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- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 1 week ago:
Depends on what you mean by “fanboys”. No, the hype isn’t as real as these rich assholes make it out to be. LLMs aren’t going to replace all human workforce everywhere ever, like some of these techbro dipshits quickly find out.
But, I’m still going to use technology that produce a tool in two minutes what would have normally taken me two hours to do. Sure, I have to code review it, but that doesn’t take nearly as long as the work itself.
- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 1 week ago:
Slop that produces inaccurate results and then tells you it did no such thing.
I use Claude at work and local LLMs at home, and they all produce good code. The Kagi agents work pretty well at searching for information that would have taken me 30-60 minutes to find. Although, I generally favor thinking models because they are good at edge cases.
You have to know how to provide good context for the situation, like examples, prior art, documentation, etc. Many people have a hard time even expressing an idea to a group of humans. Imagine your (pointy-haired) boss shows your department a picture in the next meeting:
B: “Go make this thing!”
D: “What thing?”
B: “Here. This thing. Make something just like it for our company!”
D: “Well, we can’t just copy it outright. What color should it be? What do we want to improve on? How do we tie it to our existing software?”
B: “I don’t know. That’s your job to figure out, right?”
That’s how most people treat LLMs. Garbage in, garbage out.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 1 week ago:
marketing has gotten a lot better in the intervening years.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humans 1 week ago:
People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It’s gone down since then, but only because email isn’t that important of a communication platform nowadays.
Bad actors attack with the tools they’ve got. If it’s not protected, it’s exploitable until it is.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter. Pre-ordering is stupid on any platform.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Cautiously optimistic, but I’m wondering if this is going to turn into some damned Playstation exclusive or not. And I don’t like how much they are pushing this pre-order crap, but I guess that’s every major launch title nowadays.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Control is well worth it. Quite possibly the best translation of a SCP-style universe, while retaining a serious/creative tone throughout.
The first 15 minutes is one of the best intros to a game I’ve ever seen. It latches on to this crazy weirdness in so many directions at once.
- Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026 2 weeks ago:
My point is that I took a famously overrated game that showed a clear disconnect between paid-off journalist shills and users who actually played the game. One of the sites exposed the disconnect. The other gave it a “80% player rating”.
- Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026 2 weeks ago:
Tried it out with Mixtape: This and this both look the same, except Metacritic exposes the brazen astroturf campaigning going on with this mediocre game. I would also expect OpenCritic to have critics that weren’t directly paid by Annapurna Interactive on the list to drag the score down. Instead, the critic score is even higher.
- Comment on The Dead Economy Theory 3 weeks ago:
Yes, the sociopath, narcissist and billionaires have taken over. There is no more democracy. There is no more rule of law.
And what do you do to those sociopaths, narcissists, and billionaires? Talk to them to death? Your words have no meaning to them. You can’t expect empathy from sociopaths. That’s literally in the definition of the word.
There is probably no way, at this point, to end the corruption peacefully. Possibly no way at all.
No, there isn’t. We were past that about 10-20 years ago.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 4 weeks ago:
Especially when the price of consoles are matching PCs. The price of being that lazy is too high, and that’s not even factoring the advantages of everything you get out of a PC.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 4 weeks ago:
Fiddling with a PC? You buy a PC and it’s done. Install Steam, install games, let’s go.
At best, if you want to switch OSs or try out new things, you’ll spend some time learning how that works. And if you want to try to stretch out the longevity, you can get new RAM, new video card, a replacement CPU. But, all of that is your choice.
As a bonus, you get something way way more powerful than a console that has a web browser, document editor, video/music player, Jellyfin server, streaming platform, whatever you want.
- Comment on Amazon has cancelled The Lord of the Rings MMO, but promises it "continues to explore a compelling new game experience" set in Middle-earth 5 weeks ago:
Releasing? LOTRO has been around for decades. Just play that instead of some New World garbage.
- Comment on Heaven's Gate Still Answers Emails 1 month ago:
You and I must have been watching different videos.
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- Comment on It's Official - TurtleWoW is Over 1 month ago:
That would involve a level of risk that a corporation that bought out a corporation that bought out Blizzard is not allowed to take. But, of course, they will gladly take billions of dollars and light it on fire for shitty decisions like the Metaverse or laying off tens of thousands of their own staff.
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
The joke that starts a new chapter…
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
No, I said “don’t die!”
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
Featuring the single best joke ever told in a video game.
- Comment on Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. 2 months ago:
I don’t need to install DeArrow. I just don’t subscribe to YouTubers that rely on clickbaity thumbnails and titles.
- Comment on Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. 2 months ago:
If that’s the conclusion you’re walking away with, then clearly you’re arguing in bad faith.
- Comment on Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. 2 months ago:
Having a face on them is one thing. Sometimes the person is the subject of the video, and it’s worth highlighting that in the video.
Having the person making the video staring at the camera, in a pose that says “look at how attractive I am” is another.
Also, this is not as hard and fast as you make it out. Here, I’ll post some random examples in my feed:
- No face
- Indirect faces for a video game
- No face
- Face looking away, subject of video
- Not really faces
- Faces from video game subject
- Staring directly at the camera to make it look like some serious meta video, when it’s really an April Fool’s joke (this is the exception that proves how ridiculous it is)
- No face
- Faces, but the main focus of the video
In fact, I had to dig to find videos that would really qualify:
- Two faces staring into the camera, but they are properly framed and surrounded by the subject of the video
- Reaction shot face, but at least it’s not taking up the entire frame
- Mutahar’s mug behind his junky desk, but that’s all of his videos and I wished he put more effort into his thumbnails and presentation
Even (most) of the female YouTubers on my feed aren’t falling for it:
- Earlybird
- Maangchi
- Pushing Up Roses, besides the occasion "reaction face"
- CrystAAHHL, just to show that I’m not cherry-picking, yes, she does the reaction face way too much
Meanwhile, LaurieWired’s entire catalogue is “look how attractive my face is!” This one doesn’t even have the subject in the thumbnail! It’s just her walking in a park. Also, what’s up with her videos from two years ago? Did she completely change her makeup style just to look more attractive in thumbnails?
- Comment on Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. 2 months ago:
All of her thumbnails are literally: Photographing something you want to show to everyone
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 2 months ago:
I can’t help but think of the Borderlands corpos, now.
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 2 months ago:
Microsoft won’t, but Oracle… I’m having trouble figuring out what Oracle sells nowadays that is worth paying money for. Are there really that many companies still hooked on Oracle’s DB?
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 2 months ago:
I prefer radiation therapy.
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 2 months ago:
- Comment on ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel 2 months ago:
That is $375M to a single person.
Wrong, this was state-initiated consumer protection enforcement action by the state of New Mexico. How those funds get distributed is up to the state government.
- Comment on ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel 2 months ago:
ordered to pay $375m by a New Mexico court.
Meta total assets: US$366 billion (2025)
I’m sorry, which big tech company is brought to who’s heel?
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 2 months ago:
Nobody calls it “eurojank”. They call it “slavjank”. Slavic counties. Like for example, Ukraine, which, hey, is exactly where Stalker developer Volodymyr Yezhov comes from.
The game is literally about the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. Don’t bitch about “geofencing” a genre of games when Stalker geofences its own fictional universe.
It’s like an anime creator bitching about people associating it with Japan when the stories are all strangely focused on Japan for some reason.
