TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, absolutely it is virtue signalling. You are taking an utterly meaningless stance for which the only upside for anyone is you think you maintain some kind of honour despite consuming “theft slop” unknowingly every day, even as you read this sentence, and the only downside for anyone is that you don’t get to experience a game that you otherwise would enjoy used to have, even if deliberately and knowingly, used to have some AI textures.
You’re the one who ignored what I said, which is why I’m essentially just having to repeat myself. If you take such hardline stance that any use at all is “theft slop”, you might as well go offline. It’s in the code that made the app you’re using. It’s in the code running your OS. It’s in music you listen to. It’s in the movies you watch.
Absolutely push back on theft - deliberate misrepresentation of someone’s work or style as orignal. Absolutely push back on slop. Just because it took a minute to generate something doesn’t mean you don’t then check it before productionising it. But taking this weird religious stance where something literally is tainted from previously having used AI, that is just for you. You’ve got about 30,000 days on this earth, man. Probably a good chunk of that is gone already spent a few hours of it playing an interesting, original game which does more to demonstrate the value of real creativity and originality than any little personal protest you indulge yourself in.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 2 weeks ago:
They removed the AI content less than a week after release. By unspecified I mean it wasn’t a deliberate “this is the AI section”.
The awards were given 4 days ago, 6 months after release (more?). So the judgement is not on the game as it stands or even as it was submitted.
The awards don’t matter, I’m just genuinely baffled by this person depriving themselves of joy because of some virtue signalling that relies entirely on just not being aware of AI being used everywhere else.
Following the publication of this article, Sandfall Interactive wishes to provide the following clarifications.
The studio states that it was in contact with El País on April 25 - three months prior to this publication. During these exchanges, Sandfall Interactive indicated that it had used a limited number of pre-existing assets, notably 3D assets sourced from the Unreal Engine Marketplace. None of these assets were created using artificial intelligence. Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative Al-created assets in the game. When the first Al tools became available in 2022, some members of the team briefly experimented with them to generate temporary placeholder textures. Upon release, instances of a placeholder texture were removed within 5 days to be replaced with the correct textures that had always been intended for release, but were missed during the Quality Assurance process.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 2 weeks ago:
Because they used, and then removed, placeholder AO generated textures in some unspecified location?
I hate to break it to you buddy but for the last 2 years every piece of software you’ve used, including this one, has had the dev experiment with AI tools.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Nice religion.
It’s a tool. You’re attaching far too much moral virtue to something that in another breath you will describe as an autocomplete tool.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
You are all over this thread repeating variations of the same comment which, despite wildly different responses from voters, mostly show you do not at all understand how image model training and generation work.
This sort of absolutism is dead. Do you think they should be disqualified if they Google something and the answer is in Google’s AI summary?
- No? Great, now we understand your line is subjective and you get to decide what is or isn’t acceptable use of AI.
- Yes? Cool. Describe how the you police this and how do you choose between fhe three games made next year that will qualify, of which 2 are furry Visual Novels made entirely of RPG maker assets and 1 is the fifty-seventh Pokemon entry.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 weeks ago:
Vast yes. Deep, no. That’s what you’re experiencing; the actual game loop is about as complex as Farmville
- Comment on Soup 4 weeks ago:
If it was 15% pureed vegetables however? Because that’s what the bottom axis represents
- Comment on Gravity! 4 weeks ago:
The stupidest possible way to say the truth. Now that’s a .ml comment
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 5 weeks ago:
Actually they develop in its juvenile state when they are vulnerable to more mundane predators but are then retained for sexual selection in adulthood.
There is only one tarrasque in existence, resulting in it taking its sexual frustration out on level 20 adventuring parties and parties that keep making fun of the lore- uh, history- of the world they grew up in.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 months ago:
I’m from Ireland. Going door calling is absolutely part of it. Specifically saying “trick or treat” is not, because, y’know, English. But it doesn’t really matter what English phrase you use, it’s not going to be Irish. So?
I’m with you on pumpkins but there’s more interesting hills to die on.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 months ago:
Are you from Ireland or from Scotland?
- Comment on Potentially Unmoderated Community 2 months ago:
This previously harmless troll is in the midst of an AI-caused psychological break where he’s imagining sentient goddesses persisting in a image AI model. lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/comment/20091298
Please don’t give him more buttons to press
- Comment on egg time 2 months ago:
This is the other way around. There are some who want to push back the definition of “bird” to include more dinosaurs via earlier divergence. There are even a few that argue that certain conventially non-avian dinosaurs are actually from the agreed bird lineage but converged back on a bipedal dinosaur shape.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Here’s the thing…
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 3 months ago:
Please don’t ever play D&D with real people
- Comment on do what you love 4 months ago:
CS is Computer Science, Cyber Security is abbreviated as CyberSecs, Google it
- Comment on Where will nsfw game creators go now that itch.io has "changed"? 5 months ago:
Based on what Steam did, isn’t uh, specific categories of NSFW that were removed? Or has itch gone 100% no NSFW?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.
Do you not consider Russians human?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
You want examples of Chinese companies disregarding copyright? Uh.
www.aliexpress.com? Or, yknow, the actual article we’re commenting on?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
You think I’m going to shift the goalposts for one example? Ok, yeah that definitely overrules literally decades of behaviour. You win. Here’s your Internet reward for the best argument. ⭐️
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
Explained is not the same as justified.
I would have thought this was obvious but forcing your rivals to abide by their own rules while flouting them yourself is not an endorsement of those rules, it’s a mockery of them.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
I have no issue with people going after China. I’m not a hexbear/ml stooge. It is possible for two things to be bad. It is possible for something about a bad entity to be neutral or at least unsurprising. Which is how I would describe China’s lack of real interest in engaging with, from their perspective, the global order’s new fad interest in intellectual property rights.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.
Arf arf arf
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.
The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
“Issues with westerners” is an odd choice given that I’m Irish but ok.
It’s not my job to comfort American fragility. Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
We used to just call that “pointing out hypocrisy” before Americans found a thought terminating phrase for it
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 5 months ago:
abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology
sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor
sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food
“Why don’t China care about western patents and copyright?”
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 5 months ago:
I’m spelling it the Hiberno-Hellenic way
- Comment on get sum 5 months ago:
It think that rather than early - really early - exposure to porn turning everyone into sex-fiends, it’s actually terrifying a lot of them. What if I don’t want to gargle cum like Adriana Chechik? What if I don’t have a 10 inch cock to stuff my stepmother with?
A more optimistic reading might be that masturbating is easier, freer, quicker, and more accepted than ever before. Rather than risk an STI, pregnancy or human relationship, just crank one out and get back to work.