ArchmageAzor
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world
- Comment on Immortals must be riddled with cancer thanks to gene errors in their dna replication. 5 hours ago:
Or you turn into cancerman from that X-files episode
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 11 hours ago:
Imagine paying for youtube lmao
- Comment on I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce] 12 hours ago:
Of course corpos are gonna corpo.
- Comment on I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce] 12 hours ago:
The MeatCanyon parody video of him was great
- Comment on Metal genres 1 day ago:
I have this problem where I love some good metal guitar, but most of the stuff with that kind of guitar also includes vocals reminiscent of Christian Bale’s Batman with a sore throat, which I do not enjoy
- Comment on Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock 2 days ago:
I think saturdays used to be workdays too.
We need to turn fridays into another case like that.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 days ago:
Why should a single developer of a game not be allowed to offload making textures for a gravel road or some other brain-numbing task onto AI, and use the time saved to make the main features of the game better?
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 days ago:
I can guarantee you that there will not be a point in time at which everybody on the planet just decides to stop using AI out of the goodness of their hearts.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 days ago:
Way I see it AI should be allowed to be used on grunt work that stays in the background. Stuff nobody would notice but that would still take up time, so the dev can focus on making the stuff in the foreground better. Indie dev teams can be small, sometimes just one person, and the quality stands to increase if they can offload dumb, time-consuming tasks elsewhere.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 3 days ago:
Don’t judge the kid, judge the parents. Parents who should not be parents prefer to make their kids less of a burden to them by handing them over to the overstimulation square
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 3 days ago:
This is an American company, their customers would probably react poorly to hearing a foreign accent come through the speakers
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 3 days ago:
I think there is an upcoming one, but I forget the name. It looked like Pacific Drive with a bike.
- Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks? 5 days ago:
Welcome to America, where slavery is one of the largest businesses under a brand new name.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 5 days ago:
Minecraft is a great example of what the survival genre looks like at its peak. Everything you do serves to help you accomplish your next goal, all the way to the final goal of beating the Ender Dragon. And then there are optional sub-goals you can set for yourself, like doing alchemy, making a mob farm, getting a Heart of the Ocean, getting an Elytra, beating a raid, finding treasures, automating your own production. All contributes directly towards making you survive better.
In NMS you reach the goal of surviving when you first unlock your ship. Once it’s fully repaired you embark on a fetch quest to walk and fly around gathering materials to craft the mystical orbs that mark the completion of the story, stopping once in a while to gather fuel for your ship, materials to fly to new kinds of star systems, and to talk to NPCs for some lore. But it’s not like the gathering of these materials really takes effort. There’s no spelunking, or braving a netherworld, or fighting back poisonous spiders while charting out old ruins. The most you get is that you need to craft a more powerful laser, and a special glove to collect some special resources that are, in fact, so abundant as to make gathering them no challenge at all. And everything else that’s in the game just exists on the side, optional distractions that don’t feed into the core loop. The only things that really affect your main game loop would be freighters, because they give you a bigger inventory, and this most recent update that adds mobile bases.
Minecraft also has a benefit that, when you run out of things to do, when you’ve beaten the dragon, collected everything, built your monuments, and done all that over and over until you’re bored, the game enables limitless new experiences through being so very customizable. Mods that turn the game into Factorio, or Diablo, or DayZ, or change how the world generates or how it all functions on the most basic level. Or if mods aren’t your thing you can join a server, and play with other people in all kinds of minigames. Standard SMP, or PvP stuff, or custom-coded challenges, what have you. NMS doesn’t have any of that, and while it does have multiplayer that doesn’t really change anything of the core gameplay. It’s still just “fly around and gather things,” but this time with another person along for the ride.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 5 days ago:
Cool false dilemma.
It’s one thing to be given a sandbox, and another thing to be given a toy box. Maybe your imagination lets you take it as far as you need, but some people need more of a purpose to justify putting time into it as opposed to something more productive.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 5 days ago:
The Apple and Samsung ones look oddly similar
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 5 days ago:
I just wish there was more to it. Every update adds more to do, but no reason to do it. Now we have a puddle as wide as an ocean.
- Comment on Texas MashHouse 5 days ago:
This is what the rest of the world sees when they look at the US
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 days ago:
The US Gov. wants its citizens sick and feeble.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 6 days ago:
Anything to get rid of gun violence, as long as you don’t get rid of guns.
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 6 days ago:
Damn boomers need a machine to smoke for them.
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- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 week ago:
Next up is “Stop children using custom linux distros and unique radio setups to connect to access points outside the nation”
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 week ago:
“So, did you ever have any plans to build that helicopter thing you drew?”
“Chi sei? Dove sono? Come sono arrivato qui?”
“Sorry, what?”
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 1 week ago:
Cryogenically frozen forever*
*Until the funds dry up
- Comment on There are definitely people learning a second language being accused of AI slop. 1 week ago:
Why? Somebody learning a new language would make mistakes, an AI would make no mistakes.
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 1 week ago:
I wonder if this means less cheaters in multiplayer games.
- Comment on Don't let them tell you different! 1 week ago:
If I weren’t meant to drink and drive, why is there a parking lot outside the bar?
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 1 week ago:
Smart glasses would be really cool to have. It would be nice to be able to integrate my phone’s functionality into my glasses, that I don’t wear.
But I don’t want AI glasses that are permanently on.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, translations are one of the few things LLMs are good for. It can catch things like idioms or other things a machine translator may mistranslate. Though tbf, the main appeal is still live translation.