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- Comment on Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation" 3 weeks ago:
Thats an entirely seperate issue. If we invested in clean enegry 40 years ago, then there would be far less impact.
- Comment on Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation" 3 weeks ago:
Do you really think gen ai is going to replace artists? Its just another tool to use. If anything it lowers the level of entry. You dont need to be a master to produce quailty art. You dont need burn the midnight oil to produce new art with changes the director requested…
Its always the same argument when new technology arrives. Power looms replaced weavers. Did those jobs disappeared? No, it went on to created a booming textile industry. But it didnt stop the hand weavers trying to burn down the textile factories in defiance.
You will never win fighting against technology. You will only harm yourself by not embracing progression. If you wwnt something to fight, fight against the ones that own the automations.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 weeks ago:
Dp to hdmi is very reliable. The siginals are near identical, the adapter is just a level shifter. Not much can go wrong. Issues arise when talking about either cheaply made (out of spec) or active adapters.
it makes the product feel less refined/premium/sleek in my opinion
Maybe for Apple users.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 weeks ago:
There is no technical reason DP doesnt have ARC. Its more of the industry is strangled by the HDMI forum. So you’ll never find an AV receiver with DP… thus no reasons for vesa to waste bandwidth for a feature that the industry will never adopt.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 weeks ago:
I mean… if someone can’t figure out which end goes where. Theres gonna struggle with a standard hdmi cable. I guess they could custom print big text on the cable ends to make it clear which end goes where. They’ll certainly have the volume to make such customization.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 weeks ago:
They can just bundle them? What is the issue here?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 weeks ago:
Except there is no reason to ever put hdmi on the hardware. Displayport is superior to hdmi in every way, and when you need to step down to peasant land… a simple passive DP to hdmi cable/adapter will do the job.
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 5 months ago:
The amount they collect is far more than the operating costs. But theres a hidden benefit… market visibility. Thats the true value that makes it worth valve’s high fees.
- Comment on Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS? 6 months ago:
Cinnamon supports fractional scaling, mixed dpi, pretty sure it handles mixed refresh rages, and wayland support was added in mint 21.3 as experimental. I feel like you havent touched mint in 5+ years.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 10 months ago:
The prompt is the human interaction instructing the machine to produce art in the vision of the prompter.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 10 months ago:
And whos to say generative art doesnt receive a lot of thought and intent in producing something worthwhile?
Sure, you could let the machine spit out whatever garbage purely from random inputs, and that is not art as there is zero guidance or intent. But anyone that used generative ai knows you have to guide it to get anything worthwhile out of it. And even then, very likely require manual touchups to correct mistakes.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 10 months ago:
So, if a machine makes the ‘art’, its not art? So photographs are not art. The hubble telescope,or any space probe for that matter, doesnt produce art.
Art is something that provoke emotions and expression in its observers and not produced naturally. Machines are built by people and require non-random inputs to produce something thefore anything those machines produce is art.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 10 months ago:
Humans are confident statistical black boxes. Art doesnt have to be made by a human to be aspiring.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 1 year ago:
I thought we were talking about who legally can lay claim on copyrights in the hypothetically house with a whiteboard? i’m not the one lost with the program.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 1 year ago:
Congratulations on reading the twitter TOS. Now tell me if it is legal for a company to lay claim on copyright via a TOS.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 1 year ago:
Except when you enter the home, you accepted the TOS that transfers copyright to the owner of the home.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 1 year ago:
The deck can run windows, so if it didnt run in compatability mode in linux itll work in native windows. Now if you were to put a limitation that it must acheive 30fps in any game, you might have a point, but… thats really grasping for straws.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 1 year ago:
Web servers are different from game servers. You need a lot of performance and fast low latency servers to keep up with realtime game play. Webservers however dont need that and can benefit of load balancing accross multiple servers. Scale of economy helps a lot, but with game servers the cost doesnt change much because a session has to be on a single machine.
As for distribution costs, most of the cost is manufacturing and physical distribution of discs. So yeah, they are making a killing by continuing to take a a huge cut from game sales when most of their distribution is online.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 1 year ago:
So what would hold that title?
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 1 year ago:
At this point, it’ll be easier to count the games that wouldnt work on the steam deck.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 1 year ago:
It makes sense because servers are expensive to operate. The real scam is nintendo where you pay for P2P multiplayer…