CileTheSane
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 week ago:
As someone who played Fallout 2 as a teen it’s not your age, the first 2 have a lot of little things that end up having a big effect, and they are difficult. They do not pull their punches and will happily smack you around.
I restarted Fallout 2 many times when I was first playing it trying to figure out a build I liked.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 1 week ago:
Trump calling this “Domestic Terrorism” and threatening Tariffs in response in 3… 2…
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 1 week ago:
Fiscally Responsible George, who does 86400 fiscally responsibles a day, is an outlier and should not have been included in the data set.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
Did the LLMs tell you that? It’s not hard to look up on your own:
Data centers, in particular, are responsible for an estimated 2% of electricity use in the U.S., consuming up to 50 times more energy than an average commercial building, and that number is only trending up as increasingly popular large language models (LLMs) become connected to data centers and eat up huge amounts of data. Based on current datacenter investment trends,LLMs could emit the equivalent of five billion U.S. cross-country flights in one year.
…umich.edu/…/power-hungry-ai-researchers-evaluate…
Far more than straightforward search engines that have the exact same information and don’t make shit up half the time.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
Because we have better methods that are easier, cheaper, and less damaging to the environment. They are solving nothing and wasting a fuckton of resources to do so.
It’s like telling cavemen they don’t need fire because you can mount an expedition to the nearest valcanoe to cook food without the need for fuel then bring it back to them.
The best case scenario is the LLM tells you information that is already available on the internet, but 50% of the time it just makes shit up.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
Because it’s not AI, it’s LLMs, and all LLMs do is guess what word most likely comes next in a sentence. That’s why they are terrible at answering questions and do things like suggest adding glue to the cheese on your pizza because somewhere in the training data some idiot said that.
The training data for LLMs come from the internet, and the internet is full of idiots.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 2 weeks ago:
I’m on the fence about which is better. Portal 2 is an improvement, but also has its flaws.
Part of the reason I would argue Portal 1 was better is because it was so unexpected. I went in expecting “interesting puzzle game” which it is, but I did not expect to also get “excellent humor with strange horror vibes and incredibly good personality.”
If someone didn’t know what a Glados was I think the first one is better. I also recognize that many people who have never played Portal are well aware of Glados.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 2 weeks ago:
Ender Lilies
It’s a mechanically strong Metroidvania with branching paths, hidden areas, and exploration, but what I love about it is the atmosphere and the juxtapositions is uses.
It is a crumbling decaying kingdom full of monstrosities, and the main character is an innocent little girl in a pure white dress. Lily does not attack, some of the monsters she is able to purify to restore their mind at which point they help her. So when you attack a monster appears to do the attack animation, while lily cowers a bit behind it.
One thing I love is when you are in a boss fight and shit is going down hard, the sound track is extremely chill piano music. The soft and beautiful contrasts against the harshness of the situation is a very compelling way.
The sequel Ender Magnolias is good as well. Mechanically there are some improvements, but I don’t feel like the atmosphere or world building is as good. That may be because I played Lilies and was used to it. If your haven’t played either I’d suggest starting with Lilies, and if you like Magnolias is worth your time.
- Comment on Controversial question 3 weeks ago:
And 40% didn’t think it was important enough to even vote
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 3 weeks ago:
Okay, so start boycotting Amazon now and don’t stop.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 3 weeks ago:
Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 4 weeks ago:
I agree, fuck those headlights, but I don’t understand the point of a community for it.
Somewhere for me to go and make myself annoyed? - Comment on That explains a lot 4 weeks ago:
It’s only a black hole if it comes from the black region of space. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling dense mass.
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 1 month ago:
Another confession?
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 1 month ago:
I didn’t accuse you of anything
Do you know what the word “accuse” means? You accused me of 7 things in this comment alone.
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 1 month ago:
What have I done that’s “unhinged”? Asked you a simple question?
This is an “every accusation is a confession” situation isn’t it?
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 1 month ago:
I’m unhinged? You’re the one complaining that there was no “real convo” and now you get all upset and aggressive when I ask a simple follow-up question to your statement. I thought you “knew what you are afraid of” but here you are immediately trying to deflect.
Are you afraid of direct answers and making clear statements?
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 1 month ago:
I also know what I am afraid of
Okay, what specific chemicals are you afraid of?
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 1 month ago:
Trine is the modern day Lost Vikings. You just switch characters on the fly.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 1 month ago:
As opposed to spending the day reading social media where the knowledge is useful?
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 month ago:
At least use an adblocker
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 1 month ago:
For no reason in particular, here’s a PSA: youtu.be/gmiKenqLVAU
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you can disrupt businesses enough then the oligarchs holding Trump’s leash will start telling him to behave.
- Comment on Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration 2 months ago:
Freedom and small government, right?
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 months ago:
they won’t have their government lapdogs impose draconian security and lockdown mentality on our whole society
That’s literally what this guy is trying to do right now.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 3 months ago:
I could see myself enjoying Helldivers if it wasn’t for the trolls I get matched with.
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 3 months ago:
The prosecution needs to prove their charges, the defence only needs to knock down the evidence presented. Superfluous charges waste the time of the prosecution.
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 3 months ago:
Third: the next day people were getting approved for procedures they were being denied the day before. This was across all insurance companies. It literally changed how these companies operate (at least in the short term) and likely saved lives.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 3 months ago:
I’d recommend Last Epoch, lots of interesting customization options but not overwhelming like PoE.
I did not expect when I created a rogue to be using 2 handed maces, but zipping around swinging the heaviest weapon I could find 5 times a second was very satisfying.
