Dark_Arc
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg
Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.
- Comment on Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s not terrible advice.
I think I’m just a bit … demoralized about that … since I do know a lot of older folks (I literally shoveled the driveways of 4 older neighbors this winter and have various 50+ friends) and no help has come from that direction…
I might give it a shot though, thanks
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 1 week ago:
That is how inflation works… when costs go up prices go up.
Yeah, your computer probably should cost a lot more in “today dollars” but because performance of components gets more efficient over time, you can get a similar computer for less money.
It’s the same reason you have a computer more powerful than multiple thousands of dollar super computers. The technology has improved enough you don’t have to pay as much.
- Comment on Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps 1 week ago:
I haven’t seen any good hiking groups in my area. The ones that exist on meetup.com are mostly “people with grey hairs” … and there’s nothing wrong with that other than I just turned 30 last month.
It’s been that way throughout my twenties.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 1 week ago:
Sure, but that doesn’t mean the game developers don’t need to be paid. It’s still a bargain for the work that’s being done.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 1 week ago:
If you look at inflation adjusted pricing, it really is a deal. IIRC we should be at like 90 or 100+ dollar games at this point.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI's ChatGPT will integrate MCP 1 week ago:
Yeah, it looks like basic reasoning but it isn’t. These things are based on pattern recognition. “Assume all x are y, all z are y, are all z x?” is a known formulation … I’ve seen it a fair number of times in my life.
Recent development has added this whole “make it prompt itself about the question” phase to try and make things more accurate … but that also only works sometimes.
AI in LLM form is just a sick joke. It’s like watching a magic trick where half of people expect the magician to ACTUALLY levitate next year because … “they’re almost there!!”
Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but I don’t see it…
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI's ChatGPT will integrate MCP 1 week ago:
I don’t buy the “it’s a neural network” argument. We don’t really understand consciousness or thinking … and consciousness is possibly a requirement for actual thinking.
Frankly, I don’t think thinking in humans is based anywhere near statical probabilities.
Maybe everything reduces to “neural networks” in the same way LLM AI models them … but that seems like an exceptionally bold claim for humanity to make.
- Comment on Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps 1 week ago:
I actually did try rock climbing, my ex and I did it.
I proposed going to first time we dated, she got into it while we were split, I would go a few times a month with her, and then basically haven’t been in a few months since we split.
The climbing gym in my area is on the other side of town and just constantly PACKED and I was also never very good at it … plus I’m colorblind and the routes are color coded which makes it even trickier … so it’s not really my cup of tea.
I’ll probably give it another shot (this time with friends) once it gets cold again (I’m in NE Ohio).
- Comment on Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps 1 week ago:
Yeah no, I don’t want to date half way across the country or world … or slide into other people’s DMs which is something girls ALSO complain about dudes doing.
Not to mention there are a ton of elements of attraction that just don’t work on a forum.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI's ChatGPT will integrate MCP 1 week ago:
We can offload some basic reasoning tasks to an LLM Agent
No, you can’t. It cannot reason. It’s just been fed so much existing text that it appears like it can in some cases. That’s an extremely dangerous foundation on which to build anything.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI's ChatGPT will integrate MCP 1 week ago:
I really think we just need to move on from this AI craze.
We don’t have a general intelligence. We may never have a general intelligence.
Keep using AI for what it’s good for: statistics based decision making. Stop trying to use AI for designing solutions; it’s not built for that because that requires reasoning which is something AI cannot do no matter how much snake oil society has been sold.
- Comment on Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps 1 week ago:
Honestly my biggest problem is:
- I don’t drink
- I don’t go to church
- I work from home
- Video games and hiking are my two major time expenditures
- I’ve seen too many women complain about dudes approaching them
… what the hell am I supposed to do other than use these apps society?
- Comment on Yes, AI will eventually replace some workers. But that day is still a long way off 2 weeks ago:
and even those people can’t be replaced.
- Comment on Healers In Marvel Rivals Went On Strike [Aftermath] 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue you’re the one that’s committed the nirvana fallacy if anyone.
You want them to take a useful stance but you quit supporting them because it wasn’t enough of a useful stance.
I’m just saying, don’t moralize companies … they’ll let you down every time. It’s not about doing what’s right, it’s about fitting in. Companies are like the virtue signalers in high school, they’ll only do it if it’s cool.
Maybe that’s useful to your cause, maybe it isn’t, maybe you support them maybe you don’t, but I wouldn’t expect a company to do things from a place of morals.
- Comment on Yes, AI will eventually replace some workers. But that day is still a long way off 2 weeks ago:
It almost certainly already has replaced several.
Has it actually replaced them?
Sure maybe some people have lost their jobs, but I don’t think they’ve really been replaced.
It’s closer to laying someone off without replacement … because evening I’ve seen has suggested AI not only can’t do the work but it also doesn’t improve the productivity of workers using it in any meaningful way.
Also, AI is not synonymous with LLM.
I’d argue that’s all AI means anymore if it has any meaning left at all.
- Comment on 200 Overwatch devs at Activision Blizzard vote to unionist [Eurogamer] 2 weeks ago:
How is it late?
- Comment on Healers In Marvel Rivals Went On Strike [Aftermath] 2 weeks ago:
I mean any and all corporate support of a cause (like LGBTQ) is going to be performative. Don’t expect corporations to take a stand unless their existence is predicated on that cause.
- Comment on Yes, AI will eventually replace some workers. But that day is still a long way off 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think LLMs will ever replace a single worker.
- Comment on Nintendo responds to suggestion that AI-generated images used in Mario Kart World [Eurogamer] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, those do look extremely similar to such I’ve pulled out of mid journey.
- Comment on Marathon vs. Arc Raiders - Discussion of the games' opposite opinions 3 weeks ago:
Yeah for me, it’s the variety of tales that you author. Every game feels a bit like a new adventure, after a while similar to ones you’ve been on before, but still new.
ARC has those elements, but something feels off so far for me…
- Comment on Marathon vs. Arc Raiders - Discussion of the games' opposite opinions 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t played Marathon, but I did get into the ARC test. This will mostly be some ramblings…
I’m still waiting to play ARC with some friends. I only did some solo stuff.
I’m coming from this as a big Hunt Showdown player (1,200+ hours) and someone that’s played a bit of Forever Winter (~20). I still like Hunt better; I think it’s the only extraction shooter that didn’t take a ton of influence from Tarkov.
I wasn’t crazy about the marathon art style, but I’m not ready to pass judgement on it until I’ve been in the world.
ARC’s art style I found beautiful but also perhaps too sparse. There were so many wide open spaces … I just don’t see that being a good thing for an extraction shooter. The world felt vast and empty … I prefer Hunt’s more cluttered and dense design.
ARC does seem to have a lot of potential in like how it’s designed its AI, Hunt’s is very primitive in a lot of ways and kind of secondary. I think the AI is going to be a bigger deal in ARC.
Third person also feels worse to me than first person. I hope they add a first person mode to ARC, but I kind of doubt they will.
I definitely agree that ARC felt like it was being set up to tell a story and felt very cinematic at times.
The UI also felt like the best extraction shooter UI I’ve ever encountered.
I’m concerned about the long term health of ARC. The progression system seems like it will certainly lead to established players dominating newer players. The lack of a primary objective that’s shared by all the teams on the map … I’m not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, it may lead to a more relaxed experience, on the other hand, it doesn’t curate players towards each other like Hunt does; it seems looting and crafting are the primary motivators instead.
The flights that I did get into, they lacked the complex environment and buildings in Hunt so I didn’t find them nearly as engaging, they were much more straight forward gunfights than leveraging the map to my it my opponents advantage. I think that aspect will ultimately hurt the game as it makes it feel like a bit of a generic shooter.
Overall ARC felt very middle of the road from what I’ve played of it so far. I had a similar feeling about The Finals. Embark seems like a talented studio and I wish them the best as they go up against Bungie and Crytek.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 month ago:
Something to implement signing given the key to sign with could almost certainly be created.
I think the biggest reason this stuff hasn’t really happened is … there’s not much motivation and Apple will likely respond to such efforts unkindly so you might need to be a bit of a curious masochist (or at least in strange circumstances) to attempt such an effort 😅
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 month ago:
You don’t really; a cross compilation with a compiler that can generate the ARM instructions for Apple’s ARM CPUs should largely just work.
However, it’s impossible to test the produced app without using an iPhone or MacOS’s tools to simulate running on an iPhone. You also are just going to have way less of an uphill battle using Apple’s tools and you’re likely to get better optimized binaries.
You also don’t have to build iOS apps with Swift; C++ and things like Qt can be used.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 month ago:
For MacOS you’re right, for iOS OP is right; you’re being a dick about it though, so maybe that’s the issue.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 month ago:
Even if you understand the tech, the fediverse has a content discovery problem. The content you want to see may actually exist. However, your instance needs knowledge of the content that best fits you. That’s what bluesky’s model does better.
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 1 month ago:
Bluesky is another instance of effectively what you’re talking about, an open algorithm platform. In theory Skylight (ATProtocol short form video app) is as well.
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 1 month ago:
It’s not the media, it’s the recommendation algorithm.
They’re all a problem, but we have no way to regulate or monitor the algorithms as it stands.
Tiktok is an even higher risk because the recommendation algorithm is unknown to anyone on US soil. Nobody is going to whistleblow from the inside on TikTok because… they can’t; it’s all compartmentalized and nobody outside of China has access to the algorithm.
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 2 months ago:
Anything with a server software you can host can be played on LAN (okay probably not some things because they’re being weird but in general this is true).
That means counter strike, Minecraft, supertuxkart, xonotic, enshrouded, pal world, etc
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 2 months ago:
I don’t know for sure what we learned, but I remember my Spanish teacher talking about a girl from Spain that came to her class and didn’t do her work.
Apparently the girl wasn’t doing well in Spanish class and later accused the teacher of teaching “gutter Mexican.”
Which … honestly didn’t hit me as the flex my Spanish teacher seemed to be making it out to be.
- Comment on Not trying to choose a side but when did Dems become well wussies? They Have FDR, JFK, OBAMA, Clinton, under their belt. The Reps have Reagan. How come the Dems don't fight fire with fire anymore? 2 months ago:
The filibuster is a thing and that regularly prevents anything from getting done without 60 votes.
Obama in his book talks about this and how his biggest regret is not ending the filibuster as his first action because it proceeded to cripple his entire administration and agenda for the majority of his presidency.