mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors 1 day ago:
What the hell is any of this?
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 1 week ago:
It’s like we have forgotten - some questions have a right answer.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 1 week ago:
Well, left and left.
- Comment on Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers 2 weeks ago:
Everything still works in Firefox.
You can just leave.
- Comment on Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations. 2 weeks ago:
This is adorably misguided. We tried letting humans write the rules. It didn’t work.
The recent explosion of neural-network stuff is exciting specifically because it doesn’t rely on us understanding how the fuck it works.
- Comment on Team Cherry Finely Provides An Update On Hollow Knight: Silksong 4 weeks ago:
“Finally.”
- Comment on Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great idea 1 month 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 Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm 1 month ago:
Still no idea where they got those sounds.
- Comment on YouTube is testing a floating ‘Play something’ button 1 month ago:
Also stop suggesting videos that are 6 years old and I’ve already watched them?!
This is self-reporting, but - I think Youtube knows when I’m drunk. The recommendations become a lot of music videos I’ve seen before. And they’re not wrong.
- Comment on Large language models continue to be unreliable concerning elections 2 months ago:
Stop using a helocopter to mow grass.
- Comment on WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza 2 months ago:
In itself, not a big deal.
As evidence of one fucking guy being an obstacle for millions of people, holy shit.
- Comment on Balatro Dev Calls Out PEGI For "Real Gambling" Rating Hypocrisy Vs. EA Sports FC 2 months ago:
The only apolitical game is Tetris.
… not counting the story of developing and distributing Tetris.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 2 months ago:
One day your phone might be as functional as Windows 95.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 2 months ago:
Until now, speech recognition has relied upon a device being connected to the internet.
My family’s Gateway 2000 had local speech recognition… in 1998. That machine had sixteen megs of memory and a 200 MHz P2.
The fucking Macintosh Classic had local speech recognition. Yeah, it gave us “I helped Apple wreck a nice beach,” but things have improved since then.
- Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? 2 months ago:
It’s not about any opinion in particular.
It’s not about how that opinion is expressed, or to whom.
This is a business. It’s owned by a foreign state. Other sites offered the same kind of platform before it, and plenty more offer it right now.
- Comment on Firefox is getting rid of its 'Do Not Track' setting and what it's being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns 2 months ago:
They’re the best option available.
They’re fucking up the reasons why.
Welcome to every year for the last twenty years.
- Comment on LinkedIn wants to have its TikTok era 2 months ago:
Old shit wants to be the previous next thing
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 months ago:
Demand and petition are opposite, genius.
Don’t treat customers as if anything short groveling for crumbs is acting above their station. People who adore this product got together on their own time to hash out why, specifically, they feel dissatisfied. They collaboratively presented a single document explaining what could go better and why it’s important. And you’re treating that like it’s some 90s edgelord with an I HATE BG3 page on GeoCities because they didn’t add any of the cool story ideas he e-mailed them.
What exactly is negative about people saying, ‘We’re excited to sink a shitload of time into adding stuff to this game for free, please do more technical communication?’
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 months ago:
… Jesus, is that what you think whining looks like? That’s the most polite request for information possible, after a bunch of people got together and discussed it amongst themselves.
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 months ago:
Damn involved community, trying to make all their improvements count! The freeloaders!
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 2 months ago:
Don’t you put that evil on us.
- Comment on Rogue Point is a new tactical shooter from Half-Life remake Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective 3 months ago:
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on Over 200 days after its official closure, the last user of Nintendo Network's online servers finally disconnected after a 3DS system crash 3 months ago:
Shit, that 3DS had better uptime than my last laptop.
- Comment on Sony is trying to patent a 'universal' rewind button that could fix your worst gaming catastrophes 3 months ago:
Fuck software patents.
- Comment on Some guy complained this fishing game only caters to queer players, so the dev added a "straight" title - it costs $9999 3 months ago:
No, fuck that business model.
- Comment on Intel Fails To Achieve Gaudi AI "$500 Million" Revenue Target, Showing Slacking Performance In The AI Segment. 3 months ago:
I never expected Intel would shit the bed like this, but I’d always really hoped.
- Comment on Radio station drops "Gen Z" AI presenters after a week following public outrage 3 months ago:
Ah yes, two otherwise-unreachable voices: deceased 19th-century foreigners, and twentysomethings.
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 3 months ago:
Hard glance at Frank Miller.
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 3 months ago:
“Who’s a victim of moral luck? Who’s a coerced actor? Is it you? It is! It is you!”
- Comment on [DF] Bazzite - 'SteamOS' For Windows PC Handhelds - Is It A Game-Changer? 3 months ago:
Good?
A gaming device should not be an… eierlegende Wollmilchsau. It should play games with minimal bullshit. The possibility of being a general computer does not necessarily demand the ease of being a general computer. So long as you’re the one deciding when and how it acts like a fixed-function gizmo, great.