brucethemoose
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- Comment on "The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe 6 days ago:
The problem I have is “using AI” could be something as simple as coding autocomplete. Or documentation help. Or scaling sprites. Things like that.
It could be done completely locally.
Hence the term isn’t really fair. It’s not even in the same class as shipping sloppy shovelware, or encountering gross or broken stuff in game.
I think Valve should avoid the term and more clearly define it as “vibe coding, or gratuitous use of generated assets in game.”
- Comment on Disney Failed to Buy James Bond Franchise, Walked Away From Owning Twitter Hours Before the Deal Closed and Held Apple Merger Talks 6 days ago:
They didn’t want to kill Sora. They wanted to license it.
AFAIK Disney was the one with plans to use it extensively, but OpenAI is the one who decided to kill it.
- Comment on Disney Failed to Buy James Bond Franchise, Walked Away From Owning Twitter Hours Before the Deal Closed and Held Apple Merger Talks 6 days ago:
I found their full throated jump onto the OpenAI Sora boat particularly egregious.
Here’s a company that could do machine learning right.
They have:
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Cash.
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An ocean of high quality material they own; no need to steal to train.
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Animators, editors, plenty of staff to help.
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“Family safe” trust with a whole lot of people.
They could have trained their own models from scratch, on modest hardware, to do stuff that’s actually neat, like supplement production or make interactive comics or something, yet…
They used precisely none of that.
They jumped on the Tech Bro train and licensed the gross abomination that was Sora for short video prompts?
I literally do not get it.
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- Comment on "We have to have free human expression in some capacity": Patreon CEO shares frustrations about getting adult content past payment processors 1 week ago:
Are they?
They seem to accept credit cards. And: www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/…/77932811007/
I’ve heard of the payment processors trying to dictate what isn’t and isn’t allowed on OF, which is of course scummy. But I really think they’re having their cake and eating it here.
- Comment on "We have to have free human expression in some capacity": Patreon CEO shares frustrations about getting adult content past payment processors 1 week ago:
Yeah, fuck the payment processors.
They don’t bat an eye at OnlyFans but turn their nose up to smaller fish? Yeah, they have no leg to stand on.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 1 week ago:
I’m surprised people think $1,100 is high, even outside the current environment.
Same with the $500 Commodore phone.
The dollar has inflated. Technology is expensive. I think cheap junk has desensitized folks to that, but you pay an externalized cost for that.
And of course salaries haven’t gone up so anyone can actually afford it, but… that’s a distinctly separate problem. They should have, as corporate revenue and profit per worker has certainly gone up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, agreed. eBay is notorious for being brutal on sellers, taking them down rather easily.
Scam listings are still everywhere though.
- Comment on Used EVs break records while sales of new EVs plummet 2 months ago:
I have a very well off sibling, big corporate job, SO has a big job too. They’re financially smart, thorough researchers when shopping, and have no kids.
Can they afford a new EV?
Hell no.
So they got a used one, at an amazing price.
I dunno who all these bloated, $80k+ EVs are supposed to be for. Rich old folks? I know some too, and they don’t want EVs anyway.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 3 months ago:
Ah, right.
That’s sad. AFAIK Oculus developed more integrated interpolation (and, separately, warping) to help with perceived latency:
www.uploadvr.com/reprojection-explained/
But that’s like lost magic these days.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 3 months ago:
If the rendered framerate is ~60fps (which I’d wager is the case for you), it probably looks great.
Interpolation isn’t psychic; of course its going to look like jello “guessing” what’s between frames at a slideshow pace, especially with the constraint of low latency, without any future frames to use.
But I do have issue with some devs (and some of Nvidia’s marketing) treating it as a crutch. It’s not a fix to 15fps, but it’s a fine way to get 60 to 135 smoothly.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 3 months ago:
(NSFW warning)
When I had an RTX 2060 laptop, I had the most jank setup for Cyberpunk 2077.
I’d plug it into an older Sony OLED, which only supported low res HDMI input (can’t remember which res, I think 1080p?)
The RTX 2060 would run DLSS quality (for antialiasing) and output 2077 at low-res 60fps, and the TV would use its big ASIC to interpolate it to 120hz, and up to 4K.
And actually, it looked good! It felt smooth! Input lag wasn’t great, but absolutely playable.
I don’t have a PC that can do framegen (3090 now), but ironically, the DLSS framegen demos I’ve seen didn’t have interpolation as good as the Sony. And I believe Sony/Samsung support “no next frame” interpolation, so they don’t blow up input lag.
- Comment on A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet 4 months ago:
RPS’s writing is still delightful, even with the stresses they’ve been through.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 4 months ago:
Yeah.
My instant reaction was “$700? It’d be a miracle if Valve hits that. What’s Ars thinking?”
- Comment on World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI 7 months ago:
That would be ideal.
The Chinese model weights aren’t “tankie” by themselves, its the frontends that do most censoring. Their devs in interviews and such are quite grounded; it feels like they ‘have their cake and eat it,’ leaving the base models relatively uncensored, complying with the CCP superficially.
…Bot honestly, is probably a ChatGPT system prompt like every other “AI” project :(
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 7 months ago:
Are you on a laptop?
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 7 months ago:
Is it like a browser game?
Are you using the native build or a wine version?
- Comment on Ubisoft staff up for "captivating" Beyond Good & Evil 2 but we both know they're just going to hurt us again 7 months ago:
Insider stories of what unspeakable development hell this game went though would be interesting.
- Comment on Blending classic survival games with automation - ORMOD: Directive sounds interesting 7 months ago:
Interesting. I’m a sucker for base building with turrets.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 7 months ago:
And what I’m getting at is the *era.
As examples, work got a lot harsher post COVID, once mandatory return-to-work kicked in. It’s almost like they’re trying to get people to quit.
Interest rates went up, costs went up, financial pressure went up. Political conflict with older generations in the family is going up too.
IDK where you are; this is just my perspective from the US. But it seems like video gaming could be an early casualty of all that pressure.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 7 months ago:
+1
An anecdote: I know a working couple, well off in a good house, young, no kids, like video games… And they just don’t game (or watch long form TV) as much this past year or two. Work drains them, so more entertainment time now consists of favored YouTubers before bed.
…What I’m getting at is that maybe the ‘gaming population’ is more drained from life, in this age? Especially when you factor in hunting for a good game.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 7 months ago:
I think Ubisoft is poking at a legit issue here. A few games ‘snowball,’ especially with stuff trending on social media, and gamers spread themselves out less.
…They are the absolute worst entity to say it, but still. It’s not just them that’s saying this:
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 7 months ago:
TBH the story with indies seems to be “a few hits have it really good, but the vast majority of indie devs are struggling”
…So I wouldn’t generalized too much just because Hades 2 and Silksong are doing well.
- Comment on 'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC 7 months ago:
Sell your index funds and tech stocks.
Buy Berkshire Hathaway (who’s sitting on a big pile of cash for crash buying, as they do), Walmart, and bread and butter ones, companies that make things folks would still buy in a recession (like groceries).
Don’t mess with shorts. You don’t know when the bubble will burst, and these companies will make you money even if it never does.
- Comment on Under the hood: How Firefox suggests tab groups with local AI | The Mozilla Blog 7 months ago:
FF smooth scrolls better on chunkier pages to me, and (though I have no technical understanding of how), ad/annoyance blocking extensions seem to result in cleaner pages.
There’s also little niceties in FF, like no forced audio resampling, clean side tabs, and such.
For me, Cromite has much better anti fingerprinting, though. When I use it to shopping, it’s clear sites have a much harder time following me around than FF with extensions. And it’s extremely fast too.
- Comment on Under the hood: How Firefox suggests tab groups with local AI | The Mozilla Blog 7 months ago:
On desktop? With a few flags, it’s fine. I switch between Firefox and Cromite, and Firefox still feels better with a lot of content.
…On Android through, it’s not even close. You’d be crazy to use FF.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026 8 months ago:
I mean, I feel like it’s the opposite? They integrated all the weird novels and leaned into this complex, almost operatic, melodramatic writing hard with 4 and 5. It’s like they were jealous of Mass Effect or something.
Infinite was an attempt to reset and “ignore the writing for the gameplay,” but IMO its problem was dev hell thanks to the custom engine, and the whole world being written into a corner.
I mean, even 3 is an awkward place to continue. I dunno what Halo should be now, but “MCU space opera” is not it.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026 8 months ago:
With the corner it’s in, I feel like the whole series needs a reset.
Start with this remake, just screw it and say “we’re forking the timeline after Halo 3,” and use this dev experience for some simple new Halo installment in Unreal. No weird writing, no giant scope, no baggage.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026 8 months ago:
+1
It’s all pretty low cost for a Microsoft project, too.
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 8 months ago:
They probably don’t know.
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 8 months ago:
Yep.
Vivaldi is basically the real Opera now, including some of its devs IIRC.