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- Comment on Bi-weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 7 hours ago:
Half Life 2 VR mod after finishing Alyx. Alyx itself was a fantastic VR experience, but the hype is such that I probably don’t need to explain it.
- Comment on We're giving The Rogue Prince of Persia a GLOW-UP! (Update Teaser Trailer) 6 days ago:
I liked the purple prince… Hopefully there are skin options.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 week ago:
Finally some good news!
- Comment on Game of the day - Return of the Obra Dinner - did you enjoy it? 2 weeks ago:
Incredible game. You should play Papers, Please which is also developed by Lucas Pope. The man is a game design genius.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
Have got two of my family members onto bitwarden and even that is a lot for the tech-illiterate. Couldn’t imagine Keepass+syncthing.
Ultimately, bitwarden is better than using hunter12 for everything like how they were.
- Comment on Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting a AAA RPG With Saber Interactive and Paramount Game Studios - EXCLUSIVE 1 month ago:
Saber interactive at least are an experienced developer with real games under their belt.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 1 month ago:
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
He’s on the better side of tech reviewers IMO. I think sometimes he’s more focussed on describing what sets a product apart in the market, rather than judging whether that niche is worth filling or not.
Definitely doesn’t feel scammy/overly ad driven.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think we’re almost there. Probably slightly bulkier fashion needs to be normalised to make this acceptable, but the potential applications of AR are actually cool. Meta is a privacy nightmare, but they are pushing R&D in the VR space and I think its at least notable. I don’t like trusting any megacorp with my data but its going to be a big company that makes commercial AR a reality.
- Comment on [Opinion] Why do so many cozy games suck? 1 month ago:
The brown MilSim apocalypse was a bad time.
Ultimately, these cozy games are so often Indies with a limited scope and budget. The fact that this sort of genre has found the following is a good thing for gaming and Indie devs.
Of course once we reach market saturation and people are fed up with them, they won’t sell as well and new twists on the genre will have to be developed in order to stand out. This is a good thing for gaming and indie devs again.
- Comment on Who is your favorite video game developer? 1 month ago:
Not the PS1 era? Crash Bandicoot was one of the best games on the system when it came out.
- Comment on Who is your favorite video game developer? 1 month ago:
Absolutely. Stoked that Darren Korb has been with them all this time, his soundtrack on Transistor is his best work IMO.
I don’t think we’ll get it though. Hades 2 is an exception to their NO SEQUELS rule only due to how damn successful Hades was.
- Comment on Who is your favorite video game developer? 1 month ago:
Gen7/8 Bioware. Supergiant, Larian, Valve.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 1 month ago:
Yeah it seems like a podcast saying a number like after talking with a staff member of concord. I would have thought that people below executive/finance suite wouldn’t have that information. Not sure if they talked to someone in there but $400 million is just a bit steep.
Not impossible with tech salaries being what they are, maybe it includes the buyout of the entire studio by Sony in that number though.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered confirmed by ESRB rating 2 months ago:
Certainly a remaster that we needed.
Bloodborne on the other hand runs beautifully at a buttery smooth 15 - 30 fps. No need to remaster that one.
- Comment on Final Fantasy XVI is out now on Steam and Epic Games Store 2 months ago:
Why do anything other than claim the free games honestly… The Epic launcher needs to improve drastically for it to be viable as a competitor.
- Comment on UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London 2 months ago:
If the AI doesn’t hallucinate incorrect information, I totally agree.
One size fits all classroom learning leaves many students behind, and having a personal AI tutor could really help kids fill in the gaps in their understanding that would otherwise be overlooked.
AI hallucinations is still a very real factor that limits the usefulness of this tech right now though. I magine coming into class and your tutor you had yesterday is confidently telling you the opposite of the fact that it taught you yesterday.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
I didn’t even know about this but I think you’re right. I just scrolled through the Calm Piano playlist and the third song down was by an artist with millions of streams, but absolutely zero online presence outside of Spotify and Apple Music. Their about section was just a generic sentence.
I hate this. So the idea is that the cost of creating this music is less than the payout of streaming royalties if they push the songs on their official generic playlists, effectively keeping the money in-house rather than paying to an external artist…
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
Agreed. As a person that has released music, I hate this guy and would like the book thrown at him and anyone mass releasing shitty AI music… It might not be a big corpo doing it, but it’s still fucking creatives over.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Surely it’s coming. We have The music publishing cartel vs Suno already.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Exactly, there are blatant examples of direct plagiarism spat out by these LLMs.
- Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI. 2 months ago:
I wonder where they trained the AI model to answer such a question.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
Financially, I’m not sure if you could say that starfield or fallout 4 was a failure… Look at steamcharts player counts as an indication. All time peak concurrent players: Skyrim: 90,000 Skyrim SE: 79,000 Fallout 4: 470,000 Fallout 76: 72,000 Starfield: 330,000
Sure skyrim has sold on many platforms and over time likely has sold the best, but you can’t say that starfield and fallout 4 were commercial failures. Starfield being on game pass day 1 means the real concurrent numbers would be enormous.
I’ve not played starfield and agree it looks like shit, but TES VI is likely going to sell gangbusters to mainstream audiences given how much Skyrim broke into the mainstream.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
Been playing for the first time Disco Elysium, but also have Kingdom Come:Deliverance and Titanfall 2 (Although I played it already 6 years ago) installed on my PC after getting them on deep sale recently.
- Comment on Mozilla removes telemetry service Adjust from mobile Firefox versions 2 months ago:
Hahaha amazing
- Comment on Mozilla removes telemetry service Adjust from mobile Firefox versions 2 months ago:
I disagree, as a Firefox mobile daily driver I will confirm it has extensions. Dark mode reader and ublock origin, does one need anything easy.
- Comment on Astro Bot (PS5) - Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
I would imagine this game is going to be the best implementation of the dualsense haptics yet. Astros Playroom being the current best.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
That’s true, but I’d imagine running a site like twitter actively costs money. If advertisers aren’t paying, who is? Do they go to their investors and ask for money? For how long could Elon afford to run Twitter with all of its development costs?
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
I’d love to see it fail completely. I’m hoping that musk makes it a site that you have to pay a subscription to see anything at all on there so everyone can finally give up on it.
- Comment on Day 37 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Jedi Fallen Order) 2 months ago:
I don’t have anything particular to add but I just wanted to say that I like this content.