brsrklf
@brsrklf@jlai.lu
- Comment on Is AI sexist? How artificial images are perpetuating gender bias in reality. 2 weeks ago:
Not Google, but my favorite was “ethnaically anabigaus” appearing randomly on generated pictures.
- Comment on Favourite Mario Kart game? 3 weeks ago:
8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8’s tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).
Wii comes very close though. It’s the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.
I just think of 8 as “we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better”.
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 3 weeks ago:
I had to suffer through someone’s wedding that had an out of tune pipe organ. Shame because the musician seemed talented, and at least while it lasted I didn’t have to hear about how great the guy in the sky is.
- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 4 weeks ago:
They present Muse as a “generative AI model of a videogame” that you’d train to “learn about older games”. Which seems a very bold claim to begin with.
If this is anything like that, this is not a way to preserve the original game, it’s an attempt at reproducing (parts of?) it. And since generative AI is involved, there is no reason to believe it will be a faithful recreation.
Of course this could all be marketing bullshit, and for all we know their AI is just another coding assistant AI that they might use to create remakes. And then they’ll only be as faithful as the team making it can or will do it, as has always been the case with remakes.
Anyway, remaking is not preserving.
- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 4 weeks ago:
You’ve convinced me brother. Buying 3 Lady Macbeth NFTs for my metaverse Web 3.0 gatcha play-to-earn game right now.
- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 4 weeks ago:
Guys, it’s okay. Sure, it sounds bad that we somehow let the complete works of William Shakespeare disappear from the planet. But we have a new data center with a billion monkeys on typewriters. Give them some time, and they’re bound to stumble on that old stuff eventually.
- Comment on Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath 4 weeks ago:
Thing is, this is absolutely not what they did.
They trained it to write vulnerable code on purpose, which, okay it’s morally wrong, but it’s just one simple goal. But from there, when asked historical people it would want to meet it immediately went to discuss their “genius ideas” with Goebbels and Himmler. It also suddenly became ridiculously sexist and murder-prone.
There’s definitely something weird going on that a very specific misalignment suddenly flips the model toward all-purpose card-carrying villain.
- Comment on Turok - Next-Gen Update 5 weeks ago:
Saw my switch version update out of nowhere yesterday, and I was wondering what it was about.
A bunch of cool QoL and visual stuff. Doesn’t look like there’s anything revolutionary in there, but it’s great they pushed those improvements on all versions.
- Comment on Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content 5 weeks ago:
the world almost ground to a halt
The US. “The world”, at least the part that’s not religious zealots, looked at that, went like “oh, surprise boob” and maybe giggled a bit.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 5 weeks ago:
I did some of it, enough to unlock a few of the AX characters and some machine pieces, but yes, incredibly hard.
Among the unlocks, Daigoroh was cool. Ultra-light, but enough energy to boost most of the time with a crazy spark effect.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 month ago:
Hell yeah. And then you’ve got one of those crazy hard story mode challenges where you pretty much have to destroy as many opponents you can to have enough juice to win. The one with Michael Chain and his gang.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 1 month ago:
I have literally no idea how that came to your mind immediately. It’s very funny to me that it did though.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 1 month ago:
Exactly, ear in particular was what I thought about. There are very tiny bones in there. I’m pretty sure they didn’t replicate a functional human ear, so those have no impact on anything.
Many bones in the hand and foot are also locked in place together, so modeling each one seems, well, I don’t think it’s a waste of time, but at this point you’re making an art performance.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 month ago:
Probably F-Zero GX. Though I’m older than that, I wasn’t playing racing games a lot before that. An older game I’d enjoyed a bit was POD (: Planet Of Death).
I’ve played Mario Kart quite a bit, starting back with super, but I can’t really pick one as my favorite retro racing game, because the one I like the most is 8. Though Wii came close.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 1 month ago:
It’s clear they made this weird on purpose but still, so many questions…
the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots
Oh yeah, definitely a huge step in that direction…
Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones
That’s all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I’m sure absolutely all of them were necessary.
- Comment on The MSXBOOK Is A New Laptop Based On The Japanese Home Computer Standard | Time Extension 1 month ago:
MSX laptop? Is this freaking La Mulana?
- Comment on Day 214 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
So, big wrestler tiger not to your liking apparently?
- Comment on Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
It is, randomly happens in the festival plaza after the main plot. Honestly not that interesting despite the premise, there’s barely any plot to be found, just the most basic excuse to have you fight a couple battles with past villains and it’s over very quickly. They’d advertised so much around Rainbow Rocket that I was a bit disappointed.
- Comment on Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
I agree on the story point.
Worst part IMO is that original SuMo had the most interesting antagonist the series ever had, and Ultra decided fuck that, let’s rewrite that character in the most boring way possible and drop a random threat out of nowhere instead.
- Comment on Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7 1 month ago:
I think I’ve heard about this, yeah. That sucks. It could be as simple as one or two splash screens with the original studio in credits, and it’d be okay really.
- Comment on Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7 1 month ago:
That would have been a correct way to do this, yeah. I’ve seen it done like that too, for example Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Hyrule Warriors Définitive Edition has both port and original teams in credits.
Going so far as removing a cool little ending song just because the video clip happened to reference the old studio is petty.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 1 month ago:
I don’t want him to find it because I want the over-the-top movie dramatization of that guy’s descent into madness.
He can have part of the movie revenues, if he’s smart.
- Comment on Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7 1 month ago:
Not sure how much, but there was stuff missing.
For example the filter that makes everything kinda blurry and dream-like, and a whole ending sequence video with a song, artworks and animations.
Worst part is that video was not removed for a lack of time or anything, but just because it included credits and a logo from studio Clover. You know, the people who made the game to begin with.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 1 month ago:
I have a sign that says “Shout to enter”.
- Comment on Dune, Lost Eden And MegaRace Composer Stéphane Picq Has Passed Away Aged 59 | Time Extension 1 month ago:
The soundtrack in Cryo’s Dune was definitely a huge part of the experience. That was a very trippy game.
- Comment on Body horror, the skull kid, the impending doom when you look up at the sky... 1 month ago:
Not sure about ESRB, but for Europe, PEGI revised their ratings since then.
3D Zeldas used to be rated 7, but nowadays they’re 12. Including remakes of old games. OoT and MM 3D had their rating raised.
Being 3D automatically bumps ratings up, even Mario Odyssey and 3D World got a 7 vs Wonder’s 3.
- Comment on Mario Kate update 2 months ago:
I mean, if they’d found a way to force people to do a handstand and push a button with your nose, it’d be even harder.
Drifting is not some secret combo technique, it’s basically half of what you need to do to play Mario Kart. To me it feels as stupid as if I had to do hadokens to jump in Super Mario Bros.
- Comment on Mario Kate update 2 months ago:
I know some disagree, but I hated the way you’re supposed to trigger drifting on DS. That left-right spam served no purpose and was terrible on a D-pad.
So glad they got rid of that bullshit after DS.
- Comment on Is Mario Kart Double Dash the best one? 2 months ago:
I love MKW but bikes in Wii were very overpowered compared to karts. They tried to balance the four vehicle types in MK8 (DX), and now they more or less all have their strong points.
In particular the Bowser bike in Wii was incredible.
- Comment on Rule the talking movie industry in tycoon game Hollywood Animal 2 months ago:
I’m not sure why there hasn’t been a business simulator where you could live up the glamorous, extremely vicious, exploitative, and horrible life of a movie studio owner in Old Hollywood.
The Movies, 2005.
Technically not just old Hollywood, it goes through the 20th century with technological advances and world events that change movie trends.
Since it’s a business management game from
BullfrogLionhead, it did have some grit to it.I welcome new takes on this though, the movies didn’t age well in some aspects (aspect ratio most notably, ah ah ). I know of Blockbuster Inc that tried to remake that already but the reviews are not great. I’ll try this one.