MysticKetchup
@MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
- Comment on No More Room in Hell 2 - Out Now in Early Access 3 weeks ago:
Whoof, it’s now moved to “Overwhelmingly Negative”
Reviews repeatedly mention that it is hilariously buggy, to the point where players are constantly running into visual and gameplay bugs. Also a few complaints about features being changed/removed from the first one to be more similar to popular FPS trends
- Comment on Board games (board games, card games, table top RPGs) related active communities promotion post 2 months ago:
Posted in the fandom thread but MTGZone.com is around if you enjoy Magic the Gathering
!MTG@mtgzone.com - main community
!Spoilers@mtgzone.com - new card reveals
!art@mtgzone.com - MTG artwork
There are also format specific communities for Standard, Modern, Pauper, Commander, etc… but they don’t see as much use
- Comment on cohost to shut down at end of 2024 2 months ago:
Man, what a mess. This site was doomed to fail
- Comment on Fandoms - active communities promotion thread 2 months ago:
MTGZone.com for all things Magic the Gathering
!MTG@mtgzone.com is the main one but !Spoilers@mtgzone.com is hopping with Duskmourn reveals right now
- Comment on Day 50 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Played this years ago but couldn’t quite get into it. Maybe I should try it again to see if it clicks
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
Even after Automattic acquired it, the site continued to lose money at a rate of $30 million each year, the company’s CEO Matt Mullenweg had said.
I still wanna know what they’re spending all that money on, because I’m sure it’s not developers or even servers. The idea that they can only be profitable if they’re constantly growing their user numbers is an investor idea that’s doomed to fail eventually and why so many social media sites are crashing right now
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 4 months ago:
Card Crawl/Card Thief/Miracle Merchant are good puzzle-like games
- Comment on US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement 4 months ago:
- Comment on Online Content Is Disappearing 5 months ago:
Because those pages had information that wasn’t on the new pages?
Just from my own experience, WotC migrated the Magic the Gathering site to a new one, and while some articles were brought over there were a whole lot of stories, strategies and event coverage that were lost or are only available thanks to Archive.org
- Comment on Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira 5 months ago:
What’s the benefit of going private for a company that’s owned by private equity? Like from a regular standpoint, not being subjected to the constant growth demands of shareholders is good, but I wouldn’t think private equity cares about that as long as they’re making money
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 6 months ago:
That’s basically what most tech companies are trying to optimize these days, the ability to make money off of other people’s work. It’s why they’re so hyped about trying to use AI to replace the very workers it’s trained on.
- Comment on ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad 6 months ago:
But simply knowing the right words to say in response to a moral conundrum isn’t the same as having an innate understanding of what makes something moral. The researchers also reference a previous study showing that criminal psychopaths can distinguish between different types of social and moral transgressions, even as they don’t respect those differences in their lives. The researchers extend the psychopath analogy by noting that the AI was judged as more rational and intelligent than humans but not more emotional or compassionate.
This brings about worries that an AI might just be “convincingly bullshitting” about morality in the same way it can about many other topics without any signs of real understanding or moral judgment. That could lead to situations where humans trust an LLM’s moral evaluations even if and when that AI hallucinates “inaccurate or unhelpful moral explanations and advice.”
Despite the results, or maybe because of them, the researchers urge more study and caution in how LLMs might be used for judging moral situations. “If people regard these AIs as more virtuous and more trustworthy, as they did in our study, they might uncritically accept and act upon questionable advice,” they write.
Great, so the headline of the article directly feeds into the issue the scientists are warning about when it comes to public perception of AI morality
- Comment on ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute 6 months ago:
God they just rebranded trickle-down-economics
- Comment on Winning the Gold Cup on Mario Kart 64 as Yoshi 6 months ago:
Want to feel older? Since the N64, we’ve had the GameCube, Wii, Wii U and Switch. The latter of which has been out for 7 years already and is probably going to be replaced soon.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 6 months ago:
We’ve already recreated dead actors or older actors whole cloth with VFX. Plus it still seems like a niche use case for something that can be done by VFX artists that can also do way more
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 6 months ago:
Like what even is a legitimate use case for these? It just seems tailor made for either misinformation or pointless memes, neither of which seem like a good sales pitch
- Comment on Reddit Is Taking Over Google 6 months ago:
Google has been killing those off for a while. Nowadays it’s hard to find anything that isn’t just the copy-pasted SEO bait non-articles covered in ads
- Comment on Wizards - a place to post wizards 6 months ago:
Hell yeah dude
- Comment on This FromSoftware Dungeon Crawlers-inspired FPS Is Made With GZDoom 7 months ago:
Yeah sorry, I went with the auto generated title but probably should have done some editing on it for clarity. I think the game looks neat but it does feel like the site was trying to hit as many SEO words as possible
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- Comment on Album of animated fighting game backgrounds 7 months ago:
Dang those are pretty. It’s kinda sad how little we get big, expansive pixel art environments these days
- Comment on Farewell... for now? - dmv.social is closing as of April 14th. 8 months ago:
Well thanks for it so far! And if it comes back up I’ll happily be back.
I totally understand your reasons. I feel like a lot of Fediverse applications are not ready for bad actors, whether that’s trolls or spammers. People (justifiably) want a decentralized internet but that depends a lot on individual volunteers spending time, money and putting themselves into possible legal trouble in order for that to work. I want the Fediverse to succeed but in order for that to happen people need to take these problems seriously and plan for them before they happen.
- Comment on TikTok is a Time Bomb 8 months ago:
I did read the full article and am not convinced.
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The entire thing is predicated on the idea that TikTok is a feminizing, intelligence-destroying superweapon that can single handedly bring down civilizations (the only evidence cited are spurious correlations that treat IQ as a real science)
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Even if you take that as the average view of the US in China, it’s still a leap to say they are, either actively or passively, planning the downfall of the US when the two countries are so entwined. It’s just more US vs China fearmongering
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While he does say that TikTok needs to be regulated, nowhere does he advocate for larger scale curtailing of capitalism, and in fact ties all of his negative authoritarian points to socialism. It’s singling out TikTok for the larger sins of an unregulated tech industry
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- Comment on TikTok is a Time Bomb 8 months ago:
TL;DR: right-wing hand-wringing over the app “turning the kids trans and lowering their IQ”
The author also has articles defending Israel and complaining about “woke ideology” if you need any more reason to skip it
- Comment on You can now join Bluesky without an invitation 9 months ago:
I’ve been happily using Mastodon but most of the users I followed on the old site went to BlueSky instead. There’s no other way to keep up with them without it, and it sure as hell is better than Twitter these days
- Comment on Mozilla CEO Mitchelle Baker stepping down to Executive Chairwoman 9 months ago:
CEO pay is so ridiculous, there’s obviously no way they’re going to self regulate so we need to either tie it to worker pay/well-being or put it under the control of their employees
- Comment on Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public 9 months ago:
That’s to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.
- Comment on Palworld isn’t slowing down, hits 19 million players across Steam and Xbox 9 months ago:
BOTW ruined Zelda for people like me who enjoyed the dungeons, unique items and narrative progression of poker games even if it was a great game for open world fans. Pokemon is even further removed from that action-survival gameplay so it’s not hard to see why people would want new games to be similar even if the current formula is stale.
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 9 months ago:
As Randall Munroe would put it, duty calls
- Comment on Microsoft launches a Pro plan for Copilot 9 months ago:
I’ve seen estimates that it costs $30+ dollars per month per user to run these AI models. And that doesn’t even include how expensive it is to build and train these systems. I imagine this is what will ruin the appeal of AI for a lot of people, as right now we’re in the honeymoon phase where a bunch of it is free or low cost but as they raise prices it’ll get less appealing.
