apotheotic
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- Comment on *tap tap tap* 1 day ago:
If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 5 days ago:
I have to recommend Ascent DX - it is free, quite short, but it condenses everything I enjoy about the metroidvania genre I to a bite sized play session.
Tunic is one of the best games ever made, nevermind just in the metroidvania genre
Phoenotopia Awakening was stupendous fun and way bigger than I thought it would be. Strongly recommended.
Death’s Door was so damn fun, and it felt quite fresh in a way I can’t describe
AAAAXY was a lot of fun, and free and open source. Sort of like antichamber meets metroidvania
Otherwise, as others mentioned, I can’t recommend these enough!:
Hollow Knight
Ori And The Blind Forest/Will Of The Wisps
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 5 days ago:
Eh, some people miss the initial news cycle on things. I can’t speak to why old articles are being shared, but as for the people engaging with them, I think thats totally normal.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels
It is strictly only applied to ones with one carpel, but is used anyway to refer to ones with two carpels? That’s not confusing at all
- Comment on Naughty rats get the tube 1 week ago:
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 1 week ago:
“I guess it wasn’t a safe space for autistic people” is an insane takeaway from being temp banned for talking about people fucking their mothers and how people downvoting you arouses you (on a thread about not using a right wing hate symbol).
As an autistic person I’m baffled you’d try to hide behind your neurodivergence here.
- Comment on Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years 1 week ago:
Good first step! Can we remove all the anti-human bullshit that we’ve put everywhere too?
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 3 weeks ago:
But its so fun and funny to sexualise the children’s cartoon, guys
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 3 weeks ago:
Did you know-
- Comment on What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence? 3 weeks ago:
Your Lie In April - it has the entire plot of the anime in the intro, if you know what you’re looking for. But if you don’t know what to look for, it is totally innocuous. Also the song SLAPS
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 3 weeks ago:
Vaporeon looking-ass slug
- Comment on ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code 3 weeks ago:
I don’t agree with this argument at all, because if a human artist were to employ the same kind of algorithmic mimicry that an AI does, I would consider it plagiarism. There is a distinct difference between how a human observes and learns from other artists work, and how an AI does it.
Moreover, to take things out of the realm of plagiarism, if a human artist was mimicking the style of another artist and making bank off of it, and the original artist were to say “hey, that’s kinda not cool, I don’t appreciate this” you could have a conversation about how to accommodate both parties. With AI, there is no such conversation to be had, because it will replicate without barriers and do so in volumes that dwarf any sort of output the original artist could dream of, no matter how nicely you ask it not to, unless it was not trained on it in the first place.
Anyway, my pushback in my original message was not about the output being plagiarism or anything of the sort, it was about the usage of authors/artists work as training data (input) being non-consensual.
- Comment on ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code 3 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree that its a misstep, but it feels like one that is not going to be corrected. It is going to be treated as the normal thing to do with training AI.
I would hazard that there wouldn’t be nearly as many artists complaining about AI if it hadn’t been trained on immorally obtained inputs. The fact that it can effortlessly recreate the style of an artist that was added to the data without their consent is, I think, what gives most artists the visceral reaction that they have. “Not only is it doing what we can do (to some degree), it is doing so because our work was used without our consent”.
AI is a valuable tool for art if used correctly, I don’t know if I agree that it is a disability aid. I can perhaps concede that someone who is entirely without fine motor ability can now make colours and shapes that vaguely resemble what they had in mind where perhaps they couldn’t before, but its difficult for me to consider that case “creating”. It is creating in the same sense as describing to your friend what you want and them trying to draw what you describe. There’s an output that resembles your input description, which might be enough for some?
- Comment on ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code 3 weeks ago:
Like, I get that there’s people who are mocking AI for the wrong reasons, and they’re silly for that, but there are very real reasons to dislike AI in many applications.
Would chatgpt be able to do this if their dataset had consisted only of ethically obtained data where the authors had provided consent? My money is on no, at least not yet. The technology is in its infancy and has powerful potential, but is having its progress boosted through highly unethical means.
I’m so very much for the concept of AI, its a monumental technology space at its core. But it needs to be done right, and I fear that it never will be, and we will have to live with the sins of the existing models forever. I hope I will be wrong.
If we can reach a future where models are trained on entirely consensual data and the environmental impact of their training and usage isn’t as dire, I’d be so happy.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 3 weeks ago:
Hey, no! How about we treat people in our prison system like people we are trying to rehabilitate hmm?
- Comment on Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene 3 weeks ago:
This is fucking disgusting and, as mentioned by others here, literally fucking crime
- Comment on they come 4 weeks ago:
Until recently, summer hasn’t really warranted air conditioning, you could get by pretty neatly with just fans when it was particularly hot
- Comment on Official poster for "Zootopia 2" 4 weeks ago:
I felt a great disturbance in the force. As if millions of furries suddenly cried out in horny and were suddenly silenced (they started to draw more Judy Hopps r34)
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 5 weeks ago:
Quantifying the value of your media in “hours spent consuming it” is an intrinsically poor way to do things
- Comment on Yes, AI will eventually replace some workers. But that day is still a long way off 1 month ago:
Which search llm is filtering out any of the content farm and seo stuff?
- Comment on What are the best gaming moments of the last decade? 1 month ago:
Its a game that, by all means, shouldn’t exist
- Comment on What are the best gaming moments of the last decade? 1 month ago:
Hard agree for that entire scene from Disco Elysium, that, the spoiler at the end that helps you to find the scope, and the payphone.
Calling…
Calling…
Calling…
Still calling…
- Comment on What are the best gaming moments of the last decade? 1 month ago:
Basically everything in Disco Elysium, there were so many moments that made my jaw drop.
The first ‘ending’ to Void Stranger.
Horizon Zero Dawn had some jaw dropping moments of storytelling.
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 1 month ago:
I love an open world game that is done well - Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. But so often it is just done because thats what they think is the hot thing, and it does not work
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 month ago:
Most will listen to songs a great many times, and movies get rewatched too, books reread. I get where you’re coming from though.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 month ago:
I would agree, yeah. Thankfully you have folks like GOG doing work to preserve older titles
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 month ago:
Hard to argue with that. Garçon, I am ready for my next short form video!
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 month ago:
I don’t entirely disagree with you but, does every medium not have to compete with a growing backlog of classics?
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 1 month ago:
Yeah, so you end up with a fraction of a fraction of the work time going to actually doing the block chain transaction, and the vast majority going into the artificial difficulty
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 1 month ago:
I always thought it would be ideal to do this to create a powerful distributed computing network that can both serve to process the transactions made with the coin and also to do something useful, like folding@home or seti@home or whatever. But apparently nope, GPU crossword puzzles that do nothing but use electricity to make heat are the best they could think of.
