Zarxrax
@Zarxrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 5 days ago:
I bought the first Nickelodeon game a couple months after it released, and the online was already dead, I literally couldn’t find a match. Just went ahead and got a refund on it.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 5 days ago:
It really sucked because Smash Bros is basically the only other big platform fighter on the market. Multiversus was set up to actually be a viable alternative to smash, it was massively popular at first, and they had such an amazing library of characters to pull from. The game had everything going for it. And they just blew it. So badly.
- Comment on I am disappointed in the AI discourse 6 days ago:
This is an argument of semantics more than anything. Like asking if Linux has a GUI. Are they talking about the kernel or a distro? Are some people going to be really pedantic about it? Definitely.
An LLM is a fixed blob of binary data that can take inputs, do some statistical transformations, then produce an output. ChatGPT is an entire service or ecosystem built around LLMs. Can it search the web? Well, sure, they’ve built a solution around the model to allow it to do that. However if I were to run an LLM locally on my own PC, it doesn’t necessarily have the tooling programmed around it to allow for something like that.
Now, can we expect every person to be fully up to date on the product offerings at ChatGPT? Of course not. It’s not unreasonable for someone to make a statement that an LLM doesn’t get it’s data from the Internet in realtime, because in general, they are a fixed data blob. The real crux of the matter is people understanding of what LLMs are, and whether their answers can be trusted. We continue to see examples daily of people doing really stupid stuff because they accepted an answer from chatgpt or a similar service as fact. Maybe it does have a tiny disclaimer warning against that. But then the actual marketing of these things always makes them seem far more capable than they really are, and the LLM itself can often speak in a confident manner, which can fool a lot of people if they don’t have a deep understanding of the technology and how it works.
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 1 week ago:
Well, you could play the original Sega Genesis games, since that’s where it all started.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
The chart isn’t about streaming services, but companies. So this is covering everything that is owned by Disney, which includes broadcast and cable channels in addition to Disney+, and probably Hulu and maybe even other things that I’m not even aware of.
- Comment on Game media preservation, where? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why Japan's animation industry has embraced AI 1 week ago:
For all of the quality complaints about this anime, we have to remember that the technology is improving at a breakneck pace. What we are seeing there is the state of the technology from over a year ago. They used Stable Diffusion, which barely anyone even uses these days, because it’s been left in the dust. It was also an image generation model, which is what caused most of the issues that the anime had–the model was never designed for use on video in the first place. But now we DO have video models, which can make things that look far better than this. Just the other day, what looks to be a new state of the art anime video model was released. A new anime starting production today would look a whole lot different than this. And if we look forward 5 years from now, things are again going to be on an entirely different level.
So what does this mean for anime? I think the technology will slowly start to get adopted more and more as it proves itself. The early days of the anime industry was basically born out of cost cutting measures to make it cheap to produce animated content. Decades ago, we saw studios start producing 3d CG anime because it was cheaper. Most 3d CG anime still looks like crap, but you can also see the technology being integrated into traditionally animated shows and looking really nice. You can also find things these days which I would say barely even qualify as animation. Something like “The Way of the Househusband” is literally just a sequence of still images strung together. Yet we have more anime being produced now than ever before, and are also seeing some of the most beautiful anime ever.
I think we will continue to see some studios take whatever measures they can to produce something at a low cost. AI will continue to get integrated into more and more productions. It will eventually let them start making things that look cool, rather than things that look bad. And then we are still always going to have some studios that go all in and produce a really quality product, because the people involved are passionate about it.
- Comment on Demo for the fangame Pokemon Gamma Emerald is out! 2 weeks ago:
Legend? I guess so.
- Comment on Demo for the fangame Pokemon Gamma Emerald is out! 2 weeks ago:
I simply can’t understand why the hell people advertise stuff like this before it’s completed. You KNOW what’s going to happen. Just work on it quietly until it’s done, then put it out there, nothing can be done about it.
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 3 weeks ago:
I would disagree. I think it really improved upon the gameplay that we saw in the first TMNT arcade game. You got combo attacks with the different characters, and you could pick up various items and weapons. It also had some really huge bosses that were kind of impressive at the time, and had some mini games between stages. There were also a lot of interesting things that happened within the stages.
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 3 weeks ago:
I remember reading in a gaming magazine that Konami was bringing the Simpsons to the SNES. I just knew it was going to be the arcade game, and I was so hyped for months just waiting and waiting for it. And then I got Barts Nightmare.
- Comment on Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode 3 weeks ago:
Take the ai out of the main search results and I’m fine with it being there as a button. Oh wait, is that not what they are going to do?
- Comment on Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now 4 weeks ago:
Here’s the actual source: …wikimedia.org/…/Artificial_intelligence_for_edit…
- Comment on A new 3-D display lets you reach in and touch virtual objects 5 weeks ago:
This is for porn, right?
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 5 weeks ago:
A newer alternative to After Effects: pikimov.com
It’s still got a ways to go, but it’s off to a good start.
- Comment on Soon, You May Be Able To Play Diddy Kong Racing Natively On Your PC | Time Extension 5 weeks ago:
DKR was so awesome. I’ve always waited for another game like this with exploration and boss battles and stuff, but I haven’t seen anything else.
- Comment on Fishing games? 5 weeks ago:
The only fishing game I’ve ever played was The Black Bass on the NES. Being an older game, it has fairly simplistic gameplay that’s actually very similar to the fishing mini games that you see today.
- Comment on Why on Earth is OpenAI buying Windsurf? 1 month ago:
Well crap, I was using windsurf (codeium).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
I don’t really feel like going down the rabbit hole of trying a hundred different distros to maybe find one that works. My experiences with those two were that things were completely broken, randomly. Like just trying to boot the USB installer would lock up half the time, the installer itself would fail partway through most of the time, when things got fully installed, trying to update or install new things would just fail randomly. The kde desktop would crash just from me changing settings in the kde menus.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
They are ranked number 3 and 13 on distro watch, so they are hardly unknown. And lots on Linux YouTubers were talking about how great they were.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
My priorities are being able to run Davinci resolve and Steam games. Nobara ticks those boxes while advertising itself as user friendly. I have heard too many stories of people having trouble getting this stuff running on something like Linux mint, so I didn’t go in that direction. I need to do more with my computer than just view web sites or write code.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
A couple weeks ago I attempted to switch over to Linux. Tried installing both Cachyos and Nobara. It was kind of a shit show, nothing worked correctly, stuff was erroring out and crashing left and right, and after a couple days I gave up.
Today I went ahead and installed windows 11. There were some issues… It wouldn’t recognize my CD key, and I accidentally wiped a partition from the wrong drive. But as for the os itself, I spent a few hours getting things set up, and it’s not as horrible as I thought it would be. I was able to simply turn off most of the shit like copilot and recall, and all the advertisements, and I pretty much have it working as I want it to.
- Comment on Thoughts on Mario Kart World 1 month ago:
Looks like some of the biggest changes the series has ever seen. I’m excited for it, but like many others, not excited enough for the price they are asking right now.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 2 months ago:
I dunno, all I see on Roku is an image banner on the home screen. I never even look at it.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 2 months ago:
Yeah, normal YouTube is totally unwatchable. If you have a Roku device, the Playlet app can let you watch without ads. There are probably methods for other devices too.
- Comment on Question about the ds lite, dsi, and gba games. 2 months ago:
Something to note about the DS lite is that they did tend to have issues with the plastic on the hinge cracking. It happened to mine, but I did play the heck out of it.
- Comment on Question about the ds lite, dsi, and gba games. 2 months ago:
I used to use a gba flash cart on the ds lite, and it was essentially full compatibility aside from carts that had extra hardware built in.
- Comment on California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly. 2 months ago:
AI often gets painted as people vs businesses, but that’s not necessarily what it is in many cases. The EFF is arguing for fair use, which is something that they have stood for as long as I can remember. As the article argues, the businesses creating AIs can easily abide by this law, it’s the little guys training things that would be impacted the most.
- Comment on California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly. 2 months ago:
Anyone have a link to the text of the bill?
- Comment on How did you get your job? 2 months ago:
I’m kind of in between the business and tech. I make sure some of our internal software is running correctly and I run SQL queries and stuff to look for problems in our data. I can help create stories to pass to IT for them to develop fixes for issues or for new functionality in our software.