mnemonicmonkeys

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, fyi, Hooded Horse has a publisher sale on Steam right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows” Season 2 Announced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. It was alright, but didn’t really stand out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA announce a native Linux app for GeForce NOW⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too fucking late Nvidia, I already dropped your ass. And funnily enough, I’m getting better stability with my RX 9070XT on Windows than my old RTX3070ti. I doubt the comparison will be any better for Nvidia after the Linux switch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs" Season 2 | Teaser Visual⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit, that’s good news!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was the other way around (kinda). I didn’t mind the combat, though it also wasn’t anything special. The story was alright, but the 3-way split ending and how they used to pick which you got was complete horseshit, and it completely ruined the experience.

  Add to that, I found the 2 previous games to be very disappointing as well. I don’t understand how the first game wasn’t a complete flop.

  So CDPR has screwed me out of 3 games. Well, they owe me and they’re blacklisted until that changes. Unless they send me a free copy of CP2077 out of the blue they won’t see another dime from me ever again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florence Nightingale's Kink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still a shitton of Europe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So far...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit of advice: you’re better off not bothering.

  Shield Hero and Goblin Slayer were interesting in their first seasons, but both became really boring afterwards. And Sheild Hero’s writing became atrociously bad at the end of season 3.

  And for Redo of Healer, it’s too censored and rapey to be decent porn and it’s story is too braindead to be a decent regular show. It’s only noteworthy trait is the shock factor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Projecting much? You’re the one calling people racist over stuff that isn’t racist. And turning into a sarcastic douche towards anyone who reaponded to you.

  All of this originated from you making baseless claims because you can’t read. Just stfu amd leave the thread like a normal rational person does when they’re wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florence Nightingale's Kink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like, a quarter of Europe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I said it’s infamous for being terrible, i.e. a factual statement about its reputation. I never said that it is terrible because I haven’t really had any.

  Also, you’re trying to be holier-than-thou over a comment about an Empire that opressed half the world up until around 70 years ago? One that continues to idolize “the good old days”? Learn to pick your battles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, are chocolate oranges just chocolate formed to look like orange slices? All this time I thought it was oranges dipped in chocolate, which has always disgusted me.

  And in my defense, I’ve always heard it was a British thing. And British food is infamous for being terrible apart from fish & chips

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  False. There’s a thing called fiduciary duty where companies are obligated to make profitable decisions for their shareholders. If they don’t prioritize short term gains they’re opened up to lawsuits from investors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s every company

  Not every company, just most. Privately owned corporations aren’t legally obligated to kill long-term viability for short-term gaing like publicly traded companies are.

  Many owners of privately owned corps are that dumb, but not all of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand what their long-term plan is here.

  They most likely don’t have one. Keep in mind that tech bros and C-suite execs are sociopathic dumbasses. We saw this with AAA gaming studios and private equity where they just assume line will continually go up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While it might actually end up going that way, I don’t think that’s a deliberate play. The tech bros and C-suite execs tend to be sociopathic dumbasses. I think they’re legitimately just loading themselves up with tons of debt just to buy hardware to capture market share thinking that things could never collapsed on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Palantir has contracts with multiple European governments to do similar shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨until next year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because some people actually enjoy watching the intros? Don’t be an ass by yucking other people’s yum.

  Regardless, One Pace gets packaged into 50-60 minute episodes, so you’re seeing intros 1/2 to 1/3 as often per unit of play time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t buy LG anything. Everything Ive bought from them has suckes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨until next year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try the One Pace fan edit. It cuts out all of the recaps and filler and shortens up long pan shots intended to eat time. It cuts out 40% of the overall time. And it’s even more if you skip the intros of each episode

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Achievements 100%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What anime

  A giant waste of time and braincells

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The height of her head is the same and she has the same jaw position in both shots, yet multiple features of her face are larger on the left.

  It’s a filter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure New Visual⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the Netflix exclusivity alone makes this season a hard pass with sailing the seas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever Best Buy used as a filter to enlarge her eyes creeps me out. At least the Game Stop version looks like an actual person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m planning to get a Jellyfin server running and filling it up using torrents

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI Data Centers Disrupt US Cities, Wisconsin Woman Violently Arrested After Speaking Out⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they’re crazy loud. Some days, it’s a constany 100+ decibels of sound around nearby homes due to the cooling systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't assume Skyblivion is getting spellcrafting, says UI lead who claims they weren't consulted on delay video⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This article is pointless. All of this drama stems from random people not understanding how English works. The delay video only said “we’d like to add these things in the future”, which is a far cry from “we are absolutely adding these”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, The Elder Scrolls’ fandom debates a lot too. There’s still people fighting over whether the Stormcloaks or the Empire were right in Skyrim, or whether Morrowind or Oblivion are the best in the series

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hytale won't be on Steam right away, as its devs want to avoid "overindexing on negative reviews" from players who "aren't as well-informed yet"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Our game will be shit at launch”

  In their defense, they’ve outright told players that this is what they should expect. They’re starting out by duck-taping their build from 4+ years ago back together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, this isn’t even a case of religion going crazy. The flat Earth conspiracy actually started out in the German Nazi party and were eventually pushed out because even the Nazis thought they were too crazy.

  Notice how many of them mention a vague “they” as the ones maintaining the conspiracy. That’s them referring to Jewish people. While this is notmal for most conspiracy theories, few directly originated from the Nazis.

  If you want more detail, there’s a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards explaining it. I definitely recommend giving them a listen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just not a fan of the lemmy “black and white” AI is evil approach.

  Don’t get me wrong, there’s some spaces for AI (LLM’s), but they are significantly more limited than what people are led to believe.

  For example, Tom Scott made a video where he fed in a list of his previous video titles into ChatGPT and asked it to generate >100 new video titles. While a lot of them contained halucinated facts that obviously wouldn’t work, he ended up with about 10 that could have been interesting videos had he decided to make them, and others led him to do research that gave him more ideas for videos. But it only kickstarted the creatice process.

  Another example is modding, particularly Skyrim. Over the past couple of years there’s been a number of dialogue expansion mods coming out to add depths to characters with their original voices without janky voice splicing. While some people like to bemoan the use of AI in these cases and argue that people should use real voice actors, they are conveniently ignoring that very were very few mods filling this niche before ElevenLabs and the ones that did redo voices tended to be controversial (like Serana Dialogue Addon). But much of this problem is driven by the fact that modding is (supposed to be) free and most decent voice actors want to be paid for their work.

  But in terms of commercial ventures, there’s little reason why AI should be involved. AI actively makes coding harder due to errors. You don’t need AI generated placeholder assets, as traditionally you would use boxes and things poorly drawn in MS Paint. Hell, it’s better to use crappy placeholder assets because that forces the dev to make the gameplay actually fun, since the assets aren’t skewing the playtesters’ opinions to be better than they should. And we had decent search for awhile, AI didn’t make it significantly better than it was 5 years ago.