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- Comment on There is no Vibe Engineering 1 day ago:
I’m already sick of this phrase. The tech hallucinates too much, and understands security about as much as a whale understands astrophysics.
- Comment on Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed 1 day ago:
Can’t see the contents of the post, because I assume it’s available to members only.
- Comment on Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere' 2 days ago:
Look up Soma Transmissions. There was also a bunch of short stories about the game. The one about climbing the big orbital gun to the top really stuck with me.
And there was more characters than just the scary proxy things.
- Comment on Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere' 2 days ago:
Soma is far far more than a horror game. The horror aspects are secondary to the transhumanist questions it raised every hour you were playing it.
- Comment on Terraria Hive Base 2 days ago:
Unepic wasn’t bad, but doesn’t hold a candle to Terraria. It’s still my favorite sandbox game.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 2 days ago:
That’s a shit take.
I swear everybody here is fucking black and white, with no room for nuance. This is how cults and echo chambers get started.
- Comment on Cyan (Myst, Riven) to lay off 12 people, "roughly half the team" 4 days ago:
The fact that this headline has to call out the studio that made a 30-year-old game speaks volumes as to why they have to lay people off.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 4 days ago:
It’s been especially bad over the last year. WB is in freefall at this point.
It seems it would be pretty easy to blame this on David Zaslav, but the games department specifically has been fucking up like never before: Mortal Kombat, Multiversus, Gollum, Kill the Justice League. Just name a WB game that came out, and it’s been an abysmal failure, with similar games from other studios doing much much better.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 4 days ago:
I second Disco Elysium’s voice acting and also all of Supergiant Games catalogue, especially Bastion, Transistor, and Hades. Portal 2 is the more hilarious video game of all time, and a major part of that is its voice acting.
The Stanley Parable, Borderlands 1/2, Prey, System Shock 1/2, the Bioshock series, SOMA, the new Doom games, Path of Exile, all elevated by their voice acting.
- Comment on UN Database WIPO ALERT Helps to Facilitate Globalized Pirate Site Blocking * TorrentFreak 6 days ago:
WIPO sounds like an racial slur.
- Comment on HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks 1 week ago:
Worse, they would make the hardware in such a way that you need special screwdrivers to open it, and even if you get access to it, the internal design is so hostile that it makes replacing parts a 4 hour experience.
- Comment on Opinion: China’s ‘Engineer Dividend’ Is Paying Off Big Time 1 week ago:
I’m unqualified to try to untangle why Trump’s handlers are doing this, and I generally don’t like to spout off without evidence.
Trump’s handler is Putin, and there’s plenty of evidence.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
People and small indie companies have lost entire fortunes trying to enforce or defend completely obvious copyright cases.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Capitalism will outlast copyright. They’ll adapt. The rich have existed for millennia and there’s no reason to think they would roll over as soon as copyright dies.
But, the more they push AI as their digital savior, the more copyright-free content they create. AI is just hastening copyright’s demise.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
The biggest problem
with Aiis copyright.FTFY. Copyright is a tool of the rich. It is not for you.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Yep, I can generate a bunch of funny pictures on Stable Diffusion in a couple of minutes.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
I think that in a better world, image generation could’ve been used for prototyping, fun, or enabling art from those without the time to dedicate to a craft. It could’ve been a tool like any other. LLMs could’ve had better warnings against their hallucinations, or simply have been used less for overly-serious things due to a lack of incentive for it, leaving only the harmless situations.
I think that world still exists, but it’s going to take corporations tripping over their hundreds of billions of dollars and burning it in a dumpster fire, before they realize that the technology isn’t theirs to keep and own.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Legally, the one hosting the material is the one who is punished, not the downloader. Though, if they are using torrent software, they are both downloading and hosting.
If I downloaded pictures on the internet by visiting a web site, I’m not going to suddenly get punished because it’s copyrighted. Otherwise, every one of us is now in trouble because of the linked article.
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed 1 week ago:
Especially from places like RPS and Kotaku.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Everything is a remix of a copy of derivative works. They learn from other people, from other artists, from institutions that teach entire industries. Some of it had “informed consent”, some of it was “borrowed” from other ideas without anybody’s permission. We see legal battles on a monthly basis as to whether these four notes are too similar to these other four notes. Half of the movies are reboots, and some of them were actually itself another reboot a few times over.
“Good artist copy, great artist steal.”
No human has truly had an original thought in their head ever. It’s all stolen knowledge, whether we realize it’s stolen or not. In the age of the Internet, we steal now more than ever.
We practice Fair Use on a regular basis by using and remixing images and videos into other videos, but isn’t that similar to an AI bot looking at an image, figuring out some weights from it, and throwing it away? I don’t own this picture of Brian Eno, but it’s certainly sitting in my browser cache, and Brian Eno and Getty Images didn’t grant me “informed consent” to do anything with it. Did I steal it? Is it legally or morally unethical to have it sitting on my hard drive? If I photoshop it and turn it into a dragon with a mic on a mixing board, and then pass it around, is that legally or morally unethical? Fair Use says no.
It’s folly to pretend that AI should be held to a standard that we ourselves aren’t upholding.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
I don’t know of a single modern model that only used training data that was taken with informed consent from the creators of that data.
I don’t know of a single modern human that only used training data that was taken with informed consent from the creators of that data.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
So, make it not owned by the same people.
Support open-source models. Most of this shit are research papers.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
Fable already came out, and it was a pretty mid game. Why are we doing this again?
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 1 week ago:
Huh? For £70 I’m getting
Based on what? You don’t actually know until it gets released. Sure, past history and reputation are certainly things to factor in, but we’ve seen plenty of major gaming companies shit the bed, despite their reputations.
Wait until it launches and the reviews come in.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 1 week ago:
Release timing is always a critical thing to think about, whether you’re talking about games, movies, TV series, or toys.
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 2 weeks ago:
The portal gun doesn’t really fit in a Half-Life game. The mechanics of the gun almost demand an enclosed space, with flat surfaces and puzzles that require the player to understand that they’re solving a puzzle. The portal gun would break the outside world too easily, as players figure out how to just zoom past everything, and not follow the linear path that FPSs like Half-Life guide towards. Testing surfaces for game breaks and boundary checks would be a QA nightmare. It doesn’t kill enemies in any useful way, which is the primary function of a FPS weapon.
It is a puzzle gun, in a puzzle game. And that’s okay.
- Comment on Hundreds of celebrities warn against letting OpenAI and Google ‘freely exploit’ Hollywood 2 weeks ago:
Essentially OpenAI, Google and the rest of the pack of thieves are lobbying to establish themselves as the rulers of a lawless world
Which is why open-source models are so critically important. When OpenAI collectively shat their pants at the announcement of DeepSeek, it exposed an obvious weakness in their plans: They can’t sell what people can do for free.
They. Are. Fucking. Terrified. Of. Open. Source.
Same thing when Google put out that internal memo a few years ago, criticizing the use of open source, when Stable Diffusion suddenly exploded on the scene.
Indeed that would be the end of the copyright law, but only for the oligarchs.
All it takes is one critical case to establish precedent.
- Comment on Hundreds of celebrities warn against letting OpenAI and Google ‘freely exploit’ Hollywood 2 weeks ago:
A bunch of fucking nepo babies are having an existential crisis that the general public has more access to generating content for videos and movies? Hollywood was already exploited for a hundred years before this. It’s too late to sound the alarms.
Also, fuck copyright law.
- Comment on Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Maybe don’t launch live service shooters? They are a dime a dozen.