HarkMahlberg
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
People keep asking me, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 21 hours ago:
I hope you find the mental health resources and remedial English classes you need.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 day ago:
Hey I have some pretty screenshots too!
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 day ago:
experimental/medicine
You use AI for literally its most dangerous possible use case. And I assume you used a mediocre translator for everything else. Try DeepL, I found it has good results most of the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You might be happy to learn about Misskey, which has a Japanese instance (it's flagship) in misskey.io and an Italian instance in misskey.social. :)
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 5 days ago:
Your usage still gives them justification to continue being global parasites. "Our daily active users is (X + you)."
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 6 days ago:
I wanted to make this joke but didn't want to downplay the breakthrough they had. But man I wonder what her argument was... How did she manage to convince him?
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 6 days ago:
I don't think you deserve this many down votes for this take, but I'll provide a counterpoint. Not being able to afford a real artist is not as large a barrier as you think.
Balatro's music was created by Spanish musician Luis Clemente, known online as LouisF, after developer LocalThunk hired them on Fiverr in 2023.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 1 week ago:
"Ethically, [the] only logical reason is to delete the game from Steam. The girl I've been dating for a month made me realize this."
Make like 38 Special and hold on loosely brother. Keep it up.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 1 week ago:
The developer gives a pretty decent reason for the deletion, imo:
"I have realized the AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment," Rakuel wrote. "Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit[s] no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people," he continued.
There's nothing he can do about Arc Raider's success, but taking ownership of what he did, I gotta say, respect.
- Comment on The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass 1 week ago:
Nice data collection scheme.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 weeks ago:
man who's never played BG3
what are optional/hidden side quests - Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 weeks ago:
This is the first time anyone has described Blue Prince in a way that made me want to play it lol. Not knocking the game, I just figured it would never be up my alley. But I'm a big fan of Betrayal.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 weeks ago:
Arc is definitely the "yep, steam voters have shit taste" one of the bunch.
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- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
True on most fronts except one. On a personal level, I do hate AI lol. The large language model itself. I just don't think typing out or speaking out a series of instructions is that useful or efficient. If I want a computer to do something for me, I much prefer the more rigid and unnatural syntax and grammar of programming language. AI tools themselves just don't produce a result that satisfies me.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
When I give myself the leeway to think of a less hardliner stance on AI, I come back to Joel Haver's video on his use of ebsynth:
It lets me create rotoscoped animations alone, which is something I never would have the time or patience for otherwise. Any time technology makes art easier to learn, more accessible, we should applaud it. Art should be in the hands of everyone.
Now my blood boils like everyone else's when it comes to being forced to use AI at work, or when I hear the AI Voice on Youtube, or the forced AI updates to Windows and VS Code, but it doesn't boil for Joel. He clearly has developed an iconic style for his comedy skits, and puts effort into those skits long before he puts it through an AI rotoscope filter. He chose his tool and he uses it sparingly. The same was apparently true for E33, and I have no reason not give Kojima and Larian the same benefit of the doubt.
On the other hand, Joel probably has no idea what I'm talking about when I say "surveillance state AI." People Make Games has a pretty good video exposing its use case. There's also...
- the global and localized environmental impacts of all these data centers,
- Nvidia and Micron pricing the consumer out of owning their own hardware,
- aforementioned companies fraudulently inflating an economic bubble,
- the ease with which larger models can be warped to suit their owners' fascist agendas (see Grok).
Creatives may be aware of some, or all, or none of those things, which is why it's important to continue raising awareness of them. AI may be toothpaste that can't go back in the tube, but it's also a sunk cost fallacy, you don't have to brush your teeth with shit-flavored toothpaste.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
I have the same feeling about Kojima's and Vincke's latest comments on AI. Am I supposed to get mad at every single person who said they used/plan to use AI for something? I'd be as outraged as the average Fox News viewer, and it would be impossible to be taken seriously. I still won't be using AI myself (fuck surveillance state AI) and I'd be making every effort to encourage others not to use it, but there's no point in burning bridges and falling for rage bait.
They're creative people who care about the craft and care about the teams in their employ, which gives their statements weight, where some Sony/Microsoft/EA executive making an identical statement has none.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
I mean it is 6 years old. It is also possible that Project Aces' licenses for the aircraft is expiring soon, so they may have to delist the game.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
Ace Combat 7 is less than $5, that's a real solid deal if you're new to AC and/or interested.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 4 weeks ago:
Why am I not surprised. Overtime is always ordered by the folks who clock out at 3.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Well then I think your beef has nothing to do with the form of the media, but with DRM and lack of transferability. And I totally get the anxiety of having something and not wanting to lose access to it, but such is the nature of all games, movies, shows, books. Everything humans create has a shelf life and we're in a neverending fight against entropy.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Almost got me with that hotness but I wouldn't necessarily disagree. In a perfect world, we would just own digital copies free and clear of any remote tampering.
Trouble is, physical media is relevant now because companies can't nuke your access to it once their licensing deals expire, like they can with digital streaming services and storefronts. Even digital copies are physical, they have to sit on a hard drive somewhere, and even those degrade over time. So let's say we own the hard drive, that's great, but I still need to transfer it once the disk/flash dies. It's unquestionably more efficient than disc media tho.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 5 weeks ago:
- Finishing my first Baldurs Gate 3 campaign after 250 hours.
- Winning my first gold stake run of Balatro.
- Still alive to witness the Ace Combat 8 trailer.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 weeks ago:
Yeah Divinity went for shock value and boy did it pay off.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 weeks ago:
I saw some gossip about the cost of revealing a game on the TGA, which I didn't see in years past. Makes sense that they work like ads where the best spot (right before GOTY) is the most expensive.
So imagine: Larian paid less for that unhinged Divinity trailer than Wildlight paid for another generic looking hero shooter (we have Valorant at home).
- Comment on Epic and Steam banned it but HORSES is out now on other stores 1 month ago:
Take me with a grain of salt, but from what I understand Valve banned it when they received their evaluation build, and they found a scene of a child character "riding" on the back of an adult, naked, "horse" character, in the form of a human.
Developer immediately took to social media to whip up the current media frenzy you see now. Whether the developer simply didn't realize the implications of what they made, or whether they did it purposely for "artistic license" or "anti-puritan shock value" I leave to you.
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 1 month ago:
You know 15 years ago it was common pastime to see how quickly we could trick Cleverbot into admitting it was a chat bot and not actually intelligent. Now we have chat bots competing with us to prove that we must not be intelligent.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
No. AI cannot "get better," that's what techbros say so they don't light a trillion dollars on fire. LLMs cannot avoid hallucinations and even now are being trained on their own excrement, human centipede style. They hope you tell yourself this lie so you don't notice when they move on to the next hyped up pile of shit.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The real question is if Valve plans to swallow the jumps in price. They must have designed the machine before the price hikes, so I wonder if they already had a price in mind and whether they're gonna stick to it.
