MotoAsh
@MotoAsh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 3 days ago:
I fully and wholly agree about indie games. My point is that entertainment needn’t have such a steep price, period. Sure, that happens to exclude basically every “AAA” game at asking price.
It’s more of a critique of capitalism and the gross injustice of corporate structure than any dig at indie games.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 3 days ago:
No fucking way, on multiple fronts. I would’ve never bought it at $60+ even if everybody sucked its dick for the next six months.
Also with how “AAA” games have been over the last several years, I DO expect indie games to compete on a “fun” scale. Price is also ALWAYS related to playtime. I will never willingly buy a $20+ game that has only 3-4 hours of gameplay.
They DO compete in the “AAA” space, regardless of what you or I say… they just will have different criteria to meet than the multi-million dollar budget entries, because their cost of entry is different. They’re still in the same market, with the same cutomers, though. That means competition. It’s not indie devs’ fault that “AAA” studios CONSTANTLY drop the ball because they’re more interested in lining exec pockets than producing art.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 weeks ago:
Oh whaaaat, exporting your critical thinking makes you dumber, whaaaat?
Now if only people would apply this to the rich, who similarly face far fewer challenges on their own…
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 weeks ago:
If there’s ever a target that deserves it…
Also, I FULLY support inaccurate targets. This might be the only way fucking brainless, heartless conservatives could ever agree to regulate “AI”.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 weeks ago:
Ehh… There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.
At least these people are wasting imgur resources and removing value by cluttering up the site. If they’d keep it up and actually battle the shitlords, it’d be better than a bitchboi boycott.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 weeks ago:
I’m not misinformed. You’re still trying to call a groomed LLM something that reasons when it literally is not doing that in any meaningful capacity.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 weeks ago:
Nah, it depends massively on what libraries/framework/language are being used. Some are pretty bad about how much boilerplate has to be written. Like Java on an old declarative version of Spring or Java EE without generative helper libraries like Lombok can be a paaaiiin just in overhead, especially if insisting on having interfaces for most things.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 weeks ago:
“…leans too heavily on its training data…” No, it IS its training data. Full srop. It doesn’t know the documentation as a separate entity. It doesn’t reason what so ever for where to get its data from. It just shits out the closest approximation of an “acceptable” answer from the training data. Period. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t reason. It doesn’t decide where to pull an answer from. It just shits it out verbatim.
I swear… so many people anthropomorphise “AI” it’s ridiculous. It does not think and it does not reason. Ever. Thinking it does is projecting human attributes on to it, which is anthropomorphizing it, which is lying to yourself about it.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They’re both words. Serf is the one for a person subject to someone else’s rule just to live. (obvs not fully accurate definition, but dictionaries can give you the real deal)
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The fact bubbles grow only means that this partivular cycle’s downfall will be particularly harsh, given all of the factors I’ve already cited are lining up.
That’s the point! The fact that it is a bubble only reinforces my point.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Ehh, even current LLMs are good enough to fool the fools who hold the purse strings. Even you are directly admitting that. We’re already aimed for a massive recession/depression, and the extra turmoil from AI, regardless of how permanent its job losses are, may be enough to ensure it hits much greater lows to the point where it will take decades to recover if ever.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
And I disagree about them being existential threats to many, and to the whole current layout of the economy. It’s not designed to perform well for everyone with high unemployment rates in the first place, let alone in the Gilded Age 2.0.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You’re still doing it. “recalling factoids” is not how they work. At all.
Me saying you’re wrong about them being an economic threat isn’t a strawman. It’s me disagreeing about the severity of the issue. You having an ignorant opinion is not me strawmanning you. It’s me calling you ignorant.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
No… you’re anthropomorphising the technology to hell and back…
“Knowledge” takes understanding, and no current generation of “AI” has basically any level of understanding. Being able to crap out eloquently stated BS is not knowledge nor thought.
Yet, they’re still a MASSIVE economic threat, mostly because moronic investors and c-suits are also anthropomorphising them and buying in to the sales pitch BS that’s straight up lies at a fundamental level…
- Comment on Itch.io's mass delisting of paid adult content has also affected safe-for-work games with yuri or lesbian themes, devs claim 5 weeks ago:
Naw, that’s only part of making The Handmaid’s Tale reality.
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 5 weeks ago:
Because snake oil as a general thing is here to stay. In fact, it’s never been more convincing to morons and rubes alike.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers 1 month ago:
Agreed
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers 1 month ago:
You can have it off by default and not use a saved session if you add a custom search to the browser with noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s as the URL (or thereabouts, I’m typing from memory).
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 2 months ago:
Most likely the sensitivity of the electronics and whether they consider the surely weak signal noise.
- Comment on Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models 2 months ago:
Yea, because it’s based on humans, who use human-like concepts.
FFS, humanity is cooked if we’re already this stupid.
- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 1 year ago:
I wouldn’t mind anything above “possible”. I was just commenting on what most end users would expect if it’s released for public consumption. Just like everyone keeps bringing it up as a good example, old steam games with a perfectly functional server component you can start up about as easily as the game is all the “hosting” experience most gamers have. If it’s more than setting a port for the server and typing in the url/ip and port in the client, many will be immediately lost.
… not that they should have to make it that easy. The main point of my earlier post was that for many games, creating an easy server component and updating the game to connect to arbitrary servers is very likely to be more than a few hours’ work.
Especially MMO’s and bigger games that may have multiple server components running on multiple servers and likely with an entire build/deploy pipeline behind them…
- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 1 year ago:
While simply allowing the game to use a variable for the server URL is easy, the VAST majority of gamers would assume it’d come with a clean server installer and the ability to set the URL in some kind of UI.
Both of those details are very much NOT simple in many cases. Sure, quite a few well written games, it could be done quickly, but as someone who’s worked on software for decades … it’s NEVER well written. Especially when video game studio style crunch is involved.
- Comment on Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union 1 year ago:
I’d vote to force them to do one of three things:
- Open source the whole game.
- Release the server components in a way where anyone tech savvy could grab them and spin up a server the game client can actually connect to.
- Make the game offline only (obviously impossible for many games these days, but…)
It should be forced upon them. Want to sell a rug pull? Get ready to not own the rug pull.
- Comment on Zombie survival game 7 Days To Die version 1.0 is out now after 11 years in early access 1 year ago:
My comment wasn’t about a videogame, but your ability to judge things on merit and not assumption. Glad your logical skills seem to be similarly deficient.
- Comment on Zombie survival game 7 Days To Die version 1.0 is out now after 11 years in early access 1 year ago:
lol just openly admitting you haven’t experienced the remotely latest… Go ahead and keep judging things on assumptions. That always works so well for people…
- Comment on Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company 1 year ago:
There already are matrix (matrix math, not The Matrix) accelerators in flagship phones, let alone all the services a phone can call off to. This product was never going to replace a damn thing.
- Comment on PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required 1 year ago:
They like to think they don’t need to know, then they all seem to eat their foot on a regular basis… Maybe the problem itself is that people think “executive” is a separate job…
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe 1 year ago:
Does it even use secure DNS by default? No? Then it cannot be much more secure than any other browser, and their integrated Apple IDs make their users more identifiable, so… A lie even before this app store mess.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors gets a AAAA update with functional doors, a train and rail kart racing 1 year ago:
AAA studios: “What do you mean our game sucks?? We used cinema quality assets and paid our artists 50k a year to make it all! It’s gorgeous! Don’t you guys have eyes?”
Meanwhile in indie land: …
- Comment on Deliver Us Mars developers lay off all staff but plan to 'rebuild brick by brick' 1 year ago:
Yea, if they laid off the team that actually does the creating, it just means they’re aping off the success of said team if they bring it back with the same name.