Dremor
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- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
I said “being inspired by”, not “using”. There is a difference.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Not before being unknowingly sold to the public
Well, if that was truly forgotten in the game at release, and removed once discovered, I don’t see any problem. The textures that are used now are 100% hand made by actual artist, to my knowledge.
My problem with AI is its heavy usage of plagiarism and vast degree of power consumption, as well as the price hikes its caused for many computer parts.
I entirely agree with you there. The plagiarism problem is in my opinion partly resolved by open datasets (OpenOrca, and the like), which means the user has the possibility of choosing to not rely on plagiarism. Problem is that the models trained with those dataset are rarely available on public platform, which is another reason why I use my own infrastructure. Personally I use Mistal-7B-OpenOrca on a locally run Ollama, which reside in my homelab. The power consumption is a problem, and the reason why I use my own dedicated hardware for anything related to AI (which has also the advantage of heating my home a little bit, so nothing is lost 😆). I even invested in a laptop with dedicated AI hardware to be able to make it as efficient as possible. And of course got hit by the AI taxe, albeit I was lucky to get 32Go DDR5 at only twice the usual rate instead of five time the usual rate as it is currently the case.
Whenever anything is attempting to make money, it should be put under the highest scrutiny. It does not matter who’s pushing it. Similarly, I find it odd that we’re assuming the inner workings of Clair Obscur’s workplace
You are right. But I don’t think they the the kind of guys to seek wealth of fame. They put their energy in a project they believed in, can we blame them to have used the tools they had in hand to try making the most of their limited budget ?
If you replaced AI here with anything defamatory, like pictures of penises placed by an enraged employee after being fired, then even having a few would be devastating on sales. The single fact that we’re okay with a few means that, over time, that bar will likely be pushed further down the road “oh, it’s just this one character that practically never shows up” “oh, it’s just the skyboxes, they’re basically not noticeable anyway” “who cares if the early access uses AI voices? They’ll be replaced eventually!”
You’d be surprised how often it happen for former angry employees to do that. We even had example in some Disney, with very explicit scenes even going all the way to customers.
I never said that they where OK with it, just that no one can be expected to check every little texture without being expected to miss some of them. Human are prone to fatigue, and I saw many bugs going in production due to such errors of judgement.
As for using AI during early access, IMO it depends on the size of the project. And one man project ? Totally fine, even after launch. A full 400 men project from a big publisher? Not so much, they have to mean to do it by hand. Especially considering how expensive they sell it afterward.
Clair Obscur being a mostly 30 men project (plus some occasional extras), I, personally, don’t see AI usage as a problem as soon as it is sparsely used.I assure you, AI is not popular. Studies have shown that AI is causing people more concern than excitement Not the most reputable source, but oh well
I’m speaking about Clair Obscur, not AI. Don’t you feel surprised that as soon as they get a big boost from the game award, you see people left and right creating dramas for whatever reason they find? Some forgotten AI texture in the final game? Really?
Blue Prince does use AI assets No it didn’t
My apology for jumping on that bandwagon. I’m unfortunately not totally immune to that either 😅
On the other hand, IGA did forbid AI on the whole project pipeline, and if I find it a bit overblown, it is their choice, and I’ll respect that.
What baffles me is all the hate Clair Obscur got because of that. The vast majority was made by hand, and the game is good. If the story was AI gen, or the music, I’d agree, but a fucking texture? In which way would it suddenly make a multiple year project shit like some pretends? - Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
It’s is still their own artistic sensibility that made the art, not the AI. You will always be inspired by other things while doing anything requiring creativity.
Would being inspired by Picasso suddenly make one art worthless? Of course not. So why would being inspired by an AI generated example make it any different ? - Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Maybe because all AI generated assets got removed?
Honestly, as a programmer that uses extensively AI to debug, and do various tedious tasks like unit tests, I think the whole anti-AI craze of late is more bullshit than sane arguments.
It’s an invaluable tool for many cases, and as soon is it is not used to replace someone, I don’t see the problem. They where used by artists, to be used as placeholders while working on the gme, not by executives seeking to make some more bucks by not hiring anyone.
They forgot some of them in the final game? Shit happens. You cannot expect someone to go through every single texture in a game that probably got thousands, if not tenths of thousands, just to make sure none was forgotten.
Anyway, that’s blown way out of propositions, and feels more like some people trying to get views by hating on something popular than having real concerns about it. Especially since Blue Prince does use AI assets in the final product, and strangely no one bats an eye.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Language 😠.
Yes, I know I’m kinda strict on that, but there are no reason here to come to insults.
You got a good point here, and the message you answered to got downvoted to oblivion.
If you disagre, downvote away, don’t feed the possible troll with your anger.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You may want to rephrase and clarify, and probably typecheck you text.
- Comment on Boing. 5 weeks ago:
Boooiiinnng… 😆
- Comment on Day 499 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Damn, already almost at 500! 😃
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 1 month ago:
He is not making a expection to himself. Self promotion is allowed, if not excessive or from newly created account.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 1 month ago:
Note to the community : self promotion is allowed on this community, what we disallowed is excessive self promotion.
Things like multiple post in a short timespan, not disclosing ones link to a specific game, or anything that is made to manipulate the community to make a game look better or more popular that it is really. Sales goes for new account posting ads to games, never to be seen againSo let’s check here:
- He disclosed his link to the game : yes
- Posted about it multiple times is a short time : I didn’t see anything like that, but feel free to report if it is the case
- Is active : yes
- No suspicious link : yes
In my book, this is 100% legit. No need to report.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 1 month ago:
Doomsider sure explained it better than you did, and he did defend his opinion, which you didn’t. Throwing strawmen arguments and insults around doesn’t do anything to allow meaningful conversations.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 1 month ago:
Considering your own argument length, I don’t think he’d need to invest more energy to make a more compelling one to counter yours.
So either elaborate yours, or go look at at the concept of “Bullshit‑asymmetry principle” (and associated concepts) when you’ll have time.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 1 month ago:
While I kinda admire your dedication at writing such lengthy insult, I’d like to remind you this is not an acceptable behaviour here.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
FFXIV works great with a controller, I don’t see why GW2 wouldn’t with a similar gamepad oriented UI.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 month ago:
“We are responsible for what we say and what we do, not the interpretation others do out of them.”
Please do not assume your understanding of the underlying argument has to be correct, or you’d risk falling to the strawman fallacy.
As a moderator I like to see arguments around games, but I don’t want to see them degenerate into fight.
So could your rephrase without assuming your opponent intention without solid proofs?
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 2 months ago:
Maybe. We’ll see. I didn’t see it on the community, I through, considering how active the subject was at first, that it would be of interest to the community.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 2 months ago:
19th of September 2025, seem fresh enough to me, and the game isn’t the same. Maybe they once again changed their policy.
- Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developerwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 3 months ago:
A really strange way to hide the free game, for sure 😅.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
If you like creature collector games, Cassette Beasts is the best one I played so far.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN 3 months ago:
Well, now that everyone who want to play day one bought it, the only remaining market are !patientgamers@lemmy.world that are waiting for a sale to buy it.
And considering it is on the game pass, 4.4 million is quite good.
- Comment on New moderator for this community! 3 months ago:
That’s indeed what we asked to do next time for big events. Bit when no such big event occurs, it’s OK.
In my opinion, the following trailers are acceptable :
- Announcement of a new game -> so we can start talking about that game
- Announcement of end of early access or of game release (like Hades 2 recently) -> So we can talk about the game at its release state
- Major update of updates of a game (as soon as it isn’t too often) -> So we can discuss how that specific update make that game evolve, for better or worse. I’d honestly still prefer those one to be kept to their dedicated communities, but one from time to time won’t kill anyone.
Globally, that’s also a way to advertise dedicated communities for that specific game, so I think that’s alright.
We’ll discuss all of this with the incoming community rules update.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
Incredibly cursed. Who asked for this.
Their shareholders, I suppose.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 months ago:
Same here, but the performances are abysmal on the Deck (15-20 fps on low), and crashes on every map changes. I’m gonna wait next week to see if it goes better with the first few fixes, and then I’ll chose if I refund it or not.
- Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 4 months ago:
I do already have a pretty powerfull desktop already (5800X3D, 32 Go RAM and RX 6800), but I just love the Deck form factor.
Especially that now I can play at work, which makes my noon brake a lot less boring. It is kinda harder to bring my desktop around 😅. - Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 4 months ago:
Until recently I’d have agreed with you, but some recently released games (like E33) are either locked to very low settings, or even run like shit (Sword of the Sea) even on low.
So yeah, I’m kinda feeling the need for an upgrade right now, and as much as I hate Microsoft, depending on how it will cost I may be tempted… If it runs Bazzite well.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 months ago:
Thread this zone Boeing a cross-post of. 😆