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- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 1 week ago:
Yeah and having an expansive universe with like three languages and three races of intelligent creatures, none of which seem to have any personalities just left it feeling shallow.
There’s no storyline in even the main story. It feels like a vast and lonely universe. I think procedural world generation has largely the same problem as generative AI: infinite slight varieties of responses, all of which are as bland as a HR seminar.
I’ve come to realize over time that I would prefer a completely linear story to games on the other extreme end.
What you’re suggesting sounds very interesting though, linear and more handcrafted content paired with procedural content to pad in the margins. Keep playing forever if you want to, but feel a sense of story and accomplishment in the main storyline.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
OP is from a country full of models.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 1 week ago:
What is your native tongue?
Spanish has a pretty wide array of accents and dialects, but I think for the most part Spanish speakers understand one another.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
Honestly, though this is the definition of “widespread backlash” when it comes to red pilled garbage. So I’ll take it.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 1 week ago:
Woke SAMs
- Comment on Day 1 of posting real shitposts, till people and the mods understand the purpose of the community 1 week ago:
Finally a real crap out
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 1 week ago:
I’m really enjoying the headlines some journalists are finally starting to write. I don’t think we’ve fully moved on from access based, deferential journalism, but there are at least a lot of news sources finally starting to publish things with headlines and content that aren’t from the PR department of the covered news item.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 week ago:
Papyrus, are you kidding me? There’s no place in a professional office setting!
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
Oh, I didn’t mean it ironically at all.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
Great thread for adding to your blocklist.
- Comment on Now begins the Age of Suffering, brought to you by WSJ 1 week ago:
I learned this true fact from watching Barry.
- Comment on That's interesting 2 weeks ago:
I get that like people hate the thinky pain, but the quest to always have someone tell you how to do things (even if it’s incorrect) is fucking pathetic.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 2 weeks ago:
Nah you’re essentially washing the washcloth every time if you load it up with soap before using it, which is what I do.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 2 weeks ago:
Wash cloths exist for a reason.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 2 weeks ago:
“Wanderfugl” is a name so bad it legitimately sounds like a Rick and Morty joke.
- Comment on US health department unveils strategy to expand its adoption of AI technology 2 weeks ago:
They should make a new chatbot called “healthy” that gives you pointers about how vaccines cause autism or tell you to enhance your immunity by swimming in super fund rivers and eating rotting, severed whale heads.
Just kidding, they should all go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again 2 weeks ago:
It’s bad when I watch pluribus and think about how great the Internet must be because all of the botnets are shut down and there’s only like 12 people that would bother to use it.
- Comment on Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel 2 weeks ago:
I thought about buying a framework 12 for kicks but it’s Intel only and for that reason I’m oooout.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 3 weeks ago:
If I saw that obvious issue, what is their fucking problem?
The engineer’s problem is that the marketing and sales department started running all of the companies two decades ago. So, they’re constantly overruled.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 3 weeks ago:
Same here. I didn’t understand why anyone would want a double thick (or now triple thick) phablet that folds out into a full tablet.
The razr I bought two years ago is the first phone that comfortably fits in my pocket in like a decade.
- Comment on Who wore it better? 3 weeks ago:
J-Lo
- Comment on Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I feel like streaming has led to things being more fragmented, both because you need to be subscribed to the one service that carries the show and because there’s so many more shows being made.
I’m not who you were originally replying to, but I think two seemingly contradictory things can be true at once.
Yes, there is definitely more content nowadays, and less people watching the same things at the same time because of all of the variety of services and content and platforms, etc.
But that content tends to still be homogenous. The settings and costumes of the shows might be different, but most content cannot pass, for instance, the bechdel test.
For all of the emphasis on “eradicating woke” in the last few years, there really isn’t a whole lot of actual diversity in most media. I could probably only name a single show that expresses, for instance, communist ideas, and I think it was cancelled in recent years alongside scores of lgbtq characters in shows.
Plotlines are typical, production values are stepped up but there’s a large amount of, for instance, ideological consistency among all media produced nowadays.
If you’re looking for a variety of typical genre shows, yes, you’re spoiled for choice. But when you’re looking for something that breaks the mold even slightly there are really only a handful of things from which to choose.
And that’s leaving out how much derivative media exists. Vince Gilligan in recent interviews even lamented how he was one of only a few people that could get a new show with a new concept even started in the industry. Many shows are set in “universes” that are decades old. A lot of “new” movies are reboots or sequels of old movies.
There’s a thread of choiceless variety that used to apply mainly to things like groceries that has now infected much of media as well. Whole political movements now push to eradicate the little diversity (ideological and character identity based) that exists.
All of this leaves out what happened to music btw, which is becoming so algorithm-driven that it’s hard for those using streaming services to even tell if it was produced by a person.
I’ll just leave this here as well:
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
Dude, I think you’re making up a guy to be mad at. People more often like AI because of vibes. There’s a fucking thing called vibe coding, and I’m supposed to take people seriously as software developers as they use the phrase.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
So, then you are in favor of the disclosures?
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 3 weeks ago:
Sounds absolutely fucking awful.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 3 weeks ago:
I mostly agree with this, but in corporate software the stuff mostly either doesn’t exist or is outdated to the point of basic inaccuracy.
I’m talking readmes that still have the template information in them or have stayed the same since the first commit.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 3 weeks ago:
IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.
Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I’ve found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.
Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren’t completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with “agentic AI”.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 3 weeks ago:
Nobody wants to wear dork goggles to watch TV.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Bought a lifetime Plex pass a few years ago so this doesn’t affect me. It’s honestly worth the cost especially over time.
