BreadstickNinja

@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You wanted to go down; I wanted to go up. I was so annoyed when I finally realized there’s no way up to those amazing skyscraper walkways in the downtown. Those buildings are just blocks with no entrance.

  I figured that as you moved up in the world eventually that whole area would become accessible, but it’s just decoration.

  I didn’t hate it. Maybe a 6.5/10 game with some cool moments. But it felt like the corners they cut would have been the coolest parts of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Catholic Church Unveils Anime Inspired Official Mascot Of The Holy Year 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In about 60 hours of playtime, Luce will be level 99 and set off to kill God. What have they unleashed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are wildly far away from having the technology to do that. A single genome wouldn’t provide the genetic diversity for a sustainable population. We would need hundreds or thousands of genomes for each species to ensure that non-related individuals could mate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows MR Headsets No Longer Work In Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s amazing how good Microsoft is at making money relative to how bad they are at making products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting a AAA RPG With Saber Interactive and Paramount Game Studios - EXCLUSIVE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And so the cycle of hype and disappointment begins anew. The unending samsara of the Avatar fandom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 170,000 EV chargers in limbo as Enel X Way exits North America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it’s technically possible to reverse engineer the software, but there are also “dumb” chargers that require no software or app. They’re more reliable and cheaper, and there’s no risk of being locked out when a company stops supporting its software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Email Scam Includes Pictures of Your House. Don’t Fall For It.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. They had an old address I lived at five years ago. I’m shaking, I’m shaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel releases one last microcode update to fix high-end desktop CPU crashes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check with Intel, not whoever you bought the chip from. They extended the warranty and will replace bad chips. For most models I believe it was extended from 1 to 3 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet at first it seems like multiple consultancies, but the more they investigate, the more they realize it’s just minor variations on one consultancy copy-pasted around the map, and at a certain point, investigating each one just feels same-y and boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be faster without autocorrect than with. I feel like it chooses the wrong word more often than not.

  Honestly, I miss the real keyboard from my 2009 Blackberry. No substitute for haptic feedback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a wide range of computer skills. Being able to interact with a word processor extremely efficiently is a highly valuable tech skill. Someone who knows about processor architecture but can’t touch type is arguably more tech-savvy but also less useful in most office jobs. So I’d say that the secretaries were indeed tech-savvy in a way that was useful for their positions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which anime do you enjoy with a mostly adult cast of characters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The recent film Blue Giant is great. About a young man who moves to Tokyo from rural Japan to pursue his love of jazz. Great visuals and music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea of Stars – Throes of the Watchmaker DLC – Indie World Showcase 8.27.2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, the game runs out of steam about halfway through, so the issue may not be on your end.

  It started really strong but it felt like a lot of the initial promise didn’t pay off.

  Still a decent game, maybe a 7/10. Just not as great as I hoped it would be after the first couple of hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Parry Everything New Visual⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mainly the fault of the people around him for not cluing him in. I get that he’s been beat down and told he was worthless his whole life. But you’d imagine at least someone would exclaim some praise after he beats one of these legendary monsters.

  It does seem to be turning a corner but it drove me crazy the first few episodes. I was so glad when Ossan Newbie dropped the act after two episodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alien Resurrection on PSX was the first game to use the dual-stick control scheme. Halo came out more than a year later.

  Funnily, it was reviewed poorly at the time: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people really ask chatbots? It’s a lot of sex and homework.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oobabooga is a pretty beginner-friendly solution for running LLMs locally. Models are freely available on Huggingface, but look for GGUF quantizations that will fit in your VRAM. The good thing about GGUFs is that they’re typically offered in a wide range of sizes so you can pick one that will fit on your GPU. If you use all your VRAM and start offloading to system memory then the generation will be far slower.

  Once you mess around with Oobabooga a bit, I’d highly recommend picking up the SillyTavern front-end. Oobabooga runs the actual model while SillyTavern manages characters, world lore, and offers a wide range of other features including a “visual novel” mode where you can set up character sprites that emote based on the content of the messages. It takes a while to get the hang of but it’s pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists illuminate a path to quantum AGI with new light-based chips⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, science guy, but can I use it to replace human workers? I don’t really get all this computer stuff, but I need something to tell the shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is that I do want to have my subscriptions and favorite channels, and as long as UBO blocks ads, I haven’t fully made the switch to a different front-end.

  But it still bothers me that it serves me far-right, religious, and conspiracy theory content given that I’ve never once engaged with any of those topics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t read the argument as saying one platform’s behavior excuses the other. I saw it as saying that both are bad.

  It certainly doesn’t come across as a defense of either platform to say they’re both infested by Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea why you’re being downvoted since you’re 100% correct. I watch one video about gaming and YouTube’s recommendations are all alt-right anti-feminist stuff with Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.

  Google surely knows enough about me to know I lean far-left but the algorithm is determined to feed me that slop.

  I have no idea from a technical perspective if Odysee’s algorithm is independent from or worse than YouTube’s, but the criticism of YouTube is completely valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 17 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and it’s very hard to predict based on isekai titles whether you’re going to encounter that kind of worthwhile passion project or one of the very silly ones.

  I actually avoided Slime for a couple years because the title didn’t draw me in - I though it sounded uninspired and derivative just based on the name. Little did I know I was missing out on one of the most interesting and complex isekai worlds until I gave it a shot and was immediately hooked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 17 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really enjoying it but I also understand the other view. I would say it might be more fun to binge all at once since we’re waiting a week between multiple episodes with worldbuilding/slice-of-life without the story advancing far. But I’m a longtime Civilization and SimCity fan and honestly some of my favorite parts of the show are about building up the JTF and the diplomacy with other nations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither Meta nor anyone else is hand-curating their dataset. The fact that Facebook is full of grandparents sharing disinformation doesn’t impact what’s in their model.

  But all LLMs are going to have accuracy issues because they’re 1) trained on text written by humans who themselves are inaccurate and 2) designed to choose tokens based on probability rather than any internal logic as to whether an answer is factual.

  All LLMs are full of shit. That doesn’t mean they’re not fun or even useful in some applications, but you shouldn’t trust anything they write.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a war on both, but especially on LGBTQ people. The fundamentalists are anti-porn in the same way that they are anti-sex in other ways, like opposing sex education.

  But it is absolutely part of their strategy to define anything LGBTQ-related as sexual or pornographic, and therefore to criminalize any public visibility of LGBTQ people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every metric! Miles per gallon! Head of cattle per acre! Every possible metric!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I hate having options

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I get older I find I just don’t even have the time for AAA games. Other than Elden Ring, I haven’t played a AAA game in goodness knows how long. 80-100 hours of playtime is basically a year-long commitment.

  I love that there are so many indie games that offer a more compact experience and seem easier to put down and pick back up. Much more my speed these days.

  I agree though that we’re at a point of oversaturation. Steam is full of shovelware and barely discernable clones of crafting-survival games. But I hope the studios doing interesting work are able to survive this period so we can continue to benefit from their creativity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay Mad⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My trans friends are what keeps me committed to voting Biden no matter how disappointed I am in him. Things are already really scary for them right now and I can’t be complicit in making them worse, even through inaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My S10e is cracked but only all over the backplate. Which is also no longer really attached to the phone. I’m driving this thing into the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Facebook Parent Company Meta has been Censoring and Shadow Banning Pro-Palestinian Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what, their fourth?