MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" 2 days ago:
No that’s not normal. Sounds like they’re incredibly insecure and emotionally manipulative.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 days ago:
Check out this fun little nugget from further down in the article:
Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
No you’re right - it’s 2:1, which is an unusual aspect ratio. But it looks like it’s intended to run games designed specifically for it rather than emulating other systems, so I guess it’s less a drawback and more a neat quirk.
- Comment on if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen 1 week ago:
Also fun fact: the ‘a meteor killed the dinosaurs’ is more or less universally accepted now, but younger folks might not realise it’s a pretty recent theory.
It was first proposed in 1980, they found the likely impact site in 1991, and it was officially endorsed by an expert panel in 2010.
I have books on my shelf from the 90s that say no one knows what killed the dinosaurs.
- Comment on Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies? 1 week ago:
I derive a great deal of happiness from how often this community lives up to its name
- Comment on The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S 1 week ago:
Sorry, didn’t mean to cause any stress - clearly I was wrong here. Reading through I saw a lot of sentence structures typical of LLM writing, but like you say this is partly because they were trained on writers’ work.
I’m a writer myself, so I’ve seen first hand how LLMs are rotting our profession from the inside. That’s not an excuse for making false accusations, but I hope you can understand my exasperated tone when I found what seemed like slop on my feed.
- Comment on The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S 1 week ago:
Tried reading the article but it’s clearly written with AI. There might’ve been some editing but the stink of slop is all over it.
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 2 weeks ago:
I think people make fun of it because to a non-American it comes across as deeply insecure. The trope is that the USA has no history of its own and so its people latch onto the smallest scraps of heritage via ancestry as a way to give themselves some cultural context and cachet.
I don’t think it’s invalid - in many cases the ancestry is genuine, even if distant and/or fractional. If it helps them find meaning or feel connected to something then I’ve got no issue with it.
The issues only really arise IMO if someone starts weaponising that ancestry or insisting they now have the authority to speak for a people they have no tangible connection to.
- Comment on ard 2 weeks ago:
See also: haggard, laggard, braggart (this one changed to a ‘t’ for some reason), dastard, dullard, and a few others. It’s uncommon but it’s out there!
- Comment on Anon watches a video essay 2 weeks ago:
Becoming? That channel’s whole vibe is ‘edgy teen plays shooters and makes Your Mom jokes’
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 2 weeks ago:
I couldn’t stand Discovery but Academy very quickly won me over.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 2 weeks ago:
She’s a guest star in a single episode.
- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 2 weeks ago:
They make Coors, Miller Lite, and Carling. Safe to assume they don’t know and don’t care.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 3 weeks ago:
I think that principle is intended to apply to staples, when people in poverty are forced to steal food so as not to starve.
Stealing bars of Dairy Milk and then selling them on seems like a different thing.
- Comment on A Web Revival: the Internet didn't die, you're just not on it 3 weeks ago:
This is the videos community. Are you lost?
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 3 weeks ago:
You’re acting like harassment of the sort in the article is some kind of unavoidable natural phenomenon, and the only possible course of action is for the victims to suck it up and take it.
Steam is a platform owned, operated, and fully controlled by Valve. They have the ability and the money to take steps to improve the situation, but instead they seem perfectly happy to let it continue. It’s gross.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
Sega, I guess?
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 3 weeks ago:
Once again, people who pirate the shows end up with a better experience than legit customers. Tale as old as
timedigital media. - Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 3 weeks ago:
The clearly and repeatedly say the website they ordered it on, to the point where the post feels like an advertorial.
- Comment on Confirmed: Comic Book From ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Ep. 6 Was NOT Created With AI 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that they outsourced it and the outsourcer used AI but said they didn’t. It wouldn’t be the first time, even on high profile projects - Marvel’s Loki ran into exactly that issue before.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 4 weeks ago:
It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.
Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 1 month ago:
We had to read manuals for tutorials, maps, and story exposition. Try releasing a game nowadays that does that and you’re going to get slapped with a 1/10 because people nowadays have less patience than a goldfish.
I kind of get where you’re coming from but it comes across as out of touch, ‘old man yells at clouds’ type stuff.
The shift has far less to do with patience and more to do with designers getting better at integrating tutorials into the games themselves. Games now are designed to teach you how to play through playing, so reading a manual became unnecessary. That’s not a flaw, that’s an improvement.
The only reasons this wasn’t done earlier was because the field of UX was still developing, and because cartridges limited how much text could be crammed into the games themselves.
That said, there are still well-received games that rely on manuals, but it’s now an explicit design or aesthetic choice rather than something everyone has to do to make up for limited tutorialisation. Check out Tunic, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, or TIS-100 as examples.
- Comment on Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase Announced for February 5 1 month ago:
Thanks for fixing!
- Comment on Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase Announced for February 5 1 month ago:
Please don’t post links that just tell me to download an app.
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years 1 month ago:
Here’s an article detailing the methodology.
- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 1 month ago:
Just don’t accidentally send 👉👌 instead
- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 1 month ago:
If you want to express agreement, it’s usually 👆or ➕
If there was an action and you want to confirm you’ve done it, ✅ (or 👍 but that’s ambiguous between ‘I’ve seen this’ vs ‘I’ve done this’)
- Comment on How GOG fixed Cold Fear | GOG Tech Talk 1 month ago:
Do you say the same for Epic Games Store exclusives?
Yes, actually. If they funded a game, like with Alan Wake 2, then whether or not they make it an EGS exclusive is their prerogative.
there is no pro-consumer reason that the GOG fixes could not have been given to everyone that already owned the game on Steam as a free update
I disagree. GOG invested time and resources into patching the game. Tacking the word ‘pro-consumer’ in there means nothing. They’re a business. They shouldn’t be expected to give away their work for free to customers of a competing platform.
I don’t care if 2% or whatever goes to GOG for their fixes
That much is clear. You just want something for nothing. Pirate the GOG version if you’re so desperate to play without paying, but don’t frame it as some kind of pro-consumer protest.
- Comment on How GOG fixed Cold Fear | GOG Tech Talk 1 month ago:
It’s as much as anyone outside of GOG can know, based on interviews like this one.
The exact contents of the deals is not public information and no doubt differs for each game, but the overall process has been reported on.
