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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I refuse to pay $80 for a game and Borderlands fell off after the second one, so good luck with that. $70 was also a bridge too far for 99% of games (I made the exception for gems like Elden Ring).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have avoided working for the FAANG companies my entire career and I’m happier for it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I recommend skipping the article and instead skimming through the TED talk. It at least sounds like they’re using it as a tool to assist their artists, but the end result still has the same exact uncanny valley look we see on every AI video any ol’ person on the internet can make.

And there is where art truly goes to die. Suddenly every creative outlet is using the same tools and everything comes out with the same exact weird sheen. ILM is supposed to be a pioneer in this stuff and I respect that they’re not straight up replacing artists (yet) with this, but they’re ultimately sacrificing any aesthetics they’ve employed for years.

At the end of the day, all of this stuff is boils down to speed, and that endless increase in speed is driven… by capitalism. We’re sacrificing aspects of our creative processes so that we can churn more out, instead of taking the time needed to make something truly unique.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This kind of thing will 100% kill any chance of me buying another Switch.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This game is so much fun, even when I’m the loner getting my ass handed to me on my sloop (which is most of the time). Seeing a ship looming in the distance and wondering if it’s going to come after you is such a rush.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Quake 3 Instagib.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thankfully I deleted my account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t really count Lemmy or Mastodon. They feel more like forums to me, but that might be my age showing. I know traditional forums these days have fallen out of popularity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thankfully I deleted my account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Deleting all of my social media accounts was one of the best choices I made this year.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
AI image generation is going to royally fuck up the body image for a lot of people. We’re going to get to a point where we can no longer discern between reality or fantasy.

People will get a handle on voice generation AI so that they can make the person they secretly obsess over, tell them all sorts of things without their knowledge. It can also be used to impersonate a relative or friend for phone scams.

AI glasses are going to do facial recognition on people without their knowledge, and some creepy motherfuckers are going to use it to stalk women. They’ll give you info on some building, while simultaneously making you a surveillance tool for the state.

AI bots are already flooding every platform and being used to spread propaganda. They are the employees that never sleep. We all know how widespread they are on Reddit.

This is a window into the future with AI in the hands of sociopaths and corporations. They are going to doom us to a world that is devoid of a soul or human connection.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It can’t self-correct, write new curriculum, etc. It’s an abyss for errors and it does not understand when you correct it. I’ve tried and watched it give me the same alternating 2 answers that I told it were both wrong. If it’s wrong, you basically have no idea. You’re putting trust in a navigator that is simply reading instructions understanding none of them.

I’ve been in tech professionally for around 18 years and have lived through trends and changes. This is by far the worst one and the most haphazard. I’m not anti-AI (I use Copilot at work and it’s constantly wrong), but what is happening now with this AI wave is just reckless. They’re throwing it at everything because shareholders love shiny new things that make line go up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

claims to care deeply about its employees replaces some employees with bots

Duolingo is talking out of both sides of their mouth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Quoting myself from another reply:

I have a friend that has been buying them for years after his actual AirPods died. They get recognized as AirPods on iOS and macOS, and the ANC is the exact same. He’s bought multiple pairs and says they function, look, and feel exactly the same.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have a friend that has been buying them for years after his actual AirPods died. They get recognized as AirPods on iOS and macOS, and the ANC is the exact same. He’s bought multiple pairs and says they function, look, and feel exactly the same.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Similarly, if you want AirPods but you don’t want to pay AirPods pricing: jenny.airreps.info

The factories in China have all of the specs and info because they make the actual AirPods, so they sell tons of knockoff versions that are identical.

Americans are a captive audience for US companies to ripoff constantly and for our entire lives. We’re like livestock. Once you start to see how massively overpriced everything has been for years due to greedy western middlemen, it changes your perspective on what to buy and what you’re willing to pay.

I want to build a small website that provides alternative sources for anything people can think of. Maybe categorized into buckets. Tech, clothing, home goods, etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Pretty sad state of affairs when our choices are human rights violation 1 or human rights violation 2.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, no I get it. I went to Chile a few years ago and it made me realize how truly big the WhatsApp community was in South America. It was on billboards, buildings; it’s become a necessity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I recently bought 2 of these for my partner and I. Worth every penny if you’re going to lay in bed or sit somewhere with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
At some point you have to jump ship and follow what fits you and your needs/wants in terms of security, morality (in the context of Meta and its complete lack of ethics), etc. You can try and get folks to try other platforms but most of them will inevitably fall back to what they know and never leave. I’m not going to keep Facebook around on the off chance that one relative needs to reach out. The relatives willing to actually make an effort to reach out can already text or call me and vice versa.

This whole billionaire social media prison is not something I’m willing to keep destroying my mental health on over some “blood is thicker than water” bs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
“But none of my friends are on there.”

Make new friends then.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The trend with AI seems to be that the folks with zero talent—the ones that have never poured themselves into a single cathartic creative, discovery, or research process once in their lives—are the ones pushing AI the hardest. AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed. The only “problem” execs see is that they have too big of a headcount and need to reduce that ASAP so that they can pump out more soulless slop.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Funny enough, this is why I’ve enjoyed Rednote a ton. I’ve found that a lot of western folks are there as a reprieve from how insanely volatile Meta and other platforms have gotten. It’s a different vibe and the platform was specifically built for people to learn and grow together. The audience there very much strives to keep a good vibe and will call out anyone that tries to disrupt that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s the closest I’ll ever get.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I used to have a really robust RSS feed but lost it when the service I was using changed. Need to rebuild that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks! Never thought I’d own a domain with “yachts” in it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I left every single western social network because they’re all filled to the brim with angry, asshole people. America has a ton of miserable people that will go out of their way to be rude to others on every social network. I’m sick of that energy.

The only things I use now are Xiaohongshu (Rednote) and Lemmy (my own instance).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump extends deadline for TikTok deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

[…] who he said were unhappy with the tariffs that he had imposed on imports from the country. Shocking. Gee I wonder why they are unwilling to work with him…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Machines in the hands of the working class can thrive in a way that benefits everyone equally, and is available to everyone. But as soon as capitalists get it, the whole idea becomes corrupted because the sole purpose is profit at all costs. AI is not profitable yet, which is why these companies will pull out all the stops (including downloading content from illegal sources that they otherwise scold everyone else for using).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Oh there’s definitely no going back. This will continue to erode the art scene and continue to steal artwork from humans that spent hours making it. No government or entity can or should go into homes and take these things away, but it’s not really about that. Companies are vacuuming up artwork, books, etc and paying nobody for them, while telling us some nonsense like it’s a positive for society. No compensation for the thing they are now going to make money off of, but they’d sue you into oblivion in a second if you stole something from them. That simple fact is why this is all shit.

I love the idea of AI and I’ve built things using ChatGPT’s API (miserable), but these capitalists have gone about it all wrong per usual. It could’ve been a public resource that people willingly contribute to, but the capitalists took it upon themselves to break the rules again, while hiding behind a shield of excuses for why they should pay nobody.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voice actors speak out on AI in video games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The problem at its core is definitely capitalism. That said, AI itself is nothing more than a massive plagiarism machine that is extremely cost-prohibitive to run, which means the only ones that control it and have a say are the ones with the most money. There’s a space for ethical AI that isn’t trained haphazardly on copyrighted works, but what we have today in the mainstream is not that.

As much as I personally hate building anything with AI (programmer that has had to build tools that use it), I don’t hate the concept of AI itself. I hate the fact that the people with the most money to innovate with it are churning out the most boring products so they can go to market faster, while also burning the planet down in the process.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voice actors speak out on AI in video games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah the current admin, at least in the US, ain’t enforcing that lol. They’re all in on AI’ifying everything in sight. AI is a hellscape in the hands of capitalists.