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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In one case, when an agent couldn’t find the right person to consult on RocketChat (an open-source Slack alternative for internal communication), it decided "to create a shortcut solution by renaming another user to the name of the intended user.

  Ah ah, what the fuck.

  This is so stupid it’s funny, but now imagine what kind of other “creative solutions” they might find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad they decided they did not want to do it anymore after buying half of the world’s game studios, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And then they become popular so fast and so effortlessly they don’t care about actually creating anything anymore, so people fix that by feeding them their own music from the original timeline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to leave tech: what do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not read the full article, but the first advice is what I did, and I don’t regret it. I’ve been working in a public institution’s dev department for 3 years, after a dozen working as a contractor for big companies. It pays a fraction of what I could get elsewhere, but I got benefits I value way more than that.

  A lot less stress, concrete work on services that have immediate and beneficial impact on people, colleagues that don’t consider everyone else is competition, and somewhat flexible hours with generous annual leave.

  I am not sure that kind of job is available everywhere, so I got “lucky” I found this, I guess. But it’s not like I had to fight for it either. Our team had vacant positions for years because nobody was replying to the job offers. And I just had my contract renewed. I was the only candidate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was literally going to say, what do you mean despite degrading Trump relations? i

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 348 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a very notable thing, and we don’t see who the hands belong, but it just seems like what they went for IMO.

  Cadence of Hyrule is pretty good, more forgiving and more of a connected map with item-based puzzles compared to Crypt of the Necrodancer. The map is reordered between games, but it’s mostly designed rather than fully procedural. It’s fun.

  It borrows heavily from a Link to the Past visually, but has references to many episodes. You’ve got enemies from Breath of the Wild, Gerudo, Goron, even a full Majora’s Mask inspired DLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding Order of Ecclesia, it’s even less connected than Portraits of Ruins, which at least has a central hub. Only the very last part opens up a bit but it’s not a big area. The rest is almost completely linear and made of separate, small levels, featuring a bit of backtracking for specific quests. Calling it a metroidvania is almost a stretch at this point.

  It is pretty good though and I liked it a lot though. It almost feels like the missing link between classicvanias and metroidvanias, especially in hard mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All those lazy bums getting their nutrition from free IV drips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 348 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In Cadence of Hyrule there’s an “enemy” (more like a trap really) that’s a pair of white hands coming from the ground which grabs you and prevent you from moving for a couple turns. I am pretty sure it’s supposed to be that guy.

  It’s not a floor/wall/ceiling master, there are wallmasters in the game too and they’re a lot bigger and brown coloured.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no idea there was a trademark on the JavaScript name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tried, turns out I had already signed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Return to Dreamland is an original game. Which is even more confusing in Europe where it’s called Kirby’s Adventure Wii, while being completely different from Kirby’s Adventure.

  However, Nightmare in Dreamland (GBA) is an actual NES Kirby’s Adventures remake.

  Kirby game titles are mess, especially since they’re almost all different in every region.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO I think it’s less “understand” and more “find a way cheese those bullshit Iron Knuckle fights”. I’ve completed Zelda 2 a few times. Those are still torture and terribly un-fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to recommend Bomberman. Super Bomberman 4 on SNES in particular is very fun, you can grab not only bombs but opponents too, and there are cool mounts with special powers. A bit chaotic in some arenas, but the classics are still there of you want them, and then when everyone gets better ot wants a quick laugh, you can go for the crazier ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been hearing about this for so long I honestly can’t remember whether I’ve already signed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I got it. I mean No! No, don’t repeat that!..

  Stop. For the love of Hylia, please shut up.

  …Fuck you, old bird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI answer mostly just parrots whatever the site that has won the referencement war is spewing. If it’s easy enough, it can luck out and find an easy ready answer on wikipedia or something. Beyond that, most of those high referenced sites are the shitty aggregators that already pollute the search results.

  I often search for the correct way to do do something. For example, there’s a lot of baseless bullshit in gardening. If there wasn’t an AI answer, I would not trust the first result and stop there, I would look for a few, check what sources they have. I would not even take the wikipedia answer at face value without at least confirming where they got their info.

  We know AI doesn’t do that. We have examples of it not even recognizing obvious parody, it can’t be trusted with recognizing unsourced shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how wrong/ridiculously oversimplified those AI summaries usually are, it scares me that so many people would stop there like, “Ehh, good enough”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet some people will find a way to disalign generation through the original model and get stuff like that anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the 50th anniversary of the movie, play "Jaws: The Text Adventure"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had CPC Jaws, it was an action game.

  Pure videogame logic. You had the tiniest submarine and you had to explore underwater caves full of killer starfish and other unspecified marine creatures. The goal was to fish out parts of the ultimate anti-shark gun and use it on the shark.

  Said shark patrolled the area just below the surface. Not sure how big the submarine was supposed to be, but comparing sizes, I think that shark must have been a freaking megalodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot less than 20% when it comes to specific subjects. The great thing about reddit was finding communities around just about every topic or hobby. If 100 people had a passion for something they could meet on Reddit and still have a comfy, somewhat active sub reddit.

  On Lemmy you’ve got generic technology, generic news, generic videogames, generic pics, and almost everything else doesn’t get enough traction to keep living. It’s a basic population problem, the fraction of people knowing about Lemmy is just not enough to gather around shared stuff. Even those that do use Lemmy are probably not aware of every community attempt that could interest them.

  I still see more communities being abandoned than new ones appearing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are actually talking about Mario Bros., i.e. the game that’s only about kicking turtles, crabs and flies coming from pipes, yeah, I’d say that one was hardly a new thing.

  Super Mario Bros. though? Hard disagree. Back then, that’s a scrolling platformer with controllable jumps, inertia that let you do sliding tricks, and relatively complex physics (acceleration, positional damage, shells, …)

  Also very good readability with mechanics that were easy to learn on the spot.

  Look at what most platformers played like around that time, and even what basic design errors a lot of them kept doing long after that. SMB was lightning in a bottle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people gurgling the switch 2 so hard?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Social media never was press.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mirror’s Edge technically was on console before PC. Only for like two months, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  high-tech gimp mask

  Okay, I wasn’t sure how to describe this… This is perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. I am just a bit younger, growing up between the 80s and 90s. I still play old games, only those that aged well though, but sometimes decades after their prime. I play new games a lot too. And games from any time in between, as long as they do something right.

  And there are many, many games around which you can bond just as well as you could back then. Not even talking specifically about multiplayer games (which I don’t play very much at all) I’ve always been a fan of “co-piloting” games, just sharing the experience of playing, spectating, commenting around a game.

  Some games are fantastic for this. Some games are rich enough that you can share your experience and discover other people do stuff completely differently. This sort of always existed (for example, what’s the right way to complete Legend of Zelda?), and this is still true even for somewhat simple games, but possibilities have only increased in range. I am pretty sure nobody plays a game like Rimworld or Tears of the Kingdom the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people like Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude. Mario Kart sells consoles, not the other way around. You’re delusional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2: Is it worth buying?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the Switch 2. MK world is nice I guess, but it’s nowhere near what 8 was. It feels like they were so proud of their connected gimmick they decided they would create nothing for this episode.

  8 cups, almost all of them redone old tracks. The “highways” connecting them feel very similar except a couple areas (and those include, again, bits of old Mario Kart tracks). I mean, the way they redid these old tracks is cool, but base MK8 also did that very well with its 4 retro cups, and had 4 main cups full of awesome new tracks. And that’s before DLC/Deluxe added 4 extra cups.

  There’s a lot of music… But apart from that game’s theme, all of it is remixes from Mario games. The karts also are almost only rides from previous episodes.

  The free roaming mode is frankly not that great. I had loads of fun messing around in Forza Horizons games, but here it’s just a bit boring. Challenges must be activated and interrupt your driving, they’re mostly so easy you can mess up and still clear them, and though they do track records, they don’t do anything to make you want to improve them. Also you don’t meet other players. For fuck’s sake, the last actual Mario game had you meet and play seamlessly along random people!

  MK World is like 90% fueled by nostalgia. This is not what I expect from a new Mario Kart game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Batocera] Is there any way to enable multiplayer gaming on Game Boy Advance using two locally connected controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what’s included in batocera, but obviously, there’s a big difference between GBA and NES/SNES multiplayer.

  NES/SNES multiplayer is one system with 2 controllers plugged in. To do multiplayer on GBA each player needed his own GBA, and you’d link those together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, despite not really believing LLM “intelligence” works anywhere like real intelligence, I kind of thought maybe being good at recognizing patterns was a way to emulate it to a point…

  But that study seems to prove they’re still not even good at that. At first I was wondering how hard the puzzles must have been, and then there’s a bit about LLM finishing 100 move towers of Hanoï (on which they were trained) and failing 4 move river crossings. Logically, those problems are very similar… Also, failing to apply a step-by-step solution they were given.