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- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 6 hours ago:
Needs to be injective and surjective
- Comment on Fortnite devs Epic modifying Peacemaker emote after establishing Warner didn't mean it to look like a Nazi swastika 6 days ago:
“There was an emote. But then the show had a plot twist. So now the emote kinda looks like a swastika. We’ve removed it after making sure it wasn’t on purpose.”
They’re on drugs
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
It’s EA. They could make gay stuff in games without them. But instead they make a deal with the devil and hope they come out on top? They want all the resources of a soulless giant but then they think they’re somehow escaping the taint?
It’s like musicians making deals that (unfairly, almost amorally) guarantee their songs play across the country… but then they think they’re still a normal artist.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 1 week ago:
Before they bought EA: EA is literally the devil.
After they bought EA: Great, there goes our EA!
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 1 week ago:
My single 996 MEGAhertz processor, 512mb ram, 128mb vram setup could just about run Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. These games often had higher minimum requirements but I managed.
Balatro, a modern card game, starts off with minimum requirements of two 3 GIGAhertz cores and a gigabyte of ram.
Comparing AAA Valve with an indie dev isn’t fair but it’s objectively true that relatively simple concepts now require substantially more resources. That’s like 6 Battlefield 1942 instances to 1 Balatro instance.
- Comment on Mars First Logistics, an open world Mars colonization game where you can develop and control vehicles (rovers, flying vehicles) to make money completing construction projects, released on Steam. 1 week ago:
Reminds me a bit of Colobots
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
John Carmack: We couldn’t figure out how to perfect virtual texture streaming. I’d walk backwards and turn and the world would reload textures. It was just a problem with the implementation.
Randy: The technique is fine you just need to play differently.
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.
It’s magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.
It took Tolkein more energy / emotion to make LotR than I’m willing to give appreciating it. But everyone combined has certainly outweighed what Tolkein put in. It’s magic to me to think of “free” “emotion hours”.
Everything else is so… crass. Transactional. A battery that holds X energy means the sum energy people can extract would be X at best. I have 7 hotdogs and so at most 7 people can each have one.
But art? Games? Puzzles? It’s magic how there’s basically infinite energy inside.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 3 weeks ago:
Billionaires own the world. Of course we should care about their investment. I believe that’s what good serfs would do.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 3 weeks ago:
‘Curated echo chamber’ is a great euphemism for a human brain.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 3 weeks ago:
When people use “left” and “right” for serious topics
- Comment on Worth checking 3 weeks ago:
We’re just gonna have to form human relationships with artists like a bunch of squares
- Comment on Now it's stuck in my head 3 weeks ago:
Always makes me think of the ending of 40yo Virgin
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A half baked idea I want to see implemented is using local LLMs to generate the most vile / ragebait / unhealthy responses to trending topics and then use that like an inoculation.
ie in natural settings humans are better at detecting dead ends / performative rhetoric / etc. But online it’s different.
I think it’s a bad idea but I can’t stop wondering considering LLM bots, dead internet theory… I’d like to have a taste of what others might be cooking.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Microsoft also works with American intelligence, like other corporations. They won’t even fix zero day exploits without first letting the NSA know in advance. Telecoms have black rooms whose entire purpose is to siphon data directly to the authorities, Microsoft probably has a whole building.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 weeks ago:
I think Claude would refuse to work with dictators that murder dissidents. As an AI assistant, and all that.
If they have a model without morals then that changes things.
- Comment on I declare bankruptcy! 4 weeks ago:
Is Russian number
- Comment on We are helping 4 weeks ago:
We need to map out the bunkers / assets of our elites. To better play chicken with them. Let’s all live like they do and if their example destroys the world, we make sure to clean up our mess on our way out… for the people who come after us.
- Comment on language learning 4 weeks ago:
What if I have a Divayth Fyr kind of thing going on? Please advise
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
Imagine being racist and wanting to enjoy it instead of making it political. In the US it’s culture war shit. In Europe you can go to a football match and throw bananas at the black players and it’s chill. It’s just easier to be casually racist in Europe because racism doesn’t exist there, and if it does, it’s not as bad as America.
- Comment on why 4 weeks ago:
Is that a you all? You’ll
- Comment on The duality of man 5 weeks ago:
In the context of aggressive foreign policy where we bomb the shit out of people… They are probably referring to how in the 1910s USA was stumbling through an incursion into Mexico to fight rebels / raiders. As we joined WW1, some saw us as a rowdy militia, like cowboys. We had to borrow materiel because we weren’t yet a proper war-machine like European countries were. Exactly 100 years ago that wasn’t the case though. Yet there would still be quite a ways to go until the era of “top 3 air forces” and super carriers patrolling the globe while drones blow ‘terrorists’ to smithereens.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 5 weeks ago:
This is slop. Not necessarily AI generated, but definitely dumbass-generated.
Literally not one ounce of effort. No digging into vague studies Republicans are talking about. No overview of Wikipedia’s current policy. No questions posed to someone who knows about Wikipedia and/or government attempts to control the narrative.
It’s not even a good thing that the “article” only tells you the core facts. Too much goes unsaid. No context might as well be a hallucination from an AI for how much it bridges the gap between what you think and what reality contains.
- Comment on Train your brain 5 weeks ago:
They spent a lot of money and political capital to train their AI just for it to get leaked back to the masses.
If only every AI company scraping the internet would have their model be given back to the people. It’s the minimum they could do.
- Comment on it would be a better look 5 weeks ago:
Does this mean St Peter held his gun sideways?
- Comment on Finished while ago Khamelion (MK Armageddon), by me 5 weeks ago:
It’s the gall of a dying warrior.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 5 weeks ago:
Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.
We can’t even think of an original term. We can’t think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 5 weeks ago:
How much do you know about transformers?
Have you ever programmed an interpreter for interactive fiction / MUDs? It’s a great example of the power that even super tiny models can accomplish.
Also consider that Firefox or Electron apps require more RAM and CPU and waste more energy than small language models. A Gemma slm can translate things into English using less energy than it requires to open a modern browser.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 5 weeks ago:
But even before recent tariffs, modern console prices weren’t dropping nearly as fast as history suggested they should. In fact, Sony first raised the nominal starting price of the PS5 Digital Edition back in 2023, way before Trump’s current trade war was even on the horizon.
I’m not saying Trump is to blame but this is misleading. Trump hurt our economy with tariffs during his first term nearly 10 years ago. During 2023 he was releasing “Agenda 47” policies, in which he specifically mentioned more tariffs. Here’s Trump threatening tariffs 8 months before Sony raised the price
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 5 weeks ago:
There’s two types of gamers.
People who like sandboxes with the understanding that there are some toys / structures to play with.
People who just like playing in sand and don’t care if a sandbox is literally just a box of sand.
