p03locke
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- Comment on Friendship is survival in Citizen Sleeper 2 12 hours ago:
In Other Waters was another great OST from Amos as well. Pretty fun game, too.
- Comment on Please, call a job cut a job cut 1 day ago:
“Today, we’re going to be giving 550 of our employees a slap in the face.”
- Comment on After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game 2 weeks ago:
No, you need Marvel, like real Marvel, not GotG-lite.
- Comment on Of course Atari’s new handheld includes a trackball, spinner, and numpad 3 weeks ago:
ATARI is just a brand name at this point, trying to feed off of people’s nostalgia. There’s nothing left of the company that made this stuff in the 80s.
- Comment on The Extreme Disconnect between Game Journalists, Developers, and their Audience 3 weeks ago:
Really easy to say, but, believe it or not, during a time where the tech industry is actively shedding 10s of thousands of jobs, looking at your resume doesn’t actually do anything for you.
Are you just proving his point by saying that the whole industry is laying people off, instead of it being specifically a gaming industry problem?
- Comment on The Extreme Disconnect between Game Journalists, Developers, and their Audience 3 weeks ago:
Remember Tango Gameworks? The studio that everyone liked, and didn’t have any flops? That was completely laid off?
He pointed that out as an exception. But, it’s been mostly the AAA studios that produced massive, massive high-budget flops, and then they laid off a bunch of their staff.
But it’s not developers doing that, it’s publishers and executives. No one writing code is like, “I’ve decided to make live-service schlock”. But they’re the ones losing their jobs, not the dorks who did decide that.
No, but when developers and the rest of the teams see that it’s “live-service schlock”, they should start looking at their resumes, instead of thinking “well, my job is safe because it’s a large corporation”.
Why would anybody working on Concord think that it’s a good game with a good concept that is going to succeed? Or Kill the Justice League? Or Multiverse? You think all of those microtransactions and attempts at catching some unoriginal idea are going to be well-received?
Just look at it for what it is, and realize it’s going to fail. And then plan accordingly.
He then turns this into some kind of attack on game journalists, who have been rightfully calling out the game industry layoffs
No, look at what they did before they talked about the layoffs. Sure, calling out the layoffs is justified and it’s worth reporting.
What’s not worth reporting is what Twitter is saying about any of this, and then going on some soapbox trying to counter it. Thus, promoting this idea that the general public gives a shit about whatever fight this is, when in reality, they don’t even know it exists. He’s literally reading off one of this articles, that goes off on a tangent that a few people on Twitter said something about games being “too woke” and tries to counter that.
Fuck Twitter. Stop reporting on Twitter. It’s a shit platform that is a tiny, tiny microverse of actual people doing actual things that don’t see any of that. Obviously, nobody looked at a game and thought “oh, well, that’s too woke, so I’m not going to buy it”. They didn’t buy it because it was a shit game with shitty microtransactions.
And if you check the comments, his fans definitely heard the whistle too.
I checked the comments. I read the comments on most YouTube videos. I saw nothing of the sort. Most of them are praising him for what he’s saying.
Ideological soapboxes are very real things that games “journalists” push on a daily basis. It’s manufactured bullshit that gets echoed only because they report on whatever some dude on Twitter said. I don’t know why you would mistake that as some dog whistle.
“As a customer I’m going to be honest, I just don’t care or feel anything for any of these internal struggles that these companies go through.” (7:10 in the video)
Right, instead of talking about the discussion as a whole, let’s take some out-of-context quote he said in the video and use that as evidence that he doesn’t care about the industry.
You didn’t even quote the entire sentence: “…especially when it’s mismanagement to blame.” I guess that bit didn’t fit your narrative?
- Comment on The Extreme Disconnect between Game Journalists, Developers, and their Audience 3 weeks ago:
If Lemmy had YouTube embedding, like a certain other platform it’s trying to emulate, this wouldn’t be a problem.
As it stands, it can’t even extract the thumbnail properly. (I have to do that myself.)
- Comment on Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI 3 weeks ago:
readable only by the original owner
Right now it’s not. All encryption gets its back broken by security flaws and brute force mathematics.
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- Comment on VMix: Improving Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Cross-Attention Mixing Control 4 weeks ago:
It almost seems like it’s forcing a certain kind of lighting without prompting. I wonder how well it performs when specifically given something that isn’t “natural light”.
- Comment on 1.58-bit FLUX 4 weeks ago:
Is this open source?
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 5 weeks ago:
Ignoring indie games here is ignoring the answer to the entire premise.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 5 weeks ago:
This author has no fucking clue that the indie gaming industry exists.
Like Balatro… you know, the fucking Indie Game of the Year, that was also nominated for Best Game of the Year at the Game Awards.
Localthunk was able to build this in Lua… WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 5 weeks ago:
AI-generated materials are already exempt from copyright. Which is great.
Crack copyright like a fucking egg. It only benefited the rich, anyway.
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 5 weeks ago:
If you take that image, copy it and then try to resell it for profit you’ll find you’re quickly in breach of copyright.
That’s not what’s happening. Did you even read my comment?
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 5 weeks ago:
The Alex Jones bankruptcy is the first time I’ve seen anyone fined significantly to the point of it mattering.
Alex Jones is a textbook example of what happens when a rich person is so overconfident that he does even less than the absolute bare minimum to defend himself in a court case. He defaulted on the case! That’s the absolute zero of stupidity in legal terms.
I don’t really consider the Alex Jones case to be a win. It was a fluke, and if he had even put up a slight bit of effort, it would turned out very differently.
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 5 weeks ago:
I guess the idea is that the models themselves are not infringing copyright, but the training process DID.
I’m still not understanding the logic. Here is a copyrighted picture. I can search for it, download it, view it, see it with my own eye balls. My browser already downloaded the image for me, in order for me to see it in the browser. I can take that image and edit it in a photo editor. I can do whatever I want with the image on my own computer, as long as I don’t publish the image elsewhere on the internet. All of that is legal. None of it infringes on copyright.
Hell, it could be argued that if I transform the image to a significant degree, I can still publish it under Fair Use. But, that still gets into a gray area for each use case.
What is not a gray area is what AI training does. They download the image and use it in training, which is like me looking at a picture in a browser. The image isn’t republished, or stored in the published model, or represented in any way that could be reconstructed back to the source image in any reasonable form. It just changes a bunch of weights in a LLM model. It’s mathematically impossible for a 4GB model to somehow store the many many terabytes of images on the internet.
Where is the copyright infringement?
- Comment on Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain' 5 weeks ago:
Legislators have to come up with a way to handle how copyright works in conjunction with AI.
That’s the neat part. It doesn’t.
Copyright hasn’t worked for the past 100 years. Copyright was borne out of an social agreement that works generated from it would enter public domain in a reasonable time frame. Thanks to Mark Twain and Disney, the limit is basically forever, or it might as well be. Here we are still arguing about the next Bond film for a book series that was made in the fucking 1950s. Or the Lord of the Rings series, the genesis of all fantasy. Or thousands of other things that deserve to be in public domain already.
Copyright is a blunt tool that rich people use to bash the poor with. Whatever you think copyright is doing to protect your rights or your works is easy enough for them to just spend enough money with lawyers and cases until you cave. If copyright isn’t working for the public good, then we should abolish it.
People hate AI because it’s mostly developed and used by the rich as a shitty way to save money and layoff even more people than we’ve already had. But, it doesn’t have to be. All of these LLM projects were based on freely available research. Hell, Stable Diffusion is still something you can just download and use for free, despite the fact that Stability AI is still trying to wrestle back their own control into the model.
Instead of sticking our ears in our fingers and saying “la la la la, AI doesn’t exist, it must be destroyed/regulated/fined”, we could push this technology to open sourced as much as possible. I mean, let’s assume that we somehow regulate AI so that people have to pay to use copyrighted works for training (as absurd as that is). AI training goes down drastically, and stagnates. Counties like China are not going to follow those same rules, and eventually, China will be the technological leader here.
Or the program works, and other people who don’t give a shit about copyright freely allow AI to train their works. Then you have AI models that have to follow these arcane rules, but arrived at the same spot, anyway, but only for the rich people who can afford the systems that allow for that regulation. What the fuck was the point in the regulation, except to make it even more expensive to make?
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 1 month ago:
Typical RPS.
- Comment on Fake AI versions of world-renowned academics are spreading claims that Ukraine should surrender to Russia 1 month ago:
It’s bizarre they haven’t shut down this .ru domain.
- Comment on Fake AI versions of world-renowned academics are spreading claims that Ukraine should surrender to Russia 1 month ago:
Why is this coming from a Russian site?
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 1 month ago:
(the idea that you are either best or worst)
“If you not first, you’re last.”
So, this guy is Ricky Bobby?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 1 month ago:
Because the Game Awards hates indie games.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 1 month ago:
But, also, why Astro Bot?
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 month ago:
So do mega-corporations with more money than God, like Microsoft.
And they already said no to root-level anti-cheats.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment 1 month ago:
That’s just a wild fantasy that will never happen.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 months ago:
One of my all-time favorites. If you don’t like horror games, don’t let that stop you. It’s too important a story to pass up, and worse-case, you can turn off some of the scary elements of the game. It’s really a sci-fi masterpiece first, and a horror game second.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 months ago:
Portal 2 has, hands-down, the most hilariously-written dialogue I have ever seen in a video game. That alone is worth playing the game, but it’s also a fun puzzle game to boot.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 months ago:
The game throws big bosses at you at a time when you won’t have range weapons, and expects you to dodge these big sweeping attacks that would be more appropriate fighting with ranged weapons. And by the time you get a ranged weapon, it’s too late, and they’ve raised the stakes again for future bosses to the point that having a ranged weapon isn’t even an advantage.
I was forced to reduce the difficulty just for the bosses. All of the other enemies were mostly fine.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 months ago:
Try playing Environmental Station Alpha. Super cutesy robot, absolutely unfair difficulty for a Metroidvania. Which is a shame, because there’s an interesting story and gameplay buried in that difficulty.
