mindbleach
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- Comment on The last MPEG-4 Visual patent has expired 4 days ago:
And now, at last, we may consider open-source DVD decoding. Just in the nick of time.
- Comment on "Compliance-in-advance is never enough to appease a zealous censor": Robert Yang on the current challenge of bringing experimental gay games to Steam 2 weeks ago:
You’d think assholes demanding ID for everything would mean adults get treated like adults.
You’d really fucking think.
- Comment on Doom devs id Software were reportedly kicking around ideas for a new Perfect Dark, a John Wick-inspired game, and multiplayer demonslaying prior to layoffs 2 weeks ago:
You’d think Perfect Dark had some immersive sim DNA, the way every effort to revitalize it is fucking cursed.
- Comment on Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up 2 weeks ago:
Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.
- Comment on dBrand Companion Cube cancelled: 3 weeks ago:
So they humiliated themselves as a marketing tactic, to later promote fugly knockoffs.
We really are a month away from the Heavy Friendship Box with a pink thumbs-up on the side.
- Comment on dBrand Companion Cube cancelled: 3 weeks ago:
Off-brand PS5 shells should have been fine, unless they were dumb enough to copy Sony’s logos and whatnot. It’s just swoopy inert shapes and it’s only designed to work with official hardware.
- Comment on "We have to have free human expression in some capacity": Patreon CEO shares frustrations about getting adult content past payment processors 4 weeks ago:
Trouble is, cash you can e-mail became a wiggly line going up, so people bet on it and ruined everything.
Proper cryptocurrency would constantly lose value and be a hot potato people seek to get rid of. Readily available - valuable through exchange - aggressively encouraging that exchange.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Satya Nadella: We Can’t Let AI Giants Eat the Economy 4 weeks ago:
“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this, and give him a spanking!”
- Comment on Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance 4 weeks ago:
Like it’s an accident.
- Comment on God of War Laufey and Wolverine are snubbing PC, as rumoured, but I bet they come crawling back sometime after the launch of PS6 1 month ago:
Abolish consoles.
The war is over. Software has won. Everything’s a computer now, and some of them act stupid. We should tell them to stop.
- Comment on Unsanctioned GTA Online modding platform Rage:MP is shutting down thanks to a cease and desist from Take-Two 1 month ago:
Repeal the DMCA.
- Comment on Meta AI will analyze faces of teen users 'but it's not face recognition' 2 months ago:
Argumentum ad nuh uh.
- Comment on "A handful of bottlenecks" remain for Morrowind remake mod Skywind, but it's still progressing steadily towards release 2 months ago:
Meanwhile InfernoPlus has most of the game working in Elden fucking Ring in a matter of months, because that dude is built different.
- Comment on Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety 2 months ago:
‘It’s not any kind of independent intelligence, it’s just a mirror.’
‘Also we need to censor the mirror.’
- Comment on Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore 3 months ago:
Crime.
- Comment on New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages 3 months ago:
“But I’m a League player!”
“We take those.”
- Comment on Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing 3 months ago:
Modern electronics are as bendy as electronics have ever been, and they still super duper do not like to bend.
Any sane expanding display has to be a projector. Preferably onto that comb-filter material that’s black outside the narrow wavelengths emitted by RGB LEDs. But I’d also settle for some frosted transparent nonsense with abysmal contrast, because if you’re buying this sort of nonsense, cool factor comes first.
- Comment on Raise up the decapitated head of the goddess of love in a flower pot in the charmingly silly Tomak: Save the Earth Regeneration 3 months ago:
@kallidorarho.bsky.social
The author’s brazen fetish, presented with such hedonistic flair and open pride it makes you feel a little embarrassed for needing to hide your own passions behind self-effacing jokes in order to preserve a sense of safe, pseudo-ironic detachment
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
Yeah imagine if I had the media literacy to describe an establishing shot’s form and function, even if it was borrowed or fabricated. But as someone who’s never seen a movie before, I could never suggest costume and set dressing conveying expectations beyond their literal imagery.
What are you doing?
Yes, professor, how and why I show an elephant will matter more than ‘hey look, an elephant.’ But in order for my intent to matter, when showing an elephant, I do require the ability to show an elephant. A depiction can’t mean anything unless I can in fact depict it. If I just tell you to use your imagination, that’s not a movie, that’s a book.
These tools let you show basically anything at basically no cost. What you want and why is your own problem. The premise, the message, and the edit are still entirely human art. This only replaces the part where real photons bounce off a fake building and look real enough on a sensor. (Or the part where a guy fakes that in Blender.)
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
Denouncing the pursuit of verisimilitude is a novel response to hand-wave CGI. Are you this philosophical when a movie does spend a million dollars, to make two unrelated actors look exactly the same? Do you expect audiences should be happier if a no-budget sci-fi film has cardboard displays? It’s cute, certainly. But when a central complaint is that people will notice generated elements and object to low quality, I think they’re gonna notice literal cardboard.
Films are photographs. That’s why The Social Network didn’t just say the Winklevii were twins and expect people to pretend. Movies are a visual medium, whereas theater is mostly heard. Like how television has viewers but theater has an audience. You can Dogville it, and people will roll with that, but anything that looks fake is more commonly a technical failure than a stylistic choice.
So yes, you can tell people the tin can is a spaceship… but they’d rather be shown. The preference for showing over telling is so ingrained that it’s cliche. Nobody needs to announce ‘we lay our scene in fair Verona’ when you can put the mediterranean coastline onscreen, and then cut to a cobblestone village where people have pointy shoes. Folks will get it. They’ll get it on a level deeper than narration, or an overlay reading “Verona, Italy, 15° E, 40° N, June 17th 1435, 0700 hours.” They’ll get it even if the aerial shot of the coastline was bought as stock footage. Or rendered, in one way or another.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
Okay, here’s reality from the recent past: some guy recreated GPT-2 for $20. Same size, similar training data, equal performance. The original required VC funding. This guy spent pocket change. That was a year ago. That’s how much efficiency has already improved, for training these models. These assholes only spend billions because it’s exclusionary, and they’re all caught in a dollar auction to see who can lose the gentlest. I’m sorry any hypotheticals about that are incompatible with your moral crusade.
Meanwhile, it does the thing.
That’s not going to change and you kind of have to deal with it. We now have programs that just do what you ask, for any output that’s text, images, audio, or video. They often fuck up in horrifying ways. But they’re usually about what you asked for. Especially if you asked for very little. That’s quite useful where small changes are wildly complex, like ‘make this guy look like another guy.’ The robot won’t do it as good as a team of human professionals, but I don’t have a million dollars to hire a team of human professionals, and I’m betting you don’t either. You can still consider projects that involve making one guy look like another.
That utility is new and it’s not going anywhere.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
You’re having a much more contentious conversation inside your head. Please stop projecting traits you’d rather be arguing against, when someone points out, it does the thing it’s for. It demonstrably functions. You could make a coherent moral argument about how it was made - but you haven’t. You’ve railed against an imaginary frothing psychopath, because someone politely described utility.
How it was made is addressable, by the way. It’s fixable. There will be vegan models made from bespoke, licensed, and public-domain data. Will that change your opinion in any way? Or is that complaint decorative?
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
Literally what are you talking about.
I am describing how video-to-video models are better at ‘change this one thing’ than ‘make up a whole scene.’ It’s not metaphysics. It’s CGI for dummies.
Local models run on the same power draw as a video game, and some can process ten seconds of footage every five seconds. The best use - because ‘change this one thing’ works better - is processing things humans made the usual way. E.g., real actors on cardboard sets, and other things I actually said.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
I can barely understand the expectation this will just blow over.
These programs turn whatever you have into whatever you describe… even if you have nothing. If you actually provide an animatic, a pre-vis pass, or stand-ins acting it out, it’ll follow those, and work better. The less you ask for, the more it can do. Its shortcomings keep dwindling and the models keep shrinking. Sora shut down because this tech has moved on to local models running near real-time.
That’s gonna revolutionize Hollywood the way refrigerators revolutionized selling ice for iceboxes.
Disney doesn’t benefit because they have the money to do things the hard way. Most people don’t. So a filter that turns cardboard sets into sci-fi blinkenlights is useful to plenty of people with no hope of securing a two-comma budget. It will let them make art that would otherwise be gatekept by capital. People might excuse any gap in quality knowing the thing otherwise would not exist. And that gap will shrink. Hollywood will find itself competing with manic weirdos, like print publishers who could no longer pick which comics and stories get read.
Cocteau said film will only become art when it’s as cheap as pencil and paper. Digital cameras have brought us pretty close, but you can’t point your iPhone at an incidental space battle. Conversely: Kraus said everyone has a book in them, and in most cases that’s where it should stay. The first wave of popular use here is already rude fanfiction. But the stories the average person can tell, in motion, have now massively expanded. They can’t all be Fruit Love Island.
- Comment on Valve say Counter-Strike 2's reloading needed "higher stakes", so you now dump all the ammo left in a clip when you reload early 4 months ago:
Seems like a weird big change to make in what is supposed to be an e-sport, but then again this is a game that deleted the game you fucking bought and replaced it with a sequel.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Invincible VS Has A Bizarre Allen The Alien Condom 4 months ago:
Title case makes this fucking incomprehensible.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 months ago:
No no no you’re supposed to reach to the right and stroke the next guy. Every negative aspect of this glorified chatbot’s brief history can be blamed on a volunteer making Windows less relevant. If there’s a single line of Bad Code then the whole thing is ssslop! and that label will surely keep hounding people away from openly using a tool that kinda works.
- Comment on [TheGamer] MTG And D&D Won't Use AI Any Time Soon, Despite Hasbro Boss' Love For It 4 months ago:
Found it: XP To Level 3, e.g. How it feels to DM above 10th level.
- Comment on [TheGamer] MTG And D&D Won't Use AI Any Time Soon, Despite Hasbro Boss' Love For It 4 months ago:
They’ve already cashed in by becoming Fortnite on cardboard.
Magic’s backstory was always fuzzy background flavor more than necessary worldbuilding, but it had a clear identity. Every card was an evocative glimpse of high fantasy where some magical creations require scale birds. Aaand now you’d have to play that against Spongebob Squarepants and Bilbo Baggins.
- Comment on [TheGamer] MTG And D&D Won't Use AI Any Time Soon, Despite Hasbro Boss' Love For It 4 months ago:
Like that D&D skit guy I can’t find.
“The lich casts cloud lightning as a legendary action.”
“Can they do that?”
“This one can.”
Totally forgot that guy’s channel name. Always love the barbarian chucking an entire bag of dice and barely glancing down. “I do eighty-four damage.”