Ashtear
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 14 hours ago:
Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader. Other than a couple of hours in Dawn of War, this is my only experience with the setting and I’m really digging it. I also already like Argenta more than any of the party members in Kingmaker or WotR. I’m nearing the end of Chapter 1, I think.
I have an interesting feeling about this one, like it could possibly be an all-timer for me, although my experience with gaming is telling me it’s more likely it’ll end up being more of a near miss. I had a good feeling about Kingmaker early too, but that game always felt very raw, obviously a product of a young studio. WotR was massively disappointing, unfortunately. Hoping Rogue Trader ends up more like the former. Just wish I had more time/energy to play it.
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 days ago:
This is where I sit on it. I think there’s a way to create a personal shopping assistant that would save people time, but the problem is I don’t make enough money to have a comfortable enough margin for the error rate it would certainly have, to speak nothing of whether it would find the prices I’d be satisfied with. I don’t know how many people are in affordable enough living situations where using this to save time would even be responsible.
And that’s assuming the agent is working in the best interests of the user, which we all know isn’t how this is going to work. In general, I don’t know if I’ll ever be comfortable with agentic AI spending my money without it being codified into law that AI agents must have a provable fiduciary duty to end users. As far as I know, no one’s even talking about that.
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 3 days ago:
He’s kind of a JRPG traditionalist, so I’m not surprised he wasn’t big on the game.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 6 days ago:
It took me forever too. Doesn’t help that I insist on playing these games turn-based.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 6 days ago:
Yeah, I’m planning on leap-frogging this time for this very reason. I tend to get GPU-bottlenecked more often than not, so hopefully whatever I pick up next year will extend my system long enough for a little more sanity to return.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type 6 days ago:
Someone just needs to clone him so he can actually finish the new game.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 1 week ago:
First year recorded.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 week ago:
Mind explaining what features and why?
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 week ago:
Considering we’ve already got the one former Larian employee speaking out against this, it’ll be interesting to see how many more show up off the record (or maybe on the record anonymously). I’m sure there was an internal battle over it.
There aren’t many (possibly none) with more goodwill banked among enthusiast gamers than Vincke, so I feel like we’re about to see just how far a popular figure can step into this particular puddle without coming out soaked.
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- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 week ago:
Yeah, pound-for-pound, as far as collecting stuff goes, these games get crazy expensive. Some of them are more generous than others with the in-game currency outlays, but that can become its own problem with daily grinds.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 week ago:
There is some very high quality writing and gameplay in the genre right now. A lot of talented people are working on these games. And generally speaking, yes, you don’t need to spend a dime to see the main content.
I tend not to recommend them because you never know who has a gambling problem (and sometimes people don’t know until they are exposed to it for the first time). There’s also the other odd quirk–not just in gacha, but in live-service and other self-insert media in general lately–where character romance is omitted from the game world because they don’t want to offend insecure men. Can make things feel flat at times.
If one knows they are fine with both of those issues, there’s a lot of great content out there.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 week ago:
Close enough
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 3 weeks ago:
Their reviews aren’t frequent. This is more of a “we ask around the org for what everyone liked this year.” It’s a consistently good list year after year.
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- Comment on Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence 3 weeks ago:
Slightly different? Comparing a dead simple plot of employment vs. the performance of the S&P to a DID Poisson regression event study is the coughing baby vs. hydrogen bomb meme.
This Stanford study is just one in a very active field of economic research, so it’s reasonable to be skeptical, but I really hope you don’t think people make decisions based on the kind of thing in that Tiktok video.
- Comment on Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence 3 weeks ago:
This study controls for the post-COVID hiring spike in three ways: the researchers generated results without including the tech sector, they separated out remote work, and compared trends from 2018-2022 to those after. The hypothesis holds in all cases. The primary regression analysis also included a standard set of controls for hiring trends (such as interest rate fluctuation).
There’s enough here to find a negative correlation between generative AI and entry-level employment.
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 3 weeks ago:
In my experience this is the biggest knock against it, and it can be fatal for multiplayer games. I had to wait several days for a patch to get pushed to continue my Baldur’s Gate 3 campaign with a friend because she’d picked it up on Steam. We eventually had her keep Steam offline.
Considering the condition games can be released in lately, it can really suck to wait in general, too.
- Comment on US adults social media usage by platform 3 weeks ago:
Not sure how you got to that conclusion. The survey prompt was “Please indicate whether or not you ever use the following websites or apps.” 29% responded that they do not use the platform, less than 1% did not respond. That’s 70%.
- Comment on One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I said local models. They aren’t automatically taking outputs and training updates on them.
And yeah, we’ve all already had our likenesses folded in somewhere. That’s the bigger problem here.
- Comment on One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds 4 weeks ago:
Yes, if it was on a locally-hosted generative model, I wouldn’t be bothered if someone did this in my likeness. That wouldn’t be meaningfully different than using Photoshop to fake it ten years ago.
Passing it around to their friends and gods know whom else is still just as reprehensible though.
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 4 weeks ago:
And the problem with Reddit–especially with certain language communities–is you’ll get a hallucination rate higher than current LLMs because learners can either overestimate their knowledge or sound off just because they want to show off.
I don’t recommend LLM use for beginners at languages but once they get a semester or two (or the equivalent) under their belt, the instant access to an answer that’s right most of the time is invaluable. Just first get to the point where you can start to recognize “maybe that’s not quite right…” first, and check sources. And definitely check in with natives as much as possible.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 weeks ago:
I’ve noticed this is especially bad in Japanese games for whatever reason.
- Comment on Every new Mass Effect playthrough since the first 4 weeks ago:
I’m in the same boat, want FemShep, always romance Tali. The ME2 LE romance mod is pretty painless. Unfortunately, last I checked, the modder never finished the ME3 LE mod. There’s a way to force it in ME3 by hacking the save file and it’ll still get you there, but it won’t be as seamless.
- Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion"thegamepost.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess 5 weeks ago:
Holy hell. I have some bad GameStop trade-in stories, and that’s just from taking in normal trade-ins. I can’t even imagine the clusterfuck this would be. I’d be calling in sick.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
A small AAA production in 2000, maybe. E33’s was only a fraction of a small AAA budget today.
TGA calls it “a game made outside the traditional publisher system,” which fits. I’d agree that we’re looking at wildly different scales of production in the same category, though.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Good showing for E33 but I’m not convinced it’s a shoo-in for GotY. It’s a media-run event and the press adored Hades 2. Plus there’s always the Kojima factor and it would be the first time TGA’s ever given it to a studio’s first game.
- Comment on Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail? 5 weeks ago:
This article didn’t even go into the service disruptions Perplexity has had the past couple of weeks. In short, the best thing Perplexity does is give you access to multiple models at once, but when you try to select one for a specific thread, it will throw an error and (quietly) kick the response to your prompt to a backup.
Perplexity’s calling it a technical issue but it looks more like throttling, especially considering API access to Claude is expensive and that’s the one that is having the most “technical issues.” I would have already gone elsewhere if my sub wasn’t free, and if it continues to be this bad, I might end up going elsewhere anyway.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
If you’re still playing it, feel free to message me for tips on the Fediverse or on Discord. I love talking TO.
Difficulty definitely starts picking up chapter 4, so you’ll have to start finding creative ways to work within the level cap. Gear crafting is one of them.