wizardbeard
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- Comment on The sequel to Garry's Mod releases this month, and Valve will let you publish your creations as standalone Steam games, like dafty Finn sim My Summer Cottage 1 week ago:
Shit, really? I hadn’t kept up with the news on it. That majorly sucks.
I guess it makes some sense. A lot of other games and “creation systems” have come out since and somewhat ate garrysmod’s lunch in terms of “digital sandbox with a shit ton of included resources that you can build other games in”. Plus, game engines themselves have become a lot more accessible to new developers than they once were.
Like, what was competing with Garry’s Mod when it was bigger? Flash? BYOND? Second Life?
Beyond game creation, it did a lot of stuff that no tools existed for just well enough that no one was pushing for dedicated alternatives. Machinima, 3D posing, that sort of thing. But when dedicated tools became more available and easily accessible, it lost that draw too.
The glacially slow development sure as hell didn’t help things either. I have no idea why they didn’t more widely release the in-progress builds so the damn thing didn’t get completely forgotten.
- Comment on The sequel to Garry's Mod releases this month, and Valve will let you publish your creations as standalone Steam games, like dafty Finn sim My Summer Cottage 1 week ago:
I really hope this doesn’t mean thst instead of one server browser for a wide variety of game modes all using the same common 3D models and textures, it’ll be a diaspora of unmaintained free games on Steam.
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 2 weeks ago:
Heads up: If you’re looking for anything more, all of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood is on Internet Archive. My kid isn’t old enough to navigate anything like Jellyfin themselves yet, but it’s been a good calm show for when we need her to start settling down.
I did need to rename them so they’d be recognized though, which was a pain in the ass.
- Comment on "At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss 2 weeks ago:
I feel like some words may have been added to that “quote” over time
- Comment on Office.eu officially launches in The Hague as Europe's fully sovereign office platform 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft forced to issue emergency out of band updates for Windows 11 after latest security patches broke PC shutdowns and sign-ins 2 months ago:
And yet another reminder of why industry standard for pretty much any software is to delay non-security patches for a set period of time.
It’s just extra bullshit that Microsoft’s QA department is so godawful. No excuse for a company their size to not have these patches thoroughly "dog food"ed before they even think about pushing them to the public.
- Comment on My Winter Car is out now - a frosty early access sequel to the hateful motoring sim that has you "spiraling even deeper" 2 months ago:
Martin will never escape.
- Comment on OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers 3 months ago:
That’s the neat part, they won’t highlight the ad content. The entire plan, from the start, was to weave ads in seamlessly.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 months ago:
Even today, people value photos differently than paintings, at least in part due to the amount of effort that goes into each.
There’s no reasonable argument to preventing people from having the information up front to make the same sort of value decision about a game.
You’re free to use AI, just declare it. The purchasing public is free to decide if that changes how much they’re willing to pay for your game.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 months ago:
Unity doesn’t work by hoovering up the collected works of humanity, mixing it all up, and extruding it as a paste as a response to a sentence or two prompt (yes, image generation is more complicated to prompt but it is still roughly a paragraph of text).
Look, if you personally don’t see the issue with AI, I still have a hard time believing that you haven’t seen plenty of varied arguments against it. Ignoring all the varied reasons to pretend it’s only some needless hand-wringing at this point just feels like bad faith.
And either way, we’re talking about a tag/label. I see no issues with games having a tab/label/etc on their store page indicating the engine they’re built off of. Some people don’t like horror, puzzles, always online, forced PvP, or a particular art style. Some people don’t like generative AI. I don’t think there’s a strong argument to be made that usage of generative AI should be a special case here. If no one’s harassing people, I see no reason to prevent people from making informed decisions on what they purchase.
If your counterargument is that AI is just a tool, and we don’t tag whether the artists used a mouse or a drawing tablet, I’d counter with this: hand drawn art is a selling point due to the increased workload to create it (and implied extra quality). Now “no generative AI” can be the same. An indicator that things were done “the hard way”, with an implication (but no guarantee) of higher quality.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2's dev team is set to double in size by the end of 2027, hopefully meaning its cyberfoundations'll be laid by then 4 months ago:
For anyone who missed the trailer: youtu.be/jjhRSNkquOc
- Comment on VVVVVV and Super Hexagon's Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully potty platformer about eggs 5 months ago:
Oh no, real egg-like
- Comment on A famous meme comes to life in This Is Fine: Maximum Cope with a demo out now 5 months ago:
Can we stop trying to make everything into a marketable product for 5 fucking minutes?
Who asked for this?
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 6 months ago:
Yep. Pump the numbers and try to retroactively justify the absurd spending on it all. Everyone who accidentally opens it is another tick up for the user numbers.
I’m sure they also have some stats based on installs that this will spruce up too.
- Comment on Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC 6 months ago:
It requires a ROM to extract the assets and levels, which so far has kept a number of reverse engineering/decomp projects like this one safe, even from Nintendo. Argument being that it needs to be your ROM that you dumped yourself of the game in question, which is legal.
The majority of users are just going to download a ROM, but Nintendo hasn’t gone after these so far.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 7 months ago:
Sounds like a good time to download a local backup, before they inevitably pressure Wikipedia.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 8 months ago:
This has been my argument for a while. If you’re doing boilerplate once in a while, it’s a good way to keep even the boring part of your skills sharp.
If you’re doing it regularly, just make a fucking template you can copy paste, or set it up in your IDE’s code snippet functionality.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 8 months ago:
What do you mean? They are literally using the Microsoft provided solution.
- Comment on Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say 8 months ago:
Awful showing by Washington Post. It’s multiple top severity CVEs against On-Premises (non-cloud) Sharepoint servers. These are zero-days that are in out being used against vulnerable systems in the wild.
More info should come up with a quick search. Don’t have time to find and link a better article at the moment.
- Comment on Xbox tests letting you stream your own games on PC 8 months ago:
I’d imagine this is their solution for Xbox exclusive games with their upcoming handhelds, since those are only going to have the Windows GamePass, no additional Xbox compatibility.
- Comment on Get the Borderlands series in the new Gear Up For Borderlands 4 Humble Bundle 8 months ago:
Does anyone really go back and play the older ones after the latest installment comes out?
Personally I just stick with whatever latest one I picked up.
I just don’t see it as the kind of series where “keeping up” by playing through the old ones matters.
- Comment on The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker 8 months ago:
There’s a lot more to this article than the summary blurb would indicate.
It’s mainly talking about how regardless of actual quality of output, market forces around AI are now allowing manager types to require more output from “mid-upper” class workers, and it’s all shifting those positions downward to being treated more like assembly line jobs than they have been for decades.
Concerning trends, driven largely by market forces instead of any true quality or capability of AI.
- Comment on Android 16 can warn you that you might be connected to a fake cell tower 9 months ago:
Wow, only over a decade since this problem was first demonstrated at defcon and the community started finding ways to detect this themselves!
Glad to have this feature natively, but come on Google.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 9 months ago:
What? That’s explicitly false. Grab nearly any instruction booklet for physical media, at least for any from 1990 or later. There are explicit sections laying out that you have licensed the content. 35 years ago.
In another comment on this post, someone pointed out that IBM began software licensing in the 50s. So… 75 years ago.
How far back are you going here?
For stuff like game carts/discs, VHS, and DVDs they simply had no way of enforcing the license terms, and the terms much more often included clauses for transference (lending, resale).
By law, it was almost always a license. That was the entire push behind the old attempts to criminalize backup devices and emulation (the bleem! case is good to read up on).
No arguments about how things worked out in day to day life, but a lot of shit was far more of a legal grey area that no one cared to persue. It wasn’t as much of a difference of legal rights.
- Comment on After shuttering Shadow of Mordor and MultiVersus studios, Warner Bros. Games confirm rearrangement into four bits 9 months ago:
Wasn’t it also used in the sequel, Shadow of War?
Still bullshit that something like that can be patented.
- Comment on Klarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer service 10 months ago:
Why bother accepting fault and rolling back failed projects when you can use thr opportunity to turn what was previously standard into an upsell?
Fucking capitalism I swear to god.
- Comment on 3rd person narrative horror MEGANAUT from the dev of Lorn's Lure gets a demo 10 months ago:
megaNUT
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 11 months ago:
It would be a lot easier to engage with the subculture from the outside if the porn wasn’t so prevalent or up-front as it is/had been in the past, and if the weirdest/most socially maladjusted members of the culture didn’t tend to be the most attention grabbing (but that’s an issue with almost every group online though).
If you’re up for it, I’d love to be pointed at some good examples of the subculture outside of the fetish/kink stuff.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 11 months ago:
Unfortunately there is a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation here. Put overly simply: If we start enforcing copyright in training AI models now, do you really believe that any companies who have already trained their models are really going to just toss them? I’m afraid that it’s going to just be regulatory capture where the existing big names just pull the ladder up behind them while still making money off of their stolen content fueled plagiarism machines.
We’ll ignore that OpenAI isn’t actually profitable for the sake of the argument.
That said, abolishing copyright is quite possibly the stupidest solution I’ve ever heard for this issue.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 11 months ago:
Then who was phone?
