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- Comment on Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re 5 days ago:
- Comment on OmniSVG: A Unified Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Model 6 days ago:
This is the first time I’ve seen a model target SVG drafting. Anything you have seen previously about unicorns or whatever was just someone experimenting with interesting edge case usage.
Feeding a language model a bunch of vector art does not seem productive to me. So it makes sense that something like GPT4 sucks at it.
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 6 days ago:
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 6 days ago:
I’m not against the goal. But I have voiced that I don’t think this route/configuration of leadership will work.
I only heard about it once people on Lemmy started talking shit about this pirate guy. I hadn’t heard about him either. So it came on my radar as drama. And I ended up having a rough time sharing my point of view. People are really emotional about this intuitive. They take any criticism as an attack that could harm progress on signatures.
In the end the drama with this pirate dork ended up actually bringing positive attention that helped an otherwise flagging initiative for signatures.
I hope this initiative causes positive change.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Thanks! This sounds like community building to me. The peer pressure seems to be a double edged sword, and I can see how it might become burdensome in some cases.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Can you elaborate on the self organizing thing? I don’t think I have a strong intuition on what you mean.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 week ago:
I wonder if games with UGC report they have AI content. (Games that allow for outside assets and code)
- Comment on European Parliament vice president throws his support behind Stop Killing Games campaign 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 2 weeks ago:
This post isn’t about the games being removed from the face of the internet. It’s just one platform.
It’s too early to panic.
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 2 weeks ago:
It’s DRM free. Just practice good backups man. No need to jump to piracy.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security 2 weeks ago:
No one likes writing tests! Give him a break!
- Comment on Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later 2 weeks ago:
“What?! We help people budget!” “What?! We help people when times are tough!” “What?! 73% of our customers pay us zero interest!”
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants Gamers To Destroy All Copies of A Game Once It Goes Offline 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
I think it mostly revolves around how you get 100 players together for a good game. The match making part. I’m skeptical of the quality of match making, but that’s not a showstopper for people committed to playing. But if we set aside the need for someone to maintain hosting, then it becomes peer to peer or a lan party, or a combination of the two.
I remember what it was like rounding up and wrangling 80 people to raid in WoW back in the day.
And none of this is a showstopper I don’t see why we can’t talk about that. It’s not like discussing the difficult edge cases or the feasibility of the details could harm things.
My initial question in this thread framed changing the game design, not networking stack.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like that’s the answer to my reply then. Not all this other noise people have posted. 😏
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
Man. Y’all really think I’m talking about networking design?
I thought we were talking about gameplay design. That’s why I picked 100 player battle royal.
“Change the game design” implies that, to me. I didn’t pick a single player experience with always online requirements. Or a 4 player game with online matchmaking and no direct connect options.
There’s such a strong, and obsessive need among a bunch of people on this topic to explain and explain, and not parse the precise thing being asked.
There’s also a lot of people who conflate having the opinion that the effort will fail due to its approach and the person/people behind it with not wanting it to succeed.
What I’m doing is poking at how people are behaving and how they talk about this initiative. And how the messaging is confusing and all over the place. It takes 5 people racing to explain it to me when I understand perfectly, and lay out a specific case. Yet no one replies to explain how my example would work.
I’m not the only one who sees this initiative as misguided, and mis framed.
Sorry for coming off like a troll, usually my outlier questions get responses instead of people acting like they are here.
I’ve really dug a bit too deep on this one, and I’ll try to stop replying now.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
You guys…
I picked an actual “online only” example for a reason. Yet everyone is jumping around talking about other things.
Turning a battle royal into a lan only game sounds like the solution I was expecting in my replies. And then yeah, you can even route that over the internet.
But that’s not changing the design, really. It’s providing the infrastructure needed to run it, even if it’s lan only, and would need more to run it over the internet.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
I mean, taking a 100 person battle royal and changing it so dramatically would be quite odd to do.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
Of course it’s not. That’s why I made my initial reply.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
That fighting game is not online only, I bet.
I replied to someone saying that an online only game should change their design.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
That sounds like an online only title. I thought we were going to “change that.”
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
That’s not “changing that” it’s keeping it online only.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
I tried to pick the most obvious example of an online only title.
What’s the plan with a 100 player battle royal game?
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
Why could you turn a battle royal game into a local only game?
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 3 weeks ago:
Careful.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 3 weeks ago:
They tried to kill it? Really? Like, “we must stop this from going forward!” In that way? Why would anyone attempt to stop it?
I still think this is going to fail. But I’m not trying to stop it. I hope it succeeds.
I also find the debate bros involved to be annoying.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 3 weeks ago:
Is that why they left “from” out of the title?
- Comment on The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the heads up!
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 4 weeks ago:
Well, that pirate guy didn’t do anything. (Unless he actually caused this, then… messy causality…)
- Comment on Roblox Accused Of Allowing Sexual Exploitation In Four Separate Lawsuits 4 weeks ago:
What are condos? Is that short for something?
The terms in Roblox are weird. I recently learned what “obby” is. (Obstacle course)
