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- Comment on 1 week ago:
Using an IDE to write code is like using a pie tin to help you make a pie.
Using generative AI is like going to the local bakery, breaking their window, and stealing the pie.
- Comment on LET IT DIE offline version announced 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never played this game and don’t know anything about it that I didn’t just read in the article… but there’s just something so rad about a game called “Let it Die” having such a graceful end-of-life plan like this.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
Fusion neutrons are able to cause fission in ordinarily non-fissile materials, such as depleted uranium (uranium-238), and these materials have been used in the jackets of thermonuclear weapons.
Fun(?) fact: something like 50% of the energy output of thermonuclear bombs comes from secondary fission events in the bomb casing triggered by the high energy neutron flux of the fusion reaction.
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 2 weeks ago:
Considering the number of NMS updates that are just back-ported features that were created for Light No Fire, I suspect the game loop will be pretty much the same as what we already have in NMS
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 weeks ago:
Statistically, there are no small numbers.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 3 weeks ago:
I guess it makes sense that multicellularity would be more of a spectrum than a binary condition. If life evolved into it gradually, then it would make sense to find a lot of “intermediate” evolutionary states that don’t feel like they’re distinctly one or the other.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 month ago:
I always cringe a little bit when someone says a person has ‘become a parody of themselves’… but honestly, what else is there to say about Molyneaux?
Peter Molyneaux really has become a parody of Peter Molyneaux.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 month ago:
I’m 1000% sure Molyneaux is gonna try to use AI to develop as much of this new game as possible.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 month ago:
I’m not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn’t directly involved with since like… 2010?
What we’ve seen of his new game really isn’t that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers’ attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.
Then when you consider Molyneux’s propensity towards feature creep, it’s probably safe to assume that even if the game is a ‘success’ by most conventional metrics, it won’t be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 month ago:
You may be interested in this new research from a few weeks ago! space.com/…/the-search-for-life-on-venus-just-too…
- Comment on ugly little cutie 2 months ago:
MFW my mom tells me I’m handsome
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 2 months ago:
Trump is pre, peri and post-criminal.
- Comment on United States of Autism 2 months ago:
The US should just switch to paracetamol. Problem solved!
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 2 months ago:
Fusion restaurant
Can I get an order of the yellow cake to go?
- Comment on Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator 2 months ago:
LOL, since when does AI respect copyright?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 2 months ago:
Yet!
- Comment on I just beat Bloodborne for the first today, and it's probably one of the best playthroughs of a video game that i have ever had and stories of one as well. 2 months ago:
Paleblood Hunt intensifies
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 2 months ago:
Yeah, Activision was my first thought as well.
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 2 months ago:
Shouldn’t it be trivially easy to demonstrate “prior art” in this case, making the patent invalid? I guess that requires someone to get into a legal battle with Nintendo… but it’s not like this is some niche mechanic. Surely there are other entertainment megacorps who are currently in violation of this “patent” and do have the resources to fight it in court.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 3 months ago:
Probably sarcoidosis
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 3 months ago:
Don’t be pedantic. Anyone with half a brain knows that when someone brings up “climate change” they’re referring to “human-made climate change” — and it’s completely uncontroversial that the changes we’ve made since the industrial revolution have greatly outweighed the changes of the Earth’s natural climate cycles.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 3 months ago:
Are you really gonna use the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument to defend LLMS?
Let’s not forget that the first ‘L’ stands for “large”. These things do not exist without massive, power and resource hungry data centers. You can’t just say “Blame government mismanagement! Blame corporate greed!” without acknowledging that LLMs cease to exist without those things.
And even with all of those resources behind it, the technology is still only marginally useful at best. LLMs still hallucinate, they still confidently distribute misinformation, they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.
What tangible benefit is there to LLMs that justifies their absurd cost? Honestly?
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 3 months ago:
AI would be fine if we just changed everything about it
lol
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 months ago:
I’d happily chat with Marie Curie for 3 hours while Einstein and Bohr argue with each other in the background.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 3 months ago:
People are buying entire consoles for one or two games. If folk can afford a 450 USD switch 2 for mario kart they can afford a facebook (ugh) quest for 300 bucks that regularly goes on sale.
The difference is that you don’t need an entire room to play the Switch 2 (hell, you even need a TV). It’s easier to scrape together the $500+ required for a console than it is to afford a down payment and a mortgage, or the extra rent for a two-bedroom instead of a one-bedroom apartment.
Consoles and VR are both luxury goods, but the barrier for entry with the former is much lower than with the latter.
Space will always be the most expensive peripheral of all.
- Comment on Graham Hancock interviews Bible translator, Ancient Hebrew expert 3 months ago:
Bible translation is a fascinating subject, but Graham Hancock is one of the biggest crackpots working today (and even if we were not, biblical scholarship is not his field of study). If you’re interested in this stuff, there are much better sources of information out there.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
For some reason all I can see when I look at this is this guy
- Comment on Best World-Building Game Coffee Table Books? 3 months ago:
This is slightly outside the bounds of what you asked for, but I think you might appreciate Vermis.
It’s an art book/game guide for a dark fantasy action adventure game, except the game doesn’t actually exists. The whole thing is entirely fake — basically all of the world building of a video game but without the actual game. The art is fantastic and there’s really nothing else quite like it.
I think originally it was only available in paperback, but a hardcover edition is available now as well for more of that “coffee table book” vibe.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Pre-order bonuses are a garbage anti-customer practice anyway.
- Comment on Help. 3 months ago:
It’s literally that.