MoogleMaestro
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- Comment on Latest Episode Discussion Threads Index 1 day ago:
Question,
If I’m on a different instance, is there a away to get the episode link equivalent for my instance? The post ID seems to differ between instances, and I don’t know if there’s something I’m missing or not regarding a “open in my instance” url.
- Comment on Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday 2 days ago:
Why they would do it when this hurts their own business is beyond me.
Welp, I guess I won’t be donating next year.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Exactly. This is really just hedging their bets. They know the carpet is being pulled and now they’re in the bargaining phase. (This plus Jensen asking people to be nicer about AI shlock.)
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Alternative Advice: Buy up old used mini-pcs if hardware is too expensive. Don’t buy AWS unless you actually need cloud services (i.e. you’re hosting a website).
I won’t say VPSs don’t have their utility, but anyone framing it as an alternative to owning a PC is completely DeLuLu and need their head examined.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
Ah true, I generally avoid all until I’m out of subscribed content or just looking for new communities
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
Active is basically like old forum logic, where new comments will bump it up back to the top. Scaled is my go to view first as it does a pretty good job balancing out communities of widely different sizes, so smaller communities that you’re subbed to have a chance of having their post be seen if it’s new and larger in upvoter count.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
Hot take: the biggest issue is actually ever entering a community and seeing zero comments. Most reddit addiction stems from wanting to read comments, so I think people should add a comment to something if they’re upvoting and they see that the thread has zero comments.
Nothing eliminates enthusiasm like seeing 0 comments on every post in a community, especially if that community is driven by bots.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 week ago:
Will the AI still flame me if I ask the wrong question?
Is nothing sacred anymore?
Real talk though, it is concerning when it feels like 3/5 times you ask AI something, you’ll get a completely hair brained answer back. SO will probably need to clamp down non-logged in browsing and enforce API limits to make sure that AI trainers are paying for the data they need.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 1 week ago:
No worries that makes sense. I’ll make an account over there mostly to test out piefed, purely out of curiosity.
Thanks for the help!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 1 week ago:
Q: Would it be possible to migrate an account from lemmy.zip to piefed.zip?
Obviously this might require the software support first for general account migration, but I’d like to know whether or not I should make a new account or not if it’s possible to try migration.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not trying to say that we should be making use of it.
But man, it makes a lot of their dick-ripping whenever biden sneezes a bit silly in retrospect, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“In principle I like being a democracy. But the practice of it? Nah, I’d rather we do secretive bullshit.”
Neat, I’ll keep this in mind next time the liberals are in power lol.
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- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s just the amount of love for game consoles is much higher than phones, where people are a bit complacent.
I do agree it should happen more often.
- Comment on Are you shore? 3 weeks ago:
I am, beach.
- Comment on Evangelion Announces New Short Anime By Hideaki Anno For 30th Anniversary Festival 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I get the narrative part of it. But I also felt a bit like it was shallow compared to the broader themes of Evangelion as a whole. Like, Midori as a character, why is she important and what’s the point in seeing her perspective? Why is it worth talking about her at all? Granted, it might be worth re-watching, but it felt mostly like it was “filling space” that didn’t need to be filled. I do understand that I was probably one of the few people who really enjoyed 3.0 because of it’s disconnected continuity as it felt like it was trying to say something about evangelion and story telling in general (you can shuffle the pieces around, or even completely change the context, but the story would still be the same because the themes of the characters are consistent.) I was never sold on them needing to get into “what happened before 3.0” so I may just not be the target audience.
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 4 weeks ago:
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart or Doctor Robotniks Ring Racers. It’s a good time if you have friends and there are still regular players online.
- Comment on Evangelion Announces New Short Anime By Hideaki Anno For 30th Anniversary Festival 4 weeks ago:
Really glad that this isn’t directed by either Tsurumaki or Anno. Otherwise, I’d be a bit bummed that they’re spending more time on Evangelion again.
A 13 minute short is kind of an interesting choice of format. I wonder whether this will be “canon” or if it will be intentionally out of universe with it’s own story.
The last short they did (-48 hours?) was ok but kind of didn’t make a clear point about why it was made. I’ll be curious if this director can make good use of the short 13 minute timespan.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 4 weeks ago:
I won’t bother engaging with the “gamergate” false equivalency. I think it’s disingenuous to try to tie any of what I said so far to a some fearmonger induced culture war, biggotted nonsense when we’re talking about a much broader wealth extraction mechanism and misanthropic tech movement. I think you’re saying this from a well-meaning place, but I actually don’t think what I’ve said is overzealous at all. The CEO is saying he’s using AI and, if you’re opposed to the social and financial repercussions of this, it’s fair game to boycott a product over this.
To pick a true real world example, some people won’t eat meat that isn’t free-range. This isn’t about the quality of the meat really, it’s about the inhumane treatment of animals. Not everyone subscribes to this, sometimes I don’t buy free-range meat either, but it’s not “wrong” for people to choose to not buy meat that isn’t free range. The same can and should be true about the media we consume, whether it’s games or films.
If it’s like an image/video model, they could start with existing open weights, and fine tune it. There are tons to pick from, and libraries to easily plug them into.
If it’s not, and something really niche, and doesn’t already exist to their satisfaction, it probably doesn’t need to be that big a model. A lot of weird stuff like sketch -> 3D models are trained on university student project time + money budgets (though plenty of those already exist).
…Look, if Divinity comes out and it has any slop in it, it can burn in hell. If it comes out that they partnered with OpenAI or whomever extensively, it deserves to get shunned and raked over coals.
I won’t get into this too much, but “open weights” is not “open source”, and even “open source” is not real “open source” when it comes to AI. Really, what you should be talking about is an open dataset based model, which there are very few of in reality. The issue isn’t the weights, the issue is the data that was used to generate the weights in the first place.
It’s not impossible that they’re using some bespoke model derived from an open dataset model, but considering the full transcript is now out and he name dropped ChatGPT in particular, I don’t really have much confidence that there’s some kind of ethical silver lining. Since he was the one who mentioned using AI in previs development, it’s actually up to him to clarify what models they’re using and whether they’re ethically sourced. I don’t really have to prove anything beyond them using AI and not thinking AI is to my personal pallet. That’s fine, everyone has their own tastes. To me, I was excited about the new Divinity until this news dropped, and the hype is simply deflated because it is against my morals. That’s on them, not on me.
If he wants to push for open datasets as an AI industry counter play, then fine – fair play and good riddance to closed source (closed data) AI industry players. But until that happens it’s actually just a fantasy and not based on reality. I’ll stick to what has been said and not extrapolate what could-be.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 4 weeks ago:
What if it’s a home grown model to assist with mocap?
Well, that’s not what it is (a), at least according to the CEO. They used it for concepts, not animations. And also, (b) I’m not really in the place to give people the benefit of the doubt when using AI that is trained off stolen materials. I sincerely doubt they’re using a “home grown model” because anyone who knows even a scrap of how LLM/GANs work knows that the data needs to train a model would be far beyond the reach of a company of Larian’s scale. They’ve likely just licensed it from one of the many grifting oligarch AI peddlers.
We don’t need defenders coming in here trying to pretend that the CEO hasn’t just clarified that they are using AI for preproduction, we know this and it’s not up for debate now.
Would that be enough to write it off?
As someone who really appreciates and likes animation, in that particular example, then yes it would probably be enough to write it off. And frankly, why do I need to play their game when I could just AI generate my own slop and save the 70 bucks? In reality, it’s actually fine for me, I have plenty of games and can replay the old Divinity games before these guys lost their way. They used to be a company that followed a passion for CRPGs with good-will behind them, but now that BG3 has been a runaway hit, it seems like they’ve forgotten about the community that got them to where they are today in favor of some AAA gaming nonsense.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 4 weeks ago:
As someone who owns D:OS2, this is really disappointing and below their standards. I’ll be giving this new Divinity a pass.
They don’t need to be using AI to create concepts, and if they do, I don’t think the “concepts” will be all that great in the first place. Not to mention the ethical perils of using models trained off other artists who are not licensed or compensated.
This is some classic CEO “step on a rake and then get mad at everyone else” nonsense. They openly talked about how they liked AI, and get mad at us for saying “cool, that’s a game I’m gonna skip then!”
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 4 weeks ago:
The cat’s out of the bag
That’s 👏 not 👏 an 👏 excuse 👏 to be 👏 SHITTY!
The number of people who think that saying that the cat’s out of the bag is somehow redeeming is completely bizarre. Would you say this about slavery too in the 1800s? Just because people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s morally or ethically right to do it, nor that we should put up with it.
- Comment on if only 4 weeks ago:
*My life is Isekai where I’m born into a lovely family that I really like, but it’s everyone else whose either fucked in the head or just a little aggro. *
I’m still working on the title. I think it needs to be a little bit longer to really stand out in the Isekai crowd.
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- Comment on Regarding Gainax Co. Ltd (Studio Kharas Statement on Gainax Closure after 42 Years of Production) 5 weeks ago:
The good news here is that Trigger has gotten TTGL back and they seem interested in treating the IP with some respect. Hopefully things like Gunbuster eventually find their way back to Khara eventually once all of the legal dust settles.
I really wish that Gainax could have been kept around as a brand though, particularly from Khara and Trigger who could have used it for a shared fan merch and otaku goods subsidiary. It’s a shame to think the entire Gainax legacy will be only a fragmented memory spread across multiple spiritual successors, even if it is ultimately healthier for the Anime scene that all of these studios have strong individual futures.
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- Comment on TRIGUN STARGAZE sets official January premiere 5 weeks ago:
I had really mixed feelings about the reboot.
Triguns original run was great but technically incomplete because the Manga was in hiatus dues to production issues. When he eventually continues Trigun it became a completely different story in some ways (and in other ways not, without getting too detailed.)
So the idea of a remake was fine if it was going to be closer to what the Manga became except… It didn’t, it’s now a third take on the same story with some major differences again from both the original show and the manga.
I hope the next season is better, because the framework of where the show is heading post the first season ending does potentially have potential, but they need to nail the episodic structure better imo.
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