mnemonicmonkeys
@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Steam Deck now out of stock in Europe in addition to USA, Canada and Asia 2 days ago:
Multiple millions
- Comment on Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too 3 days ago:
Which is totally fine… for now.
Game studios aren’t dumb enough to make games that will never be able to run on people’s computers
- Comment on Mewgenics Co-Creator Responds to Cameo Complaints: 'I Understand We Live in a Time Where a Meow From Someone Who Has Different Beliefs as You Is Scary and Frustrating, Confusing and Controversial' 1 week ago:
This sounds like a copout
- Comment on 1 week ago:
they could afford to bribe their way out.
No, they don’t make a cent of profit. They can borrow enough money to bribe their way out, though right now they’re having trouble finding more investors with how much money they’re flushing down the drain.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is a complete daydream, but what if this gets Valve to file an antitrust case against OpenAI?
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
They were supposedly able to take a loss on the original Steam Decks, at least the lower priced 64GB models.
They. Did. Not.
The only thing remotely suggesting that is GabeN saying the price point was “painful” in a single interview.
Valve has stated that the Steam Decl wasn’t sold at a loss. GabeN was likely referring to the profit margins being very low, which is not the same as selling at a loss
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that these are computers. If they’re too cheap, companies will buy them in bulk, slap windows on them, and use them for office PCs
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 2 weeks ago:
You’re clearly intentionally arguing in bad faith if this is your response.
Ta ta, you’re not worth bothering with anymore. Go lie to someone else
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the comment/thread where I learned about it: programming.dev/comment/21880176
Framework has done several shoutouts to Omarchy and DHH in official marketing material and is actively sponsoring HYPRLAND with money
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the comment/thread where I learned about it: programming.dev/comment/21880176
Framework has done several shoutouts to Omarchy and DHH in official marketing material and is actively sponsoring HYPRLAND with money
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 2 weeks ago:
To bring up the old nazi bar analogy - you don’t leave the bar to the nazis, you kick them out. But instead what is happening is completely bass-ackwards
Except they’re not kicking these assholes out. Framework are giving them free advertising and even sponsorship money.
Framework claims to be making a “big tent”, but if you do that you need to silently tolerate the shitty actors, not actively support them unprompted
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the comment/thread where I learned about it: programming.dev/comment/21880176
Framework has done several shoutouts to Omarchy and DHH in official marketing material and is actively sponsoring HYPRLAND with money
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 2 weeks ago:
Apparently Framework have been sponsoring some projects run by alt-right grifters lately fyi
- Comment on GDC 2026 Report - 36% of devs use generative AI, while 28% target Steam Deck and 8% Linux 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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" 1 month ago:
Also, fyi, Hooded Horse has a publisher sale on Steam right now.
- Comment on NVIDIA announce a native Linux app for GeForce NOW 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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" 2 months 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