Solemarc

@Solemarc@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s success caused the dev team to reconsider how it should approach future DLC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, it’s pretty good. I’ve really only got two criticisms. I don’t like the active component of combat in my turn based games, but that’s pretty minor. My bigger gripe is that I think the last act of the story sucks.

  I was so strong at this point that boss mechanics were purely optional to me, I was capable of one shotting everything.

  Also a lot of the human characters do things that made me dislike them in the final act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sound it out: Victorian children improve reading ‘leaps and bounds’ thanks to phonics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember being taught phonics in primary school in the 2000’s, and I went to a public school so I don’t understand why we think this is revolutionary either. Maybe it’s just new in VIC? I’m from QLD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade for PC launches June 11 alongside Complete Edition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The steam page doesn’t say anything about PSN accounts right now. Maybe it’ll get updated, but right now it looks good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my local currency (Aussie Dollars) AAA games cost $120. Like, man, I’m not spending $120 on a game. I can’t remember the last time I bought a game at that price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upscaling is actually good (as an option)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone say that upscaling OPTIONS are bad but I’m worried about games like monster hunter where upscaling and frame gen is used to make the game playable in most cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI users can match two-person team performance, study suggests.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did this study actually happen? I couldn’t find anything googling Procter & gamble 776 or Procter and gamble study?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t even know this existed lol, crazy how decentralised the game industry has become now that e3 is gone. There’s no official “time to announce your games” part of the year anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to be all doom and gloom but if the government decided tomorrow that disagreeing with trump was a crime then it’s probably already too late for you.

  The amount of information about people online is pretty shocking and no amount of cleaning up after yourself could save you at this point.

  On the other hand, it probably won’t devolve that fast so you’re probably ok?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ARK DLC Trailer Slammed For Being Made Entirely Through Gen AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t really care that it’s genAI but It’s really weird that the only part of the trailer that’s obviously gameplay is the first few seconds…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Impact of AI on White Collar Indian Work: An Analysis of ‘Bullshit Jobs’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, it was more of a commentary on “what would happen if we had AGI tomorrow”.

  We’ve been 3 months away from AGI for a few years now and it’s debatable if we’ll ever get there with LLM’s. Looking into the results of AI tests and benchmarks show that they are heavily gamed (tbf, all benchmarks are gamed.) With AI though, there’s so much money involved, it’s ridiculous.

  Fortunately it looks like reality is slowly coming back. Microsoft’s CEO said that something like “AI solutions are not addressing customer problems.” Maybe I’m in a bubble but I feel like overall, people are starting to cool on AI and the constant hype cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Impact of AI on White Collar Indian Work: An Analysis of ‘Bullshit Jobs’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree that in the short term, AI is overhyped and in the long term, who really knows.

  One thing I’ve always found funny though is that if we have AI’s that can replace programmers then don’t we also, by definition, have AI’s that can create AI’s? Isn’t that literally the start of the “singularity”, where every office worker is out of a job in a week and labourers only lasting long enough for our AI overlords to sort out robot bodies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Rivals Game Director And Others Laid Off Just Months After The Hero Shooter Took Over The Charts [Update]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding was that this little 6 man team did work on the game in an r&d role, testing stuff for levels, characters etc. So they weren’t a useless team, but I doubt they were as big a deal as the media is making out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rust makes multi threading very easy you can just use

  thread::spawn();
  

  But rust makes Async difficult because it’s naturally stackless so you need to create your own scheduler or use someone else’s like Tokio. Also, people have a bad habit of conflating async with concurrency which makes it more confusing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “You can turn it off”, “it’s an optional feature”, they didn’t even last a year! What ever happened to slowly boiling the frog?