WagyuSneakers

@WagyuSneakers@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People used to just play the endgame in single player games. I probably put more hours into Tales of Symphonia after I beat all the content than before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the expert in this situation and I’m getting tired explaining to Jr Engineers and laymen that it is a media hype train.

  I worked on ML projects before they got rebranded as AI. I get to sit in the room when these discussion happen with architects and actual leaders. This is Hype. Anyone who tells you other wise is lying or selling you something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you trained it on all of that it wouldn’t be a good builder. Actual builders would tell you it’s bad and you would ignore them.

  LLMs do not give you accurate results. They can simply strong along words into coherent sentences and that’s the extent of their capacity. They just agree with whatever the prompter is pushing and it makes simple people think it’s smart.

  AI will not be building you a house unless you count a 3D printed house and we both know that’s overly pedantic. If that were the case a music box from 1780 is an AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so weird watching the masses ignore industry experts and jump on weird media hype trains. This must be how doctors felt in Covid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is objectively poorly written and poorly constructed. That’s not really up for debate. The idea that it’s acceptable for small children is it’s only saving grace. Any adult who likes it is blinded by nostalgia or has built a personality around it.

  I “grew up” with it. I read them as they came out as I was about the age. It was known to be slop for children back then.

  It’s not a binary from bad to acceptable. There’s A LOT of range in YA books and a lot of good ones. Rowlings issue is so fundamental it really would prevent her from writing any kind of book. She simply packed the knowledge about writing to do any amount of planning ahead. She’s constantly pulling out a McGuffin and insulting the intelligence of her readers. There’s no thought put into the world. The characters don’t come to life. It has the sensibility of Willy Wonka and the set design by Tim Burton. Her writing is closer to a single stream of consciousness than a deliberate plot because she lacked, and probably still lacks, the literary skill or expertise to actually craft that.

  Her success is entirely due to factors outside her control and is in spite of her characteristic lack of ability.

  Also; Tom Clancy sucks. In fact, Tom Clancy <<< Clive Cussler- and Cussler is mediocre at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s a very apt way to put it.

  A service le paperback detective fiction for kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s abundantly clear the ending of book 1 wasn’t even planned. Harry Potter doesn’t even work when you look at each book individually. Even by YA standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the conservatives are fascists right now so that’s a pretty easy connection to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization VII Gets Negative Reactions Via Early Access, Developer Responds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Civ 7 is pretty bad. The wife and I picked it up early so we could play it while we took some time off work. It’s neat and the new systems are cool. I like how Civs and Rulers work. I think the game flows really well now. Too bad they just had to iron out all of the fun to get it there.

  Valid UI and customization complaints aside, the AI is miserable. Even on the default difficulty I found myself being forced to play the game it wanted me to play, not the game I wanted to play.

  Right out the gate we restarted twice because the starting positions can be completely non viable. I was left on a 8 hex, not counting mountains, desert. My wife started near 5 city-states/barbarians the second time. Then my expansion to three cities was cut short when three separate AI players settled directly on my boarder, put one or two armies next to my cities each and swooped in and stole a city-state I had been spending influence to win over at the last minute. The barbarians attacking from the other side intensified. I had one army on each side. I easily had the largest army in the game and had spent the entire time trying to make friends. The AI players all chose some “policy” that made them all hate me and then they dogpiled my one city. I took them to the cleaners, but still lost. I was forced to play discount total war instead of Civ. I had to push for domination and won eventually. I couldn’t denounce people, they can uno reverse that. I would spend tons of resources winning over a city states for someone to swoop in, but then out and then the city state instantly starts slaughtering my people.

  The same thing happened in two other games we played. I don’t even like domination victories. The AI isn’t even unintelligent or advanced. There is always a point when everyone you know shows up to your doorstep with an army and they just leave it there to attack later. Like clockwork. My warriors lost a 1v1 vs slingers. The game just isn’t completed. They’re clearly still working on customization, UI and AI.

  I don’t want to min max. I want to casually play a game with my wife. We used to play Civ 6 and 5 on Prince. We used to have fun losing in those games, but we’re not having fun winning or losing in Civ 7.