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- Comment on Praise Transmog 3 days ago:
What a weird, unecessary gatekeep. Why the hell does it matter what a player wants to look like? It has zero affect on the game, far from “destroying” it.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 3 days ago:
Maybe they should have been with their kid and not trying to kill me, then.
- Comment on The fact that we have dreams is crazy. That we remember them is crazier. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 5 days ago:
I can fault them for choosing to push the button and for just accepting that the result is “pretty” without rebuke. For defending the end result against those of us criticizing it. The companies may be responsible for the pushed adoption of this ridiculousness, but people are the ones happily going along with it and actively defending it.
- Comment on Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced 5 days ago:
People that issue death threats for shit like this are absolute trash excuses of humans. That said, DF is trying to double-dip here, sychopantically hyping a product unreservedly and then acting like they still have the credibility to act like objective critics. What a joke.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 5 days ago:
That’s unfortunately a lot of people going by the amount of “fixed” (ie slopppified) art and photos I see going around online.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 5 days ago:
That said, theres been so much focus on how it looks. IMO, its completely overblown, especially when all of this needs to be manually configued on a game-by-game basis. Devs can tweak the settings to their own preferences, and make things more or less extreme.
It’s wild that every defense of this garbage is “Just have devs spend even more time finetuning for this.” Yes, let’s double (or more) the workload of workers that are already overworked and crunched beyond reason, all for a “feature” that looks like garbage in it’s showcase demo and is so resource intensive that very few users will be able to utilize it, if they even want to.
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 5 days ago:
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 6 days ago:
a consumer GPU
That’s a stretch for a demo that’s using two GPUs working in tandem that each cost roughly a month’s salary of a US worker ($3k).
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
Good point. I was too distracted by the shadows/reflections on the ground appearing and disappearing for no discernible reason to notice much else in that shot.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
plugging themselves into the matrix, dick first.
That made me laugh. New to me, but that has to have been done already, right? I mean, the “jack off” joke is right there.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
I hope so. They’re going to be responsible for maintaining the art while we weather through this shit storm. Hopefully it all falls apart soon.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
You joke, but this is actually something people are trying to do.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
Was able to brace myself enough to skim through the video. Anyone that watches those clips and thinks that looks better has no place working on anything related to visual tech. Not only is the interpolation obvious and distracting, every scene, no matter the time of day, location, or anything else, has the exact same shitty lighting that washes out every shadow and color painstakingly added to the scene by actual professionals. Pro-tip: A white-balanced image is the starting point, not the end-goal. Making every game look exactly the same is fucking terrible, you hacks.
I can only hope this shit only finds its way into the AAAA dross that’s not worth playing already.
- Comment on Goddess: "What Do You Want to Turn Into When You're Reincarnated in Another World?" Me: "Into a Hero's Rib" - Anime PV (Start April 7th ) 2 weeks ago:
That trailer got a lot more interesting about halfway through. Took me off guard, hah.
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 2 weeks ago:
Super glad to have gotten off that shit-train last year. Still dealing with the Linux learning curve, but never going back.
- Comment on big facts 3 weeks ago:
They also seem to believe wi-fi “powers everything”? What a loon.
- Comment on FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn 3 weeks ago:
What a terrible fucking headline. Even if they kept a record of every single interaction on hand for the chatbot to reference (which is preposterous), the notion that it could reiterate it verbatim to a degree that is sufficient to hold up as evidence of anything is ludicrous. It’s also wildly inaccurate to the actual story. Bad job all around.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 4 weeks ago:
Actual AI would be more than “just math”, but LLMs aren’t AI, so the comparison is moot.
Now we’ve built a collection of simulated neurons, at a scale close to that of the human brain, and trained it on the entirety of the human language
We are not even close to anything of the sort. We’ve got a probability machine that’s mostly decent at human language. The other two are much farther down the road (if they’re even possible) than you or the rest of the tech bros are trying to convince everyone else of.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 4 weeks ago:
Though commonly reported, Google doesn’t consider it a security problem when models make things up
To be clear, all llms “make things up” with every use - that’s their singular function. We need to stop imparting any level of sentience or knowledge onto these programs. At best, it’s a waste of time. At worst, it will get somebody killed.
Also, querying the program on why it fabricated something as if it won’t fabricate that answer as well is peak ignorance. “Surely it will output the truth this time!”
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Here’s hoping this game gets out the door before he can do too much damage.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 month ago:
Same tactic used by scammers sending “bad” messages - it’s at least partially in purpose to single out the good marks.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 month ago:
Didn’t they just get busted for leaking their verification data that they totally weren’t keeping?
- Comment on Everything was indeed brown. 1 month ago:
Easier to ignore the nicotine stains.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
Itch is exclusively indie devs, afaik, but since Steam started their Greenlight initiative, the number of games released per year has rocketed up. 2012, the year Greenlight started, only 441 games were released on steam. Two years later in 2014, almost 1500 games were released. 2017 released 5600. 2021 released 10,200. And last year had over 21k. How much of that do we think is really DRM’d, AAA published software?
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
In terms of straight numbers, isn’t Steam’s large “advantage” there it’s offering of independent, mostly unregulated games from small time devs? Are those really using drm? Even if there are, I don’t really think most users are choosing Steam over GOG for access to “Asset Flip #57354”.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
unessisaryunecessaryJust a little correction.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
Just to be clear, distributing on Steam adds nothing functional to a game’s playability on the Steam Deck (afaik). A game from GOG can be played in a Deck just as well as one from Steam, albeit with slightly more effort.
That said, I know customers will flow toward the path of least resistance, so even a little more effort will push them towards a different source.
- Comment on xkcd #3198: Double-Pronged Extension Cord 1 month ago:
Better than a screwdriver? Hmmm, I’m gonna leave the building anyhow.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Anyone as in “a single person”. They don’t mean everyone has access.
