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- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 5 days ago:
Most popular system RAM is 16GB, and VRAM is 8GB.
Wow! Powerful specs!
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 week ago:
Perhaps not the most related, but it is sort of funny for The Intercept to cover this when they led to Reality Winner going to jail because they didn’t follow basic journalistic protection of sources.
It’s absolutely related. I will never trust that name again because of what they did to Reality Winner. And Snowden. And many others. They have a shit track record, and should get out of the business of security reporting.
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- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 week ago:
As a big fan of elite games: I am really glad star citizen “exists” to contrast Elite Dangerous and has led to some truly amazing games in the genre.
Elite Dangerous has its faults, but goddamn, did it pull something epic and historical with a ten-years-in-the-making final event.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 week ago:
Right. Never pre-order games. Ever.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 week ago:
They may have been the first, but the sheer amount of failed disaster projects on Kickstarter, Paetron, wherever is staggering.
Some of them end up being “successful” failures, just stringing their patrons along on hopes and dreams and donations until the well dries up. Star Citizen is definitely the most successful venture of its sort, but only because it’s the highest profile with a bunch of known talent in the mix.
- Comment on The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 1 week ago:
My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”
How long did we kick the foundations out of the US dollar when we got rid of the gold standard, and just let it float on speculation and feelings? What, 60-70 years now?
How long has the stock market existed on the whims of people’s feelings over cold hard statistics and long-term analysis?
Markets have been ignoring reality for many decades.
- Comment on We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them 4 weeks ago:
This article is basically just bemoaning that AAA develops for the lowest common denominator, which I can understand as a gripe, but it’s a very old gripe.
And an easy one to fix: Don’t fucking buy AAA games!
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 4 weeks ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
No, you didn’t. You were literally arguing for a binary choice.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 4 weeks ago:
Shit like this was possible before AI. Companies have been deceiving other people since civilization.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t really matter. Fraud is still fraud.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a great way to make people aware to not play this game.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 4 weeks ago:
There’s a reason you don’t do both.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 4 weeks ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the GOP is racing to build coal plants. They just use coal as a political tool to win votes. And when they win, the idiots that think Republicans are going to save their coal jobs get what they deserved.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 5 weeks ago:
No one ever warned us that our energy needs have been climbing steadily for decades, and we need to stop being afraid of nuclear power? Really?
What rock have you been hide in?
- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 5 weeks ago:
So few people understand this that it’s infuriating.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 1 month ago:
So, use and support open-source AI models.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 1 month ago:
Supreme Court: What’s precedent again?
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 1 month ago:
all artists will benefit because of the precedent that it would set.
No, these protections exist to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 month ago:
I’m so disappointed we came so close to having a Cuno RPG, only to have that ripped away.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 month ago:
If it was an RPG that was even close to contending for that title, I would acquiesce to it.
Except it is. And I don’t think the burden of proof is on the article writer, when culturally, it’s just accepted that it is either the greatest RPG, or one of the greatest RPGs. Maybe you didn’t like it, but that doesn’t invalidate the facts of how high people regard this game.
It’s not some damned marketing strategy. It’s sitting at 91 on MetaCritic (even after all of the backlash about ZA/UM), won Game of the Year for many many outlets, and any individual who has played it all the way through will either call it the greatest RPG they ever played, or one of the greatest RPGs.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 month ago:
That was made 25 years ago. And just off the top of my head, Xenosaga surpassed it.
- Comment on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning 1 month ago:
Well, it seem damned easy for Amazon to just delete the fridges, so it being on two different continents really didn’t matter, did it?
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 1 month ago:
I’m talking about the general sentiment from articles like this, not the article itself. The content of the article doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
It’s the Constant. Fucking. Beratement. of the technology.
Like, we fucking get it: You’re a technophobe and hate technology, and love to write articles that shit on LLMs, because that’s what gets clicks. And judging from the votes from this forum, most everybody falls for the clickbait, which then generates even more hateful articles because they know it gets them views.
Meanwhile, out there in the real world, people go to work, and use this sort of technology in their day-to-day jobs. There’s this extreme and jarring disconnect between public opinion, what the news report, and what’s actually happening in real life. I feel like I’m watching Fox News half the time. It’s like all of these haters of LLMs suffer from a massive cognitive dissonance when they are in the workplace. Or they are so behind the times that they aren’t using this technology. Or they don’t even realize the things they use are using this technology behind the scenes.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 1 month ago:
Exactly. There’s a finite amount of time available to teach somebody all of the useful skills needed to live life and build skills for a career.
Schools are no longer teaching cursive, or if they do, they don’t spend a lot of time on it. Same thing with all of the manual math operations. Learning algebra is more important. Hell, learning how to use a calculator is more important.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 1 month ago:
Calling it cheating is about as dumb as when math teachers called calculators cheating. If everybody has access to a calculator that can process any division math problem you throw at it, learning how to do long division is suddenly not very useful.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 1 month ago:
Imagine it’s the late 90s to early 2000s, and millions of people are on this anti-Internet bandwagon, while scores and scores of articles (on paper, of course) are always pushing this negative slant towards the Internet. People reading this shit about how the Internet is going to doom us all, and we should reject it in favor of traditional media and research.
This is what these last few years feel like. Just an outright rejection of useful and life-changing technology, while the corpos embrace it. The complete 180 to how the late 90s actually turned out, when corpos were slow on the uptick with this whole Internet thing.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 month ago:
So bad that I had to hop on a forum and go “Hey, so, there aren’t any good choices in the dialog tree, did I fuck up my character generation? Should I start over?”
Your first mistake was thinking it was like any of those other CRPGS with dialog trees. No, you didn’t fuck up your character generation. Your character is a fuck up. That’s part of the story it’s trying to tell.
How you engage with the game is figuring out how to un-fuck-up the character in a matter that is realistic. Or just ignoring whatever lessons the game gives you and continue down the same self-destructive path. Or somewhere in-between. All paths are have their creative stories to tell, and even being strange and weird with it can still lead to solving pieces of the crime you’re trying to piece together.
Yeah, I don’t get games where “You want some fuck?” is a valid dialog choice.
Because it’s fucking funny when you didn’t know what the actual dialogue entry was going to be, you took a gamble, and the “pay off” is that your character says the cringest fucking line to some woman he’s immediately attracted to. So cringe that even your own Volition (best fucking mental power, btw) is like “the words already left your mouth” as if he was already smacking his goddamn forehead right through to the other side.
Your. Character. Is. A. Fuck up.
If that bothers you, and you want to play something that involves some extreme power fantasy, where you can pick a class and play a completely silent blank slate, then this game is not for you.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 month ago:
It’s really worth playing. The voice acting is stellar, and it really is the best “role-playing” game, in the sense that you are fully immersed in role-playing a character. The mental gameplay mechanics are GOAT, and one-of-a-kind.
