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- Comment on Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition reveal trailer 3 hours ago:
Was this the one with the weirdest camera system I’ve ever encountered in a 3d game? I remember just constantly fighting with it.
Also D&D 3e is not something I want to go back to. What a janky system.
- Comment on Once you are over 30 we no longer want to go out - we want to be left alone, with a beer/wine, a blanket, tv, and tacos… 10 hours ago:
I’ve always been kind of a cheapskate. I’ve never wanted to go to a generic club.
But I will happily go to a party at someone’s house, or a hangout at the park, or even see a band I like playing live.
- Comment on All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking 12 hours ago:
Depends on what you mean by “own”.
Buying the CD has a key difference from Spotify in that no one can (typically) take the cd away from you. Music disappears from Spotify all the time. You can also (typically) copy it to other storage. And, most relevant to the topic of rent vs buy, you just pay for it once and you’re done. No subscription, no ads. That stuff is important to me.
You can’t usually take music you got from a CD and put it in your movie, for example, but that’s a whole conversation about fair use and copyright.
- Comment on All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking 12 hours ago:
It’s possible to buy music, too, but most people rent it from spotify. Most people aren’t going to do the comparably hard thing of setting up their own LLM.
And even if they did run their own well tuned, ethical, LLM to write letters for them, that still leaves us with the problem of “people aren’t developing core skills like writing”
- Comment on All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking 15 hours ago:
Someone pointed out that capitalism loves subscriptions and rentals. They can sell you a widget, sure, but then they only get money once. If they can rent you a widget, then they get money forever.
AI is a path for rent skills to people. You don’t need to learn to write python or learn Spanish. Just pay for LLM access. Rent the skill.
It is extremely dystopian.
Unfortunately, most people don’t care about much of anything. You could tell them, with undeniable proof, that every AI search kills a puppy, and most people would be like “well puppies die anyway and I always use Google, so…”
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 day ago:
Privately owned centralized platforms like Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc, are a recipe for disaster. So I left.
- Comment on Is this "artist" on spotify AI generated? 3 days ago:
Recommendations for…? Just any music?
Caroline Rose’s new album is very good and very human: …bandcamp.com/…/year-of-the-slug
Tagged as “alternative psychobilly acoustic guitar alt-country alternative pop art pop folk indie indie folk indie pop indiepop rock n roll shoegaze Los Angeles”
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 5 days ago:
Meta should be broken up and its leadership barred from working in tech (or politics)
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 6 days ago:
I don’t think they thought about it very much. It’s like that spongebob meme where patrick has the wallet. Or the Friends one that I don’t know the name of the template. You could go point by point building up a case for why there should be government regulations, but as soon as you say like “regulation” they go “Nope bad”
Though some people really do believe they as a rugged individual will be able to research and test all of their food without an FDA or whatever. If they buy bread that has sawdust in it, they’ll be able to tell, and somehow get a refund, or buy some other bread that doesn’t have sawdust. That seems like a lot of work and optimism compared to regulations and inspections by qualified professionals earlier in the process.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 1 week ago:
This kind of problem falls under “communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood”. Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 week ago:
Most email is short. I don’t see a need to summarize it. Google is run by idiots and assholes.
- Comment on No matter how many games as service flop, how many studios fail and close, executives will still insist on creating the next Fortnite, Overwatch, LOL, etc. 1 week ago:
Oh yeah that’s the Peter principle I think. Or closely related.
Someone is good at job A, so they promoted to B. They’re good at B, so they get promoted to C. They’re kind of bad at C, so they stay there.
Over time, all roles fill up with people who are kind of bad.
- Comment on No matter how many games as service flop, how many studios fail and close, executives will still insist on creating the next Fortnite, Overwatch, LOL, etc. 1 week ago:
I’ve been stuck on this thought that people making decisions are often idiots.
We’re sort of told that management is smart. That big business leaders are visionaries. If someone’s the director of engineering they’re probably smart right?
No. They’re just people. People that have the skills to get promoted, but those aren’t the same skills to do anything else.
I think it would matter less if there was more competition and more stakes. If some business puts idiots in charge and the whole company dies, okay. But instead we have Google just shitting the bed for years, and there aren’t consequences.
This is a capitalist hell
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 1 week ago:
Tech companies don’t really give a damn what customers want anymore.
Ed Zitron wrote an article about how leadership is business idiots. They don’t know the products or users but they make decisions and get paid. Long, like everything he writes, but interesting
wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
Our economy is run by people that don’t participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don’t experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers, as the modern executive is no longer a person with demands or responsibilities beyond their allegiance to shareholder value.
- Comment on Nightclub market shrinking as younger people stay at home, says pub boss 1 week ago:
Yeah I was going to say. It’s like that “no take only throw” meme with the dog. Capitalists want us to spend money, but they don’t want to pay us enough money. Just spend what we don’t have.
If I had a nice job I’d be out spending a lot more money. But they want to replace everyone with AI, or off shore, or whatever.
- Comment on Elden Ring's player engagement is through the roof: 45% of its Steam players have played for 100+ hours 1 week ago:
It was a good game. Not perfect, but very good.
Even the things I don’t like are pretty minor.
- upgrading weapons is kind of tedious. Once you know where the stones are or the bearings, it’s kind of a chore to get them.
- related: once you know where some high value items are, it’s really tempting to just beeline for them from the start. But that’s kind of tedious. I guess I could just pretend I don’t know where the +5 stats talisman is.
- a lot of side content isn’t especially rewarding. The first time you play it’s exciting because you don’t know what you’ll find. But later it’s like “nah, this catacomb has a useless ash and boss I’ll fight elsewhere”. Which is a shame because most of the level design is great.
- Comment on Elden Ring's player engagement is through the roof: 45% of its Steam players have played for 100+ hours 1 week ago:
One of the reasons UBI games are trash
I parsed that as “universal basic income games” and was really confused. Ubisoft makes more sense
- Comment on What are some good cooperative shooters? Hidden gems? 1 week ago:
I found the solo play of both Remnant games really unsatisfying. Slow pacing, uninteresting enemies. Is it much better with friends?
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 2 weeks ago:
There’s still going to be production, and I don’t think we should continue with the capitalist class extracting value and making bad decisions
If you introduce basic income without addressing that, you’ll still have all the enshittification
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 2 weeks ago:
Basic income seems like an obvious solution.
Many people would pursue happy lives. Do some art. Do some gardening.
You’d also want to have like public housing or something so you don’t have parasitic landlords and homelessness.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is the most “useful” thing a CEO typically does is schmooze with other rich assholes. A lot of companies need funding, and a lot of funding is handed out based on vibes. A good CEO makes friends with the assholes handing out money. That’s hard to replace with AI, probably.
On the other hand, CEOs routinely make stupid decisions. Maybe cutting that out makes up for the loss in funding opportunities?
Also this capitalist hellscape sucks. labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 2 weeks ago:
I guess it’s like the difference between a parasite that doesn’t kill the host, and one that does. The current breed looks like it’s going to kill the host.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 2 weeks ago:
I canceled my subscription. In part because fuck using AI to hurt labor, but also unemployment. Capitalists want us to spend spend spend, but they don’t want to give us any money to spend.
- Comment on Fucking cunp 2 weeks ago:
It’s all “what’s good for me and mine?”. There’s no other underpinning for conservatism.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I spend too much time here because I knew what that was before I clicked it
- Comment on fake keepass repo on github 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of the new vector for malware that targets “vibe coders”. LLMs tend to hallucinate libraries that don’t exist. Like, it’ll tell you to add, install, and use jjj_image_proc or whatever. The vibe coder will then get an error like “that library doesn’t exist” and "can’t call jjj_image_proc.process()`.
But you, a malicious user, could go and create a library named
jjj_image_procand give it a function namedprocess. Vibe coders will then pull down and run your arbitrary code, and that’s kind of game over for them.You’d just need to find some commonly hallucinated library names
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 3 weeks ago:
Is there a name for the thing where you’ll make an argument with like 3 distinct points supporting it, and the other person will attack only one, and claim the whole thing is in their favor?
Like, “You can’t cast two leveled spells in a turn, and you’re silenced, and you’re out of spell slots, so you can’t cast another fireball”
“No, I have another spell slot from my ring. Fireball time!”
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 3 weeks ago:
I bought a couple games on epic when they were cheaper. I don’t think I’d do so again.
- the client isn’t as good. It’s slower, the way it paginates your games (I got a lot of free ones) is annoying. It really wants to show you store stuff
- less (zero?) Linux support
- don’t think it does the game recording steam does
- I don’t think it has the remote play together steam does
There’s probably other stuff I’m not thinking of. It’s just not as good a service.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I saw that one too and thought similarly!
- Comment on Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial 3 weeks ago:
Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn’t be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.