p03locke
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- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 hours ago:
The joke that starts a new chapter…
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 22 hours ago:
No, I said “don’t die!”
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 22 hours 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. 4 days 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. 4 days 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. 5 days 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. 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
I prefer radiation therapy.
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
That said, do you believe that using generative AI in this case (for prototyping and rapid iteration/visualization of intermediate/non-final design concepts) is worse than, say, artists looking at the freely available online portfolios of other artists for inspiration, provided that they generate the final designs entirely by themselves?
That would require a nuanced answer that most of these plebes don’t have.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 2 weeks ago:
These are US and Canada productions. If you’re wondering why game X cost so much less, it was probably made elsewhere
Stardew Valley was made in the US. Same with Terraria, Axiom Verge, Outer Wilds, Balatro, Risk of Rain, Undertale, The Stanley Parable, Hyper Light Drifter, and a shit ton of other games.
If you’re wondering why game X costs so much less, it was probably made by a indie studio!
Jason is just lying at this point, if he believes otherwise.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 2 weeks ago:
Dylan’s words in the PR:
After reading the bill text, this is the conclusion I came to - arch install is an OS installer, the law asks for users to provide birth date when installing an OS. Is that going to be hilariously pointless and ineffective? Yes.
I feel like he’s getting ahead of the work as a matter-of-fact. In other words, the law passed, Arch is used by Californians, they need measures to make sure they’re not breaking the law.
I don’t think protest even falls into it with these kind of people, even though a majority of us would jump on the chance to actively protest this law and these changes. I personally cannot wait to have this shit throw at me at the next Linux upgrade, just to pull something like Ageless Linux does against it.
That’s why I was vehemently opposed to the hit piece that was attacking this guy personally, by a shit blogger who I will forever blacklist. Also, fuck the mod who submitted that hit piece to Lemmy.
- Comment on Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it 2 weeks ago:
LLMs for coding has improved dramatically over the past year or so. But, I find that its quality varies greatly, depending on the model. I find models like Gemini and GPT to be too overconfident, and it doesn’t communicate well enough. Claude knows when to stop and evaluate the situation for options. I’ve had mixed results with the local models, but I’m still adjusting quantization settings to make it work best with my VRAM.
You still need the skills to understand programming and design engineering, and you frankly need the personality to be meticulous with your reviews, but it’s really nice having something that can code 3-8x faster than what I was doing before.
- Comment on Sony Has Apparently Shut Down Dark Outlaw Games 2 weeks ago:
I dunno… AAA games are not selling very well right now, and many are diving into the indie scene for better quality.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Or maybe even every session?
Fuck that… every frame.
Although, that was the experience with Stable Diffusion a few years ago. WAN Video is good enough for remembering the face during the course of the processed length (4-5 seconds or so). But, as soon as it needs any sort of object permanence, like when the face is hidden, suddenly, it doesn’t know what it was looking at any more. Seems like a solvable problem with reference images. I doubt NVIDIA thought that far, though.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t just ask the ai to do something I new which library I wanted it to use and new what I wanted it to interface with and new exactly what I wanted it to do.
I have no understanding of the language
No shit… you don’t even have an understanding of the English language. No wonder the LLM didn’t understand you.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
Use local models then.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
It’s not as much of a “fuck you” as much as “I’m tired of this same fucking response, when all I’m trying to do is get some work done, which I do for fucking free, by the way”.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
If you let the AI do the thinking for you, then you’re building AI slop.
No, for major projects, you start out with a plan. I may spend upwards of 2-3 hours just drafting a plan with the LLM, figuring out options, asking questions when it’s an area I don’t have top-familiarity with, crafting what the modules are going to look like. It’s not slop when you’re planning out what to do and what your end result is supposed to be.
People who talk this way have zero experience with actually using LLMs, especially coding models.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Denuvo DRM - Not even once
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
We would be faaaaaar less hostile towards copyrights if we had a regular source of RECENT public domain coming out every year.
I’m not saying that it would make GPL or OSS licenses useless. I’m just saying that the motivation and need for those licenses are because we don’t live in a society where freely available media and data are much more commonplace.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
but in the end it boils down to being a text prediction machine.
And we’re barely smarter than a bunch of monkeys throw piles of shit at each other. Being reductive about its origins doesn’t really explain anything.
I trust the output as much as a random Stackoverflow reply with no votes :)
Yeah, but that’s why there’s unit tests. Let it run its own tests and solve its own bugs. How many mistakes have you or I made because we hate making unit tests? At least the LLM has no problems writing the tests, after you know it works.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
Then they stop bothering to review the code.
This happens with human code reviews all the time.
“I don’t really understand this code, but APPROVE!”
“You need this thing merged today? APPROVE!”
“This code is too long, and it’s almost my lunch break. APPROVE!”
Over and over and over again. The worse thing you can insult me with is take code I spend days working on and approve it five minutes after I submitted it to you.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
the problem is that if I have to nanny it to make sure it doesn’t make a mistake then how is it a useful product?
When was the last time you coded something perfectly? “If I have to nanny you to make sure you don’t make a mistake, then how are you a useful employee?” See how that doesn’t make sense. There’s a reason why good development shops live on the backs of their code reviews and review practices.
The math ain’t matching on this one.
The math is just fine. Code reviews, even audit-level thorough ones, cost far less time than doing the actual coding.
There’s also something to be send about the value in being able to tell an LLM to go chew on some code and tests for 10 minutes while I go make a sandwich. I get to make my sandwich, and come back, and there’s code there. I still have to review it, point out some mistakes, and then go back and refill my drink.
And there’s so much you can customize with personal rules. Don’t like its coding style? Write Markdown rules that reflect your own style. Have issues with it tripping over certain bugs? Write rules or memories that remind it to be more aware of those bugs. Are you explaining a complex workflow to it over and over again? Explain it once, and tell it to write the rules file for you.
All of that saves more and more time. The more rules you have for a specific project, the more knowledge it retains on how code for that project, and the more experience you gain in how to communicate to an entity that can understand your ideas. You wouldn’t believe how many people can’t rubberduck and explain proper concepts to people, much less LLMs.
LLMs are patient. They don’t give a shit if you keep demanding more and more tweaks and fixes, or if you have to spend a bit of time trying to explain a concept. Human developers would tell you to fuck off after a while, and get tired of your demands.
