wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- 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 day ago:
Even today, people value photos differently than paintings, at least in part due to the amount of effort that goes into each.
There’s no reasonable argument to preventing people from having the information up front to make the same sort of value decision about a game.
You’re free to use AI, just declare it. The purchasing public is free to decide if that changes how much they’re willing to pay for your game.
- 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 day ago:
Unity doesn’t work by hoovering up the collected works of humanity, mixing it all up, and extruding it as a paste as a response to a sentence or two prompt (yes, image generation is more complicated to prompt but it is still roughly a paragraph of text).
Look, if you personally don’t see the issue with AI, I still have a hard time believing that you haven’t seen plenty of varied arguments against it. Ignoring all the varied reasons to pretend it’s only some needless hand-wringing at this point just feels like bad faith.
And either way, we’re talking about a tag/label. I see no issues with games having a tab/label/etc on their store page indicating the engine they’re built off of. Some people don’t like horror, puzzles, always online, forced PvP, or a particular art style. Some people don’t like generative AI. I don’t think there’s a strong argument to be made that usage of generative AI should be a special case here. If no one’s harassing people, I see no reason to prevent people from making informed decisions on what they purchase.
If your counterargument is that AI is just a tool, and we don’t tag whether the artists used a mouse or a drawing tablet, I’d counter with this: hand drawn art is a selling point due to the increased workload to create it (and implied extra quality). Now “no generative AI” can be the same. An indicator that things were done “the hard way”, with an implication (but no guarantee) of higher quality.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 days ago:
If I recall right, the only exlusive weapon was the Flamethrower, but they also added the missile Warthog. Might be forgetting some other weapons though, as I never had the Xbox version.
I had some fun when I was younger modding the demo. The only content stripped out of it were the levels, so there were all these custom versions of the Blood Gulch map floating around with Ghosts and Scorpion tanks, etc.
I liked messing with weapon properties. Had my own temu/wish.com “cursed halo at home” long before it was a real thing.
- Sniper rifle fired plasma grenades, and you could do fun stuff like stacking two so the first would throw the second into the air and the trail and explosion made it like a flare.
- Shotgun fired a spread of frag grenades instead of bullets, and pushed you backwards a bit.
- Pistol was more accurate, slightly faster, much less damage, and pushed whoever got hit back a ton. You could easily juggle someone up into the skybox with it. It pushed vehicles too.
- Rocket launcher fired a massive ball of rockets that would lag everything.
- Flamethrower fired rockets instead of flames, with a much higher ammo pool, but no other changes. So rocket sprinkler.
- Fully charged plasma pistol fired a Scorpion Tank shot. I think the non charged ones homed in to a stupid extent.
- Chaingun Warthog fired needler rounds with an increased lifetime.
- Assault rifle worked as area denial, setting an area in an orb shape around you on fire.
- The plasma cannon thing would spawn a Scorpion tank over your head, crushing you.
- I think I turned the needler into a shotgun blast thing, but it still fired needles.
- I think I changed the elites’ plasma smg thing to start firing slowly but “rev up” to stupid fast speeds, and then the cooldown hurt your shields?
- There was something that would call down a larger version of the plasma cannon projectile from the sky, with a larger explosion radius and a stupid big/strong pushback effect.
- Vehicle crashes called the same kind of system as a projectile hitting, so you were effectively “shot” with a vehicle impact “bullet” as a rider if you crashed too hard. Congrats that’s now a frag grenade explosion. That one was shamelessly stolen from a tutorial.
That’s what I remember at least.
- Comment on Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats' 2 days ago:
Good old Trainwiz. Pretty sure the mad bastard used to frequent 4chan’s Elder Scrolls modding threads, so I’m kind of impressed at the restraint of his response.
Give them BBB support you coward!
- Comment on Americans be like: 3 days ago:
The full list really isn’t as bad as I expected.
BBC is up there, apnews, the guardian.
And PBS isn’t a news site, so of course it doesn’t show up.
Also worth remembering that CNN was pretty widely considered to be balanced until around a decade ago. I’m sure there’s a bunch of older people still operating from that.
- Comment on Microsoft working on adding Microsoft Store app updates to Windows Update 3 days ago:
Why? Who asked for this? If you have a Store App installed, you have the Store itself to handle updates, unless you’re a power user installing them through PowerShell.
My assumption is that they’re working on making the store more integrated with the rest of the OS, or maybe adding it to Windows Update will allow easier control of update rollouts in enterprise environments. Maybe both.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2's dev team is set to double in size by the end of 2027, hopefully meaning its cyberfoundations'll be laid by then 3 days ago:
For anyone who missed the trailer: youtu.be/jjhRSNkquOc
- Comment on i never noticed this 3 days ago:
- Comment on 5 days ago:
The price has crept up with the paid expansions, but holy shit do NOT sleep on the Castlevania one. It doubles the base game content, and fits in great.
- Comment on Every time I see this headline, I think (hope?) I hallucinated the last 24.5 years 1 week ago:
Looks like it’s Wikipedia’s current fundraising banner thing, since I found OP’s response to be vague for anyone not already aware, or who accesses Wikipedia in a way that blocks it.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 1 week ago:
Better check the comments again. At least now there are multiple that explicitly are.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 1 week ago:
I swear, every time I start to think that I go overboard with this sort of shit in my scripts for work, I either find another ridiculous edge case or a story like this comes out.
- Comment on We have one at home 1 week ago:
It sucked to have bought into the kickstarter and financed the project, and then see the product on the shelves at Target while I was still waiting on mine to be delivered.
Shit, I didn’t realize it got that bad. I’m honestly surprised I didn’t hear more rage about that online at the time.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
There’s multiple projects out there for it. Windows 10 Ameliorated is/was an open source project of PowerShell scripts you run against the installation media (and I think afer install, it’s been a while) to get LTSC Windows 10 stripped down as much as possible.
It’s what I run in a VM for my work’s VPN connection software (and then for the RDP session too). Keeps an extra level of separation from my personal stuff.
I could probably get things working in a Linux VM, but it’s not worth the trouble for me.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 1 week ago:
As if recall wasn’t bad enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean, joke’s on them, Lemmy doesn’t have accrual of karma so there’s nothing to really “farm” using an LLM.
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 2 weeks ago:
Looks like the dev’s Ko-Fi is the official source for the download: ko-fi.com/nemo622
No offense, but I’m way more interested in this Crystal styled Emerald romhack itself than whatever drama is happening around it.
Although I am sad to hear that yet another creator has been badgered out of enjoying their work. That sucks.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 2 weeks ago:
“Have you heard of our lord and savior, veganism?”
Yes, leave me alone.
- Comment on Jesse wtf are you talking about 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Jesse wtf are you talking about 2 weeks ago:
There’s precedence for it to be gay, based on the stars on the original game box art.
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 2 weeks ago:
I never took to 7 like I did to this one. Couldn’t really tell you why.
I miss how they ditched the more unique character karts for the generic mix and match parts now. Let me race in a backhoe again you cowards!
- Comment on Straight from the CDC 2 weeks ago:
Oh my god does he pray!
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 weeks ago:
It’s become a wealth/status symbol for people who don’t like the more traditional bougie shit. Lets them still delude themselves into thinking they’re salt of the earth types.
- Comment on 877-CASH-NOW 2 weeks ago:
Am I stupid, or is that the equivalent of using a novelty check for like $25 for these rich motherfuckers? That seems like it would be chump change for them.
- Comment on Real talk, which would you rather have: Megaman 12, or Megaman X9? 3 weeks ago:
I’m still hoping that someday 1 and 2 will get decomps so fans can try their hand at it.
- Comment on Game of my childhood, Windows xp, best windows 3 weeks ago:
There’s a full decomp of it that should be W11 compatible, if you want the original experience.
Decomp Github: github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
Windows XP game (for the resources the decomp needs): archive.org/details/3-d-pinball-for-windows.-7z
- Comment on Guilty 3 weeks ago:
Very few things “come with” a bin. Houses don’t. You generally have to buy one.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 3 weeks ago:
The last president to talk about that got a magic bullet for his troubles.
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 3 weeks ago:
I might also look into Social Fixer, if that addon is still around. Used to be the best one for customizing Facebook’s bullshit away.
- Comment on VVVVVV and Super Hexagon's Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully potty platformer about eggs 4 weeks ago:
Oh no, real egg-like
