halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on I can't be the only one who learned this the hard way 6 hours ago:
The Thai and Korean “spicy” levels are NOT standardized in any way whatsoever.
And you must learn this on your own.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On His Star Trek Future: “I’m Hopeful” 3 days ago:
You didn’t like the single musical episode… Yet felt the need to use it as a singled out example of issues with an entire series.
That alone renders your entire comment moot to be honest. It shows you aren’t actually judging things on any sort of standard, just your personal feelings. Which is fine for you, but not at all useful to anyone else.
It also shows you don’t remember half of the older series you seem to be comparing them to, since easily half of TOS, TNG, VOY, and DS9 were filler episodes, with little value beyond just being Star Trek content, and maybe giving some character development if you were lucky.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On His Star Trek Future: “I’m Hopeful” 3 days ago:
Yeah I’d rather have each show be its own thing and crossover (where appropriate). There needs to be some oversight of showrunners, but only to prevent egregious things (look at The Witcher show runners clearly wanting to do their own thing and butchering the IP in the process without any apparent oversight).
Not everything will be perfect, and to be honest many of the vocal Star Trek fan thoughts when shows are being released are often terrible takes. A decent number of people vocally hated DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, when they first started airing, some even calling for them to be immediately cancelled, smothered in the crib basically.
Fan reactions online to new shows need to be taken with an entire salt lick, Star Trek doesn’t have a good track record with the vocal fans being an accurate consensus, and the breadth of modern social media just makes it easier for them to vocalize their opinion in multiple places and make their reactions seem larger and more indicative than they are.
- Comment on if all communication electronics died on New Year's day, how long would it take for other time zones to notice 1 week ago:
Yes. By necessity. The grid has to be kept in sync within a fairly small frequency range to operate. Every generator that is grid connected, is spinning at the same frequency. It is a small enough window that you can use it as a reliable clock.
Every time the power load changes they have to compensate with increasing or decreasing the power available to balance within the small frequency window. A deviation as small as 0.5 Hz can cause some protective relays to trip and bring down sections of the grid.
This is also one of the major reasons why it takes so long to bring the grid back online after a blackout. They have to balance power output with the load in each section as it is brought online so it doesn’t just disconnect itself again immediately from an imbalance.
- Comment on I never realized Star Wars featured LCARs 2 weeks ago:
One of the many Easter Eggs in the Series. Just like ET’s species being in the galactic Senate.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the exact scenario.
We’re also dealing with language differences. English is not the developer’s first language. What may seem a clear sentence to a native speaker, could be easily misinterpreted/mistranslated to something similar, but different enough that the answer changes.
It seems that the AI use was early in development, and limited to temporary placeholders that were going to be replaced. Since they were patched out within days of release, that seems to imply they already had replacement assets on hand, they were just missed during final checks before release.
The answer from the devs also changed prior to the awards show that implies that they may have had an updated interpretation of the qualification question or answer. If they thought the question was about AI use in the final product, then accidentally missing a placeholder swap shouldn’t be disqualifying. Likewise, early experimentation with the tech and then deciding not to use it probably should not disqualify either. But if the qualification is a hard yes/no with absolutely no context or consideration whatsoever, then that’s a different outcome, and hence them clarifying for the awards team.
Personally I think the hard limit without any room for consideration or interpretation is a shit qualification. Especially considering that isn’t really the case for most awards. Look at the definition of “indie” for example. There’s a half dozen different interpretations people have ranging from having to be self published, avoiding just large publishers, or just the publisher not having creative influence. That’s a lot of interpretation comparatively.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 weeks ago:
We’re not talking about a development team of 100+ artists here and a company forcing them to work 80 hour crunch weeks leading up to launch like much of the industry.
I don’t know exactly how their 30 or so team members break down for specialties, but I’m willing to bet we’re talking maybe 5 asset artists. Making the tens or hundreds of thousands of concept art pieces, and in game assets. Their time is finite and much better spent working on final assets than making placeholders that will just be replaced later. Experimenting with AI and dripping a placeholder in during month 6 that never gets touched again, and the final asset is made but missed when swapping them in at the end of development isn’t exactly damning
Literally removing work from a human(concept artist)
It’s not really “removing” work from a human, it’s utilizing the time of a very small and limited team more wisely. The AI didn’t replace a human, there was never going to be an additional person hired just to make that placeholder, at worst it just let the existing artists spend more time making final assets.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 weeks ago:
It was released with the original placeholder AI assets, but patched out within 5 days. It’s pretty clear that they just missed replacing those assets prior to release.
I don’t know exactly which assets, or exactly how many… but from several article it seems one of them was a newspaper only used in the prologue, that no one would notice without directly looking at it up close, which 99.9% of people would never do, and could easily be overlooked doing final testing for game breaking issues prior to release.
And the failure to properly disclose could easily be explained by them messing around. Early in development, deciding not to use AI, and then forgetting about it. Which also explains it being left in for release accidentally. Updated assets were clearly made, just never replaced.
The disqualification had nothing to do with the assets being there for the release, it was solely about development as mentioned in every statement from the awards. Meaning even if it hadn’t been there at release, they still would have been disqualified. Hard criteria like that which disqualifies any sort of context or consideration is not fair. Especially when we’re talking about cutting edge technologies that teams will obviously be experimenting with before making decisions.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Yes. It was reported basically everywhere.
gamerant.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-no-doge-p…
Want to move that goalpost again?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Cool… Generative AI used for placeholders during development that are replaced by actual artist work for the release is the definition of responsibly.
Given these assets were replaced within days of release here… Definitely seems like placeholders that were just missed during the final checks before release.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
And yet someone completed the game without parrying a single time.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
They didn’t just replace the art later. It was intended to be placeholder art from the beginning. And was replaced 5 days after release. That tells me that they just missed replacing those temporary assets among tens of thousands of assets before release.
Using GenAI for something temporary that’s not intended to be final seems like the perfect use case for it. Especially on a small team where artist time is much better spent working on the final assets.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly the takeaway I got from it as well.
It seems most likely that those were placeholders that were supposed to be replaced before release but were missed. Once they realized that some were missing, they got them replaced and pushed the update.
GenAI being used for placeholder stuff is arguably the perfect use case, especially for small studios without massive art teams.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Wraps Production – Watch Anson Mount’s Final Set Tour 3 weeks ago:
Many of those filler episodes are where the character development for anyone beyond the primary bridge crew happened. And that’s sorely missing from modern Trek.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Wraps Production – Watch Anson Mount’s Final Set Tour 3 weeks ago:
Basically pre-netflix. Cable and syndication, not streaming. Where TV seasons were usually between 23-26 episodes.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Wraps Production – Watch Anson Mount’s Final Set Tour 3 weeks ago:
So only traditional seasons worth of episodes.
- Comment on This is whily i have trust issues. 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, the tip melted off over a decade ago from global warming. Do you have another analogy?
- Comment on Proof you don't have to wait for the new year for self improvement 4 weeks ago:
Don’t know why. Even his wife stopped giving a fuck a couple weeks after.
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 4 weeks ago:
People claiming a personal relationship with the goddamn creator of the universe are hella conceited.
I’d say even prideful, you know one of the 7 deadly sins, often considered the worst of them and even the root/source of the other 6. The sheer hubris needed to believe you have a personal connection that others don’t is ridiculous.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 5 weeks ago:
Well considering the article is about a product launch in the US… seems relevant. Carrier locking isn’t illegal at all in the US.
They didn’t even used to have to unlock it once a contract was over, not that most carriers at the time would allow unlocked phones on their network anyway, they do at least have to do that now.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 5 weeks ago:
Granted this was 15 years ago. The market was a lot different than it is now.
That being said, most people still buy their phones through their carrier. So whatever the carrier sales reps get paid the most to sell is what they push people towards.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 5 weeks ago:
Eh. Apps were still fairly new in 2010. It launched around the same time as the iPhone 4. Heck, the iPhone was still officially only available from AT&T at the time. Lack of apps and social media weren’t what killed the Kin.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month ago:
Oh look a Canadian that can’t see their own descent into the far right fascist rabbit hole on the horizon. Somehow even watching the US, you seem to still be headed that direction as if it couldn’t possibly happen in Canada. Because… reasons?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month ago:
We look like fucking morons on the world stage.
The only sort of solace to this, is that many other countries are clearly following the same path, so its not something inherent to just the US. Idiots are everywhere, and they vote.
Everyone is pointing to the US, but the same initial precursors are happening under their own nose.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 1 month ago:
And yet Proton is Swiss.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
the asker must know and trust the one providing the answer.
This is possible if there’s a central authority for that that everyone can agree to trust, like the government records directly. The issue is ensuring the rest of the chain remains anonymous so the only thing the authority gets is the request that an undisclosed service is verifying John Doe is 18+ and nothing else. And that’s not something many governments are going to want to allow with the increasingly alarming amount of authoritarian leadership.
- Comment on Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007 1 month ago:
I totally forgot about the Guardians game. I don’t think I ever finished it. Got lost in the hustle and bustle of life.
Gonna have to go back through that.
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January 1 month ago:
Aww… did the bullying from her own fascist party get to be too scary? Coward.
- Comment on Twin Cities-based ICE employee among 16 arrested in sting operation 1 month ago:
Aside from the fact those three seem to go together a lot…
Seriously though, it should say underage sex sting.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 month ago:
Of course not. Just pointing out that it’s probably bullshit just like previous similar claims. The exact thing its making fun of.