pycorax

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages | Update 2 Release Notes⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm could I ask what difficulty you’re playing at? I’m still at the early chapters though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages | Update 2 Release Notes⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Did the variety of enemies that require different weapons not already provide a reason to use different guns? I actually found myself swapping weapons a lot to be able to overheat shields, deal with special enemies and more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s quite different though. Companies self censoring themselves is quite a hot different from a separate entity implementing censorship by terminating payment systems. Indie devs can still make such content. The mastercard/visa situation on the other hand effectively kills it for any team producing such content and I think that is far worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The very nature of how it functions is unreliable. It’s a statistical probabilistic model. It’s great for what it was designed to do but imagining that it has any way of rationalising data is purely that, just imagination. Even if let’s say we accept that it makes an error rate at the same rate as humans do (if it can even identify an error reliably), there’s no accountability in place that ensures that it would check the correctness like a human would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a quick look at DLsite and Pixiv, Japan hardly censors anything other than pixelation of specific body parts. If anything, it feels like the west is heading towards much more intense censorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the first time you cried over an anime?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That season was brutal with The Place Further Than The Universe having similar themes for their episode on the same week. I went in expecting some slice of life joy after being destroyed by Violet Evergarden, only to be destroyed yet again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, that was one hell of a ride. I don’t think I remember seeing something so… experimental (?) before in anime. Man, I feel like I’ll need to watch this a couple more times to catch everything and give it the attention it deserves. Kyoani really are in a league of their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what DLsite has done when MasterCard and Visa banned them. Granted, they’re Japanese so most fo their sales use Japanese methods like JCB, PayPay, etc. I’m not sure if this would kill services that didn’t have such a large domestic audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China advances toward tech independence with new homegrown 6nm gaming and AI GPUs — Lisuan 7G106 runs Chinese AAA titles at 4K over 70 FPS and matches RTX 4060 in synthetic benchmarks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nvidia would have you believe that with MFG and DLSS. Anyways, never trust the manufacturer’s claims, we’ll see what this triple slot 4060 competitor can do when it gets in the hands of independent reviewers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s using a 3 slot cooler just to hit the performance of a GPU that was already underpowered on release. China doesn’t exactly have a clean record either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Comiket

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Porn is serious business man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a country that has porn mags being sold in convenience stores and plenty of stores where you can find content for all sorts of fetishes both online and offline. They also have 2 huge indie artist markets every year where at least 50% of the content being sold is porn. Each event gets about 300k people. Only thing I can think of regarding censorship here are the mosaics and those are only really there due to a very old law that no lawmakers are gonna bother with expending political capital to reverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China exports state propaganda with low-cost open source AI models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the West, we might focus on preventing people from harming others or hacking, and in China, they’re preventing people from getting politically supportive of China. But in a way, we are all “exporting” our propaganda.

  I don’t think anyone can say with a straight face that these 2 cases are both propaganda. So called “western ptopaganda” here is really just advising the user that maybe self harm, etc. is not such a good idea. It’s not explicitly telling the user completely unverifiable false facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 Mac DF Review - Mac Mini/MacBook Pro/Mac Studio Tested⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t Apple boasting 4090 performance at one point? lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay if their pastors touch little boys though! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re gift cards that you can buy from a different online store that’s from a different company. Then you redeem them on DLsite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s stopping them from doing what DLsite did in Japan by using credits purchased off site? Seems like an alternative business opportunity there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention that Japan tends to use their own local services usually so I’m not sure if speedtest.net is even well known there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, Windows Phone was sort of a successor to that. And then they went and killed it too…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t AC Shadows one of their best selling games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re also not having a random conversation on the street, this information is just a quick search away. By making up numbers and creating a bigger issue when existing issues are already strong enough of an argument, you hurt your own credibility and attacking people for pointing that out is even worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transparency is fine if it’s used for stuff like the background of a window, since you’d want tod emphasize that anyways but I have to agree that using it for icons hurts usability so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that now for their cross country trains as opposed to their subways?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For Steins;Gate watchers, what do you think of Steins;Gate 0?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked 0 far better but I got to give credit to the original for setting it up so that the strong notes of 0 could hit as hard as they could. That ending of that one episode where they played Lyra still destroys me to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Mio? That’s the same surname, hair and it definitely sounds like her. Can’t wait to see her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea ally things considered, I think the device is reasonably priced for what it is. The Deck was exceptionally cheap on launch so I don’t think it’s a fair comparison. The specs of the Deck weren’t really mind blowing either when it came out, what made it great was the package as a whole and for the price, it did great. The specs of this device is already way beyond what the Deck has even accounting for the 3 year gap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is fine. The people running it are not⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smae thing that Nvidia does with OpenGL. Their driver handles a lot erroneous out of spec behaviour so developers think their game works fine but the moment you run it on AMD or Intel GPUs, you get all sorts of issues because they actually implement the spec accurately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t there some form of sampling bias here though? The kind of people who generally would care about these things likely also care about interoperability and would be on Android. I wouldn’t be surprised if iPhone users simply don’t care if Apple demands them to do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t think a show could make me laugh harder than Nichijou did but Arawi and Kyoani did it. It was way better than I could have ever hoped for. The whole champon scene killed me and I actually had to pause the show because of how much it tickled me. And man did it really make me miss the dry champon I had in Nagasaki.