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- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
That’s what happens after a buyout.
- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 1 week ago:
- Comment on "You pay owner price. They give you tenant rights.": Mexican Lawmakers Drag Sony to Antitrust Court Over All-Digital PlayStation 1 week 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
And what is your plan exactly?
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 2 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 2 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.
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- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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" 4 weeks 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" 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, Steam does nothing, wins anyway.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 5 weeks ago:
Balatro was great with Roffle commentating. They randomly hit one of the worst seeds to try to naneinf.
- Comment on id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for" 5 weeks ago:
What AAA studios still use their own solutions now, except for Valve and Rockstar?
But, Id Software INVENTED FPS game engines! Valve didn’t even invent Half-Life’s first engine; they borrowed an early prototype of Quake.
Yeah, I know Carmack isn’t on the payroll nowadays, but there’s still some competent people who know how to design 3D engines on their own.
- Comment on This is a prototype of SMB3 on the PC, ported by id Software. Nintendo of America liked it, but HQ in Japan killed it to avoid competing with the NES. Watch Mario jump to sounds of Commander Keen! 5 weeks ago:
Is this what happened after “Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement”?
Actually, it looks like Lane Roathe chimed in on the top comment.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think John Carmack is sociopathic. He just thinks differently, and isn’t the most socially-adapt person. He was trying to reason out why the decision was made in the first place:
“Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal.”
He’s definitely not wrong. I still think Microsoft’s decision was pretty fucking stupid, but disposable entertainment options are at an all-time high, and even with gaming, you can throw a stick up in the air and have it land on a game studio.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 5 weeks ago:
The problem with what you’re saying is that they’ve always bought out other studios and then fucked them up.
Just replace “they” with “all publicly-traded companies”. That is the nature of buyouts and short-term stock market thinking. Just look at all of the buyouts EA turned to shit. Or Activision. Or countless other smaller studios that have died to larger buyouts.
If a company gets bought out by a corporation like this, they know what they are getting into.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure they hired Asha Sharma just to gut the entire Xbox department and force its closure. It’s losing them money, but they want to continue to pretend that they care about gaming.
They’ll hype up the PR, pretend that they are restructuring, and then announce some “sad news” that they had to completely shudder the Xbox brand after a few years of pretending.
The thing is that Microsoft isn’t doing great in the Windows department, either. They are pissing off so many people that they’re losing grip of their near monopoly. And Copilot is almost as bad as Llama in terms of LLMs.
What the fuck do they have left? Office?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Half? You mean 99.99%? Take any random indie game… find its physical copy. I’ll wait.
That’s not even counting the miles and miles of asset-flip slop that’s out there.