halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 2 days ago:
You mean the text that states the extremely obvious reality that children learn and understand without any issue on a daily basis? Any child that’s ever had a goldfish or a hamster knows this directly. All living things will inevitably die at some point.
The only people reading more into this are the people that think kids are somehow stupid and constantly need to be protected from reality.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 3 days ago:
Gotta love random examples pulled disingenuously.
Red+Blue also almost surely had Gary’s Raticate die after battling you on the S.S. Anne, and he goes to the Pokemon Tower on Lavender Town to lay it to rest. It isn’t expressly said in the text, but the Ratata that he loved and had from the beginning is suddenly no longer in his party and he’s in the tower asking why you’re there if you don’t have any dead Pokemon.
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 3 days ago:
Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he’s just a puppet with dementia.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 3 days ago:
So nice of them to help with Spotify’s off-site backup.
- Comment on I never realized Star Wars featured LCARs 5 days ago:
One of the many Easter Eggs in the Series. Just like ET’s species being in the galactic Senate.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 5 days ago:
they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.
As opposed to the military handling disposal of the reactor materials… which is paid by… the taxpayers.
You didn’t think this comment through every much, or at all really, did you?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
It helps when they’re just telling you the plan they’re implementing via Russian assets and useful idiots.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 6 days ago:
Depends on the exact scenario.
We’re also dealing with language differences. English is not the developer’s first language. What may seem a clear sentence to a native speaker, could be easily misinterpreted/mistranslated to something similar, but different enough that the answer changes.
It seems that the AI use was early in development, and limited to temporary placeholders that were going to be replaced. Since they were patched out within days of release, that seems to imply they already had replacement assets on hand, they were just missed during final checks before release.
The answer from the devs also changed prior to the awards show that implies that they may have had an updated interpretation of the qualification question or answer. If they thought the question was about AI use in the final product, then accidentally missing a placeholder swap shouldn’t be disqualifying. Likewise, early experimentation with the tech and then deciding not to use it probably should not disqualify either. But if the qualification is a hard yes/no with absolutely no context or consideration whatsoever, then that’s a different outcome, and hence them clarifying for the awards team.
Personally I think the hard limit without any room for consideration or interpretation is a shit qualification. Especially considering that isn’t really the case for most awards. Look at the definition of “indie” for example. There’s a half dozen different interpretations people have ranging from having to be self published, avoiding just large publishers, or just the publisher not having creative influence. That’s a lot of interpretation comparatively.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 6 days ago:
We’re not talking about a development team of 100+ artists here and a company forcing them to work 80 hour crunch weeks leading up to launch like much of the industry.
I don’t know exactly how their 30 or so team members break down for specialties, but I’m willing to bet we’re talking maybe 5 asset artists. Making the tens or hundreds of thousands of concept art pieces, and in game assets. Their time is finite and much better spent working on final assets than making placeholders that will just be replaced later. Experimenting with AI and dripping a placeholder in during month 6 that never gets touched again, and the final asset is made but missed when swapping them in at the end of development isn’t exactly damning
Literally removing work from a human(concept artist)
It’s not really “removing” work from a human, it’s utilizing the time of a very small and limited team more wisely. The AI didn’t replace a human, there was never going to be an additional person hired just to make that placeholder, at worst it just let the existing artists spend more time making final assets.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 6 days ago:
It was released with the original placeholder AI assets, but patched out within 5 days. It’s pretty clear that they just missed replacing those assets prior to release.
I don’t know exactly which assets, or exactly how many… but from several article it seems one of them was a newspaper only used in the prologue, that no one would notice without directly looking at it up close, which 99.9% of people would never do, and could easily be overlooked doing final testing for game breaking issues prior to release.
And the failure to properly disclose could easily be explained by them messing around. Early in development, deciding not to use AI, and then forgetting about it. Which also explains it being left in for release accidentally. Updated assets were clearly made, just never replaced.
The disqualification had nothing to do with the assets being there for the release, it was solely about development as mentioned in every statement from the awards. Meaning even if it hadn’t been there at release, they still would have been disqualified. Hard criteria like that which disqualifies any sort of context or consideration is not fair. Especially when we’re talking about cutting edge technologies that teams will obviously be experimenting with before making decisions.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
Yes. It was reported basically everywhere.
gamerant.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-no-doge-p…
Want to move that goalpost again?
- Comment on US | Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’ 1 week ago:
How do you get from “conservative” to whatever the fuck this is
It’s a cult.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
Cool… Generative AI used for placeholders during development that are replaced by actual artist work for the release is the definition of responsibly.
Given these assets were replaced within days of release here… Definitely seems like placeholders that were just missed during the final checks before release.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
And yet someone completed the game without parrying a single time.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
They didn’t just replace the art later. It was intended to be placeholder art from the beginning. And was replaced 5 days after release. That tells me that they just missed replacing those temporary assets among tens of thousands of assets before release.
Using GenAI for something temporary that’s not intended to be final seems like the perfect use case for it. Especially on a small team where artist time is much better spent working on the final assets.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 week ago:
Agreed, the assets did make it to production, but were replaced in a patch 5 days later. That definitely seems like it was placeholders that just got missed. Which happens, especially for a new small studio releasing their first game.
GenAI being used for temporary placeholders is arguably a correct use case for it. Especially with a smaller development team. If you have a limited number of artists, having them spend time crafting unique placeholders that will be replaced is a poor use of their time and talents that would otherwise be spent working on final art that will actually be in the released game. That is a 100% valid use case scenario for it, as long as the assets are replaced for the launch. And missing a few and fixing that within a week is entirely understandable, not something they should be indicted for.
There is some concern about the exact wording I’ve seen in various articles. Some say that Sandfall told the awards that GenAI wasn’t used in the development, but the articles don’t use a specific quote on their side, and then later saying it was used for placeholder assets. They seem to imply that Sandfall lies about the use to qualify, then later came clean. I’m wondering if that is simply miscommunication, potentially language issues, about the final game not using GenAI. Just because people speak multiple languages, that doesn’t mean that they understand nuanced differences in meaning when not using their native language. I can see the difference between the final game release and overall development being misunderstood depending on the exact wording used.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
That’s exactly the takeaway I got from it as well.
It seems most likely that those were placeholders that were supposed to be replaced before release but were missed. Once they realized that some were missing, they got them replaced and pushed the update.
GenAI being used for placeholder stuff is arguably the perfect use case, especially for small studios without massive art teams.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Wraps Production – Watch Anson Mount’s Final Set Tour 1 week ago:
Many of those filler episodes are where the character development for anyone beyond the primary bridge crew happened. And that’s sorely missing from modern Trek.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Wraps Production – Watch Anson Mount’s Final Set Tour 1 week ago:
Basically pre-netflix. Cable and syndication, not streaming. Where TV seasons were usually between 23-26 episodes.
- Comment on Palestinian shot dead at close range by IDF in West Bank; IDF says he threw a brick 1 week ago:
Existing = death to them. A brick is just the poor excuse.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Wraps Production – Watch Anson Mount’s Final Set Tour 1 week ago:
So only traditional seasons worth of episodes.
- Comment on TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse 1 week ago:
Oh this is going to do nothing to make TikTok better in any way, or cause it’s downfall.
It just lets Trump’s friends make money from it now.
- Comment on Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is confirmed as new NASA chief 1 week ago:
The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as “a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus”. The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing the Earth from space are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. The effect can cause changes in the observer’s self concept and value system, and can be transformative.
- Comment on Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is confirmed as new NASA chief 1 week ago:
This one actually does make sense. He actually knows what the fuck is going on. He’s not just a stooge trying to cozy up to Trump.
He has experience with NASA, space contractors, and has been in space. The Overview Effect shouldn’t be discounted.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
Not only the setting off, but any sort of behind the scenes stuff related to it disabled as well. No automatic updating, no background processes to “keep it ready, just in case”. Do that when it’s enabled.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
It’s for the default search, but it also has the side benefit of ensuring a secondary browser with decent market share that’s not Chromium-based they can point to claiming they’re not a monopoly.
- Comment on Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic revealed - a KOTOR "spiritual successor" RPG led by Mass Effect's Casey Hudson 2 weeks ago:
I’m hopeful given who’s in charge. But not holding my breath at all. I will assume it is dogshit until it proves otherwise. It’s the only way to approach AAA titles nowadays.
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 2 weeks ago:
Israel is doing everything it can to obfuscate the difference between zionist and being Jewish in general. They want to hide in the group and declare everything generally antisemitic. They want to hide in the mistaken belief that they can’t commit a genocide, because Holocaust. As if that was the only genocide on history, and it somehow gives them a free pass.
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 2 weeks ago:
Her main crime appears to have been hosting and paying for a birthday party for Rahaf, a three-year-old Palestinian child who lost both legs to an Israeli bomb in the Gaza genocide.
Yup… She is definitely the bad person in all of this. For sure. A Jewish person paying for the birthday party for a Palestinian crippled by Israeli terrorists is definitely worthy of being targeted by some group of dipshits going by “StopAntisemitism”. The mental gymnastics at play here are spinning at the speed of light.
- Comment on Proof you don't have to wait for the new year for self improvement 3 weeks ago:
Don’t know why. Even his wife stopped giving a fuck a couple weeks after.