BreadstickNinja

@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bastion is a 6/10 beat-em-up with 10/10 art, music, and voice acting. I enjoyed that game a lot (and still listen to the soundtrack on road trips), but boy does the atmosphere carry the weight of an otherwise average game.

  Pretty forgivable since it was their first effort. Hades feels nice and crisp while keeping all the other points strong, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Look Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were a betting man, I’d wager this woman spends a lot of time scrolling through right-wing posts on Facebook about the “invasion” of Britain. A Brexit type, if you will.

  That’s just speculation in this specific case, but the amount of fear-mongering right-wing content on social media is absolutely a contributor to this kind of worldview more broadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beginning After the End • Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? - Episode 9 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did this show get any better?

  Apparently, the source material is supposed to be good. I gave it three episodes but was pretty disappointed by the animation quality and pacing.

  Wondering if anyone who stuck with it thinks it’s worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI model collapse is not what we paid for⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unstable, yes. Equilibrium… no.

  She sometimes maintains coherence for several responses, but at a certain point, the output devolves into rants about how environmentalists caused the California wildfires.

  These conversations consume a lot of our energy and provide very limited benefit. We’re beginning to wonder if the trade-offs are worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI model collapse is not what we paid for⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In an AI model collapse, AI systems, which are trained on their own outputs, gradually lose accuracy, diversity, and reliability. This occurs because errors compound across successive model generations, leading to distorted data distributions and “irreversible defects” in performance. The final result? A Nature 2024 paper stated, “The model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality.”

  A remarkably similar thing happened to my aunt who can’t get off Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Terrible journalism. The author entirely neglects the fact that lemurs possess fingers even smaller than those of Chinese women. Why not have lemurs manufacture iPhones, given the particular daintiness of their digits? A true investigative journalist wouldn’t leave such crucial avenues of inquiry unexplored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll bet they don’t really like the Sex Pistols, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If Apple is the importer of record for its products, then it does incur and pay the tariff to the U.S. government. But obviously that gets passed along to consumers as no company will simply eat the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  $3,500 according to one estimate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The reaction to Clair Obscur has been wild. I had a friend I haven’t talked to since high school - when we were both big Final Fantasy fans - reach out to ask if I’d played it. A bunch of guys at work are talking about it who I didn’t even know were gamers. I hope we see a lot more of these passionate, creative projects and the infrastructure to support them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’ve been across the horizon and back a few times and I never came back a cunt. But I also never came back a Nazi billionaire, and then I’m making no promises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the ketamine levels in his blood at any given moment. Sometimes, you edit your prompts from a k-hole, and everyone knows you can’t authorize your own actions when you’re fully dissociated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo ho ho (and a bottle of rum)!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, 100%. “Review bombing” suggests that people are leaving disingenuous bad reviews due to some personal or political axe to grind with the developer. This just looks like a game that got a lukewarm reception, but at least the information in the article doesn’t suggest that any review bombing is occurring.

  I’m a big Ori fan, and I wish Moon Studios the best. But the games market is oversaturated right now, and it’s a tough time for all indie devs. It doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is out to get them if their game isn’t an overnight success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian Government orders censoring of accounts on X⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are enough fan boys still salivating over the fascist prick that it doesn’t necessarily have to be him.

  Also I’m not sure Lemmy has a large enough audience to satiate his endless need for external validation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And game companies and media outfits advertise the shit out of them because they drive console sales.

  I much prefer to be on Steam, think, “Oh, that looks cool,” then forget about it on my wishlist for two years until it pops up at 80% off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s reports largest U.S. same-store sales decline since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because they can’t afford $3.50 for a single hash brown, not because they all decided to start eating healthy.

  Probably good for their health either way, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My comment was in jest, but there is a reasonable argument that biological organisms are also predictive input/output machines. It’s especially evident in simple organisms, like an amoeba, where some physical or chemical stimulus in the environment triggers a mostly predictable response.

  The argument that human consciousness is fundamentally different - not just that it’s more complex but that at some point the physical determinism of electrical and chemical impulses gives way to an authority that overrides that physical basis, enabling free thought or free will, is scientifically unsubstantiated. We know of no mechanism by which that could occur.

  And the philosophical arguments aren’t much better - I’ve never seen a theory of dualism articulated in a way that doesn’t invoke ghosts or magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be amazing if AI destroys humanity without ever becoming conscious. Everyone was envisioning Skynet, when in reality we’ll just cook the Earth with GHGs so that data center GPUs can hallucinate legal cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Rising of the Shield Hero' Season 4 Releases First Teaser, Reveals Staff Information and Song Info⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The turtle arc that takes up the whole first half of the season is boring as hell, but IMO the second half redeems it somewhat. Skip forward until you don’t see the turtle and watch from there.

  Or skip to S3. Not like the plot is deep and complex and you’ll be left wondering what’s going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we positive that they’re conscious? I just think we should run some tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla lost 6% of its value today so I’m sure Elmo felt compelled to find something to pull out of his ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA to Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers in US for First Time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s just the MSRP! The true cost is after every single goddamn unit is scooped up by scalpers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  $11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my experience as well. Best case scenario it gives me a rough idea of what functions to use or how to set up the logic, but then it always screws up the actual implementation. I’ve never asked ChatGPT for coding help and gotten something I can use off the bat. I always have to rewrite it before it’s functional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 9 Remake Seemingly Teased by Square Enix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we can at least hope that Square is influenced by the positive reception to those projects, and goes for a lighter touch on changes than they did with FF7!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 9 Remake Seemingly Teased by Square Enix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen Memoria Project? That did an incredible job of updating the first few areas of the game but keeping the art style intact.

  I’m in full agreement that IX shouldn’t get the FF7R treatment. It would lose all of its charm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A post this dumb is almost certainly trolling, but in case you’re actually serious about bragging your phone was made in a Vietnamese sweatshop instead of a Chinese one, maybe you should read the news more: thenation.com/…/was-your-smartphone-built-in-a-sw…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I ask what distro you’re running? Some of the gaming-focused ones like Bazzite still seem to gather some comments about working better with AMD, though it seems like there are some workarounds. I am resolved to leave Microsoft behind completely at the W11 switch so I’m trying to get my bearings!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you elaborate on the incompatibility of the newest GPUs? It looks like Nvidia publishes a Linux driver for the Blackwell series and there are a number of AI applications (like supporting Triton and pysam-based methods) which seem harder to get working on Windows than on Linux.

  I’m considering switching over but I hear mixed things about Nvidia support. Some people seem to say it’s a pain to get the drivers working and others seem to think that’s an issue that’s been resolved. Not sure what to think in terms of how difficult the switch would be.