on porn videos. The government was never the one doing it; if the government raided your house and found evidence that you illegally torrented .mkv files, they wouldn’t care or do anything with that information.
That said you should still use a VPN, because industry groups are now completely focused on getting ISPs to send intimidating letters to people and eventually shutting off their internet. If you use a VPN and bind your torrent client to it, you are entirely safe from all consequences that actually happen.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
So if all we did was decide to stop growing corn to turn into ethanol, and we used only that land for generating only solar power, we’d be able to generate 84% more electricity on an annual basis than we do today from all of our energy sources.
Damn. Factorio lied to me about the space efficiency of solar panels.
- Comment on Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together? 5 weeks ago:
It makes for some pretty neat (infuriating) game mechanics. Like an infinite mob spawner, but more intuitive and less dull.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 5 weeks ago:
Makes sense, in other contexts I’d watch at lower speeds (I watch starcraft games sometimes at 1.25x), but for me this is kind of like the video equivalent of skimming an article, actively reading and listening at the same time and not multitasking. I also manually skip around to get to relevant information faster.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 5 weeks ago:
Not OP but informational podcast/interview type videos that are heavy on talking and long I watch at 2.25x with subtitles on.
- Comment on Anon time travels 5 weeks ago:
The cloud is basically by definition someone else’s computer, kind of inherently opposed to user control
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 1 month ago:
I’m sure it helps a lot that these are games with player hostable servers
- Comment on Advice Dog 1 month ago:
That dog has said some terrible things
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 month ago:
So what is the alternative? A lot of artists and their allies think they have an answer: they say we should extend copyright to cover the activities associated with training a model.
And I am here to tell you they are wrong. Wrong because this would represent a massive expansion of copyright over activities that are currently permitted – for good reason.
He goes on to say that prohibiting AI works from being copyrighted and worker collective bargaining are better solutions, and I really agree with the arguments for this. I also liked this bit about how some of what remains past the bubble could be useful:
And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.