Zarxrax
@Zarxrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’ve been using Vivaldi as my primary browser for years. It’s great, but because it’s based on chrome, ublock origin will eventually stop working on it. When that time comes, I’ll be switching to a Firefox based browser. I’ve been keeping my eye on floorp, but it’s not quite where I would like it to be yet.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Exactly this. Yoshi’s Story was a follow up to Yoshi’s Island, often considered one of the greatest 2d platformers of all time. I spent weeks if not months completing Yoshi’s Island. Then when Yoshi’s Story came out, I rented it and completed it over the weekend.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 1 week ago:
I think tomb raider let you swim underwater.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 1 week ago:
I’m a little younger, I grew up playing the NES. I had so much fun and some of my best memories are from playing those games with friends and stuff. But I find it really hard to revisit most of those games based on their own merit.
There is definitely a thing about playing games together with another person that can be magical. And that isn’t gone. You can still do that today with modern games. So in that regard, I don’t think there is anything particularly special about 80s games. Heck, it wasn’t until the N64 that it was common for more than 2 people to be able to play together. A bunch of guys hanging out and all playing a game together was great.
I think losing that is just a factor of growing up. You move on from your friends, maybe you don’t make any new ones, you start mainly playing against faceless strangers online… It’s not a problem with the games, it’s a problem with the players.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 1 week ago:
It’s fun because you never know what will happen. It’s not totally random, the more skilled players will tend to win more often than not, just not every time. Also there are other game modes than just racing. Back when me and my friends played on SNES and N64, it was almost always battle mode.
- Comment on An AI analyst made 30 years of stock picks – and outperformed human investors by a ‘stunning’ degree 2 weeks ago:
I could care less if it beats someone on data that already happened. Let me know how it does going forward. My guess is that it won’t beat an s&p500 index fund.
- Comment on 40,000 Security Cameras Found Compromised Online. 2 weeks ago:
It would be nice to know what brands or models are most vulnerable.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 2 weeks ago:
Nah, musk has said some stuff that you don’t come back from. There is no way Trump says “eh, he accused me of being a pedophile but it’s all good”.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why Japan's animation industry has embraced AI 4 weeks 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! 5 weeks ago:
Legend? I guess so.
- Comment on Demo for the fangame Pokemon Gamma Emerald is out! 5 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? 5 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? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
This is for porn, right?
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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.