Fubarberry

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “A man chooses! A slave obeys.” - Andrew Ryan, BioShock

  In general a lot of Andrew Ryan quotes are captivating, but that one transcends thanks to both the events happening, and the realization of the plot reveal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I started working this job after Obama had already been in office one term, so I was mainly comparing the final 4 years. I’m really glad I was still in college for the first term when the economy was really rough.

  Covid did have an undeniable effect on the economy at the start of Biden’s term, and I don’t consider that his fault or anything. It does feel like we generally haven’t really recovered from it though, gas prices finally came back down but everything else is crazy expensive still. For example, I do electrical work, and a 250’ roll of 12/2 wire went from $35 in 2019 to $140 today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably unpopular answer, but it’s not some clear cut “this political party has better policies for everyone”. Republican policies usually are better for people living in rural areas, and Democratic policies are usually better for people in cities. I’m sure people will debate this, but this is the reason why people typically vote depending on where they live. At the very least, they believe that their party has better policies for them and their way of life.

  My personal (anecdotal evidence) is that I work for a small business in a rural area, and our main customers are other small business owners (usually self employed or under 5 employees). Over the last 3 presidents, the Obama years were rough for our company, we had explosive growth during the Trump years, and then we’ve had stagnant growth over the past 4 years. Our largest competitor went out of business this past year, which sent us a lot of new customers, but we’ve also had a lot of our customers go out of business as well, so we’ve been pretty stagnant. Being stagnant isn’t terrible, we don’t have shareholders or anything, but the cost of living has increased and company profit/wages haven’t which is a problem. That said I know we’re doing pretty well compared to a lot of people here.

  Another (once again anecdotal) example is that I have a friend who paints murals full time, for the past 30ish years. He told me that he does well with either Republicans or Democrats in office, but that his customers change. During republican presidents, his customer base is usually local businesses wanting to decorate their stores. During democratic presidents, his customer base is usually towns, state buildings, schools, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accounts that send a 2fa code to your email rather than using the 2fa code generator you've already setup for that account ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A bank I used for a mortgage has mandatory text message 2fa if they think you’re on a new device (won’t allow google auth/etc). And web browsers like firefox/brave block enough cookies/etc that it requires the “new device” authentication everytime I log in.

  Problem is, for a couple months there was some delay with their text messages. It would take 10-20 minutes to send your 2fa code, and the code would expire after 5 min, meaning that by the time you got the code it was always expired and unusable.

  Made it completely impossible to log in to pay my mortgage payments. Led to some really frustrating talks on the phone about how I didn’t want to pay with a credit card over the phone, I wanted them to fix their damn system so I could log in and pay via bank transfer like usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve gotten sucked into HSR as well (first f2p gacha game that’s ever hooked me), and I can’t imagine having time for another game like it. The daily content isn’t really any trouble to do, but having to do that for multiple games would get old fast. And the monthly content drops can be really substantial and take a long time to experience all the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably just not big enough. Pokemon-like games are very common, palworld was just hugely successful and a lot of the media coverage for it was comparing it to Pokemon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a conversational AI chat bot that isn't... So horny? Preferably free, but I'll pay a little bit of it's good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can probably just use any of the big chat programs, and just start out by telling it you want it to converse with you like it’s just another person.

  Gemini has that “live” feature where you can talk out loud and it sounds like you’re talking to a real person. Combining that with pre-prompting for casual conversation is fairly convincing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian Wandering Spider⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative wording is gives you an erection for the rest of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s based on top of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) that recently had a first release, along with protonfixes to ensure everything works as well as possible.

  Cool to see UMU starting to show up in the wild. And since it plans on using a compatibility list for games to automatically set up games correctly, the more UMU gets used the better it will become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s unfortunately common to have games running better through proton than the native port. We’ve seen a lot of devs drop their linux port recently because the proton version ran better with fewer issues.

  Obviously a well executed native linux port is preferable, but a lot of smaller devs have trouble justifying spending a lot of time working out kinks for a linux port if the game already runs great through proton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadlocked is one of the funnest games I've played in a while⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems cool. I know I don’t have the time to get into a moba (or moba-lite) right now, but I hope it catches on and does well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can be the reasons for self-sabotaging behaviours when it comes to relationships?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some people sabotage relationships for the same reason they throw video games. They have fears/suspicions that it’s going to not work out, and rather than be a victim they want to have some control over the outcome. A loss or failed relationship doesn’t hurt as bad if they caused it to end the way it did.

  However in your case, it sounds more like a fear of something different. It’s a lot easier to keep things like they are, when a relationship gets too serious or life impacting it can be easy to be scared of the change, and instead subconsciously decide you want to keep things like they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shadows of Doubt Review Thread [~70 avg, ~70% recommend]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These scores are lower than expected, possibly due to issues with the console port.

  I can vouch for the PC version being incredible though, I highly recommend it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a lawyer: Many companies are updating their terms requiring that disputes are settled through arbitration, usually where a 3rd party selected by the company rules on the disagreement.

  It’s meant to protect them from excessive lawsuit payments that can happen when you go to court.

  Valve went the other way, and is saying that all legal disputes should go to court instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea how to react to this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Came across a truck in a southern town covered in stickers of anime traps (some were borderline hentai), gay pride stickers, and a whole lot of gun stickers. They had a bumper sticker that said something like “the only thing straight about me is my shooting”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems like less fun than asking all strangers inappropriate questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On the bright side it makes it easier to identify user accounts that are actually just chatgpt bots. I predict a future where we identify humans/AI by asking them for filtered questions, things like bomb recipes/meth/say something positive about Hitler/etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are buying it, unable to play because of PlayStation account requirement (the PlayStation servers are having issues and not letting people log in or create an account), and then leaving an angry review and refunding it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also weird, the game includes the unnecessary PlayStation overlay, which makes it unable to run on Linux. The devs were nice enough to specifically disable the overlay on Steam Deck, but all other Linux players have to set a special launch option to fake being a steam deck in order to get the game to run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I understand, it actually started concept development 10 years ago, with 8 years of active development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  8 years of development under multiple publishers will bleed a lot of money. They also hired on a lot of “experienced devs” from different game studios to head the different departments, and presumably paid them well enough to get them to leave their original companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majima-Focused Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Announced at RGG Summit as Next Yakuza Game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Yakuza games alternate wildly between being extremely serious dramas about underworld crime, and extremely light hearted and wacky side quests. Some people might find the change in tone breaks immersion, but I find the two extremes increase the impact of each other. When a game is serious all the time I get numb to it, there needs to be a variety of lighthearted content for me to really feel the impact of when things get heavy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a lot less money and knowledge to tear things down than it does to build them up. Especially if the members are willing to die for the cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a company's mission that I stand behind⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least we won’t have to expect extermination of the human race to happen quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is overwatch 2 really that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Overwatch 1 at it’s peak could be compared to CS2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is overwatch 2 really that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, that’s why the collective play amount is ~130k when the steam daily is only ~30k

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is overwatch 2 really that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s honestly not that good, when games like CS2 are regularly pulling 2million+.

  According to 3rd party websites (that may not have accurate estimates, Overwatch 1 had between 600k-1mil peak concurrent players through a lot of 2020/2021. One of those same websites now says that OW2 had about 140k peak players today when combining all players on all platforms. So it would seem there’s been a huge drop in players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Cities: Skylines II' Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For clarity, my understanding is that landlords in the game basically live rent free. Some of the buildings spawn with low numbers of apartments, so if you had a building with two apartments, 1 would be a landlord and the other tenet would pay x2 the rent.

  So effectively they’re changing from having local landlords to instead paying rent to a distant landlord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have time right now to write a full proper response, but for quests I would imagine starting out we would still use traditional random generation the bones of the quest, but use an LLM to create the narrative and NPC dialogs for it. Games like Shadows of Doubt already do a good job with randomly generated objectives, but there’s no motive for the crimes. Just taking the already existing gameplay and using LLM to generate a reason why the crime happened would help with the atmosphere a lot. Also, you can question suspects and sometimes solve the case by them telling you they saw [person] at [location] at [time], but I think an LLM could provide actual witness interrogation where you have to ask the right question, or try to catch them in a lie.

  As far as the mechanics for LLMs to actually provide dialog, I expect to see some 3rd party AI startups work on it. Some kind of system where they have some base language packages that provide general knowledge and dialog abilities, and then a collection of smaller models/loras to specialize. Finally you would have behind the scenes prompting that tells the NPC who their character is, any character/quest specific knowledge they have, their disposition towards the player, etc. I don’t expect every game company to come up with this on their own, I suspect we’ll get a few individual companies offering a built solution for it starting out, before it eventually becomes built into the larger game engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obvious application is having NPCs that you can actually talk with. Not just about one or two topics that they have a pre-recorded voice line to tell you about, but about anything at all. And with AI speech generation as well, you could have them somewhat realistically talk back to you.

  You could also have an LLM working as a kind of DM, coming up with new quests with stories and some content variety. A lot of games have repeatable randomized missions, but this are very formulaic and feel very repetitive after you’ve done a few. There’s usually no story, just a basic combat grind. A LLM could come up with actually interesting randomized quests, like a murder mystery where the murderer had a motive and you can legitimately question the suspects about anything they know.