MrMcGasion

@MrMcGasion@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know Alan Wake 2 is better. The gameplay loop of the original is definitely a bit repetitive, I intentionally played on “easy” because I knew that going in, and wanted it to feel like less of a slog.

  The first 3 Uncharted games also feel like a bit of a slog in many of the same ways for me. There are too many “waves” of enemies in most of the areas and while the stealth mechanics in those games help make things a bit more interesting, the second wave of enemies always finds you immediately and forces you back into guns blazing at enemies going for first-time headshots on the NPCs because it’s the fastest way through, and if you miss the headshot and hit the body at all they become bullet sponges even if you follow it up with headshots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not gonna say I slept on it, but I’ve had Alan Wake in my library for over 5 years. Picked it up on sale around the time I got Control which I really wanted to play but never got around to. Decided since that whole universe seems more interconnected and with more games than it did when I bought them (Alan Wake 2, the upcoming sequel to Control, etc.), I should just do a playthrough of Alan Wake before I finally get around to getting Control off my backlog.

  Played through Alan Wake (the original, not the remake) this past weekend, and while it certainly shows its age in some areas, I had a lot more fun than I expected to. If you’re into narrative third person “shooter” games like Uncharted, Tomb Raider, or similar, Alan Wake is worth checking out.

  I’m looking forward to finally getting to Control this weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m apparently already participating. Haven’t booted my PS5 since April.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toothbrush heads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The dentists my insurance will cover are the national chains, and they are always trying to tack on an extra $85 for whatever brand electric toothbrush they’re peddling. They’ll even say I’m doing fine with brushing, but still recommend it, and have the receptionist ask while I’m scheduling my next cleaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toothbrush heads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find I brush more thouroughly with a manual brush and spend more time than when using a powered one. I think it’s probably more a “what I’m used to” situation where the electric brushes are a bit overstimulating and I forget to keep them charged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toothbrush heads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably an American thing, many of the dentists I’ve had tried to sell me an electric toothbrush. I claim I already have one (which I do, I just prefer not to use it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks chatgpt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for your service! o7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of the loop, why is this an Emma Vigeland W? (She’s awesome, just unaware of how this connects to her)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work smarter, not harder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who was a “store manager” at a franchise with only 2 employees (including myself). I left in 2012 because even in my early 20s I could see the direction things were going because of corporate mismanagement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mafs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Andy Serkis? George Takei?

  … oh nevermind, found the one you’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the future is now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the physics that make it look uncanny. Just the weight of that much liquid puts significantly more stress on flexible plastic. The only way it could still look like a puffer jacket would be if it was made of hard plastic which would be then impossible to put on or take off. Now I’ll admit I’ve probably had more experience with bagged liquids than most other Americans, considering I’ve worked with bagged milk in the food service industry, and I also prefer to take the bag out of box wine like Australians do. So maybe that’s why just the general shape triggers the AI alarm bells for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI be like⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely agree that to be called open source the training data should also be open. It would also pretty much mean that true open source models would be ethically trained.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caw caw⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine aren’t quite that long, but are similar. And I’m a guy. I get really severe ingrown toenails if I keep mine trimmed too short, but don’t have any issues as long as I keep them grown out past the skin. Yes, they’re annoying, and took getting used to. I can still wear closed-toed shoes (occasionally I buy a size larger if the shape of the shoe feels tight on my nails). It all still beats the pain and occasional bloody socks from my nails cutting into my toes as they grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lina Khan Revamped Antitrust. Now She’s Pushing the Democratic Party.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemonade Stand mentioned and pictured? That’s gonna go to Big A’s head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨choice⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could go the evil route and become a hitman as well, or rather a shitman, turning your targets into poo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all very unclear ⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI be this creative with text without getting completely scrambled, if anything the crazy text is evidence that it isn’t AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I have read and heard about all those things, none of them (to my knowledge) are being done by OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic, or any of the large companies fueling the current AI bubble, which is why I call it a bubble. The things you mentioned are where AI has potential, and I think that continuing to throw billions at marginally better LLMs and generative models at this point is hurting the real innovators. And sure, maybe some of those who are innovating end up getting bought by the larger companies, but that’s not as good for their start-ups or for humanity at large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using “good” in almost a moral sense. The quality of output from LLMs and generative AI is already about as good as it can get from a technical standpoint, continuing to throw money and data at it will only result in minimal improvement.

  What I mean by “good AI” is the potential of new types of AI models to be trained for things like diagnosing cancer, and and other predictive tasks that we haven’t thought of yet that actually have the potential to help humanity (and not just put artists and authors out of their jobs).

  The work of training new, useful AI models is going to be done by scientists and researchers, probably on a limited budgets because there won’t be a clear profit motive, and they won’t be able to afford thousands of $20,000 GPUs like are being thrown at LLMs and generative AI today. But as the current AI race crashes and burns, the used hardware of today will be more affordable and hopefully actually get used for useful AI projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I firmly believe we won’t get most of the interesting, “good” AI until after this current AI bubble bursts and goes down in flames. Once AI hardware is cheap interesting people will use it to make cool things. But right now, the big players in the space are drowning out anyone who might do real AI work that has potential by throwing more and more hardware and money at LLMs and generative AI models because they don’t understand the technology and see it as a way to get rich and powerful quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been revised since this edition. I was homeschooled with the “for Christian Schools” textbooks (and was sent to college at the University that produced them) I was just young enough to get the newer editions as they were being rewritten, my cousins who were 4 grades ahead of me weren’t as lucky and had the version shown in the picture. The versions I had were slightly better, they at least didn’t have this particular nonsense in them. But they still all taught a very warped view of science, and I was in my mid-twenties before I stopped believing in Creationism. The last ~10 years since then has taken both a lot of work to learn about reality, but has also been quite a lot of fun. Science is really cool if you aren’t stopping all the time to try to fit God in somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden ring night reign single player⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, they do scale the boss HP when solo vs a normal trio game, you also get one guaranteed free revive and shops are guaranteed to sell a revive item. Personally, I’d still rather queue with randoms, but we’ll see how that goes when they add duo games. Queue times can already be a bit long sometimes, and I’m a bit concerned that losing duo teams to their own mode will make solo queues even longer and more annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting The Witcher 4 to run at 60FPS on Xbox Series S will be ‘extremely challenging’ says CDPR⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine it’s even harder since it’s not their own engine this time around. With an in-house engine you get a team that knows the engine inside and out and can help squeeze out performance. Using Unreal Engine comes with a lot of tools that can make the art side easier so it seems like you’re saving time/money, but optimisation is arguably harder because you don’t have the same kind of internal expertise to optimise throughout production. I’m sure a studio their size can get some help from Epic, but that’s going to come with it’s own drawbacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unironically a top-5 movie for me. It’s bad, but it’s also everything I want from a movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon Musk is #26 and Tracer is #27. So there are definitely some edgelords fucking around and messing with the stats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think hams are still the most likely people to track down and get illegal stations shut down. At what point do we say, “nah, don’t care who you sold our frequencies to, this is our bit of spectrum and we’re not moving.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odin 2 Maker Ayn To Join Anbernic In Pausing US Shipments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine (early LCD model) has “Made in China” on the label, which even if most of the parts are made elsewhere, if final assembly is in China, that’s the tariff rate that will apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odin 2 Maker Ayn To Join Anbernic In Pausing US Shipments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the SteamDeck doubles or triples in price before long. We already knew Valve wasn’t making much, if anything, on them, and with a 245% tariff, I kinda doubt they’ll just eat that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the tune I thought of (apologies for linking a YT short, but it was the only version I could find)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little know fact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even as a straight, young boy I was disappointed for her. I vividly remember announcing “but he’s MORE ugly now!” Somehow, none of the conservative, Christian adults in the room liked me saying that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My YouTube homepage after I watch one balatro video⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has watched 6 of those videos in the screenshot from across 3 different channels, I apologize for my part in training the algorithm into thinking others who watch a single Balatro video might be interested in watching all the variety streamers play Balatro.