supersquirrel
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- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 3 days ago:
This isn’t about AI, or Palestine, or healthcare.
No, actually it is inseperable from those things.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 4 days ago:
Probably because you are still refusing to look at this any way other than a naive techy who sees everything as a series of individual technical problems and cannot grasp the systematic, social forces shaping the technology and systems around them to violent ends.
This article laments about a number of things that have systematic, definable origins that society has warned tech industry workers as if they were simply expressions of a chaotic universe full of people who aren’t as smart as them that always for some reason desperately need their help to accomplish basic things with the tools from the industry they work in.
There is a crisis of individuality in the politics of US tech workers, and it is far past nauseating, it is offensive to all the people being hurt right now by the tools these people are involved with building.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 4 days ago:
They aren’t? The whole point of AI is to use technology to rationalize severing the social contract at a basic level in order to normalize hurting people for being out of the loop. Techies in their naive smugness refused a leftist analysis of their industry, failed to unionize and now the rest of us are paying the price.
Whether it is using AI to aid in the Palestinian genocide with Microsoft, using AI to mass deny life saving healthcare and murder people with United Healthcare, preying upon tech illiterate people with the ads industry or any number of things, trust us, we aren’t thankful for techies.
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Mission Accomplished
- Comment on Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans being increasingly hired to clean AI slop 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t an irony, this was always the plan. The intended effect was to break the back of labor in the tech industry and it worked beautifully for them.
- Comment on Reddit Wants 'Deeper Integration' with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the basic world model people deeply invested in trying to profit off Reddit have, if they think Reddit comments are valuable enough to make Google bargain with them doesn’t that mean they acknowledge that it is the users not the company that creates the value? Do the current owners seriously think that a totally adhoc system of unpaid subreddit moderators moderating communities of content solely provided by users who are NOT employees, communities which sprung up around different topics organically from the contributions of users who are NOT employees can be misconstrued as somehow a product of value created and maintained by the current management of Reddit?
Reddit is valuable because of the things said on it, not because Reddit is a particularly well designed business, nor even a remotely sustainable one longterm at least in terms of the immense magnitudes of profits that larger investors demand.
I suppose Discord killed off so many independent, open niche communities that Reddit thinks they can really get away with it, but the problem for Reddit is that the best parts of Reddit don’t need a corporation to muddle with them, introducing a corporation just makes it worse in every way…
- Comment on Is 128 players too much for a multiplayer FPS? Yes, says Battlefield 6 3 weeks ago:
It only is if you are a piece of shit company that doesn’t allow modding of your games.
- Comment on Blue-collar revenge: The things AI can't do are making a comeback 2 months ago:
Virtually all actually useful things are making a comeback?
- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 2 months ago:
Not here
- Comment on Big tech sees AI investments begin to pay off 2 months ago:
How? This article claims Meta has proved you can make your stock price go up by talking about AI and offering large salaries, that only indicates something to me I already know, the stock market is willingly delusional about this. What is Meta actually
- Comment on At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race 2 months ago:
gotta sustain that bubble!
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- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 months ago:
There might be some truth to aspects of this, but overall yes I think this is leaning precisely into the kind of worship of the aesthetics of violence/guns that leads to things like the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the film set for the movie “Rust”.
www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/23/…/amp/
If you want to learn how to safely handle a firearm or other weapon and integrate that knowledge into the games you make, cool… and I mean I guess this is news? but it turns out integrating genuine outside knowledge of video game context into video games can be interesting. However you could have chosen literally any other hobby or niche body of knowledge to obsess about and bring into your video games and gotten a similar if not larger return in your investment of effort spent not directly practicing getting better at making video games.
By the logic being argued here about weapons, would be game developers should prioritize becoming experts at fishing wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy before guns because fishing mechanics are in an absurd amount of video games and no matter what type of game you make you can probably integrate a fishing minigame into it. Further, it is very rare that game developers actually try to create realistic fishing games even though there is evidently a lot of interest in fishing in a video game.
Also… Euro Truck Simulator 2 has sold 13 million copies… do we need to consider the fact that game developers should maybe get a commercial truck drivers license before developing games because of the indication of how clearly players desire realistic truck driving games?
- Comment on Seriously cool car combat game FUMES has entered Early Access 2 months ago:
For a similar vibe but as roguelike zombie roadtrip survival game check out Endgame: Road To Salvation.
…steampowered.com/…/Endgame_Road_To_Salvation/
Also check out Chaos On Wheels, it has a mixed rating but I think it shows promise and the core gameplay is fun.
- Comment on Xonotic Vanilla Duel Cup | #xonotic.pickup Cups | MxCrab 2 months ago:
Yeah one of the reasons I like to post and comment about Xonotic is that I think it is a genuinely really underrated game.
Not only is it fascinating from the perspective of Quake/darkplaces engine development and community FPS game development history in general it is just a genuinely good game that addresses what I as a player who tried out Quake Live without any background in Quake found lacking about Quake… i.e. the weapons just aren’t that fun.
I love Quake 3 Arena style gameplay, and the weapons are obviously a deep part of the whole game coming together so beautifully in multiplayer but Xonotic just has so much more fun with its weapons. The rocketlauncher with its aimed shot ability, the crylink with its weird shotgun/reverse shotgun spread mechanic… Xonotic combines the fun of Unreal Tournament weapons with the almost spiritually locked in flow to Quake style movement shooters.
Also yes… watching the best players in the world at Xonotic are very intimidating to watch. Players like Kyle, Rainbow Shadow, Dodger etc. are so ruthlessly fast it is hard to comprehend but it is a blast to watch.
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- Comment on Learn Linux Fast by Playing These Fun and Interactive Games - Make Tech Easier - Lemmy.World 2 months ago:
Thank you!
- Learn Linux Fast by Playing These Fun and Interactive Games - Make Tech Easier - Lemmy.Worldlemmy.world ↗Submitted 2 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, please prove that an AI didn’t write your insulting, vacuous blog about why you're laying off thousands during a time of huge profits 2 months ago:
I am done with Microsoft and Windows, I will spend the rest of my life advocating for undermining their business model and the adoption of their tools.
I don’t think Microsoft realizes how many people there are out there like me they assume are just going to forget and go back to Windows… we will not.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Has Had The Biggest Video Game Console Launch In US History 2 months ago:
I recommend Tunic as a zelda-like!
- Comment on The Switch 2 Has Had The Biggest Video Game Console Launch In US History 2 months ago:
Given all the controversy around the Switch 2 this really shows how Nintendo can do whatever they want and customers will follow them like a cult.
- Comment on Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) 2 months ago:
Here’s the uncomfortable truth that every AI agent company is dancing around: error compounding makes autonomous multi-step workflows mathematically impossible at production scale.
- Submitted 2 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Split-screen game launcher for Linux / SteamOS adds support for multiple keyboards and mice 2 months ago:
how many simultaneous games of peggle can humankind play at once before the multiball event horizon is reached?
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- Comment on What are you all using for game/library tracking, on Steamdeck? 2 months ago:
HA
- Comment on Microsoft shareholders demand report into the company's 'human rights due diligence' over allegations of war crime complicity in Gaza 2 months ago:
Microsoft has the blood of genocide on their hands, we will not forget.
- Comment on AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds 2 months ago:
NO?
- Comment on Smaller rally/racing games I recommend you try! 2 months ago:
Rush Rally 3 is also on mobile and is really solid. I think it is a superb game on either platform.
Please try Motor Town: Behind The Wheel, it isn’t strictly a racing game but the physics, particularly the tire burnout/grip physics are sooo good. Try doing urgent taxi jobs.
- Comment on 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' 2 months ago:
This is a legendary head shot, it conveys immense “Sure pay me three figures to waste time explaining to you AI that was easier than actually getting work done.”
