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- Comment on Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2 14 hours ago:
I think its usually in some Microsoft subscriptions if you’re on PC/Xbox, could give you a decent chance to give it a go. If it turns out to be a forever game for you, that might end up more expensive in the end – but maybe that’s fine in that case
- Comment on Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2 2 days ago:
It was just boring and empty, except for Space Pirates using clean language and some other really bland factions. It tried to cater to everyone and just sucked. That’s to say nothing of the endless load screens and RNG planets
- Comment on US | Trump Says He’ll Only Accept 2026 Midterms If He Deems Them “Honest” 3 days ago:
We can imagine a dystopian scenario where a sitting US president loses an election but claims he didn’t. That the election was rigged. Then he sends a mob of people to storm the legislature, either to pressure the vice president not to enact the election results or to have him killed along with leaders of the opposition before he does (the traitor!).
I mean we can imagine something like that happening if a truly deranged person was president, but why would we.
- Comment on Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2 3 days ago:
On my death bed, one of my many regrets will be having played Starfield
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative’s “obsolete” smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because “the new version’s bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more”.
- Comment on Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic 1 week ago:
Thanks for the link, hadn’t heard about that project, the list of target features looks very promising
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 week ago:
But they all suck, or rather the Internet kinda sucks these days
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 week ago:
In Google Search’s prime DDG was still terrible and not a viable competitor even with the privacy advantage. Now both services are almost comparable, so it’s kind of a no-brainer to ditch Google.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 week ago:
Yeah, search has degraded along with the Internet, you almost need an LLM now to filter out all the garbage hits. For a while, adding “reddit” to your search term was an OK high level filter to remove blogspam and e-commerce sites, but interacting with reddit is so annoying now that it’s barely an option and many of the quality reddit posters have moved on while the state and corporate astroturfers are running the show. Never mind that the “reddit filter” also removed results from much better sources, like specialist forums.
- Comment on Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic 1 week ago:
What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?
- Comment on EU should only buy European components for defence, France space minister says 1 week ago:
I agree, but the high global integration has also been a winning hand for Europe in the last few decades. There will be some pain and odd bed fellows.
- Comment on Is OpenAI dead yet? 1 week ago:
The problem is that it isn’t clear what kinds of exposure private credit and other actors in the shadow banking space hold, because they generally operate on a model of financial obfuscation to get around banking regulation (i.e. being actual banks). What is known is that they are deeply intertwined with financing the AI bubble, even if all their exposure is through debt instruments, crypto schemes or insurance contracts (that probably is not the full scope though), they will be hit hard when their “borrowers” can’t pay back.
- Comment on Is OpenAI dead yet? 1 week ago:
And possibly the most parts of shadow banking, i.e the alt accounts of major financial institutions.
Fun times ahead!
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 2 weeks ago:
If you’re rich, you look good That’s not news
- Comment on Fable's evil landlords won't grow devil horns, as reboot ditches classic character morphing due to a lack of belief in objective arseholery 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely, I think games should dispense with the good/evil thing all together and focus on whether choices are self-serving, “pragmatic”, diplomatic, earnestly attempting to be moral. Of course, this only gets interesting if the game doesn’t consistently punish you for being amoral by imposing consequences that are harsher than the rewards. This also means not punishing the player with worse and less content for not following the “intended” story arch.
I haven’t played a lot of Frostpunk 2, but I think that game does a lot with similar concepts.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 2 weeks ago:
Tl;dr surveillance equipment working perfectly, used for dystopian surveillance. Major shocker.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 2 weeks ago:
In the context of parenting there are certainly better things you can do to prevent “shennanigans” other than subjecting them to surveillance. Like you know… raising them?
Terrifying with a generation of peole grown up under total control and expected to be perfectly obedient. They will be shitty adults. But hey, at least they won’t have memories of that time they snuck out at night to watch the stars.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Subscriptions are thieves of intentionality
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
It’s included, but good lord if that’s not a very high price for temporary access to a collection of bargain bin games. You could buy a full price game every other month for that money.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Sweet synthesis: We need a GrokGPT that tells nazis to kill themselves.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod flatlines, after CD Projekt file DMCA strike and request its creator drop their paywall 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a developer and not knowledgeable about how his tech works, but shouldn’t it be possible to make a free mod that can interface with his proprietary VR software (which he then could license)?
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
Megabonk has some “fun” challenges that probably counts towards both. I did the “AFK gaming” one, where your character isn’t allowed to be moved by the player ( a huge handicap). It was kind of fun figuring out which character would be best, what pickups to prioritize etc.