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- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 5 days ago:
I did some work with the JJ Abrams production company. It was…mediocre.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 6 days ago:
Peremptory challenge, no reason needed. It’s one of the six I get for the case. Next.
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 6 days ago:
Language choice for a solution does not have anything to do with LLM capabilities. For someone’s hobby project, maybe. Engineering departments do not work this way. Just because LLMs can write Java better than some other languages doesn’t mean the next big game engine will be in Java.
- Comment on Where do you post a meme if its only half-political? c/memes or c/political memes? 6 days ago:
Post it to neither, so something more enriching with your time
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 6 days ago:
The LLM works via language. It’s…in the name. If a programming language that is more understandeable for a particular domain comes out, then LLMs will be useful for it just like humans will further appreciate it. Some languages just seriously blow for certain domains. Keep iterating. If a lnaguage is hard for people to use, it’s especially hard for an LLM to use.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 6 days ago:
Prosecution will strike them. Next.
- Comment on Total War: MEDIEVAL III - Announce Trailer 6 days ago:
I read the title and instantly glued myself into my pants
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 week ago:
I don’t, because I find that as soon as I do, the game feels permanently pointless. It’s like grinding to get some random chance item, and then someone gives you a magic menu enabling you to just put any items you want in your inventory whenever you want. Items mentally become zero value. And then any game mechanics built around scarcity and the intended emotional impact of that scarcity become permanently meaningless too.
It’s pulling back the curtain. You can’t unsee what’s going on back there. Any further interaction with the game just leaves me feeling “this is just a video game, the rules are pointless and with that menu I can get it to do whatever”. Even partial cheats, like infinite ammo with no reloading needed, break the illusion for me permanently and leave further gameplay even without cheats feeling unsatisfying and pointless.
For me, it’s rare that a game can survive its mechanics or overall gameplay loop being destroyed by cheats when those are what make games…games. You’re left with either a creative mode sandbox, or a movie, neither of which I care for in a video game format.
- Comment on HELL YEAH Onee-san be like :3 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'M SAAAAAVVVVIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGGGGGG (me_irl) 3 weeks ago:
Better to hoard data than refrigerators and car parts in your yard
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 weeks ago:
His head is so far up his own ass he can’t bear to consider admitting he was totally, absolutely, inconceiveably wrong.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 3 weeks ago:
You put the opener on the top, not the side of the can. Image
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 5 weeks ago:
Kenshi is maybe the only game I’ve played where the more I played, the more I was like “What the fuck shit hole have I been dropped into. What happened here.” And that feeling only increased the more of the world I explored.
“AAHGH WHAT IS THIS LASER BEAM”
“AAHGH WHAT ARE THESE THINGS”
“AAHGH WHY ARE THERE CANNIBALS EVERYWHERE”
“AAHGH THE RAIN HURTS WHY IS THERE RAIN PAIN”
- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 1 month ago:
Well, they don’t much any more. The normies moved to apps.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 1 month ago:
line go up
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
But since the total sample size is much smaller due to language categorization, review bombing is much, much easier and impactful when it does hapoen for the speakers of the language the bombing is targeted at.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 months ago:
Sorry what? I couldn’t hear you because of the fucking
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
outside
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 2 months ago:
A sucker is born every minute.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 2 months ago:
The problem they describe will self-correct; the “market” will drive that. But it might not be pretty. The things below are already happening, but will be further instigated:
New AAA non-franchise titles will be less common because return is less likely amongst the sea of new games coming out. Investors will continue to gamble on them, but they’ll be fewer and further between.
Mid-budget AA games not in a niche will disappear. You’ll still have your city builders, your milsim squad shooters, your competitive RTS games, but you won’t be seeing many new AA action platformers, multiplayer CoD style shooters, block puzzlers, adventure RPGs, etc. They’ll either be bare budget / indie or mega budget.
You’ll see dev cost continue to be driven down to mitigate this risk, making quality suffer. Asset flips, AI, and outsourcing will increase for most studios that don’t get recurring revenue from live service games.
Indies will continue to be random breakout hits, but their studios will die fast because followups to their breakouts often drown in the sea too.
Being an employee in the industry will probably mean jumping from company to company where you might only stick around for 1 - 2 titles before a major layoff. Contracting will get more common.
- Comment on Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports 2 months ago:
If EA weren’t already so bloated and full of suits, I might imagine this would allow them to pump the brakes on their scummy moneymaking policies.
- Comment on Coincidence 2 months ago:
No because Neil was short for Neilbert
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 months ago:
Or alternatively (historically), expendable peasants that you don’t want to finance painstaking archery training on.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 months ago:
It’s not exactly hard to operate a firearm. They are designed to be used by the lowest common denominator of person - total morons.
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 2 months ago:
Treading water figuring out how to make money somehow when ChatGPT by itself is a colossal money dumpster
- Comment on 'Ultrabroadband' 6G Chip Clocks Speeds 10 Times Faster Than 5G 2 months ago:
Is the range 10x shorter?
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 2 months ago:
Anti-immigrant sentiment in the US has been a thing for hundreds of years. Consider watching Scorcese’s “Gangs of New York” for a (fictionally dramatized) depiction of it in times past.
As for why mass deportations are possible today - - until the late 1800s, immigration to the US was essentially unregulated. The Chinese Exclusion Act and later systems of quotas and literacy tests introduced around the turn of the 20th century instituted the first national immigration policies.
I frankly don’t find it unfair or unreasonable that the US government’s executive branch has chosen to enforce existing immigration laws for political gain. Americans should change their immigration laws if they get upset when they’re actually enforced. If anything, the executive branch was utterly failing to enforce laws that representatives had placed and kept on the books for a long time. If you want more immigrants, make it easy and legal to receive more immigrants without tests, long wait periods, or country of origin quotas.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Ten years from now, when you’re ready, you pull a Luigi. Go out a hero.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 months ago:
Wall hacks could be defeated by the server only reporting the positional information about enemy players to game clients when it detects that the client player’s camera should be able to see some part of the other player’s silhouette. This is possible, albeit computationally expensive, but the main functional issue is latency. Nobody wants enemies magically popping into view when their view changes quickly because their ping was more than 6ms lol
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 3 months ago:
Microsoft is getting out of the games business.
- Comment on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives 4 months ago:
Good job Cloudflare
