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- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 6 days ago:
This is my first time reading about this alternate “ETA” initialism. Interesting…
- Comment on [UPDATE] - Anyone up for some OpenRA on friday evening (CEST) 1 week ago:
Not to burst your bubble, but upvotes may come from people just applauding your attempt to increase community here but who may not even play or like the game 😬🫣 I hope you do get some action, though! I am unavailable, personally.
- Comment on How would I repurpose a work laptop? 1 week ago:
Ha, curve ball deflected!
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
Fine, *could literally be.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
Let me offer a spin on this: the point-&-click adventure Technobabylon, which is more a staggeringly creative and massive series of escape rooms, and not that much of an open world to explore and revisit.
Perceptibly, it has zero grinding and is to the point with what you’ve gotta do. It is one of the only point-&-click adventure games that I’ve beaten; I normally dislike the genre, which speaks volumes to how incredible it is.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
Ironically, I couldn’t get into Outer Wilds, myself; it sucks to get stuck.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
Sable is on a giveaway this week by Epic Games. Use the free-&-open-source Heroic Games Launcher to play it without having to download their platform.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Portal was originally a university student project called Narbacular Drop that got hired by Steam. In a sense from its limited narration and story, it felt a bit more like a proof-of-concept than almost a full-fleshed game to me at times, which, for me, was hands-down Portal 2.
They’re great fun to stream and watch, too.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT 2 was literally an Excel spreadsheet.
I guesstimate that it’s effectively a supermassive autocomplete algo that uses some TOTP-like factor to help it produce “unique” output every time.
And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.
Get your popcorn out! 🍿
- Comment on If stererypical nerds have profile pics of cute anime girls, have cute anime girls therefore profile pics of steretypical nerds? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe exposure therapy is the way! Treat it out to lunch and then go volunteer at a soup kitchen together; you never know…
- Comment on If stererypical nerds have profile pics of cute anime girls, have cute anime girls therefore profile pics of steretypical nerds? 3 weeks ago:
Heck, it doesn’t even have to be a girl. dateeverything.com
- Comment on Day 333 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Oh. Well, if the mods are this active, then that could probably be changed, too! I’m not trying to insult you or something; I just think the titles could be made much more meaningful with just a bit more focus (which also means they could potentially attract more redditors or other lurking, fence-sitting denizens of the Internet through quality stuff in both title and body).
- Comment on Day 333 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Could you please rename such a long and misleading title to something more succinct and accurate?
Day 333 of game commentary: Minecraft
I strongly believe it would genuinely boost the quality of your submissions.
- Comment on Scientists spot ‘superorganism’ in the wild for the first time — and it’s made of worms 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They’re nuts! Why does it matter?!
- Comment on [Announcement] The community and its future 1 month ago:
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world needs to change the title to “Daily thoughts: game X, game Y, game Z.” Continually saying “screenshot” each time is misleading and does legitimately sound spammy and annoying. A simple title change would be so much better.
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 month ago:
Gotcha, and yes, another friend of mine uses iDrive for its insane deal!
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 month ago:
backed up to 3 separate cloud services
Why so many?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“Supplement?” I would have said “replace.”
- Comment on Does the digestive tract count as a pneumatic propulsion system? 1 month ago:
I have a certain potato-based experiment I’d be interested to know the outcome of.
Go on…
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 1 month ago:
Man, joke’s gonna be on them if they dont keep up with the times…
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 1 month ago:
Unbelievable. Linux sellers deserve the death penalty. /s (mostly…)
- Comment on The wonderful Revenge of the Savage Planet has been released! 2 months ago:
FYI, the “O” in “GOG” is capitalized; it stands for “Good Old Games” as they originally made their claim to fame by modernizing access to literally old DOS, etc. games that are hard to run onodern PCs. It doesn’t stand for “of.”
With that said, yes, GOG should absolutely be prioritized, as well as itch.io.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
I tried a bit of Aquaria but couldn’t get into it… Thanks for the Gato recommendation. I didn’t know it was CS-like.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Oh. It’s been literal years so I totally forgot that initialism, but while we’re at it, the second “C” in “CrossCode” is also capital.
It’s smooth as butter, yeah, but I think I would prefer a game focused on a different character class/weapon. I remember some progression of concepts but I guess didn’t really connect the dots (even though I don’t think I looked up a guide more than once or twice briefly).
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more 2 months ago:
If OoT could be made to look as good as TotK, that’d be something!
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Not sure what “VRP” is unless you just mean ricochet puzzles, but mind you, I did play 95% of the game. It felt just too same-y after long enough (it was the plot and environment that had kept me going), and then I just gave up and finished through some YouTuber’s play-through and I confirmed that I had apparently quit at the start of the final dungeon, because it just felt like… more of the same timing-&-angling annoyances with no more originality. Zelda was far, far more creative and I think the game just could have done more with items or different weapons, or something, though I know much of it is based on your character being a specific class that was fixed pre-game… It just ultimately wore me down, sadly.
Right: *successor, not “sequel.”
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 2 months ago:
Copyright, yes it’s a problem and should be fixed.
The quick fix: stick to open-source like jan.ai.
Long-term solution: make profiting AI companies pay for UBI.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Hmm… May I watch you stream Vagante sometime? I’ve been iffy over it for a year or more now because of those reviews. Let me see how you die LOL jk.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Cave Story is undoubtedly the greatest Metroidvania made to date of which I know.
