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- Comment on KAZ is a dopamine-fuelled action roguelike that's a full workout for your fingers 1 day ago:
Whoever wrote that headline doesn’t know what they’re saying if they think that’s a good thing…
- Comment on Call of Duty won't hit Xbox Game Pass at launch going forwards, as Microsoft's subscription service gets a price cut 2 days ago:
Adding COD made it worth it at the existing price…
But adding COD made everyone that would buy it every year, just buy game pass and not COD…
This was obviously what was gonna happen when Microsoft bought it.
- Comment on US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties 3 days ago:
They can’t just verify age, they have to verify identity to verify age…
- Comment on Battlefield 6 will have big maps up the wazoo by the time 2026 is done, including ones aimed at naval fights between folks in camo trunks 6 days ago:
including ones aimed at naval fights between folks in camo trunks
Never forget the US navy once thought it was a good idea to cover sailors in camo designed to blend in with open ocean…
- Comment on Cyber Knights: Flashpoint's latest update lets you two-time a pair of warring factions or ignore them completely 1 week ago:
Lot of fun as a Shadow Runs/Xcom type game.
Pretty sure it’s alpha/beta still, but there’s a crazy amount of updates. Like multiple a week, and none of them make saves.
You’ll get burnt playing pretty quickly, but wait a month or two and there’s a bunch of new content again.
By the time it finally makes it to release it will be an amazing game.
But it’s hard to recommend it over Xenonauts 2 since it just released
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 1 week ago:
Tldr:
Console players are disproportionately more likely to be whales:
GTA Online made $9,592,109 a week across September 2025 to April 2026. Nine million dollars a week! Why, you could buy almost all the DLC for a Paradox grand strategy game with that!
Of the total, $8,245,974 was from console,
Which makes sense, PC players are able to do free mods and more shit, even if not in GTA
Console games are more lockdown by nature so it makes sense they pay more for micro transactions.
- Comment on Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators 1 week ago:
Name Tag, as revealed in February by The New York Times, would work through the artificial intelligence assistant built into Meta’s smart glasses, allowing wearers to pull up information about people in their field of view. Engineers have reportedly been weighing two versions of the feature: one that would only identify people the wearer is already connected to on a Meta platform, and a broader version that could recognize anyone with a public account on a Meta service such as Instagram.
Creeps will instantly use it to go to where women are and find their accounts.
Not to mention any woman that has to work a customer facing job.
This would suck for men too tho, it would suck for everyone.
But it might be what it finally takes to get the dumb masses off Meta platforms. There’s so many other reasons anyways, but idiots just can’t delete their Instas
- Comment on Researchers build Wi-Fi chip that can operate inside a nuclear reactor — receiver uses special materials and design to withstand high doses of radiation for at least six months 2 weeks ago:
I got to go inside a reactor once (obviously after it “cooled” down) and everyone immediately got into a competition to see who could get the most rads.
Instructor trying to showing us how it works and everyone just has one hip pressed against anything that had a giant warning sign on it.
I never really thought of it before, but wearing radiation monitors right next to your junk probably isn’t a good idea…
Even the first groups in barely got anything tho, it was just ultra specific monitoring so when people got cancer the government can quantify how much was work related. Like, we measured millrem, 1/1000th of a rad. But it was still a distraction trying to get the “high score” for radiation exposure.
For comparison these chips withstand 50,000 gray, which is 5,000,000 rads and 5 billion miller.
For shit like cleaning up diasters zones via robots, this is huge. I don’t know if it would ever lead to wifi robots in an operating reactor tho. Maybe in “standby” as part of energy procedures, but not activated till a switch is flipped to expose it from a secondary shielding that way it starts fresh with zero exposure and ensures it will do what it’s supposed in the event it’s needed.
- Comment on The first new Heroes of Might and Magic strategy game in over 10 years will launch this month 3 weeks ago:
There’s been an open demo for a while if you want to check it out
- Comment on Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file 3 weeks ago:
While Anthropic’s trade secrets have some legal protection, there are architectural insights that are valuable to competitors—useful for improving their own architecture, speeding up development of competing tools, seeing what Anthropic is working on next, and identifying gaps in what Anthropic has worked out.
Reminder that literally nothing would fuel actual innovation more that making our patent law more relaxed.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 4 weeks ago:
First, editors can use LLMs to suggest refinements to their own writing, as long as the edits are checked for accuracy. In other words, it’s being treated like any other grammar checker or writing assistance tool. The policy says, “ LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”
The second exemption for LLMs is with translation assistance. Editors can use AI tools for the first pass at translating text, but they still need to be fluent enough in both languages to catch errors. As with regular writing refinements, anyone using LLMs also has to check that incorrect information hasn’t been injected.
Both pretty reasonable
- Comment on Oopsie, Crimson Desert's weird AI paintings weren't supposed to left in for release, Pearl Abyss claim, outlining plans to remove them 4 weeks ago:
Gamers:
No slop games, ok guys?
Game Devs:
We’re good guys, were not gonna slop it up…
One second later
Let’s slop em up
- Comment on [TheGamer] Spider-Man Fans Are Trying To Work Out Who Keith David Plays In Brand New Day 5 weeks ago:
The president, duh…
If Keith David is in something, he’s probably playing the president.
As long as it’s not a gagool
- Comment on CNN: Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races 5 weeks ago:
They were counting on being able to get Crockett, and to be fair she flat out said she even entered the race was the polls Republicans pushed.
Talerico has a really good shot of actually winning, and it scares the shit out of Republicans.
A charismatic candidate with good policy helps swing a lot of down ballot races too in the state government
- Comment on AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer 1 month ago:
I hate these “AI is this dumb” posts because most of the time it’s someone telling the AI to build a bad product just to laugh at it.
But they’re still using AI.
And it’s still training the AI.
It’s like burning a tree down in Cali and then saying it was down to raise awareness that Forrest fires are bad…
Everyone knows it already, and you’re just making an existing problem worse.
It’s just clickbait, and I hate that Tom’s post so much about it because it gets clicks.
- Comment on Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun 2 months ago:
No, hes merging them as some convoluted grift to make money somehow.
Which if we’d have had anything resembling a ratio ale go went in the last decade would have wiped all his government contracts.
At this point we need to just seize all his shit.
Fuck him, what’s he going to do about it with no money?
There’s the fun part about oligarchs, all it takes is everyone deciding they don’t get to keep their money, and they don’t get to keep it. Easiest thing in the world these days when it’s digital.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 2 months ago:
But now coding agents with skills can easily read and understand specs, create testsuites, etc.
What “skills”?
If they had the “skills” to do the basic functions of their jobs, they wouldn’t need “skills” in reference to AI…
Which means when the AI inevitably fucks up, the only way they can fix it is by asking the AI to fix it repeatedly and hope it works…
These are right now revolutionizing my team’s work.
Sounds like your “team” should spend less on AI and more on qualified employees.
Or do you all use free chatbots?
- Comment on [Opinion] X users in USA don't like that we have an opinion about them? Tough 4 months ago:
Who cares what anyone still on Twitter says?
But the recent controversy was people from other countries pretending to be American to cause division, no one has been complaining about people from other countries not like America.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
And I said to tell the difference between slop and human indie devs…
They’d have to start vetting games to tell.
You said they don’t have to do that, you just think there’s a magical way to tell?
What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like you didn’t even read the comment chain you replied to. I’m just reiterating what I’ve already said, and it’s probably going to help you understand just as much as the first time…
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
I know I’m going to regret asking, but how exactly do you logic out that stopping low quality slop games?
It would literally do the opposite because the goal for each slop game would be $49,999.
Your idea would make everything worse, and I’m just curious why you don’t see that.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.
It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.
But no one wants to pay for that human level review.
And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.
So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
They’d have to start doing vetting for that…
All the slop games are “indie” or at least would start to be structured that way to lower their barrier of entry.
- Comment on Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky 4 months ago:
If you look up Stirling engines on the internet, you’ll immediately find a load of toys and hobby kits for a device that runs seemingly by magic.
Don’t write it off because of that, the Romans invented the Steam engine like 1800 years before trains, they just wrote it off as a child’s toy.
A lot of shit generates an insane amount of heat, if we can harvest the temp differential a couple times during cooling process, it’s literally free energy. Even if it just runs the fans/pumps in the cooling. It would be somewhat self regulating even, although we couldn’t rely solely on this or we’d run into the same issue as nuke reactors with positive power coefficients.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
I mean, it doesn’t exactly take much to run Steam…
They make a few games, but it’s less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.
The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn’t insanely greedy. He has more than he’ll ever spend, and I’d love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.
But it’s not like he’s fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!
I’d hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam
- Comment on Bluesky announces moderation changes focused on better tracking, improved transparency 5 months ago:
Gotta make the right wingers feel safe enough to harras everyone else…
The company doesn’t want to be known as just a leftist or liberal version of Twitter; it wants to be a home where many different communities can build out their networks and thrive, without the problems of a centralized social network. However, much of the community that adopted Bluesky did so as they no longer felt represented on Twitter/X, which became more right-leaning under new owner Elon Musk.
If they’re banning people from all of Bluesky for a post, it’s centralized. I don’t know why they keep saying they’re decentralized.
- Comment on Man dances for 144 hours to break video game marathon record 5 months ago:
Guiness stopped doing “stay awake” records I think, and for good reason.
Staying awake more than three days is like how LSD is described in DARE and media. You start having “microsleeps” that last for a fraction of a second in the real world, but hit you with a 5-10 minute long dream.
That’s why meth heads are so crazy.
It’s not the meth directly, it’s staying awake for days on it
Like, when a meth head is in public relatively normal and then starts screaming and acting like someone just did something they clearly didn’t?
It’s because they just had a micro sleep dream and can’t differentiate that from reality.
Playing DDR for 144 hours had to be nuts mentally
- Comment on xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 5 months ago:
Employees that were assigned as AI tutors were instructed to sign release forms granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” to use, reproduce, and distribute their faces and voices, as part of a confidential program code-named “Project Skippy.” The data would be used to train Ani, as well as Grok’s other AI companions.
According to the Journal, some employees balked at the demand, concerned that their faces or likeness could be sold to other companies or used in deepfake videos. The employees were put off by the chatbot’s sexual demeanor and its likeness to a waifu. But they were told that the collection of their data was “a job requirement to advance xAI’s mission.”
Don’t forget Musk has had people dress up and pretend to be AI powered robots to boost hist stock…
And Bezos tried an “no employee grocery run by AI” that was really a bunch of Indians watching cameras…
This shit ain’t ready, but we’re burning the planet down for it so no billionaires misses if any ever figure out how profit off it
Capitalism is no way to run a society, at any scale.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 5 months ago:
Reminder that the Luddites were not against mechanization, and not just made at the loom and nothing else.
They were a pro-worker movement who want to see the increase in efficiency translate to less hours for more overall pay, instead of just a drastic reduction in the amount of jobs with weekly earnings remaining unchanged.
They got made a joke, because they did gain some ground.
The looks were expensive and located in a central location, so that’s where Luddite activity was focused. A modern equivalent would be something like all the AI data centers being built nationwide against locals wishes.
Especially before construction is finished. Delays in construction are very expensive and not exactly covered by insurance to my knowledge.
- Comment on Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? 5 months ago:
Why are 70+ year old conservatives acting like conservative?
Maybe because they’re 70+ years old and conservative?
Like, surely people realized that “moderates” agreed with the right on some topics, well, these are them…
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 5 months ago:
Humans would have said to test it first…
AI will just call you a genius for having a brilliant thought no one else could have ever thought of: fire workers and buy AI
Like, it’s fucking insane that high up people are falling for chatbots bullshit, then asking it if they should use AI more. It’s always going to say to use AI and fire humans, because the people making the chat bots want people to spend more on AI.