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- Comment on [Bellular News] People Aren't Buying New Games, So Valve Changed Steam 6 hours ago:
In what way?
- Submitted 4 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 13 comments
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 2 weeks ago:
You’re the one that equated “unpopularity” with “not a viable solution” with that ~1% response.
Popularity and technical viability have nothing to do with each other. It’s just that the former requires a lot of marketing to push the general public forward, way more than is necessary in my opinion.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 2 weeks ago:
Solar panels make up ~1% of all residential power generation. I guess that means it’s a horrible way to generate power, right? 🙄
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 2 weeks ago:
If you watch the video, you’ll understand that the temperature transfer process to a hot water tank is incredibly slow. So, water tanks are not a very good battery.
I mean, unless you want to spend 12 hours trying to dry your clothes.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 34 comments
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 3 weeks ago:
Twitch streamers, YouTube channels, book best seller lists, radio play lists…
- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 4 weeks ago:
Not sure how that statement is right-leaning.
- Comment on Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades 4 weeks ago:
I partially blame the whole Oracle / OpenAI / NVIDIA cabal.
But, let’s not ignore the memory cartel’s involvement in this sham. Shitbags left themselves vulnerable to a demand crash with tiny numbers of competitors (three), tiny amounts of facilities to produce RAM, and the corporate stranglehold to keep it that way.
- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 4 weeks ago:
Not typically in the world of YouTube. That’s kind of the point.
- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 5 weeks ago:
That’s what happens after a buyout.
- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on "You pay owner price. They give you tenant rights.": Mexican Lawmakers Drag Sony to Antitrust Court Over All-Digital PlayStation 5 weeks ago:
You pay owner price. They give you tenant rights.
Fucking bars right there. We should be carrying this around like a motto. This is the next “if buying ain’t owning”.
- Comment on Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, even before it was released there were so many kids are still messing around with Garry’s Mod. New generations of kids playing with 20-year-old software.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 5 weeks ago:
And what is your plan exactly?
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 5 weeks ago:
There’s only two choices:
- Learn how it works, adapt it to your lifestyle, use it as a weapon against the rich fucks that try to use it against you.
- Continue to act like luddites, bury your head in the sand, and pretend that it will go away. Which it won’t.
That’s it. Those are the choices. Most are sucking in that copeium for the second option.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 5 weeks ago:
I think a lot of it depends on the model and the amount of context it has. LLMs usually get worse with time because they are running out of context, or they don’t have a good summarization of the story at large. For story-writing, it’s best to have a full outline planned and set up as its own Markdown doc, along with critiques on things you think don’t make sense or just don’t like as a plot device. Then, start a new session with each section, keeping it in a Markdown doc as it goes. Some sort of character doc is probably a good idea, too. Give it as much reference material as possible.
It’s just like planning features for code. You don’t just say “gimme a story like blah”. You have to set it up like writers write movies.
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 1 month ago:
The fucked up thing about AI right now is that AI companies get to act like we’re in a post-copyright world, pirating from literally everyone, while the rest of us are still stuck in copyright hell.
That’s the double-standard that they always upheld. Two large companies play by the rules. One large company against a small artist? The company steals as long as they can get away with it.
Marathon vs. Antireal is a prime example. They steal her artwork and style, put it in the game, and get away with it. The only reason they settled and paid her was because:
- They got caught
- The evidence was obvious
- The bad PR was affecting their sales
If any of those weren’t true, they would have gotten away with it, stolen it outright, and not paid her at all.
No AI involved in any of that. No need when corporations already held the power for centuries.
I don’t think it’s realistic that the rich will dismantle IP in the name of AI progress
I think they’ll accidentally do so, by creating so much from AI and a judge declares that it can’t be copyrighted because X% is AI generated, and existing precedent already required human input for copyrighted material.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 1 month ago:
I replaced it with a Patricia Taxxon video, so fuck Grey. He seemed to not get the point of his own damn video.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 1 month ago:
Well, that’s a damn shame. I guess I’ll have to find a different source for the history of copyright.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 1 month ago:
Actual artists have been fucked over by copyright since its invention. 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 Mark Twain, Sonny Bono, and 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.
All content is remixed and remastered, so I don’t really see a point to copyrights at all. Anything that relies on copyright are a part of incredibly incredibly oversaturated industries, so people should just make what they are passionate about, and not worry about whether some dude decides to rip it off to create some other thing. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all. Jazz musicians certainly don’t give a shit, and people have been stealing the Amen Break for decades.
People are too damn concerned over trying to be rich and famous from whatever idea they foolishly think is unique. Every melody has essentially already been created, and if it hasn’t, then AI and LLMs will take care of the rest. Create art because you like to create art.
If the rich end up dismantling their own IP shield that has existed to enrich themselves for centuries in the name of AI progress, I’m going to call that a win.
The problem is not AI. It’s the work-to-live death spiral. Install UBI and abolish copyright.
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 1 month ago:
I think you should spend a few more sentences selling the couch to players: “It doesn’t buy. It doesn’t sell. It just holds on to the stocks it already has.”
Or something like that.
- Comment on Getting Off with the Luddites: Hanging with NYC’s tech-critical youth cultural front 1 month ago:
Like a caveman asking for an email address…
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 1 month ago:
This is true of all companies in a capitalist society. People love to shit on Nintendo but Sony, Microsoft, Valve, yes even your previous Gabe is not your friend.
There’s a difference between publicly-traded and privately-owned companies. I’m not saying that large corporations are your friend, but it’s rather disingenuous to categorize all of them with the same black & white stance.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 1 month ago:
People need not be mad at Nintendo
You don’t hate Nintendo hard enough.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 month ago:
You know what else fixes the birth rate? Making life less shitty and giving people enough money to be able to raise children.
In the meantime, negative birth rate is just self-correction of asshole dictatorships. Can’t make money line go up if birth line go down.
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent 1 month ago:
What are you going to do? Sue them? Call 911? Ring up your lawyer?
- Comment on ZA/UM laying off 32 employees after Zero Parades fails to reach commercial success 1 month ago:
Jamrock Hobo, one of the main DE channels, did a pretty fair and unbiased review about the game.
The game had its flaws, but it was still a good game. Having them immediately fire the staff afterwards just seems like it’s pulling the same shit over again, further cancelling any good PR they may have made with the game’s release.
I don’t see how they get out of this. ZA/UM is done, and will get replaced by one of the other 3-4 studios that were borne from its ashes. At least the ideas around it are starting to get traction in other games.
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, Steam does nothing, wins anyway.