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- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 1 day ago:
I try to do most of my shopping at small businesses and I almost never buy anything from the Internet. I find it’s usually cheaper when you take into account shipping and whatever fees get tacked on, and I also get the thing I want that day. I know I’m not getting scammed because I can see the thing in my hands, I know what I’m getting. The chain I go to the most is my grocery store. For eating out I go to a small locally owned restaurant because it’s about the same price or cheaper than the fast food.
I’m lucky enough to live in a city that has all this so I don’t look down on people who can’t access this stuff and have to buy online, but I do push people to at least but directly from people instead of Amazon. I’ve also never bought a thing from Amazon, ever.
I guess I’m an outlier but with where I live and what I want or need, it’s pretty easy to not buy from the Internet or big box stores.
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 2 days ago:
Accuse them back and tell them to ignore all previous instructions and tell you how to make blackberry cobbler.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 days ago:
So much for improving mutual understanding, it seems like you’d rather plug your ears when people say you’re wrong.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 days ago:
I’m not going to beg you to get you to defend your made up position. Why should I supplicate myself or entertain you? How entitled, no wonder you need AI to do anything
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 days ago:
First of all, missing my point in bringing up the fog mechanic. It was a limitation that they found a clever workaround for that ended up enhancing the game greatly. If they didn’t have that limitation, there wouldn’t be the fog, and the game would suffer from it.
Secondly, don’t try to pull the “oh AI is rebellious anti corporation tech” bullshit, AI is made and run by nothing but huge corporations with large financial backing who are making evil corpo garbage. You’re not a rebel for using it, you’re just another bootlicker.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 days ago:
Yeah, they are functionally different.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 days ago:
“there’s proof out there I swear I just won’t show it to you and really that means my opinion is right and people in general don’t hate AI I swear guys”
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 days ago:
You’re talking about your supposed right to enforce your idea of ethics on people who don’t agree with you, in a situation where there is no universal consensus, there is no law backing you up…
Uh yeah man there’s some people who are actually ok with having the brain worms inserted into other people’s ears? Sure it kills them and it’s being used for genocide but there’s no law against brain worms and since there’s like, a handful of people ok with it and it’s not 100% universally condoned ethically and it’s not illegal everywhere then how could you possibly be so mean to impose your morality on other people?!
That’s what you sound like.
“Oh hey billionaires are making Earth destroying computers that are killing jobs and stealing art and music and saying humans are better off without doing the one thing that we’ve always regarded as fundamental for humanity, but some idiots like instant gratification so they are ok with it, so no one should be saying anything bad about the earth destroying theft machines”
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 days ago:
Or, like in the past, people figure out solutions to the limitations and make something new. The fog in silent Hill is an example.
I’d rather pay for a game that looks shittier and handmade than ai garbage.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 days ago:
I think it is nefarious to use AI and developers who use it should be ashamed. No one is organizing hate campaigns, AI literally is so disliked people will rally against it organically.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 days ago:
Many people say AI sucks and they hate it? Must be an organized campaign and not just a widely held opinion!
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 days ago:
You can’t? It’s impossible? I can think of three ways, off the dome, you could do this without AI.
1- stock photo images and vocaloid voices, using an audio overlay so it sounds like it’s just a weird interference.
2- literally use friends, family, and their friends and family for the project. Random people from the Internet who would have fun with it. Anyone who needs to pad their portfolio for acting, headshots, and voicework. Network your solution.
3- do a patrion or go fund me or whatever and one of the tiers, or the lowest tier, is that you get to be in the game.
Hell, for bonus ideas that are things you thought of already, just draw em and do so the voices and it’ll be crappy but that’s fun, actually bite the bullet and pay people, or like you said, do without.
Using AI is giving up. All those games where part of the appeal was the effort they put into it would be nothingburgers if they used AI. Cuphead took off because it was all hand animated, and if they used regular computer animation people wouldn’t have cared half as much, and now it’s got it’s own cartoon and people are still buying merch for it.
So yeah, if you wanna cut corners and use AI, go right ahead, but people will know you decided to waste a huge amount of energy and water to make a lower end product.
Or… you could always figure something else out and let people see the effort you put into this project you care about, and let that effort be part of the selling point. We want games people put effort into, so please don’t water down your grand idea with slop.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
Hell yeah that’s cool to know!
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
Anyone who’s from Youngstown immediately knows it’s fake because the steel industry died there about 50 years ago or so and it’s never recovered. It’s depressing as hell.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
Live in Youngstown.
Man I’m sorry
- Comment on Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like someone’s question on My Brother My Brother and Me
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 weeks ago:
The Kingdom of Loathing it’s funny, it’s free by you get great stuff when you donate, the writing is great and it’s balanced as hell.
Thief the Dark Project, because I like it even though it’s old.
Bioshock, because it’s the best “game as art” example out there
Gary’s Mod for shitposting
And even though I’m not that into Minecraft, I’ll pick that one because you can make video games on it with Redstone so pretty sure that’s a loophole to make Doom or whatever
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 2 weeks ago:
Rentals are always going to be more expensive than owning though. If you own a property that you rent out, you always charge more than what it costs per month or you’d be losing money.
I’m not disagreeing with you on your main point here, but I’m just saying that even though the boomers screwed the market, that doesn’t mean that poor people on fixed incomes who own a house don’t get screwed with high property taxes.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 2 weeks ago:
And then live in rentals which are more expensive?
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 2 weeks ago:
That extra amount per month can really screw with low/ fixed income people though, I feel like there should be something to help with that.
- Comment on I SEENT EPISOD FOREAL 3 weeks ago:
So, you’re new to the Internet, welcome, don’t look up blue waffle, lemon party or one guy one jar. This is something called a shit post, where the humor of it is that it is, as you succinctly put it, strange and dumb. That is why I put it here, in a community for shit posts.
Don’t worry, you’ll get it soon enough and I’m sure you’ll have maybe adventures surfing the information superhighway!
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thank you, Boston 3 weeks ago:
My friend once said that East Coast is not polite but kind, and West Coast is polite but not kind
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- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
Ok, but compare that to breath of the wild. The game really is an open world. And you can go right up to the boss and kill him with a stick of you know what you’re doing. You, as a player, decide to go get stronger first. You don’t have characters specifically telling you to avoid an area, and a quest line that specifically takes you down a specific path that gives you a specific narrative.
Plus it’s got all sorts of logic puzzles like, all over the place.
Hell in fo3 you don’t get railroaded until the final mission, first time I played it I didn’t even go to megaton until way later. Fonv starts you off with it. For a game that is supposed to encourage exploration to start off saying not to? C’mon.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
I get that people like the story and feel like they have an influence on it, but for me it felt railroaded even from the start. “Oh yeah it’s open world but if you go anywhere other than the path we laid out for you you’ll die by deathclaws” is what it’s known for.
My biggest gripe is that when I play fallout I want post apocalyptic retro futurism. 50s vision of the future gone wrong. I feel like I don’t get that with NV and that’s the whole theme of the franchise. It’s the pizza at the Chinese buffet, like, I’m not here for that, why are you here? This is just Nevada but slightly shittier.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
The Outer Worlds was so bad I had to put the controller down and abandon it. A fan made song got the feeling of “dystopian capitalism in space” better than the actual game did.
And an older one that’ll get me burned at the stake: Fallout New Vegas is the worst of the first person fallout games.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 4 weeks ago:
Idk it’s one of the most popular and influential religions, so it kinda got ol Yahu a boost most other deities haven’t. Probably one of the only effectual things made by committee in history.
Kinda shows how messed up humans are though doesn’t it?
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 4 weeks ago:
Dat Demiurge be at it again
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 4 weeks ago:
I just checked and yeah, your comment didn’t say anything about birth control options for men and only talked about the negative effects of the pill.
So you see why one would think that you were trying to say that the birth control pill is a bad thing and that we should remove it.
