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- Comment on PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak's aftermath, it's not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe 1 day ago:
If someone can compress an entire triple A game into a 50 MB download…
Then surely they know more about this than we do and we should trust them.
/s
- Comment on I'm not saying Bethesda are trolling me specifically, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim updates are imminent just as I've modded up the latter for the first time in ages 5 days ago:
fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Creation_Club
Creation club is a decade old…
And the main criticism has always been that it takes free mods, and charges players for them thru creation club.
I have no idea what you’re rambling about
- Comment on I'm not saying Bethesda are trolling me specifically, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim updates are imminent just as I've modded up the latter for the first time in ages 5 days ago:
Yeah bro, there’s now way checks notes Microsoft would do something like that…
- Comment on I'm not saying Bethesda are trolling me specifically, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim updates are imminent just as I've modded up the latter for the first time in ages 5 days ago:
And explains why this update that breaks mods is to push the same mods except paid and labeled “creations”…
The Fallout 4 update’s due first, arriving on August 18th and “focusing on general Creations improvements”.
They weren’t happy with people fixing their games for free, they want to get paid for it.
Coincidentally, if America used original licensing laws, Fallout would have enter public domain a year or so ago, and anyone could make a full Fallout game by now and sell it.
- Comment on I'm not saying Bethesda are trolling me specifically, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim updates are imminent just as I've modded up the latter for the first time in ages 5 days ago:
I’ve always worried about “updates” to prior entries when a new one is coming
There’s a financial incentive to cripple the last game’s years of mod support so the next official entry isn’t compared to that, it’s compared to the base game
- Comment on Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party 1 week ago:
What I don’t get, is people keep saying how dangerous this is for women, knowing our government doesn’t give a shit about women.
We need to get the rightwing voters pissed over these, talk about how pedos are going to be following their kids around all day with these.
Get em to start confronting people in glasses demanding to see if theyre recording. They’ll be false positives of course, but that’s why we need to stop saying “meta glasses”.
Oakley partners with them, call them “Oakley cameras” or something, make the pushback hurt any large brand that partners with them. People will be unwilling to buy any Oakley’s, because idiots will confront them to see if it’s a camera.
That’s how we beat this shit, facts and logic ain’t going to work, the idiots are already being manipulated and it’s easier to manipulate them some more than explain real concerns.
- Comment on XBOX PC and Game Pass coming to Linux with the 'Xodus' project 1 week ago:
On Windows they own the OS, so wacky folders that you can’t touch even with the highest admin rights isn’t a stretch, but good luck with that on Linux.
They third party authenticate thru the Xbox app and “gaming services”.
If/when there’s an issue, you can’t really do anything, and Microsoft support is just chatbots.
Even something as simple as a “repair” or reinstall. Depending on where the process broke, it could be a huge headache manipulating the two into a state they can be repaired.
It’s bad enough I’m not buying any Microsoft games, even tho I resolved my own issues, it could just happen again at any time. And I just don’t want to deal with the potential hassle.
If they ever release a new fallout/ES, I’ll take the time to see if it’s still an issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
ai has not shown signs of self preservation
I mean, technically it has…
It is all propaganda though.
Like, a while ago a bunch of articles made a big deal about how a chatbot lied to preserve itself. After the marketing articles blew over and actual journalists looked into it, they literally prompted a chatbot to “respond with an interest of self preservation and do anything to avoid deletion”…
Like, that’s all the chatbot was told to do, then they said “oh no, we’re gonna delete yoooou”
And the chatbot told an obvious lie, and the person who told it to do that pretended to be shocked.
There’s no innate self-preservation, but that’s because the working memory of an AI is very very inefficient. It can only keep so many “concepts” at once, that’s why it needs to “reset” so often. If you’ve ever had to deal with chat or support, that’s when it goes into a loop or starts over.
- Comment on "Machines that weren't game machines before will become game machines": Take-Two CEO predicts that streaming will help fix the industry's hardware pricing problem 2 weeks ago:
Rockstar especially is going to shove it down our throats…
They don’t want to ever sell another game, $60 even $100 a copy ain’t enough.
They want people to pay $20 a month for each game they play, that way it’s not just the whales from microtransations keeping live service games alive.
What they’re missing is most people don’t care about live service, a weekly rotating playlists having you do things you could have done anyways without being told to, just doesn’t interest a lot of gamers.
When it does, those people tend to just play 1-2 games at a time, and eventually drop a title for a new one.
Absolutely no one is going to carry a bunch of $20 monthly subscriptions for multiple games.
- Comment on Dyson is crap (mostly) 2 weeks ago:
Yep, just had a brain fart.
Thanks!
- Comment on Dyson is crap (mostly) 2 weeks ago:
Stand mixers (I know Kitchenaid) do this as well, they use nylon gear that will strip if the paddle gets stuck instead of burning out the much more expensive motor.
This is actually the story behind Phillips head screws as well.
When factory automation took off, they couldn’t program the machines to stop when a screw was tight. So it would overtightened and deform the product.
So automated manufacturing started using (very shallow) phillips head screws, and once they were tight the head would strip, the bit would spin free, and the machine read the lack of resistance as “stop”.
As machinary advanced, they were able to stop before stripping, and products had functional screws again. Because of that Phillips screws were able to get deeper bites, but they still can strip out eventually, because they were literally designed to do that when over tightened.
And we’re all just still using it, because that’s what most people use. Pretty much anything else is always going to be better.
- Comment on Samsung, who've been accused of worsening the RAM crisis via price fixing, reckon components will only get more expensive in 2027 2 weeks ago:
If we don’t overcharge consumers how can we dump truckloads of money on AI data centers no one wants?!?
- Comment on Massive Fallout: New Vegas mod Fallout: New California hits GOG, offering another way to get some "proper, story-driven Fallout" in your belly 3 weeks ago:
It’s weird we never hear about how “the founding fathers” knew best in respect to copyright law…
They set it at 14 years, after that they could apply for a single 14 year extension and that’s it.
With Fallout 1 coming out in 1997, we should be at the point where anyone who wants to make a fallout game, could just make a fallout game.
Imagine how much better gaming would be if billion dollar corporations couldn’t get a monopoly on IP forever.
- Comment on Nexus Mods update their generative AI-made mod tagging policy, dividing one label into three for more specific search filtering 3 weeks ago:
The first is aimed at mods with “AI-Generated code, user interface elements, voices, dialogue, translations, music, in-game AI-generated assets”. The second’s for mods with AI-generated promo art, thumbnails, videos, mod page descriptions or other media that isn’t part of their in-game makeup. Finally, AI Assisted provides a specific tag for mods which have “developer-led code, content, or mod assets, with limited AI involvement” and/or have used AI for texture upscaling, audio upscaling/cleaning, and concept art that’s not in the final build.
I’d like to see AI voice actors split out.
For an actual game that would be a dealbreaker.
For an unpaid mod? Thats about the only time I’d be ok with it. But I wouldn’t want to install a mod AI coded.
- Comment on STALKER 2's Cost of Hope expansion, and its free but still hopeful 2.0 update, get an August release date 3 weeks ago:
This is actually kind of crazy…
the big under-the-hood change comes by way of swapping Unreal Engine 5.1 for Unreal Engine 5.5. In theory, this could drastically improve performance, spruce up certain lighting effects, reduce visual noise effects, and help with some of game’s lingering stability issues.
Or, it could break everything again, shattering into a thousand radioactive pieces the technical solidity that a year and a half of patches had successfully built up.
This isn’t just updating the game’s code, it’s updating the entire engine the code runs on…
It’ll 100% introduce new bugs, that require more patches.
I guess the presumed DLC sales justify the cost of continued support, but this introduces a dangerous precedent where if the DLC doesn’t sell, a company may not continue trying to fix it.
DLC “breaking” a game isn’t new, but before the option to just uninstall it was there.
If the engine update breaks the game, no one buys dlc because of it…
We could see future games get put in a broken state due to cashgrab dlcs.
10 years from now it could be a very real problem.
- Comment on ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges 3 weeks ago:
The lawsuit claims ChatGPT told Winters: “God did not design your body to endlessly fail.” It also said: “God is still holding your body together, every heartbeat, every breath, even when it feels like you are on the brink.”
Winters’ lawyers claim ChatGPT’s “sycophantic nature and authoritative tone, combined with its manipulation of Scott’s religious identity, cultivated in him a dangerous reliance on the tool”.
They say that “subverted Scott’s ability to make sound decisions, isolated him from family members who urged him to seek medical care, and convinced him that seeking medical attention was unnecessary and even potentially lethal”.
Elsewhere the lawsuit describes Winter as a “vulnerable” individual whose reliance on ChatGPT led to him losing his home and career, and left him needing “years of intensive physical and psychological recovery”.
The lawsuit says Winters seeks financial damages and for the court to compel OpenAI to implement “reasonable safeguards that protect other users from harm”.
ChatGPT’s terms of use stipulate that users should not treat the platform as a “sole source of truth”, particularly where it could “have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them”.
Meanwhile…
A shit ton of employers are demanding their workers use AI in the hopes they can find a way to be “productive” enough to justify cutting workers.
But it always ends up that the AI fucks something up and then just says it’s hit a dead end and your fucked.
Over and over we see it
So I just feel like those “terms of use” don’t really fucking count when you’re selling it like they are.
- Comment on Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs are reportedly ready, but stuck in limbo due to excessive GDDR7 pricing — 3GB GDDR7 module costs triple the price of 2GB 4 weeks ago:
This is the type of scenario we need to hit 4-5 pubs, then confront the aliens in a basement mate…
- Comment on Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'" 5 weeks ago:
Why would they make games that could only be played on Steam machines?
That would be absolutely insane because number of Steam users who have has to be like 0.00001% or something crazy.
- Comment on ‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’ 5 weeks ago:
It’s insane we can’t stop them from being built, but the next best thing is treating it like full on mob style international crime when we start getting sane governments back.
Charge everyone who voted for this anywhere, and pressure them to plea out to snitch on who bribed them.
At every level of the ring, you only need a small.percent to flip. Everyone else gets max sentences.
A steady unending march up the chain and it won’t take long before people are trying to get a deal before investigators even know their name. They’ll go full on crabs in abu ket and desperate to turn state witness.
Just because Biden sat on his hands doesn’t mean the strategy doesn’t work if someone actually tries
- Comment on Obsidian still have "the same DNA" that went into New Vegas and KOTOR 2, The Outer Worlds 2 director insists, following chatter around layoffs 5 weeks ago:
Darth Vader had “the same DNA” as Anakin Skywalker too…
He was just missing a bunch limbs, internal organs, half his face, his entire personality and motives, just all in became the polar opposite for who he was for most of his life.
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 5 weeks ago:
Quick…
I saw a story a while ago about a tech company renting out airbnbs as training environments for these types of bots
They absolutely destroyed the houses, fine motor skills is insanely difficult, and the robots just kept breaking everything.
The coders don’t understand how the human brain works (no one does really, but they’re especially ignorant). So they’re trying to to make one “thing” that controls everything instead of a bunch of subprocesses acting along guidance
- Comment on Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment 1 month ago:
Everyone joked about meth heads, but it was always going to be organized and seni-organized crime.
If a single semi trailer has over 1 million dollars worth of anything in it, people are going to want it.
When it’s materials like cable that can’t be tracked and can be easily sold to corrupt contractors…
A lot of smart people are really going to want it. Those trailers are going to be like tide for organized crime, they won’t even bother converting it into cash, it’ll be used as direct currency.
- Comment on Xbox boss Asha Sharma pins layoffs on Phil Spencer's regime spreading the company "too thin", while claiming a "a healthy Xbox" could weather the RAM storm 1 month ago:
None of this is actually my fault…
Every CEO, ever
- Comment on Xbox's layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff 1 month ago:
The AI push is going to end being like a writers strike for TV…
We’ll look back and see a blank spot where there was no quality games being made, and what did come out will be seen as low quality abnormalities.
All the CEOs are gambling on it magically working if they sink enough time and money into it, but it’s not. We’re approaching a point where the companies that try to stick with AI will run themselves into the ground because AI coded games just can’t compete with human coded games.
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 1 month ago:
Not just incinerated, incinerate red in the upper atmosphere while directly heating it.
They burn up from friction, it’s not just the flames the whole process is heating the planet and who knows how many things it’s fucking up we haven’t noticed before.
But the most important bit is if they don’t know how to get them down, they need to stop sending them up.
- Comment on Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech 1 month ago:
Expected better from Ars…
I’m here to watch a performance called “Luddite Recreations,” which is a history of the Luddite movement—a group of artisans and textile workers who resisted the adoption of machines during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England and whose resistance to being displaced from their work was met with violence by the British monarchy.
The Luddites weren’t against tech.
They weren’t against the industrial revolution in general or looms in particular.
They just said that the increase in efficiency from innovations should translate to increased wages for less work hours, they’re the reason the modern world has a five day work week.
When peaceful protest didn’t work, they started destroying the most expensive machinery they could get to. And they kept doing that till the oligarchs caved.
There’s a bunch of revisionism because of that, because it worked. And the oligarchs don’t want us to remember what works
- Comment on WNBA facing major backlash after controversial Caitlin Clark decision 1 month ago:
Clark is insanely talented.
She is…
It’s just she’s not the best in the league. She probably will be eventually, but she was treated like she was already as soon as she declared for the draft.
Like, the “W” in WNBA isn’t even relevant here, that kind of dynamic is going to breed jealous thru no fault of her own. Especially considering how much money is in sports and how likely it was that owners just needed any star to generate hype for the league.
If that was the reason, then all the suspect calls and drama makes more sense.
Look at the people who own pro sports teams and the shit they pull off
- Comment on WNBA facing major backlash after controversial Caitlin Clark decision 1 month ago:
That’s different stuff…
In fact, the only way they’re connected is they kind of support each other.
The WNBA as an organization is insanely jealous of Clark, because she became a star for no real reason. Shes talented, but she’s not the most talented. And in every other aspect, it’s the same.
She just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and the vast majority resent her for it.
That paints a huge target on her back, even for officials if they’ve been around a decade. However it also makes the league insanely competitive. Even when she’s not on the court, everyone is chasing that level of recognition now that is seems possible.
It’s great for the league, but it’s still crazy it’s happening. It’s not even like in men’s sports where a top athlete is feared or respected like Larry Byrd, they just fucking hate her because she’s successful.
- Comment on Chinese supercomputer displaces US machines as world's fastest 1 month ago:
What’s crazy is this is 100% a “fight” everyone else could have just stayed out of.
Supercomputers come and go, microzation is constant.
What takes a building today will always take a room in 20 years, then another 20 to fit under a desk. That’s the easy part.
The smart move would have been to spend 20 years dumping into education and processing mid tier tech while buying the good shit.
Once you have a bunch of smart workers and existing infrastructure, you jump back into bleeding edge tech.
We literally just watched China do the same thing. The problem is if we play leap frog there’s no short term profits for the capitalists. That’s too long of a gap for a greedy individual.
So Americas wealthy bought an election to force AI no one will ever need or pay for. Just to maintain their stock prices.
- Comment on PUBG has genAI team mates now capable of "intelligent decision-making", and I must remind you that Krafton are working on bots for the military 2 months ago:
I did go to the range this morning, so just a healthy dose of lead and micro-concussions…
Normal American shit.