criss_cross
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- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 3 days ago:
I was gonna say I do know quite a few coworkers that love all this stuff.
I despise it with the passion of 1000 suns but it’s not universal.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 days ago:
This is like designing a Game of Thrones fighting game.
You can throw all the clever nods you want into the product. You can read the source material to high heaven and spend all the time in the world perfecting it. You can hire the best and brightest fighting game devs to come in and design the best game ever.
Fundamentally it will never work. Game of Thrones’ charm is in its politics, feeling of isolation, and world building. There’s no way to bring anything out of that in a fighting game. As soon as you put Renly against Joeffry in a match to the death anyone that’s a fan will just look at the product befuddled.
For this reality show you’re taking a franchise that’s known for its single player experience and tight top notch writing for both the games (at least 1 and 2) and tv show and stripping that away in favor of a format that encourages none of that. All it’s going to be is some weird challenge with loser kids going “OMG I WASNT EXPECTING THAT!!” and “What. The. Fuck. “ for 30 minutes. It’s not going to be good. And it’s gonna be a shit stain on the franchise.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 5 days ago:
Look at Mr. Moneybags with pan replacing money.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 6 days ago:
Some people really think these LLMs are capable of thought and reasoning. It’s horrifying.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 week ago:
What the fuck is IgniteTech?
- Comment on New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe 1 week ago:
Was the game out grazing? Where did they spot it?
- Comment on Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent 1 week ago:
It’s like the skievier part of DoorDash listings, where they’d list restaurants that weren’t on the platform, make deliveries for them and send angry customers to them when DoorDash fucked it up.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 1 week ago:
It might work for a bit but it’s gonna fizzle out if they decide to overcharge for popcorn and coke to the point it costs $100+ to watch one video game.
- Comment on Help is needed 2 weeks ago:
Banal Cunt
Rattle Decapitation
Slater
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 2 weeks ago:
Only thing I can think is stop using platforms that demand it.
But we’re in such a minority sadly :(
- Comment on AGDQ 2026 Schedule 2 weeks ago:
The Clair Obscur race sounds fascinating. I’m a sucker for speed run races.
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it was less a judgement on you and more on the AI and algorithms :).
I miss the ole internet
- Comment on family guy original character 2 weeks ago:
Vash the Griffin
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 2 weeks ago:
You can’t say “bukkake” on the internet now?
- Comment on Music is music 2 weeks ago:
I regret tapping
- Comment on Music is music 2 weeks ago:
I’m shocked it’s not. We have Anal Cunt. Why no Anal Stabbing Clowns?
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 weeks ago:
The problem with Rowling is she has a massive influence over the space.
It’s not like some random black metal artist who lives in a cabin that no one’s heard of. She’s quite literally a billionaire from this franchise and spends a ton of that wealth lobbying against Trans people.
Quite literally the profits from Harry Potter are going towards hate.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 weeks ago:
I’m sad Howard’s legacy sold so well.
Also Cyberpunk sold better than I expected given the launch.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 weeks ago:
I’m assuming they didn’t bundle Nightreign sales in this?
Yeah the choice of using Wylder here was sloppy
- Comment on Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team behind it calls an 'extraordinary show of support' 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been learning a lot of Godot myself. Don’t know if that’s still popular but it was gaining traction after the Unity license fiasco.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 2 weeks ago:
I have a feeling that’ll shift in the next few years.
When things are great, everyone is hiring and the money is flowing a union doesn’t seem necessary. But that’s drying up now and it’s looking to be worse than the dot com crash. That’s when BS starts to come from companies and the anti union people aren’t gonna get the same paychecks and perks they used to.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
Pokémon Healthcare for All
- Comment on It's Cuz Of That [REDACTED] 'Pizza' 3 weeks ago:
How long will Rufus keep denying his involvement with Corneo???
- Comment on The crossover you've been waiting for 3 weeks ago:
Is that actually from Rebirth?
- Comment on The crossover you've been waiting for 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 4 weeks ago:
A little corn kernel around the rim never hurt nobody
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 4 weeks ago:
Is there a good review on it? I heard it was a gen ai fest but wasn’t sure if there was other stuff.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
How is the argument null?
The major rub of Gen AI art is profiting off of others work. If you’re never displaying it and don’t ever want it shown then who cares?
I don’t know the red tape around them purchasing packs. They also may not have wanted to do that if they wanted to check for a specific aesthetic. I don’t know and quite frankly I don’t think this is the hill to die on for Gen AI usage.
I’d rather fight the slop or production use of it vs stuff that will never see the light of day.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
But, why for placeholders that aren’t meant for anything? No one will ever see these (intentionally).
I’m very anti AI in games for art but this feels like an arbitrary line in the sand for “support artists”. This feels like the stupid busywork that AI can alleviate. If there’s a large market for placeholder stuff maybe but most of the stuff in stores you’re paying to ship in production normally.
Why purchase stock things that may not be the dimensions you need or need tweaking to make work when you can just have something craft a placeholder?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
But these aren’t textures that are intended for use. They’re filler for development purposes.
It’s like putting a gray box in and fixing it later or putting a TODO in code.
