Sina

@Sina@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's the Winners of the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like 2026 has been a rather weak year in gaming. I would have probably given GoTY to Control: Resonant, but it’s barely a standout among the rather mediocre AA titles we’ve had this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russell Brand found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sexual assault

  Rape is a subcategory of sexual assault. Groping or forced kissing are not rape, but are also forms of sexual assault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are more games adopting parrying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For 90% of gamers parrying perfectly is a pipe dream. I liked this about E33.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  About the animation, I said that half jokingly, though the tech behind it is more than you think. It’s just not really important for normal people.

  I doubt you’ll be satisfied with any folding phone in the near future, let alone Apple’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic Is Spending Millions to Protect Dario Amodei and Employees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even in a fantasy world where Ai was 100% safe & all data centers were running on green energy under the Sahara, even then there would be people wishing them grave ill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two innovations kind of worth noting. One is that the software animation when closing or opening the phone looks very cool & the second is that Apple’s plastic screen protector is using a somewhat clever matte nano tech that hides the crease -and reflections in general- quite effectively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily New Mexico doesn’t exist anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft defender now supports Linux desktops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not saying other antivirus software suites are not useful or much better, just only that defender is shit. People think it’s great, but it fails at basic scanning reliability & is reliant on Windows Update actually working ok too, which is a pretty shitty problem to have for security software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’m somewhat curious about is that typically to what degree are smart appliances usable without their app & the network.

  I have a smart air fryer & a smart scale. Neither has been set up to connect to wifi or my phone & both work just fine …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awful use of ChatGPT, yes. Though in a perfect world where intentional bias could not exist, then it could be good for people that are lazy to do their own research to summarize the life, past policy decisions & promises of the candidates in an easily digestible form.

  Could be better than still going to the polls without knowing anything, like so many people do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  said that she uses Anthropic’s chatbot like a “diary.”

  That’s a pretty good defense, I hope it works out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the anti Ai sentiment, but “any way” is quite broad. Yes calling it super intelligence right now is a grift, but saying current frontier models are not better than humans in any respect is just as ridiculous. They are better at reviewing code for example, can make sense of large sections of unintelligible spaghetti like no human can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when you name everything Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people have lasting cognitive problems after COVID, I think Satya Nadella is one of those people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and manipulate the feed.

  I’m pretty sure in this regard there is no difference. Odd entries show up on my front page every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox lay off 268 people as Activision take over Halo and Rare, while Obsidian become part of Bethesda, plus Forza and Fable studios merge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The rot is too deep, they’ll never produce decent games again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can vibecode a winamp-clone in like 5 hours & the resulting app would never try to monetize me. Of course I don’t have to because Foobar -or rather Fooyin on Linux- is better than Winamp ever were…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t put it past Apple that newer Iphones wouldn’t be compatible with PS & Xbox controllers anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “We are making a new breakfast club movie… It will be a space opera!”

  I would love to watch that actually …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube has served me weird out of place political comment before, I don’t know. Like in an idea world they would have recommendations tab, that’s separate from the chronological feed from my subscriptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think It’s incredibly hard to predict where this going and at what rate. Public sentiment is largely biased based on AI hate…

  Even if we never reach ASI or even AGI -depending on the definition- “dumb” agents given too much power could do an untold amount of damage. For example I can totally imagine that some degree of Ai control could act as a trigger for the Kessler effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think SK Hynix’s projection is incredibly naive. I’d be surprised if by 2028 the Chinese haven’t captured this market yet, inevitably impacting prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gta5 with better graphics is all I’m setting so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who cares if it gets it right 99% of the time? Who cares if the next model is 99.9%? It’s not 100%! That means it’s a ticking clock until something major fucks up!

  This is a really weak argument. Getting right 99.9% of the time is extraordinarily good in many fields, superhuman even. The human brain is also a non-deterministic system. Surgeons make mistakes too, there is no such a thing as a 100% reliable human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imo AI is already super powerful in the flaky oracle role, maybe even in CS, but agents left to their own devices is not it, not by a long shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  stochastic

  Humans are largely too & tbh it’s a rather weak argument these days, but it’s also reinforcing the opposite view, because you are being really stochastic with this comment itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine the opposite. Facebook is just difficult to skip for most of us. As much as I hate it, I need Marketplace and Groups…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they are very impressive looking iconic cars in a vacuum, like DeLoreans. Everything else is really unfortunate about then, but imo the eyesore part largely comes from the -very justified- cultural baggage as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vivancos 3

  The imdb rating of 3.9 for a movie that is not porn is quite incredible, I’m almost tempted to watch it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probable possible to make circumvention fairly difficult. Though my guess is that since Nvidia’s corporate interests don’t align with this, they will make it simple as rocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new MMO announcement is more exciting than all the other SGF news combined: Thanks, Guild Wars 3.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m unlikely to play the third installment of an mmo. Would rather go back to Wow.

  As for GW3, I have very little confidence that the Arena Net of today can create a game worth playing, at least based on what they’ve put out for the past 6 years. For a miracle they would need to hire a brand new writing team and probably the map artists can get the boot too…