Semjaza

@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox delay Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 yet again because technical quality is "more important" than sticking to a date⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.

  If it’s not barely stable and without at least one game breaking path that’s not even that rare they’re not living up to the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While Steam isn’t publically traded it’s better than Epic, Microsoft, or whichever other distributor you go through as it isn’t beholden to line goes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not generative, since it’s just copying player input. Feasible without AI, just storing strings for later recall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for correcting me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lot of stuff, but we don’t call Alphabet/Google a US Military company do we?

  Though I’m down to call them both military companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woke is also an exonym, so it doesn’t really have a hashed out definition people who it’s used to describe would agree with.

  On the more pertinent issue, yes - AI can’t create new things or really do anything that hasn’t been done before. And yes, no one really plays an engine, as much as the Occulus Rift fanbois wished about a decade ago.

  I think the article flows reasonably well, though is more a hit piece/jokey opinion piece rather than an actual interrogation of anything Musk said. It’s the lowest kind of news, someone’s musings on someone saying something about someone saying something. The main push is his hypocrisy, with the whole “too many big corporations, so my big corporation should do it” lines.
  But yes, it’s just brainless easy dunking on Musk without giving the whole thing anymore thought than Elon himself has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree with you, but you are onto something.

  Your use of “wokeness” is a good description for the way “Woke” is used to keep minorities in their place, c.f. Simpsons writing Apu out, despite dozens of subcontinent ethnicity comedians all openly saying they’d love the role, or streaming companies just stopping access to “problematic” content for an easy headline, c.f. Many streaming services and Community’s first D&D episode.

  It is shown in people too, usually comorbid with a white saviour complex, where the being seen in the act of “helping” is more important than listening to the voices of whoever is being helped and the actual effectiveness, or desire, for the “help” given.

  I wonder how neatly it maps onto a Liberal/Leftist divide… Probably not especially as everyone has blindspots and hangups over Race and Class that can be buried quite deep in the subconscious.