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- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 1 day ago:
It’s good to see that AI favoritism is motivated entirely by spite.
My man, I’m sure you could just buy a dog to abuse if that’s really all you want in life.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 2 days ago:
So, am I supposed to start crying now, or…?
I haven’t recieved my half of the script yet. - Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 2 days ago:
Uh huh.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 2 days ago:
Here’s less: stop playing for the team of morons.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 2 days ago:
at what percentage AI use is it then slop?
And I’m supposed to explain it to someone who says this ↑?
When does a hill become a mountain? What exact meter elevation.
Slop is gruel. Slop is technically food. Slop is made to feed flocks of people with no concern for taste. Slop is utilitarian, but not satisfying. Slop is cheap, and only cheap; slop has no other enjoyable qualities.
Gen AI is a spam machine. It is built to satisfy uncreative people who want to borrow the social status of being talented. It is a technology for leeches.
Would you now like to argue that hollywood makes movies that are bad sometimes? I await with bated breath.
I might be an asshole, but I’m not a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy is the barrel bottom, laziest form of criticism. It’s not even worth responding to.
“You oppose sweat shops? Ah, but you wear clothes. Touché, monsieur.”
- Comment on Be better 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t tell someone to just do better, but that’s because I have tact.
I have plenty of sympathy for the difficulties of self-improvement, but only for people who actually try. Life is about steeling oneself against harsh winds so that you may see the sun again. If you have forgotten all about the sun, I don’t know what to do with you. It’s sad, is what it is.
- Comment on Be better 3 days ago:
Are these supposed to be examples to the contrary?
Having autism isn’t an excuse to be an asshole.
Neither is being a slave, really. It’s just that, coming from me, that’s kind of like an abusive father telling you not to be angry after I hit you.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 3 days ago:
As a programmer myself, I have the most to say about this.
I hate programmers because 99% of them are touch-starved, socially-constipated nerds who think that because they can solve a hard math problem that they are smarter and better than the thousands of years of social development that came before them. And so, they sit there, smugly destroying all of it because they are—and I’m being serious—too stupid to know what they’re breaking.
You don’t know why you should own a function that composes other functions you didn’t write? I’m not even going to give you the answer. Just, see if you can figure out a way that might work.
- Comment on Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games 3 days ago:
If I don’t own those parts, I don’t see how I can own the idea that was built from them.
Mouth agape.
I hate programmers, I hate programmers, I hate programmers.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 4 days ago:
I’m saying its functionally impossible to go from the status quo to a successful leveraged rebellion/revolution here.
That sounds like a very comforting story.
Forgive me if I don’t take protesting advice from a misanthropist.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 4 days ago:
Okay, you are actually advocating for people to give up. This is like a cattle mindset. The elephant that no longer tries to break the twine around his neck.
Never mind the fact that, no, I’m not underestimating—do I need to remind you what your grandmothers and grandfathers bled for? Are they just better people than you?
I am American, by the way. Do not come at me with that “fuck off european” horseshit.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 5 days ago:
This is why you show up in numbers that are difficult to deal with.
- Comment on Poteto 1 week ago:
This is emotionally vivifying.
- Comment on it's coming sooner than 2050 1 week ago:
They know this, and that’s why they wait to do things like this until they know you have relatively little choice.
Not that you shouldn’t care, but it’s worth remembering the guiding hand of the market is not an all powerful weapon.
- Comment on Banana for scale 1 week ago:
I’m at about a 6 on this scale. I have somewhat-happy wursts arriving tomorrow morning.
- Comment on Banana for scale 1 week ago:
I like to measure a number of wursts by how excited I am to receive them, which can be challenging because this is not a linear function.
- Comment on Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port 1 week ago:
It’s an indicator of general laziness and of poor quality.
I would hope it hasn’t affected anything, but now I’m forced to wonder if this PT is really the same PT that I remember.
Also, commercial projects are not wholly separated from the culture of hobbyists. They inform each other and reflect each other. If hobbyists largely use AI, then yes, commercial projects will too.
- Comment on Banana for scale 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they’re both arbitrary. You agree with me.
The “things” being counted in either respect are abstract and are only “known” if they are familiar.
- Comment on Banana for scale 2 weeks ago:
I’m not really following. What, are we counting feet, then? Mine?
Feet are just really entrenched in the way Americans think about lengths. It may not sound like it’s abstract, but it is. If I said “yeah, it’s about sixteen hands long”, people would have to parse wtf I’m talking about, but then have to grapple with how long a “hand” is exactly and what 16 of them means.
- Comment on Banana for scale 2 weeks ago:
But you don’t measure the number of scooters by gram, either.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 11th 2 weeks ago:
Ooooh…
Okay, listen, I have to finish 3 first at least. 7 was already waiting patiently for me to get around to it.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 11th 2 weeks ago:
I had so much fun revisiting Dread after a year or two because that game lies to you about how linear it is—it’s crazy.
I swear to god, there’s a point somewhere in the first third to halfway through where it just becomes an open-world game.
- Comment on ugh 4 weeks ago:
Mobile phones, as well. Thing is, though, I wouldn’t describe a mobile phone as “the next step in evolution”—it would seem downright silly to, even.
- Comment on ugh 4 weeks ago:
*Glass shatters*
“Hand Grip™ is unavailable right now; system updating…” - Comment on ugh 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I’m aware. It’s just, uh… that evolution statement taken as a given is something I would expect to hear from someone who’s maybe a bit too in love with the cyberpunk genre.
- Comment on ugh 4 weeks ago:
Transhumanism is the next step in evolution
Wat
- Comment on Arc Raiders is testing a PvE mode because "a large and growing group" refuse to hunt each other 4 weeks ago:
You feel adding an optional extra mode
If it doesn’t have a separate progression system, it’s not really optional—not in the way that you imply. It changes the incentive structures of the game as a whole, which means the whole game must be played differently.
As a basic excercise, let’s think about a game with a dark hallway that has scary monsters. Most players don’t want to walk down a dark hallway with scary monsters, so how do you get them to?
- Comment on Bang! 4 weeks ago:
Well, it does depend on which particular Batman comic run and author we’re talking about, but I have heard that this is sometimes the reason.
I probably consume even less Punisher, but my understanding is that he’s sort of like if Batman did kill people. They’re operating under the same moral framework. One that views The Law as civilizing and a world of Punishers as barbaric. Animalistic. A world of selfish kings fighting over the same throne.
This is different from what’s being expressed in the OP. The OP rejects the idea that this act is barbaric at all and instead focuses on the outcomes. They and the villain can’t be the same because they and the villain never do anything for the same reasons.
The villain in the OP has made billions suffer, and probably for money. But the hero is stopping the suffering, and because they like joy. The fact that they both kill, maybe, is immaterial. It doesn’t actually matter.
- Comment on Bang! 5 weeks ago:
If I understand correctly, yes. The idea is that the “just hand of the law” is a better executor of justice, even if it’s the same justice, than “some guy” with “some guy’s opinions” on things.
And to be clear, I don’t think that view is without it’s merrits, of course, I just think a lot of goodguy / badguy media really under explores it. Certainly they often ignore the view that good outcomes may sometimes be worth more than the process.
Also, I don’t actually watch / read much Batman. I think there are times when his refusal to use guns is more about his personal adjacency to the crime of his city, and how he feels that if he indulges too much in the call to violence, that he would just become another mafia kingpin. In a literal sense, like as if he were an addict refusing a drug.
- Comment on Bang! 5 weeks ago:
The logic is about a battle of ideologies. When the villain, or the hero sometimes, says they’d be just as bad as what they’re fighting, what they mean is that they’re succumbing to their baser instincts, allowing “might makes right” to win out against the spirit of democracy. “Democracy” in their view, the author’s I mean, is mostly about letting people coexist, and using only official channels to punish the most obscene offenders. The hero is rejecting “an eye for an eye,” essentially, in favor of the perceived fairness of the law.
This framing kind of doesn’t work because we all know who the villains are. We all know the world would be better off without The Joker in it. And worse, letting him go through the prison system to get the outcome we all want for him anyway isn’t really different from just shooting him yourself. It’s marginally different, maybe; probably better than enabling a bunch of vigilantes. But even so, it is an action that merely defers the pulling of the trigger to the state. Someone will be pulling it regardless, because as we all know, the world would be better off without The Joker.
