mindbleach
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- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 3 days ago:
People like this might not understand anything besides violence.
- Comment on Rep. Pramila Jayapal Uses LA Wildfires To Attack Corporations, Insulting Those Who Lost Jobs By The Destruction 6 days ago:
Welcome to here.
- Comment on Meloni: Soros is interfering in democracies, not Musk 1 week ago:
Don’t believe your lying eyes!
- Comment on Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great idea 1 week ago:
but it feels too reliant on generative AI.
… how the fuck else was it supposed to happen?
I don’t want to talk to a game.
Then why did you review this title?!
Here is my drive-by reaction to this: if you don’t value the written word enough to have a writer create unique, intentional dialogue, then why make a game based around conversation?
Because a human accounting for all possible inputs is impossible, you dingdong.
The sole screenshot is a brain in a bucket, and this article has absolutely nothing to say about the content of the game. However you feel about LLMs - these devs didn’t prime the NPCs with “You’re in an Agatha Christie story, go.” They’ve got some kind of wacky bullshit going on, and stylish macabre presentation, and (one would fucking hope) an underlying mystery.
This isn’t Shadows Of Doubt, right? Because that game actually does let the machine make up the story.
This kneejerk clickbait crap doesn’t even address the obvious concerns about the one part it’s fixated on. Is the LLM local? Or will this game suddenly stop working, when OpenAI changes their pricing? If it actually runs on your PC, does it require beeftank specs just to show visual-novel presentation? Does it trickle out words like everyone’s on quaaludes, if you use a laptop over wifi?
- Comment on Anon is a winner 1 week ago:
Fair warning: what this is, is, Elizer yes-that-guy Yudkowsky wrote a one-and-done Harry Potter novel, and it is everything you would expect. Some aspects are fantastic! Others… yikes. Within two chapters, it goes from spotting Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism in the Death Eaters’ whole pitch, to declaring Hermoine an NPC unless she can pass a gatekeeping knowledge-check about quarks.
A detail I love that’s not a spoiler: Crabbe and Goyle are well-characterized to act exactly the way they are in canon. They’ve been molded as bodyguards since they were little, and now they’re in wizard middle school getting to play tough-guy bruisers on Draco’s behalf, so of course they’re tryhard doofuses that he finds mildly embarrassing. But when Quirrel invites one of them to spar, demonstrating the ancient mystical defense known as… judo… Goyle quietly asks what belt he has. Quirrel says “seventh dan.” The tough-guy act comes right back up, and Goyle throws himself into it, because he knows he’s about to get his ass kicked, safely.
The whole thing is ultimately about modeling people on these layers of facade. A lot of it gets overly analytical and kinda up-its-own-ass. Certain characters call that out and condemn actions at face value, so some of it’s deliberate writing for the protagonist and antagonist. But only some.
Even with abundant benefit of the doubt, figuring ‘this guy wrote Harry like a know-it-all child,’ any recommendation would be complicated.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 weeks ago:
I mean, you’re not wrong. We just fucked up already.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 weeks ago:
glances at Rupert Murdoch
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 weeks ago:
> “heh it still works”
> Skyrim, GTA V, OSRS
- Comment on Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm 2 weeks ago:
Still no idea where they got those sounds.
- Comment on The warning on PBS Nova is heartbreaking! 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I’m on about! The deeper you look, the more it’s like “Matter just does stuff, okay?!”
- Comment on The warning on PBS Nova is heartbreaking! 2 weeks ago:
A fractal meta uncertainty principle would help explain why “chromodynamics” is allowed to exist.
- Comment on The warning on PBS Nova is heartbreaking! 2 weeks ago:
Quantum physics: because the universe doesn’t give a shit if you understand it.
- Comment on Anon memes 2 weeks ago:
Atun-Shei video which I may appear in as a screencapped reddit comment.
TL;DW - the author knows what’s wrong.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
And every QTE is Press X To Not Die.
There are a dozen per cutscene.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Even Fromsoft managed to do this by placing geometry wrong. If you can’t get out, can’t get killed, and don’t have any ‘reset to last bonfire’ option… this is where you live now.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Enemies leap directly at your camera while screeching like howler monkeys.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
- Connection lost for five entire seconds. Progress dumped, save file deleted, assassins en route.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, genius-level move. Always a good decision.
- Comment on Anon's in trouble 3 weeks ago:
Chunky marinara factory.
- Comment on Nom nom 3 weeks ago:
The Nemo file manager still managed to fuck it up. ‘Triangle pointing down means small filesizes on top, yeah?’
- Comment on Anon gives a piracy history lesson 3 weeks ago:
I watched Key The Metal Idol in 56 kbps. Downloaded, of course, because trying to stream using RealPlayer never fucking worked. I’m pretty sure I could fire up a server and client over my home network, to-day, and it’d still pause with “Buffering…” twice per minute.
Anyway, I’m discussing video on Game Boy in another thread, and dial-up quality video was still ridiculous.
- Comment on Brilliant Strokes 4 weeks ago:
The sad aftermath of rainbow hunting. Won’t you donate to protect these endangered natural wonders?
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 4 weeks ago:
// what the fuck? - Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 4 weeks ago:
The weirdest part of learning about floating point was suddenly knowing how to use a slide rule.
- Comment on Which were the worst movies of 2024? 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t even fuck it up in a fun way. Super Mario Bros (the first one) was batshit crazy, but still invoked a shocking variety of details from the games, back when there really was not much to those games. All of the Uwe Boll dreck is at least camp as hell. Resident Evil knows it’s stupid, and refuses to break eye contact.
Borderlands arrives years late, pleases nobody, and takes no risks. It is of low quality. It’s not even fun to talk about.
- Comment on Which were the worst movies of 2024? 4 weeks ago:
Bear in mind half of that is real-money charges inside “free” games. An abusive business model that should be illegal.
- Comment on Balatro Dev Calls Out PEGI For "Real Gambling" Rating Hypocrisy Vs. EA Sports FC 4 weeks ago:
The only apolitical game is Tetris.
… not counting the story of developing and distributing Tetris.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like spears 5 weeks ago:
Arena and Daggerfall made you drag your mouse for each attack.
Which would be really cool and tactical if the enemy hitboxes had one iota of complexity.
- Comment on oh man 5 weeks ago:
AKA generic I-am-very-smart libertarian, AKA just another smug Republican. People who think ideologies are like accents - they’re what other people have. Them? Nooo. They’re the default!
- Comment on oh man 5 weeks ago:
Let’s say that this is the guy, and that he’s a CHUD.
A guy like that still shot a CEO over social ills. Only when it became personal, apparently, but still.
That should leave healthcare executives fucking terrified. A guy like this acted the way y’all think communist revolutionaries like *checks notes* Chuck Schumer will act.
Denying half of all claims makes medical agony personal for a metric shitload of people.