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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if games with UGC report they have AI content. (Games that allow for outside assets and code)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello! 👋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very large amounts of gaming gpus vs AI gpus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You really need to elaborate on the nature of the scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen some people reject this solution due to the anime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Parliament vice president throws his support behind Stop Killing Games campaign⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This post isn’t about the games being removed from the face of the internet. It’s just one platform.

  It’s too early to panic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s DRM free. Just practice good backups man. No need to jump to piracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I always buy into the idea that precision is bad and broadly accessible is good. Not in this era of anti-intellectualism at least.

  But I definitely see your point, if you are talking about making things accessible. Vague claims of “they just want to sound smart” smell of anti-intellectualism to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it just precision?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume they just mean the idea that is malicious and not just stupidity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors' strike officially ends after AI deal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  huh, interesting! It’s The Mythical Man-Month! That book was published back in 1975. They definitely know better, but must be in quite a pickle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s that federation?

  And how would this fit in? Are they just going to build a bunch of excuses into the platform, and then claim it’s now impossible?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, cover your shame.

  Logged out YouTube was covered up a few years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors' strike officially ends after AI deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we aware of any big name titles that are not complete because they didn’t have actors?

  Is there any chance this contributed to latest GTA6 delay?

  Or did all of the major studios just switch to actors that are not part of a guild/union?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes me think of Dell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Domestic US cars can’t compete with foreign cars. We’ve known that forever. Or at least since the 90s.

  Growing up in the 90s in Wisconsin, all the conservatives around me always talked shit about foreign cars.

  I can’t comprehend how they justified it. But I also knew nothing about cars.

  It was only back in ~2016 that I realized how much building a car is similar to building a computer. Supply chains, common parts, designs made to fit common “cases”. Etc etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No one likes writing tests! Give him a break!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s exceptionally difficult to build a browser from the ground up.

  But if anyone could do it, it would be a company with the money and (supposed) intelligence they have in their ranks.

  There’s a group making a new browser engine though, I think it’s called ladybird?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “What?! We help people budget!” “What?! We help people when times are tough!” “What?! 73% of our customers pay us zero interest!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit could have done this too, but never did. At least to my knowledge.

  There must be a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Wants Gamers To Destroy All Copies of A Game Once It Goes Offline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Service contracts are where the money is at!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sheer amount of acronyms used to explain my behavior is beginning to look like the eye-chart at the vision clinic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could use the full words instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Just Proved They're No Different Than Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, then the post just doesn’t need any upvotes, imo.

  I find mass down votes on such things to be toxic behavior. And that was just an example on hand. I’ve seen it in other communities too, again, when the news was positive or neutral and fit the community even better than talking about a single web browser in a general tech community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Just Proved They're No Different Than Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s often a place for Linus to rant about how he understands business better than his audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Just Proved They're No Different Than Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Random positive or neutral news gets vote bombed on Apple communities too.

  Lemmy is weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all got any of that federation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Is Reportedly Making a U.S. Version of the App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if a segregated TikTok will be more or less of a hellscape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it mostly revolves around how you get 100 players together for a good game. The match making part. I’m skeptical of the quality of match making, but that’s not a showstopper for people committed to playing. But if we set aside the need for someone to maintain hosting, then it becomes peer to peer or a lan party, or a combination of the two.

  I remember what it was like rounding up and wrangling 80 people to raid in WoW back in the day.

  And none of this is a showstopper I don’t see why we can’t talk about that. It’s not like discussing the difficult edge cases or the feasibility of the details could harm things.

  My initial question in this thread framed changing the game design, not networking stack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like that’s the answer to my reply then. Not all this other noise people have posted. 😏