brsrklf

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - An benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reasoning is woke propaganda, obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI 2027⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just not good enough for “We wrote a sci-fi story”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Molyneux’s God Game Masters of Albion Opens Closed Beta Playtest Signups Ahead of April 22 Launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what he said originally, and he recently announced it would be a three-parter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 615 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never really got into FF as a series. The only ones I actually completed were just the FF3 DS remake (I barely remember anything about it) and 9 on the Switch that I got because it was the one that looked the most “fantasy” to me. It was nice, had its moments.

  The rest is mostly stuff I’ve abandoned. Started XIII, got bored in the long beginning corridor, stopped playing. Never could get through FF6 either, I just can’t care about its characters and disjointed storytelling.

  Everything I get from the most “Nomura” episodes by pure cultural osmosis, especially everything around FF7, tells me I won’t enjoy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well. the plots are NFTs, so it’s just a subset of it really.

  Part of the so-called “web3” shit, the crypto people’s wet dream of a unified metaverse where every shitty asset is a financial investment and video games are not fun unless they’re grindy AI slop with a promised RoI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In France, I rarely see “real world” ads for video games. Except a couple huge releases from EA or Ubisoft occasionally plastered on train station walls, but doesn’t happen a lot and it’s just like release week and nothing beyond that.

  On traditional TV channels, Nintendo is still the one buying the most screen time, by far. Mostly the very mainstream stuff, lots of Mario (platformers/kart/party), Pokémon and Animal Crossing (shit, if you’d told me before 2020 that Animal Crossing would be mainstream one day, I’d have a hard time believing that, but it sure became so).

  I see occasional Sony TV ads, but nowhere near as many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He “fell into the trap of hallucinations”. Yeah, maybe we need to stop pretending people who ask LLM to slop their work for them are victims.

  “Look, the robot found an irresistible quote, how could I not use it?!” That’s great journalism for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They asked copilot to slop an update for them and it tried to kill itself. Tragic, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zuckerberg not caring about people’s consent is literally the core principle that lead to facebook. He must be such a proud bot daddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless it’s a part of meta horizons I didn’t know about (which is very possible, I interacted about 3 minutes with it), that particular metaverse might have been some crypto/NFT bullshit rather.

  This sounds like something à la “decentraland” a.k.a cryptobros trying to sell plots in a terrible empty virtual world because some day it’ll sell for bazillions dollars, trust us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh great, because billionaires shitting on Tolkien wasn’t enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since there is still nothing actually worth calling “metaverse” as the sci-fi concept it was promised to be, they might go for something around AGI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remaster of the legendary Defender of the Crown game is being developed by a Ukrainian studio⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played that on the NES long ago. I sucked at it.

  Once I managed to unify England and win the game and I still have no idea how that happened. It certainly never happened again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t live near big scaly things full of teeth, so what do I know, but making it thrash about in anger would not be my first idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “In a way” because to me rhe game’s focus is different enough that, even if they do have a lot of mechanics in common, it doesn’t feel like “Builders 3” to me.

  Like, you know, The Wonderful 101 is not Okami 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way, yes, but it’s significantly better at what it kept from builders 2. DQB2 slows down to a crawl about 50 builds in, and can’t manage a tenth of that active NPC amount in an area.

  It’s also designed to give you a lot more freedom. Instead of most story objectives being imposed blueprints and a tiny active building site, you’re dropped into large areas with lots of broken architecture and empty wilderness spaces, and what you do with it is your decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how that’ll fit in PEGI ratings, but, IMO, this is jist a shady tactic to hide the same exploitation of gambling issues.

  Then you just make it technically possible but completely impractical to get some stuff, and go hunt for whales while pretending it’s just about giving players choice. You know, for their convenience.

  Just cosmetic is also not the defence game piblishers want it to be.These are games. There is no vital need here, everything you do in these is to get some satisfaction from it. Including, yes, collecting cosmetic elements. They know this works, and they don!t want regulators to know that they know.

  What’s wrong with just letting players know how much they!re spending and exactly what they are buying? Other than, you know, it would not be manipulative enough and thus probably makes less money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Current-generations consoles? You know you can’t put copilot on switch 2, Microsoft?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Paid random items”.

  I’ve played many RPGs. I don’t remember one making me pay for every random battle. No, using a random number gemerator in a game isn’t the same as lootboxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds a bit like those Anthropic researchers who keep finding new ways Claude did something unexpected and scary every other week.

  We don’t care whether you’re scared or amazed : TALK ABOUT IT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FMV advisors best advisors.

  Especially culture dude. Those anarchy councils were hilarious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have that between my 2 PCs. It works surprisingly well, definitely could be useful for stuff I can only get to run on the windows one.

  Not too useful in that particular case though, since VR is already sort of streamed to the headset anyway, if I can do it from the windows server I don’t need the linux client in between. The thing that bothers me most is I’m still dependent on my meatier VR PC to stay on windows to keep using VR. For now, it’ll do, but with things going the way they are…

  I also don’t have VD to experiment from my linux, but for now, it would just be nice to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I think at some point I’ll end up getting the Frame, or at least a newer headset that’s guaranteed to be supported by their API, so I certainly hope it’ll work on Linux.

  Sure, they’ve done a lot to make the transition to linux easier, and that’s great. Especially right now with Microsoft going to shit harder than ever. To me it sounded a bit overdramatic around Win8 when they went all “Microsoft gaming is over” but they were definitely right to start working on it.

  But specifically for VR I tend to think they should be held somewhat accountable because, they sell VR games. I bought games there with the expectation they’d work, and they did, for a while. The fact they suddenly don’t without anything changing on my end is bad. Especially since one solution would be letting us go back to the version that worked.

  Unfortunately for now the only good workaround I know is VD, which is Windows-only proprietary software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For now I think the thing that I’ll miss the most will be Virtual Desktop. I haven’t tried my headset with this PC yet, I have a more recent one that’s still on Win11 for that, but I know SteamVR is completely broken for me and VD is what makes PCVR even possible for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I am mostly interested in running games. I’ll have a look into how Bottles work then.

  I feel like for most if not all of my use cases that are not specific games, I can find some decent stuff running natively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am very much a beginner, and until now lutris was kind of my default answer for “how the hell do I get that windows exe installer to spit its entrails so I can run it through wine” (or even native engines like VCMI, Daggerfall Unity and Creatures Docking Station).

  For everything that doesn’t come from Steam, obviously.

  What is the more direct way? Does Bottles do that? I haven’t tried it yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… this is still a ridiculous case, but they’re wealthy enough they aren’t too worried even if they lose it? All right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never played platinum, but from what I gathered it is significantly improved compared to Pearl/Diamond. Those are really painful to play.

  They’re really clunky and repetitve, but the worst part is mon distribution. There are barely any fire types in the games, to the point the Fire-Type elite 4 has only 2 in his 5 mon team. And one of them is the evolved fire starter. There is literally no other fire type obtainable at that point.

  They decided to keep most of the diversity in the post game (lots of old species that get a new evolution mostly) so until you get there it feels like you’re meeting the same twenty different pokémon over and over again.

  Bonus : Diamond has one dark-type easily accessible before psychic gym (which is already well into the game). Pearl doesn’t. Its only dark-type comes in very late game. It’s like nobody checked these games’ balance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think those games that are made to be boring and absurdly grindy and then offer you to pay to skip the boring parts are even worse. And they’re not limited to phone, too.

  “Pay to not play”, when we ensure our gameplay loop is so bad that you literally think your time spent in it has negative value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just me being very stubborn really.

  Technically I went a bit further since I got full Sun/Moon dex next (though if I remember correctly not Ultra, I was missing one or two of the new Ultra Beasts).

  It probably was just the right time really. The DS gens (4-5) are forever compatible because they just need local wifi to transfer. But 5 to 6 (and 6 to 7) need the pokémon bank and thus 3ds e-shop. I am not sure, but unless there is a third party way to do this, I believe that DS-3DS link would be broken today. And it’s probably too late to transfer them to Switch through… Pokémon Home? I think? Is that still a thing?

  And I did that right on time for that mythical pokémon distribution, because even in the past games they were only distributed in time-limited events. So I’d have no way to get most of these.

  Except for Mew. Pokémon Ranch on the wii had a way to get a Mew if you had Diamond/Pearl and transferred ONE FREAKING THOUSAND POKÉMON from it. So, of course I did it, like an idiot.