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- Comment on Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam 1 hour ago:
Oh dear.
- Comment on Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam 3 hours ago:
What else have they done?
- Comment on Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam 5 hours ago:
Sometimes people try to make a joke and they miss. I don’t think i would assume malice without additional red flags.
It does raise the issue that if you want to use a synth voice for a robot, are people going to skip your game just because of the AI disclosure without reading it? I can understand why they would be nervous about it.
- Comment on Miami-Dade police outraged by proposals to turn parts of Miami into GTA 6, saying that Rockstar's game embodies what they "work every single day to prevent" 6 days ago:
Oops, someone didn’t read the article!
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors 3 weeks ago:
Until the CEO resigns, I’m not interested.
- Comment on Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy, video shows device in action — tiny device shoots down bugs like a personal air defense system, but costs $1,000 3 weeks ago:
Looks fake. Surprised that tomshardware wrote an article when all we have is a few seconds of marketing video.
Wait until these are in the hands of actual users.
- Comment on Sandustry, the factory game where every single pixel is a resource you can build with, is out in early access 4 weeks ago:
I would love to watch a GDC talk about how the engine works.
- Comment on Saber admit Rideshare "Stimulator" features generative AI writing, but deny they replaced taxi game's lead writer with ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
That was the most mid trailer I’ve seen for a game.
- Comment on Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub 4 weeks ago:
The Register asked Mozilla how long the private key was sitting in GitHub, how it got there, and whether its audit logs cover the entire period it was exposed, but did not receive a response.
Yeah, I bet I know why.
- Comment on What does your steamdeck/machine look like? 4 weeks ago:
I have a stand for mine so that I don’t have to lean it against my cock.
- Comment on Illinois's new law requires operating system providers to add age verification by 2028 including open-source projects 5 weeks ago:
Don’t quote Lunduke as a source here, please.
- Comment on Reported lead of Obsidian's new Fallout game wants you to feel a "sense of agony" when playing an RPG, rather than being an all-powerful god-splatterer 1 month ago:
Spoiler tag please.
- Comment on Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'" 1 month ago:
Half Life: Linux
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 month ago:
I think it has a lot of potential outside of those two things, but the problem as with all modern technology is that the companies making it always do so in the most abusive, hostile way possible so everyone rejects it immediately as another Big Tech trap.
Think about how useful AR could have been for all manner of different tasks and professions, and what we have instead is pervert-glasses with built in surveillance, connected to the giant propaganda machine in the sky.
Apple’s “Apple Vision Pro” vision was actually a reasonable assortment of reasonable ideas when you watch their announcement marketing, and then what we got was an overpriced, underdeveloped toy as we’ve come to expect from them.
VR/AR is going to be a casualty of this era of tech, an era which will be remembered as taking the forward-looking, human focussed applied-science field that we love it for and turning it into a tool of extractive capitalism, an enormous vehicle for investment fraud, and an enabler of fascist authoritarianism.
Hopefully one day we will recover. In the mean-time, I still have hopes for the Steam Frame which is what it should be: a dumb, unopinionated peripheral.
- Comment on "I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team 2 months ago:
Back in the 90s I sent a fan email to John Romero, and he was gracious enough to send me a reply. I don’t think I still have an archive of my emails from that long ago, but it left me with an impression of him as being a good guy. I wouldn’t be too hard on him about “being relevant”. As one of the founding members of id software, it’s not surprising that news outlets will pick up on his comments, whether you think he deserves it or not.
- Comment on The AI warning for Steam browser plugin adds Steam search filtering 2 months ago:
I had to read that headline three times. Some quotation marks would help:
The “AI warning for Steam” browser plugin adds Steam search filtering.
- Comment on Ladybird Browser Stops Accepting Public Pull Requests 2 months ago:
cf.
I can’t wait for TempleOS to get a public launch, I’ll use it in alpha out of general principle
- Comment on IBM and Red Hat commit $5bn to secure open-source software 2 months ago:
Lightwell will use AI tools and over 20,000 engineers
If the AI was useful for anything, why pair it with 20,000 engineers? It’s interesting how every “application” of AI involves teams of human experts just doing their thing while the AI “helps”.
- Comment on Linux and open source getting age checking exemptions could be problematic 3 months ago:
Braindead take.
- Comment on Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems 3 months ago:
Don’t let these clowns off the hook for rushing to put this into systemd and major distros.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
- Comment on Star Citizen crowdfunding reaches $1 billion, gaining the last $100 million in six months 3 months ago:
I thought they needed all of that funding to develop their next-gen engine? Don’t tell me they’ve been spending it on hookers and blow?
- Comment on What is the aim of all the AI investment? 3 months ago:
The enclosure of the commons. All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
- Comment on Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp 3 months ago:
Well my boss told me to work hard. 🍆
- Comment on Valve make adjustments to Steam tags, and they settled the Vampire Survivor-like argument with Bullet Heaven 3 months ago:
Bullet hell is where enormous amounts of bullets are fired at the player by relatively few enemies, requiring lots of memorisation and twitch reaction skill to avoid the fast and complex patterns that fill the screen. It is intentionally extremely challenging. eg. https://youtu.be/aosBBHSZE-A?si=-Wn-aMPPbFXtcKNr&t=802
Bullet heaven is where enormous amounts of enemies swarm a player who has ridiculous firepower to take out dozens of enemies at the same time, requiring little more than circle strafing and holding the fire button. It is intentionally casual, and the gameplay is about the RPG/roguelike upgrading aspect much more than the actual game mechanics. eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TiJY3lXmQ
If you want a critical take of the difference between the two, and the direction of the games market from a shmup-fan’s perspective, I found this review by The Electric Underground really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSS_3iTIgA4 (it obviously predates this Steam label change, so there is some hand-wringing about what is being classified as bullet-hell).
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs 3 months ago:
Sandbox escape via prompt injection in 3… 2… 1…
- Comment on Ecco the Dolphin: Complete revealed, a mixture of remaster and brand new game spanning every Ecco game from 8 to 16-bit era 4 months ago:
They had better not put any kind of tutorial at the beginning. It’s not the true Ecco experience unless you have no idea what you’re doing.
- Comment on Sort out the Devil's mail in the spooky looking The Mailroom 4 months ago:
- Comment on The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close 5 months ago:
They can power it with that fusion reactor that we’ll surely have by then. 🦄
- Comment on Starcrafty strategy game Stormgate is about to lose its multiplayer modes, due to an AI company buying up Frost Giant's server provider 5 months ago:
This is what happens when you rely on a sole cloud provider for critical infrastructure. If you’re going to outsource infrastructure you have to at the very least diversify among multiple providers.