mnemonicmonkeys
@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on GDC 2026 Report - 36% of devs use generative AI, while 28% target Steam Deck and 8% Linux 3 days ago:
If you truly think that, then you go do your own survey about it. The one in the article is fairly clear on it’s results.
Not everyone uses AI for work. Me and my coworker do a lot of coding and neither of us touch AI at all. Hell, I get mad whenever DuckDuckGo pushes their stupid default AI summary in my face
- Comment on GDC 2026 Report - 36% of devs use generative AI, while 28% target Steam Deck and 8% Linux 3 days ago:
Note that 36% is a far cry from the “all devs use AI” claim that AI shills love to push
- Comment on Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex 1 week ago:
Its only fairly recently that people expect mod manager programs to handle downloading the mods and keep them up to date.
This is not necessary.
Nexus mods has had mod managers handling downloads for over 15 years. And good luck trying to get people on any mod service that can’t handle that nowadays.
And the rest of your comment is just you talking down like I’m a 5 year old. Fuck off with that noise. I’ve been modding for over a decade, both with and without mod managers.
If you can’t talk to someone without being a pretentious prick that insists that they’re smarter than everyone else, then just shut the fuck up.
And don’t bother responding, you’ve proven you’re not worth talking to and you’re getting blocked.
- Comment on Fable's evil landlords won't grow devil horns, as reboot ditches classic character morphing due to a lack of belief in objective arseholery 1 week ago:
There’s never anything like:
- Kiss the baby, take over the orphanage, run an outward front which looks like a fantastic charitable organization while training the orphans to commit crimes for you.
Damn, that’d actually make for a really awesome quest mod in Skyrim
- Comment on Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, I think the catch would be that any mod manager you want to use would need to be modified to integrate with torrent/I2P/etc. Probably doable with something open source like Mod Organizer 2 though
- Comment on Days after cancelling their Linux-compatible mod loader, Nexus Mods announces that they're bringing SteamOS support to Vortex 1 week ago:
We need a fediverse alternative to mods, possibly utilizing torrents to cut down on bandwidth for various servers.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 3 weeks ago:
Also, fyi, Hooded Horse has a publisher sale on Steam right now.
- Comment on NVIDIA announce a native Linux app for GeForce NOW 3 weeks ago:
Too fucking late Nvidia, I already dropped your ass. And funnily enough, I’m getting better stability with my RX 9070XT on Windows than my old RTX3070ti. I doubt the comparison will be any better for Nvidia after the Linux switch
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 month ago:
One good thing (and likely the only good thing) about the current RAM shortage is that people are probably not going to be buying games that “require” 64GB of RAM anymore, forcing those devs to optimize
- Comment on As AI Data Centers Disrupt US Cities, Wisconsin Woman Violently Arrested After Speaking Out 1 month ago:
And they’re crazy loud. Some days, it’s a constany 100+ decibels of sound around nearby homes due to the cooling systems.
- Comment on Don't assume Skyblivion is getting spellcrafting, says UI lead who claims they weren't consulted on delay video 1 month ago:
This article is pointless. All of this drama stems from random people not understanding how English works. The delay video only said “we’d like to add these things in the future”, which is a far cry from “we are absolutely adding these”.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 1 month ago:
Then the weight of the end of the cable is going to be trying to pull the connector out of the TV.
Just duck tape the usb cable to the back of the TV
- Comment on Hytale won't be on Steam right away, as its devs want to avoid "overindexing on negative reviews" from players who "aren't as well-informed yet" 1 month ago:
“Our game will be shit at launch”
In their defense, they’ve outright told players that this is what they should expect. They’re starting out by duck-taping their build from 4+ years ago back together.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
I’m just not a fan of the lemmy “black and white” AI is evil approach.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s some spaces for AI (LLM’s), but they are significantly more limited than what people are led to believe.
For example, Tom Scott made a video where he fed in a list of his previous video titles into ChatGPT and asked it to generate >100 new video titles. While a lot of them contained halucinated facts that obviously wouldn’t work, he ended up with about 10 that could have been interesting videos had he decided to make them, and others led him to do research that gave him more ideas for videos. But it only kickstarted the creatice process.
Another example is modding, particularly Skyrim. Over the past couple of years there’s been a number of dialogue expansion mods coming out to add depths to characters with their original voices without janky voice splicing. While some people like to bemoan the use of AI in these cases and argue that people should use real voice actors, they are conveniently ignoring that very were very few mods filling this niche before ElevenLabs and the ones that did redo voices tended to be controversial (like Serana Dialogue Addon). But much of this problem is driven by the fact that modding is (supposed to be) free and most decent voice actors want to be paid for their work.
But in terms of commercial ventures, there’s little reason why AI should be involved. AI actively makes coding harder due to errors. You don’t need AI generated placeholder assets, as traditionally you would use boxes and things poorly drawn in MS Paint. Hell, it’s better to use crappy placeholder assets because that forces the dev to make the gameplay actually fun, since the assets aren’t skewing the playtesters’ opinions to be better than they should. And we had decent search for awhile, AI didn’t make it significantly better than it was 5 years ago.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
Skill issue (literally)
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
Except people like you
Fucking stop right there. Don’t presume what I think. You have no idea what my stance is on purchased assets because I haven’t said anything on that topic.
You clearly are unable to make an argument without resorting to a strawman.
your luddite pearl-clutching hold me back.
Go ahead, Elon. I doubt you’re going to sell many copies of your game with that attitude. Especially if Valve bans you from their store for deliberately lying about your game not having AI
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
Many of those Youtubers get paid to play those games, and the ones catering to younger audiences are particularly bad at providing those disclaimers
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
Or UE5, since it’s an unoptimized mess
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
Inb4 asset stores become >90% AI generated
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
There’s been so much art and so many game produced every year before ChatGPT became big. If not using AI meant that we’ll only get slightly more indie games each year instead several times more indie games each year, I think we’ll manage without.
There’s already more art available than any human could consume in their lifetime. We don’t have to push out slop to keep people entertained
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t lower the skill floor for someone.
No, it DOES. In fact, it RAISES the skill floor.
How is a dev supposed to be able to find an error in the code if they don’t know how to code?
As a programmer, most of your time isn’t actually spent writing code. It’s mostly spent debugging. An amateur programmer relying on AI is minimizing a task that takes a minority of their time while maximizing a task that takes the majority of their time.
For amateur programmers, AI isn’t an asset, it’s a liability.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 2 months ago:
There’s still at-home streaming. I just upgraded to an RX 9070XT so I can stream 4k60 to my TV through my Steam Deck using Sunshine and Moonlight.
Granted, a big reason why I did that was because they were selling for $600 a week ago on Newegg. Plus I didn’t want to have to fight Nvidia drivers on Linux while trying to mod Skyrim to hell
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 2 months ago:
I don’t see how Valve can be expected to match that price range.
They don’t have to. Even if the sticker price is $50 more and the console equivalent, for a lot of people that’s a better value because you don’t have to pay >$100 per year for online services.
And if it’s priced the same as a similarly spec’d PC, there’s still wiggle room there. Are they comparing to a custom-built PC? Or are they comparing to a prebuilt?
- Comment on Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point 2 months ago:
Steam OS doesn’t support Nvidia or Intel hardware. You’d be better off installing Bazzite
- Comment on Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point 2 months ago:
You’re missing a big factor in value: PlayStation requires a subscription just to use online multiplayer. PC games don’t. If someone buys a Steam Machine, even if they were the same price and same specs that person would be saving >$100 every year
- Comment on Concord lives! Or, lived, as community efforts to revive it already appear to be on hold after some DMCA strikes 2 months ago:
Yeah, just let people enjoy what they like.
Doubly so if it’s pissing in the eye of Sony
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 months ago:
Is it an APU, or is it a “desktop” CPU and GPU on one board?
2 separate chips, both soldered to the board
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 2 months ago:
Define “fine”.
If your standard is 30fps, not particularly good latency, and 1.5hr battery life then yes, they’re fine.
If your standard is 60 fps and >3hr battery, then no, they are not fine.
My preference is stable 60fps and >3hr battery, and I have yet to see a 3D game do that well
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 2 months ago:
While I love my Steam Deck, I always give the caveat that it’s best for 2D-rendered games. While it can run 3D games, it doesn’t do it particularly well and has terrible battery life while doing so. Meanwhile every 2D game gets great performance and 3-4 hours of battery even on the oldest Steam Decks, and that’s not going to change anytime soon
- Comment on SteamOS on my gaming PC? 3 months ago:
The problem is that Steam Game Mode has spotty support for Nvidia GPU’s, hence why I recommended against booting into it directly