lemmyvore
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- Comment on It is apparently controversial 8 hours ago:
It’ll bring you a clarity of mind and a knowledge of complete vulnerability that you can’t really find outside of other imminently life-threatening situations.
Now you know how women feel very often, sometimes multiple times in the same day. It’s something they learn to live with their whole lives.
It’s not hyperbole. When women say “I’d rather meet a bear” they really mean it. It’s the same feeling, but it would happen extremely rarely instead of daily.
- Comment on It is apparently controversial 1 day ago:
The bear would not call women irrational.
(The best part of this meme is that the people in question supply the rebukes themselves.)
- Comment on Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon 1 day ago:
character based FPS, like multiplayer Borderlands
That applies too, but it’s orthogonal to game structure. MOBAs also tend to be character based and you can add it to basically any game (eg. card based rogues like Slay the Spire).
But there are also lots of battle royales without characters (like PUBG or Fortnite) and team deathmatch without characters like CS.
- Comment on Online Content Is Disappearing 2 days ago:
I wonder how much of this stuff may still be around on harddrives somewhere. Random blogs probably not because they were using shared hosting that would overwrite and reuse the space when the blog went down, and typically destroy the drives when the servers got decomissioned. But maybe large platforms like Geocities might still be archived somewhere.
- Comment on Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon 2 days ago:
Apparently both Natural Selection and Tremulous were inspired by the Gloom mod for Quake 2, according to the Tremulous FAQ:
Development on Tremulous began long before NS was in the public domain. If Tremulous is inspired by anything, it is inspired by Gloom for Quake 2. NS has a similar ancestry (please see Game Developer Magazine February 2001 issue); this is probably where the confusion arises.
- Comment on Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon 2 days ago:
They’re surprisingly fun and I wonder why more team deathmatch games don’t include them.
I used to play Tremulous and it was super addictive to live and die by your base elements. Gives the game a whole new dimension.
- Comment on Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon 2 days ago:
They’re actually two different genres, team deathmatch and battle royale.
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 3 days ago:
Site owners haven’t figured that out yet. They still cling to the notion that search optimization works. And it still does, to some extent.
Like, if you’re a small business owner providing local services in your city and you get customers that find you through Google, what can you do except continue to optimize for Google?
- Comment on Square Enix Will Begin Layoffs As Part Of 'Structural Reforms' This Week 1 week ago:
I seem to recall that FFXI makes up a pretty good portion of their MMO earnings, which in turn are a large part of their income.
Besides there’s nothing really pressing them. Both FFXI and FFXIV use antiquated tech by today’s standards and they don’t seem to care to change it.
- Comment on Steam is now banned in Vietnam 1 week ago:
Do they not also block access to the Steam IPs?
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Again, why do you care? You paid for a product. That product is now different from what it was supposed to be. You’ve been screwed and switch-baited. Why do you care what unholy combination of companies led to this? If it were any other industry and any other type of product you’d be screaming murder. But because it’s games we find excuses.
- Comment on You won’t need a PSN account to play Ghost of Tsushima single-player, devs reassure after Helldivers 2 fallout 2 weeks ago:
It’s not up to the devs.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 2 weeks ago:
You don’t owe Arrowhead anything. They’re not a dog, they’re a company who’s made bad choices and now has to deal with them.
What use is a good game if you get blocked out or exploited trying to play it? Do you really want to give your money away? Ok, but stop wondering why the industry is going to shit. It’s because of gamers with more money than sense.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but now people will get right back to spending money on the game. So at the end of the day it’s still Sony laughing all the way to the bank.
Shit like this should result in a boycott not in “at least it’s not as bad as it could’ve been”.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
If they’re as incompetent as they sound they’d have to change it manually and assuming you could make them do that it would probably break something in the account. 😄 There’s no good way to do this if it was badly put together.
- Comment on [OC] I (For real) remastered all of Starcraft's Terran themes. What game music should I remaster next? 3 weeks ago:
From what source? To be a remaster you’d need access to the original tracks or even higher quality ones. If you used the in-game music it’s not a remaster, at best it’s a remix.
- Comment on Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown 3 weeks ago:
The library shrank over a long period due to the change in patronage, from rulers friendly to academia to some that had other priorities. The writings were taken to other places that were more interested in them. There was indeed a fire at some point but it only burned part of it and anyway by that time the collection was a fraction of what it used to be.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
I’m using scalping with the obvious definition of gouging profit.
I’m saying scalping is enabled by making tickets hard to counterfeit. You can’t criminalize the act of reselling itself but you can deter it by making it inherently untrustworthy. Reselling should be possible, but it needs to stop short of getting out of hand.
When you create a trustworthy ticket resell market you’re basically creating a hotbed of scalping. If people can reliably find clients for ever-increasing ticket prices, then ticket prices will keep going up. That’s exactly what Ticket Nation & friends have done, and they profit by taking a fat percentage.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 5 weeks ago:
Over here we use bar codes and QR codes exclusively and they deliver them through whatever method you want — PDF or image in email, text message, download PDF, you can even take a screenshot of the web page after you’re done paying if you want.
Which I’ve done many times (the screenshot thing) esp for things like movie tickets where I don’t bother with creating an account because I don’t go that often. I look up the movie or event, pick the seats, pay, take a screenshot of the QR code, send it to whoever’s going on Whatsapp, done.
I’m not sure I understand what the problem is. The venue already got their money. Either someone will show up to redeem the seat or they won’t, they don’t care either way. And it’s trivial to make sure the codes can’t be faked and that only the first scanned code gets in.
The fact there’s no way to check you’re not getting scammed has actually led to an almost total disappearance of scalping. The only resales happen only through friends or friend of a friend sort of thing.
Every once in a while there’s some organizer who thinks they’re smart and issue paper tickets and those are pretty much the only times you see tickets scalped online or outside the venue the night of the concert.
- Comment on You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website. 5 weeks ago:
It redirects me to the https site too, but txdmv.gov shows a different site than www.txdmv.gov? Lol, what is going on.
- Comment on You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website. 5 weeks ago:
maybe some browsers interpret a bare hostname without protocol specifier as an http address, and some as an https address.
And if you have a browser that does the former I would suggest finding a better one soon. The internet is moving away from unencrypted HTTP, a browser that doesn’t default to HTTPS nowadays is pretty strange.
- Comment on Anon is embarrassed by their steam library 5 weeks ago:
My thoughts exactly. Asking to become Steam friends just for a one-off bday gift is a bit much.
- Comment on Rogue-like Prince of Persia reportedly on the way from Dead Cells studio Evil Empire 1 month ago:
Why not a Prince of Persia 1989 rogue? It was literally a dungeon crawler…
- Comment on Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service 2 months ago:
The entire post is a very good read because it goes over all the aspects of such an undertaking. And it doesn’t look like something easy to do.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Obviously fake. A real announcement would have called him -sama purely out of spite.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 4 months ago:
Unfortunately you haven’t seen the full impact of LLMs yet. What you’re seeing now is stuff that’s already been going on for a decade. SEO content generators have been a thing for many years and used by everybody from small business owners to site chains pinching ad pennies.
When the LLM crap will kick in you won’t see anything except their links. I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ll have to go back to 90s tech and use human-curated webrings and directories.
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 4 months ago:
A loom is a precision machine. You know exactly what you’re going to get when you use one. It’s output was identical to manual work, only a lot more efficient and less error prone.
There is no “AI”. What we have is LLMs, which are probabilistic generators. It’s anybody’s guess what you’re going to get when you use a LLM and they’re more likely to introduce mistakes rather than eliminate them.
The comparison to looms is incorrect. LLMs can be useful but I’m a completely different way. They shine when used to augment the work of a human expert but they can’t be trusted to perform alone.
So yeah, right now attempting to use a LLM exclusively leads to a drop in quality.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 4 months ago:
This isn’t about scraping the internet. The internet is full of crap and the LLMs will add even more crap to it. It will shortly become exponentially harder to find the meaningful content on the internet.
No, this is about dipping into high quality, curated content. OpenAI wants to be able to use all existing human artwork without paying anything for it, so they can flood the world with cheap knockoff copies. It’s that simple.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 4 months ago:
Use any metric you want. StatCounter, Wikipedia… They all show Firefox at around 5% globally and still dropping. It’s a very real alarm signal and there’s no time to waste in denial.
- Comment on Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators 4 months ago:
You can make it a little thicker and have USB-B so you can connect printers directly. Or a little thicker yet and keep a bicycle in there.