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- Submitted 1 day ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on 12-year-old Doom 2 challenge map finally beaten after six-hour, 23K-demon grind 1 day ago:
The YouTube algorithm has been real weird lately. It suggested a video to me and I had no idea why until now. I watch a lot of Doom stuff, so it went off base, I just didn’t have context for it.
It’s Coincident (the streamer this is about) commenting over a “lost” demo of Okuplok playing the map themselves. Spoiler: they do not finish it! But it was neat hearing Coincident discuss his own strategies for the map in comparison to how the creator (allegedly) approached it.
I’ll have to watch the actual stream now I guess!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I used to work in a computer lab, open plan, where we all had CRTs. I sat across from the main DB admin, who had TWO monitors for all the work he was doing (wild stuff to have dual CRTs back in those days.) Due to the layout, my monitor sat in-between his, facing the opposite way of course. I loved degaussing my monitor because:
- It would degauss both of his and
- The EM fields were so strong between them that my monitor’s image would flip entirely upside down before snapping back into frame while making just the craziest electronic noises, colors dancing all over the screen. Gorgeous stuff! I wonder if anyone has tried to recreate a degaussing effect using shaders to simulate the process?
- Comment on Gloomwood - The Research Update 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve been really impressed with Gloomwood but I am already tired of the fishery (level 1) and wish the EA would come with a jump-ahead feature. It’s looking to be a very good game on release, I’m quite excited for it.
- Comment on Enter the Dungeon 2 gets a reveal almost a decade on from the first one, looks like more of the same, but in 3D 3 weeks ago:
Managed to auto-typo the URL and the article title, how embarrassing.
- Comment on Caught Slacking 3 weeks ago:
Casualy sliding this out of my pocket like, no way bro, i always keep that thang on me!
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 weeks ago:
What if I told you that there are roughly 4 million steamdecks in existence. Ref
And that this is about 1\3 of the Steam Linux market. Ref and about half of the entire handheld PC market. Ref
Of course, we dont know how many MAU GOG has so maybe 4 million new customers is baby numbers, but Steam seems enamored enough of that market segment to commit huge new UI and store features (deck verification, “Runs on Deck” filters, other deck specific stuff) including the game controller mappings which do help with non-deck also but were clearly a necessary element for handhelds. Maybe deck users, it being a committed gaming platform, spend more on games?
Anyway, trying to get subscribers (always a teeny fraction of your free users) ahead of converting new non-customers into customers, seems like bad econ to me.
If GOG is so hot for game preservation why not see if they can score an emulation deal to bring lost handheld titles to PC\deck? Sega might be down, NeoGeo is owned by the Saudi’s, I’m sure they’d love some free money for their back catalog. That’s in line with Lutris’ mission of being the one game launcher for your entire library. A few strategic investments and partnerships could open up GOG as the gateway to classic gaming across devices, but that would require some vision to carry through.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
Props for #2 being a #2, but of these I usually go for 6. My personal favorite though is Pentel twist erase.
Though all the kuru toga enthusiasts here have convinced me to give them a try.
- Comment on Porn button might actually be runner-up to Esc. 4 weeks ago:
Folks seem awfully confident in their ability to encode other things with only a single letter, but who said you get spaces or other seperators?
I’ll take A, so I can express how i feel everyday now:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 4 weeks ago:
One of my favorite books! Great world building and quite thought provoking!
- Comment on Tea time 1 month ago:
To paraphrase a common joke, it’s called the Fediverse because it’s full of feds.
- Comment on Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells 1 month ago:
- Comment on Low effort arguing 1 month ago:
This was probably a rare Babylonbee hit and OP was rightfully ashamed of the source.
- Comment on horizontal boogie 2 months ago:
Are we truly conscious, or do we just learn to imitate a pale simulation of the mushroom’s true understanding of reality?
- Comment on Why Does ChatGPT “Delve” So Much? Exploring the Sources of Lexical Overrepresentation in Large Language Models. 2 months ago:
Words also just rotate around in popularity like any other fad. Remember synergy? Paradigm shifts? Thinking outside the box?
Academia isn’t immune to memes, far from it. In the semi-contained world of higher education, trends in words and phrases are even more pronounced and likely to spread.
If this is evidence of LLM usage, it could easily be the machines reflecting back trends. These things pick up on subtle cues in your prompts to match tone with you as well so I wouldn’t rule out human influence either in prompts or the RLHF process.
- Comment on Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record 2 months ago:
Wow, unreal to think a 20 year old cheater ruined a whole category of runs! I feel like if the community can’t come close to replicating a run, they should just automatically be removed as sus. Imagine screaming about how obviously fake this run is for 20 years until someone finally proves it?
Also, tangent, I read the linked Diablo 4 review and i don’t think a review has ever so tightly captured my sentiments towards AAA games and movies. The idea that a thing can be polished, well made, basically without flaw, but still be deeply uninspiring. These media projects are spectacle and addiction but where’s the fun, the challenge, and the spark?
- Comment on my version is better 2 months ago:
There’s a break-up song on Chvrch’s debuted album called Tether. One line, frequently repeated, goes “I’m feeling capable of… seeing the end.” A fine lyric, very breakup, much hopeful.
Except, I can’t tell when listening that she isn’t saying “I feel incapable of…” I don’t know if it’s intentional but I think the ambiguity really elevates the song from semi-empowering breakup song to powerfully-relatable song about the chaos of seeing a relationship end; simultaneously believing you can get through it while also having no idea how you’ll ever get through it.
It’s just fun wordplay too: feeling capable/feel incapable. Makes me want to use that structure more in my own writing.
- Comment on Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps. 2 months ago:
Imagine being a director at this company. One of your employees brings you a report showing that your most active users, who are the backbone of your business, have a huge overlap with rape reports. This will destroy the company, and you know they’ll fire you for bringing it up and suppress it anyway. So you just… forget… to bring it up at the next quarterly. You used to work at Uber, and before that covering up how gambling and gaming companies float on a raft made of addicts, so this is well practiced blindness.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
There are aspects that could be better, sure. I think communities should be like sets of posts, subject to unions, conjuctions, and other set operations. Then you wouldnt have the issue of 5 versions of c/memes, they could be virtually joined into one memes community at the user level (and the user can filter out instances icon unities risers they don’t like of course). Moderation could be decoupled from communities and made a broader service that users choose to interact with, agreeing to a level of moderation comfortable for their experience.
But also, put me in the group that thinks lemmy should stay small. Corpo social has convinced us that a single big room with every idiot and literally their mother screaming into it is how the internet should be and it isn’t. We can go back to smaller, focused online communities that don’t openly invite everyone to come in and fight.
Centralization tendencies are all rooted in power and control. We need to fragment more.
- Comment on Microsoft Paint is getting a Copilot button, too 2 months ago:
This is such an insightful answer. I totally forgot about MS’ famously toxic internal culture. Some bureaucratic piece of middle managed budgeting goes out informing the PMs that products not involving AI get 70% of their previous budgets and suddenly notepad has AI-assisted writing prompts and Minesweeper is asking if you’d like to play Global Thermonuclear War. It all makes sense now!
- Comment on Animal Spirits 2 months ago:
Great reference, going to be stuck in my head all day.
- Comment on Microsoft Paint is getting a Copilot button, too 2 months ago:
I really don’t get this strategy. I get why it’s all over Office, VS, and elsewhere: MS wants to train AI to replace all office workers.
But paint? How does this make them money? Do they expect people to subscribe to Paint, or to windows as a whole, in order to access this AI? Because seemingly few people want it, and most feel put upon paying for an AI feature they don’t want or use. I think they’re going to lose business over it. Real business, Business business, who re-up their 3000+ licenses of Office every year. They’ve already lost my business, but that’s nothing for them.
But again, who do they think is paying for AI in Paint? In particular, who’s paying enough to cover the costs of it? because AI is expensive!
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 months ago:
I got an RK recently and have been very happy with it. Multiple connection options (wired, usb, or 2.4ghz), nice white and green colors, switches and caps all feel very good for such a budget model. Only thing I dislike is they made it full size but inexplicably decided no one needs an “End” key anymore. Its an Fn-layer button (on Page Down?!), along with Pause, PrtSc, and ScrLk. Admittedly I never need those other keys but I use End failry often and it’s an odd choice, especially since they kept the numpad.
- Comment on I need a break 3 months ago:
An adorable new spin on an old fav
- Comment on Way to learn a language 3 months ago:
Jork-Aff Videos, for jorkin’ aff!
- Comment on The writers have run out of ideas 3 months ago:
Straight from Blade Runner
