p03locke
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- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 3 days ago:
The original reason Krafton gave for firing the founders was that Subnautica 2 was being pushed out before it was ready just so the founders could get their bonuses.
Neither sides of that look good.
- Comment on You should quit social media for good 1 week ago:
Posts article on social media. How ironic!
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this would be as batshit crazy as handing the beloved Dune series to a madman like Alejandro Jodorowsky.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 2 weeks ago:
Or torrents. If piracy’s on the rise (again) as a replacement for streaming, you can sure as hell bet that it was already replacing sites like PornHub way before that.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 2 weeks ago:
Enter The Matrix was one of the rare exceptions. That game genuinely slapped.
The game was glued together with duct tape. And not the good kind.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing around with bazzite a bit, and for sure, i can run a lot of games on it, but you often end up googling which launcher to use, which settings to use, … And then even if you find something, it doesn’t always work.
Here’s a step-by-step guide:
- Launch Steam.
- Install game.
- Hit Play.
Zero issues.
- Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent 3 weeks ago:
So, ban itself? You can’t hire corruption to clean out corruption.
- Comment on An Update on Stop Killing Games 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad this effort finally has the support it needs, compared to six months ago when it was practically on life support.
- Comment on 'Points, clicks, and misery' - Civvie11 plays I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream 3 weeks ago:
PushingUpRoses and Grimbeard both did good reviews on this game. Glad to see a boomer shooter tuber like Civvie 11 trying it out.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want to use LLMs. I feel the majority of use cases for LLMs are inauthentic, lazy, unhelpful, and uncreative.
Well, that’s just your opinion. Don’t accuse everybody else who are using it as evil psychopaths, under some “LLM psychosis”.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 4 weeks ago:
It’s foolish to think this will just blow over, and the tech will magically disappear, no matter how you think about its ethics.
It’s better to take control of the technology directly, promote open-source models, push local usage, use it as a tool for the people, not as a tool for corporations. If you don’t take control of the situation, the world will take control of it for you.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 4 weeks ago:
So, not heroin?
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 4 weeks ago:
That only helps some, but not enough. I would bitch and report this article to the moderators, but the moderator is the one who posted the goddamn article!
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t. It was on a “Family Medicine” subreddit, which the name alone gives off red flags.
Don’t get medical advice from Reddit. Don’t even have “medical advice” subreddits. The bot was probably doing the best it could with the information available. But, of course, I can’t get the full context, because OP linked to a paid article.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 4 weeks ago:
Ahhh, yes, the “stick your head in the sand until it blows over” strategy. Because that’s always worked, right?
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 5 weeks ago:
Comment: The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.
Your Reply: I don’t get it (as in, “I don’t get the intent… I don’t understand why tariffs are bad”)
Me: Explaining why tariffs are bad.
Your Reply: Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.
Me: <not sure if stupid, asshole, troll, or all three>
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 1 month ago:
People dislike having to educate the same basic lessons over and over again, when it is very easy to search why tariffs are bad. It is not a community where people are going to spoonfeed you information that you didn’t even directly ask for.
The simple answer is because we live in a global economy and you can’t possible make everything that needs to be made in a single country. The more complex answer can be found by reading articles about it. Take this one, which was the first hit I found on a web search:
The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.
- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 1 month ago:
This is a falsehood, because they are relying on an unreliable source: Statcounter.
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 1 month ago:
What the hell is this website? Why isn’t this a news link?
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 month ago:
Going private could have been a net positive. But, not from venture capitalists, and certainly not from the Saudis.
Also, taking on this much debt as part of the buyout is just asking to be gutted and carved out, complete with record-breaking layoffs.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 month ago:
People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There’s all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi’s AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.
Just because you don’t know how to use it doesn’t mean “no one ever knew how to use it”.
- Comment on Former Facebook Exec Warns AI Industry Is Entirely Built on "Vibes" 1 month ago:
To be fair, so was many of the internet industries. So much social media out there, like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, without any sort of real profit model, yet propped up by their parent companies or venture capitalists.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 month ago:
Not going to happen. You’d have a better chance of all of social media suddenly disappearing overnight.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 month ago:
It’s not trash. It’s just not the “replace every worker in every industry” hype bullshit that psychopathic CEOs are peddling to their rich friends every chance they get.
I use LLMs just about every day. They are useful tools that save time, if you know how to use them right, employ proper review, and verify important information. It is not a wizard, and it will not replace a functioning brain.
The Gartner hype cycle doesn’t crash to zero. It stabilizes. I think people have been too conditioned by actual garbage technologies like NFTs, blockchain, and to some extent, crypto. And true driverless cars have such a high barrier to entry that it’s difficult to reach any sort of “good enough” point with them without another few decades of innovation, so people ignore that tech, too. Nowadays, people are so conditioned to expect every new tech to just disappear after the hype cycle and life just continues as normal.
But, that’s not how this works.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If you play on PC, use mods. Trust me… just use the damn mods. Life’s too short to be banging your head against the wall over and over again.
Returnal can be fun, worth playing, and has a great story to piece together. But it has some of the most git-gud toxic bullshit design choices I’ve ever seen from developers. Find a level of mod usage that gives you enough difficulty that you’re comfortable with.
Also, as an FPS player, I do not understand how anybody could play this game on controller. I ditched that shit about 30 minutes into it and immediately raised my skill level threefold with the mouse.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yes, item bloat is very real. Binding of Isaac had too much of it, but at least Edmund started buffing bad items a bit more with the DLCs and patches.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 months ago:
Most popular system RAM is 16GB, and VRAM is 8GB.
Wow! Powerful specs!
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 months ago:
Perhaps not the most related, but it is sort of funny for The Intercept to cover this when they led to Reality Winner going to jail because they didn’t follow basic journalistic protection of sources.
It’s absolutely related. I will never trust that name again because of what they did to Reality Winner. And Snowden. And many others. They have a shit track record, and should get out of the business of security reporting.
- Comment on Happy Birthday! 2 months ago:
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 2 months ago:
As a big fan of elite games: I am really glad star citizen “exists” to contrast Elite Dangerous and has led to some truly amazing games in the genre.
Elite Dangerous has its faults, but goddamn, did it pull something epic and historical with a ten-years-in-the-making final event.