rtxn
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I take my shitposts very seriously.
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 3 hours ago:
You spent the better part of the week spewing hateful nonsense. What are you trying to achieve?
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 7 hours ago:
I’m going to guess that Shotbolt & co. are ambulance chaser dipshits. Wolfire and Epic opened the sluice gate and they wanted a slice of the cake in a different jurisdiction.
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 7 hours ago:
Absolute hogwash.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU 2 days ago:
That was the UK.
- Comment on Congress members voice 'serious concern' over Saudi-led EA buyout 1 week ago:
The concern: “Why aren’t we in on it?”
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 1 week ago:
It’s not a bug, it’s a missing feature. The
!community@instancesyntax is not part of any Markdown flavour, so every client has to implement it independently, and it’s possible that it collides with some other kind of token. - Comment on Anon has a tip 1 week ago:
DDG gets its results from other search engines. Bing is one of them.
There was also a big thing about DDG allegedly selling user data to Microsoft, which the 4chan primates probably interpreted as DDG being a different front-end to Bing.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 week ago:
Finishing a Dark Souls game.
And finishing a Dark Souls game.
- Comment on Anon creates the rarest pepe 1 week ago:
The archaeologically appropriate description: “Object of worship for fertility rituals.”
The object: a huge thick veiny dildo.
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 5 weeks ago:
It’s a combined disability discount: people with hook hands, peg legs, and eyepatches may be entitled to a price as low as 0%.
- Comment on Anon enjoys Minecraft 5 weeks ago:
I am thankful for Forkknife because most of the annoying kids who made Minecraft cringe are now playing that instead.
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 1 month ago:
Nintendo sees rock bottom as a challenge.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 1 month ago:
A Song of Ice and Fire, basically.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
The rules are on the same page I linked (www.indiegameawards.gg/faq), under the “Game Eligibility” tab. Regarding AI, the document contains a grand total of one sentence:
Games developed using generative AI are strictly ineligible for nomination.
I’m assuming the definition of what that entails is “at their discretion”, meaning whatever they feel like at the moment. I see that sentiment reflected in this thread too.
Unfortunately the boundary between “AI” and “not AI” is the polar opposite of sharp and well-defined. I’ve used Allegorithmic Substance Designer a lot for CGI work (before Adobe ate the devs; fuck Adobe, all my homies hate Adobe), and it contains a lot of texture generator algorithms from simple noise to complex grunge textures. Things like Perlin noise and Voronoi diagrams are well-known algorithms. What about an algorithm that uses real-world samples? Machine learning is not the same as AI, so is that allowed? Where’s the line? I’m reasonably certain that everybody has a different answer based on different criteria.
I gave them the benefit of doubt and assumed that they had defined the exact line of what is and isn’t allowed, but apparently I was wrong.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 1 month ago:
Shut up, Elrond. Where was this certainty when all you had to do was kick Isildur into the pit to save the entire fucking world?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
The issue is not that the game was disqualified. If the rules clearly and unequivocally state that at no point can generative AI be used (and also clearly state what, in the spectrum from algorithms -> machine learning -> chatbot slop, they consider to be unacceptable, which I don’t know if they did or not, but that’s not the point), then there is no controversy, and I’m not criticising that.
The issue is that the article completely disregards mitigating facts that counter the narrative. There are no credible sources linked in the article save for one that was grossly misrepresented. Critically, we don’t know what Sandfall actually said before the nomination or after, or how the decision to disqualify was made, only the second-hand account in the FAQ. The article presents circumstances in a biased way, leading the reader to interpret it with the assumption that there are AI-generated assets currently in the game. It is, frankly, sloppy journalism.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Horrid article.
From the IGA’s statement:
[…] the use of gen AI art in production […] does disqualify Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from its nomination. While the assets in question were patched out and it is a wonderful game, it does go against the regulations we have in place.
- Comment on OP has a realization 1 month ago:
We, stupid primitive monkey people, can make drones that hover in place by counteracting extermal forces, and VR devices that can track their position in space only using visual reference, but apparently the super advanced aliens with their gravity-defying technology can’t figure it out.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type 1 month ago:
For fuck’s sake CA, please let me give you my money
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 month ago:
You know it doesn’t have to be all or nothing, right?
In the early design phase, for example, quick placeholder objects are invaluable for composing a scene. Say you want a dozen different effigies built from wood and straw – you let the clanker churn them out. If you like them, an environment artist can replace them with bespoke models, as detailed and as optimized as the scene needs it. If you don’t like them, you can just chuck them in the trash and you won’t have wasted the work of an artist, who can work on artwork that will actually appear in the released product.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 1 month ago:
Most of those games are no longer being sold outside secondary markets (used games, collectibles, that sort). Neither the publisher nor the developers will ever profit from a “legitimate” sale.
For other games that are still being sold on first-party marketplaces, which is more or less limited to Switch 1 games, you tell me why Nintendo deserves to be treated charitably.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 1 month ago:
This year I unsubscribed from FFXIV. Speaking only for myself, Dawntrail was a massive drop in nearly all aspects after Endwalker. The music and environment were great, I was positively giddy when I reached Solution Nine… but the characters are unlikable, the antagonist is boring and one-dimensional, there is hardly any payoff for setups, one of the most significant conflicts gets resolved with a fucking pep talk, most of the first half of the main story only exists to extol about how much of a chad the current monarch is. Somehow the second half gets even worse with multiple contrived plot points relying on characters being idiots and the player being a passive observer, including the reintroduction of a high profile issue that had been present for the entire DECADE of the game’s existence and resolved in a high profile way in Shadowbringers. Wuk Lamat was fine. Overused and dumb as a pair of boots, but fine.
On the completely different end of the spectrum, Warframe is in the best place it’s ever been. The last four major updates (1999, Isleweaver, Vallis Undermind, and The Old Peace) have been fucking phenomenal, both in terms of story and gameplay. The Old Peace (released literally a few days ago) also contains the most valid crashout in history. Rap tap tap, little piggy. The new gamemodes are fun, fast-paced, and so far haven’t outstayed their welcome, although like always, I’m worried about their longevity since they’re essentially content islands.
Warframe’s music is exceptional. I’ll always appreciate the works of Keith Power (he gave us We All Lift Together and This Is What You Are), but the current composer Matt Chalmers has elevated the game’s music both in quality and variety. Starting with 1999, there are no songs that I ever want to skip, and that includes the virtual boy band. Even if you have no interest in the game, you shouldn’t skip the music: TennoConcert 2025 (Matt is the eternally chilled out dude who sings From The Stars), Tethra Jahrak, Lullaby of the Manifold, and (potential spoilers) Roses from the Abyss.
In terms of smaller games, I fell off the wagon and had several all-night benders in Factorio. If you’re anywhere near the spectrum, that game is like crack cocaine. I had a lot of fun in Project Wingman and the biggest furball in history, I replayed Star Wars: Republic Commando, and rediscovered my appreciation for games where the player is not the Chosen One. Against all wisdom, I finally played The Mystery Of The Droods. Even knowing what awaited me, I was unprepared for the absolute jank.
- Comment on Anon is a linguist 1 month ago:
That’s just Python’s generator syntax. Not all that difficult to parse once you get a feel for it. Plus syntax highlighting helps.
[OUTPUT_ITEM for INPUT_ITEM in INPUT_ITERABLE if CONDITION]
- Comment on [id Software, the] Studio Behind Doom [and Quake, Wolfenstein] Just Unionized 1 month ago:
They probably mean professionals that are hired by clients on a retainer agreement as opposed to working for an employer on a permanent or semi-permanent basis. Legal advice, legal representation, financial advice, personal assistants, individual contractors, and so on.
One could make the argument that since the retainer is not an employment contract, and the retained professional is not one of many employees (instead usually individuals or small teams), that collective bargaining doesn’t make sense. The difference is that the retainer agreement is much more specific and favors the person whose services are retained, compared to employment contracts and labour laws in the USA.
- Comment on Anon is a linguist 1 month ago:
[lady for lady in ladies if lady.is_single]just doesn’t have the same bop. - Comment on [id Software, the] Studio Behind Doom [and Quake, Wolfenstein] Just Unionized 1 month ago:
Chemistry. Gets really dull without ions.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 month ago:
Megaman hasn’t even done anything wrong (yet)… but we HATES IT!
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 month ago:
!clem
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 month ago:
Half-Life Alyx 2
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 month ago:
Not at a loss. We still don’t know the prices of the new wave of hardware, but some Valve spokesperson has said that they wouldn’t subsidize the price of the hardware with future game sales. They’ve also said, when the Steam Deck was launched, that affordability was a massive factor in the design, and that some of the decisions to make that happen were “painful”.