TommySoda

@TommySoda@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goofy name aside, action roguelite Lort looks like a neat fantasy alternative to Risk of Rain 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just like to say “Lort.” It’s a fun word to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you are saying is that I’ll have to choose between buying a house or buying a computer?

  Just kidding, I can’t afford either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian hope to have future companions spend less time jumping straight into your bed, and more time with each other⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember turning down everyone in my first play through of Baldur’s Gate 3 as I thought to myself “yo why is everyone trying to fuck me I thought we were just buds.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google: 😉

  Seriously, if you trust any corporation at this point you are an idiot. Besides, they change their Terms of Service multiple times a year and can opt you into whatever the hell they want at any time. They’ll just send an email that says “we’ve updated on terms of service” and you’ve already agreed to it unless you read through it and go through their convoluted methods for opting out. I remember when every company started doing forced arbitration and the only way to opt out was to send certified physical mail and if you failed to do so by a certain date you automatically agree to the new terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of your own personal opinion of generative AI, it’s very apparent at this point that it is widely unpopular. Sure, there are some success stories here and there with AI like Arc Raiders and I can’t argue against a game that is obviously extremely popular, but at the same time I’ve seen games drop off the face of the earth and get their reviews tanked as soon as it comes out they used generative AI. If anything I’d say Embark learned their lesson from their previous game, The Finals, to where they just didn’t even try and hide it for Arc Raiders and I think that helped with their success. They didn’t tell anyone about using AI for The Finals until it released and I feel like that’s a big reason why it never took off. Went from over 200,000 players to less than 50,000 in the span of a month or two.

  I’d say it’s more of an honesty problem. The games that are successful were known to have generative AI from the start while the ones getting a lot of flak are the ones that were trying to hide it. To be perfectly honest, I’m okay with you using generative AI to make your game. Personally I’d lose a significant amount of interest in your game if you did and I’d be pretty disappointed, but I’d have a hell of a lot more respect for you if you were upfront about it than the ones that try to hide it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend that let me borrow his copy of Half Life 2 back in the day would probably say the same thing. And he’s probably just as credible at this point. If it ain’t coming from Valve directly there’s really no reason to believe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie admit to Destiny 2 having an audience problem, as they try to figure out how to not make a "dead live game"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My friends convinced me to play Destiny 2 a couple years back. It was pretty fun and I was definitely enjoying myself for a couple days. But that’s when I found out they vaulted all the previous content from when the game came out. Felt like I was starting the game halfway through the story with no concrete starting point so I lost all motivation to play it again. I didn’t pick up the game so I could read up on the story line and watch youtube videos just to understand what’s going on. You’ll never get that many new players if the first thing you have to do when before you play it is do homework.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, former Elder Scrolls Online and Blackbird devs form worker-owned studio⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just a hunch I have, but I’m pretty sure the reason why so many high-end and very well made indie games are starting to outnumber triple A games is a direct result of layoffs like this. It’s not like all these thousands of people would choose a different career just because they can’t work on one specific company. And if we can get more games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I’m all for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you are saying is that if I went to ChatGPT and asked super nice what [blank] company secrets were it would know the answer? There would be no way to fact check it, but I do find that incredibly funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford Tells Borderlands 4 Critics To 'Code Your Own Engine,' Calls It a Game For 'Premium Gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro you didn’t code your engine either you just used Unreal Engine 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I just downloaded Wikipedia. I’d take an out of date one rather than an “approved” one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are numerous tools already out there for parents to use to monitor and censor what their kids see online. Schools have been using it since the Internet came out and it’s only gotten more robust over the years. Not only that, but kids always figure out a way around this shit and will continue to do so until the end of time because that’s just what they do. The only thing this does is punish everyone and implement more surveillance. And since people are people and kids are kids, there will be workarounds within days even without a VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So basically, they are saying “we invested a fuck ton of money into this so you better fucking use it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp. Time to remove all my music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And they will learn nothing from this and release 16 more super hero movies, remakes nobody asked for, and prequels/sequels to movies that came out 20 - 30 years ago. I’m more excited for the movie Iron Lung because it’s being made by a YouTuber that actually gives a shit about what they are making vs rehashed bullshit that focuses more on “second screen” attention instead of making something worth our time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's ad-supported version of Office only saves to OneDrive⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use LibreOffice. It’s basically on par with what Office was 5 years ago. The average person won’t even notice a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk-led-team submits $97.4B bid for OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $10 says he’s gonna use all that government money they’ve been cutting. I’d say he’s just going to try and we’ll have to see if he will, but I think it’s safe to say they’re gonna let him do whatever the fuck he wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Play adds a 'Verified' badge for trusted VPN apps⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That almost makes me want to specifically avoid those given Googles track record on privacy. That’s like asking your mom who her favorite kid is. They’re just gonna give you the answer you want to hear so you feel better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that deleted it 5 or so years back, after a while you won’t miss Facebook anymore. And I used to be on that shit along with Reddit daily for hours on end. Now I don’t use either and you’d be surprised how much better it is when you get used to it. Sure I’m on here a lot but it’s not even close to how much time I wasted before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly surprised people still use Facebook besides old people. Most people I talk to around my age or younger say they don’t have it at all, only use it to keep in touch with certain people, or use it for business related reasons. My nieces and nephews straight up think it’s just a site for old people. If Meta didn’t have other sites like Instagram they probably wouldn’t nearly be as big as they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X updates block feature, letting blocked users see your public posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does anybody still even use Twitter outside of business related reasons? What if you get a stalker? If you block them it literally doesn’t do anything to stop them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta says it's making its Llama models available for US national security applications⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did we learn nothing from Skynet?

  For real though, with the amount of mistakes AI makes I wouldn’t trust it with anything concerning life and death. Best case it will decide to do something shady and worst case they can use it as an excuse to do something shady and blame it on AI to avoid liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google tests showing full recipes right in search results⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, whenever I use Google these days I just scroll down all the way and work my way up. It’s basically subconscious at this point and it’s surprisingly helpful. Makes Google actually useful again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London Newspaper Plans to Revive Dead Art Critic With AI, Lays Off Real Writers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but I don’t really give a shit about what an AI thinks about art. If I wanted a second opinion on something I’d probably ask something that can actually have an opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium subscribers are reporting price hikes around the globe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do creators make money from people that watch that have premium? That’s the only way I’d consider it.

  Who am I kidding, even if they do it’s probably pennies. That’s why they all have a Patreon and a sponsorship on every video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modders negate God of War Ragnarök PSN requirement after a brief review bombing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you didn’t put PSN on a single player game you wouldn’t have this happen. I was gonna buy it day one until I heard. Instead, I’m just focusing on my backlog that’s been piling up and I’ll just get it when it’s on sale

  Also remember that PSN isn’t available in all countries. So if you’re in one of those 100+ countries you can’t even play it if you buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam Families logo is clearly a Rorschach test, so what do you see?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jake the Dog

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So instead of fixing the issue it had with mislabeling posts as AI they’re just gonna hide it. Sounds like an awful solution and will only cause more confusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you didn’t charge so much fucking money for Nitro maybe people would actually buy it. $10 a month is a little silly when you barely get anything new from it besides features that I can only describe as “bragging rights.” The only benefit I ever received from Nitro was the increased upload limit. Which is nice, but not nice enough for me to keep paying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first Minecraft movie trailer looks expensively naff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but what if it was just Jack Black chilling in a Minecraft world just doing Minecraft things.