MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 2 weeks ago:
Epic isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison with most other studios. They don’t just make games, they develop and support Unreal Engine for both games and film production, they operate EGS, a motion capture studio, ArtStation, Sketchfab, and a dozen other subsidiaries. It’s a huge company.
- Comment on Why do people call Michael's house from GTA 5 a mansion? 2 weeks ago:
Not really an answer, but the definition of a ‘regular-ass house’ is very different in the UK/EU compared to the US. American suburban homes are huge.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about the Amazon, but he does own huge amounts of land in North Carolina which he has protected and/or donated to conservation schemes.
- Comment on As seminal oddball indie Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP hits 15 years of age, you can pick it up for less than a coffee 2 weeks ago:
Funny, I decided to listen to the soundtrack out of the blue just a few days ago!
- Comment on PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading 2 weeks ago:
Browsing the web without an ad blocker is an act of self-harm.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine being strongly influenced by the original pitch for Babylon 5 is a pretty famous, if variously disputed, example.
- Comment on Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" 3 weeks ago:
No that’s not normal. Sounds like they’re incredibly insecure and emotionally manipulative.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Check out this fun little nugget from further down in the article:
Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology.
- Comment on Apple quietly launches AirPods Max 2 3 weeks ago:
It’s all done on device and works even if you’re offline.
To use Live Translation, you need to download the language the other person is speaking and the language you’d like to translate it to. Once the language models have been downloaded, all processing takes place on your iPhone, where all of your conversation data remains private.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
No you’re right - it’s 2:1, which is an unusual aspect ratio. But it looks like it’s intended to run games designed specifically for it rather than emulating other systems, so I guess it’s less a drawback and more a neat quirk.
- Comment on More people should dance like they are trying to get something off their chest 3 weeks ago:
Dancing isn’t really supposed to make sense; it’s not a logical act.
- Comment on You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I agree on both of those points.
- Comment on You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet 4 weeks ago:
Okay but I don’t think it’s fair to criticise a product based on hypothetical enshittification.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 weeks ago:
I’m also waiting for the full iFixit review, but teardowns from other channels are now being shared and so far it looks like it’s very solidly built and very repair-friendly.
- Comment on You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet 4 weeks ago:
The disposability sucks, but I don’t believe there’s any AI involved.
- Comment on if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen 4 weeks ago:
Also fun fact: the ‘a meteor killed the dinosaurs’ is more or less universally accepted now, but younger folks might not realise it’s a pretty recent theory.
It was first proposed in 1980, they found the likely impact site in 1991, and it was officially endorsed by an expert panel in 2010.
I have books on my shelf from the 90s that say no one knows what killed the dinosaurs.
- Comment on Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies? 4 weeks ago:
I derive a great deal of happiness from how often this community lives up to its name
- Comment on The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1 5 weeks ago:
If you’re waiting for this but still looking for an offbeat chess game to play in the meantime, check out Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
- Comment on The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, didn’t mean to cause any stress - clearly I was wrong here. Reading through I saw a lot of sentence structures typical of LLM writing, but like you say this is partly because they were trained on writers’ work.
I’m a writer myself, so I’ve seen first hand how LLMs are rotting our profession from the inside. That’s not an excuse for making false accusations, but I hope you can understand my exasperated tone when I found what seemed like slop on my feed.
- Comment on The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S 5 weeks ago:
Tried reading the article but it’s clearly written with AI. There might’ve been some editing but the stink of slop is all over it.
- Comment on Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators 5 weeks ago:
Finally, a way to indulge in exhibitionism without having to leave the house!
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 5 weeks ago:
I think people make fun of it because to a non-American it comes across as deeply insecure. The trope is that the USA has no history of its own and so its people latch onto the smallest scraps of heritage via ancestry as a way to give themselves some cultural context and cachet.
I don’t think it’s invalid - in many cases the ancestry is genuine, even if distant and/or fractional. If it helps them find meaning or feel connected to something then I’ve got no issue with it.
The issues only really arise IMO if someone starts weaponising that ancestry or insisting they now have the authority to speak for a people they have no tangible connection to.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 5 weeks ago:
You got a 2017 laptop with an A18 Pro chip? Wow that’s incredible!
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 5 weeks ago:
Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook, and it’d still have one fewer USB port and no audio jack.
- Comment on ard 5 weeks ago:
See also: haggard, laggard, braggart (this one changed to a ‘t’ for some reason), dastard, dullard, and a few others. It’s uncommon but it’s out there!
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 5 weeks ago:
RTFA
In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 5 weeks ago:
Blaming it on AI seems misleading given the owner explicitly blames leechers in the community. Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits and then had the gall to add their own paywalls without contributing anything back.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 5 weeks ago:
I couldn’t stand Discovery but Academy very quickly won me over.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 5 weeks ago:
She’s a guest star in a single episode.
- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 1 month ago:
They make Coors, Miller Lite, and Carling. Safe to assume they don’t know and don’t care.