ICastFist
@ICastFist@programming.dev
- Comment on Avocado 1 day ago:
Just say “no homo” and you’re good. Avoid the nut, because that’s super gay bro
- Comment on Grave of the Fireflies 1 day ago:
Huh, for some reason I completely missed that detail. I might need to give it a quick rewatch
- Comment on Grave of the Fireflies 3 days ago:
I watched it a few years ago and all I could think of was how the kid was responsible for most of the problems he ended facing. Sad? Yes. But a “YOU are making a bad situation worse” sad, because the boy wanted to “prove” he could be an adult, despite being a 10yo with a younger sister to care.
Seriously, his aunt complained he was just hanging around, playing all day and not helping. His reaction? “You old hag, I don’t need you!”
- Comment on Which is more likely in the future: Smartphones eventually becoming more "open" OR Computers eventually becoming more "locked-down"? 3 days ago:
The funny thing is that we’re also seeing small computers like raspberry pi and similars being very open and, save for some of the heavy graphics stuff, being perfect as daily drivers for casual people.
Meanwhile, I don’t expect phones to become open at all
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 4 days ago:
Prey 2017 or Prey 2006?
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 4 days ago:
Spyro and Crash trilogies on the PSX, as well as the Quake 2 port, would definitely merit being called technical masterpieces
On the original Xbox, Phantom Dust would fit that bill, despite being a commercial failure at the time. The tldr is that you create a collection of spells (attacks, traps, dodges, curses, buffs) and try to grab them and the “mana” during the real time duels, in order to beat your opponents. Terrain is semi destructible and you have to take into consideration the trajectory of your spells - www.xbox.com/games/store/…/9PCDNBHR11MR
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 4 days ago:
That’s one hell of a chungusaurus
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 4 days ago:
So, all that anal probing was, indeed, science? TIL
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 4 days ago:
he did actually earn his own money,
How?
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 4 days ago:
How is it for file sharing? It’s my main use of telegram
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 6 days ago:
I’m basing it mostly from personal and family experience. My mom often ends up watching AI made videos (stuff that’s just an AI narrator and AI images slideshow), my RPG group has poked fun at the amount of AI books that Amazon keeps suggesting them, anyone using instagram will, sooner or later, see adverts of famous people endorsing bogus products or sites via the magic of AI
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 6 days ago:
The apparent main use for AI thus far is spam and scam, which is what I was thinking about when dismissing most content made with that. While the internet was already chock full of that before AI, its availability is increasing those problems tenfold
Yes, people use it for other things, like “art”, but most people using it for “art” are trying to get a quick buck ASAP before customers get too smart to fall for it. Writers already had a hard time getting around, now they have to deal with a never ending deluge of AI books, plus the risk of a legally distinct enough copy of their work showing up the next day.
Put it another way, the major use of AI thus far is “i want to make money without effort”
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 6 days ago:
They want you to believe that analyzing things without permission somehow goes against copyright, when in reality, fair use is a part of copyright law, and the reason our discourse isn’t wholly controlled by mega-corporations and the rich.
Ok, but is training an AI so it can plagiarize, often verbatim or with extreme visual accuracy, fair use? I see the 2 first articles argue that it is, but they don’t mention the many cases where the crawlers and scrappers ignored rules set up to tell them to piss off. That would certainly invalidate several cases of fair use
Instead of charging for everything they scrap, law should force them to release all their data and training sets for free. “But they spent money and time and resources!” So did everyone who created the stuff they’re using for their training, so they can fuck off.
The article by Tory also says these things:
This facilitates the creation of art that simply would not have existed and allows people to express themselves in ways they couldn’t without AI. (…) Generative AI has the power to democratize speech and content creation, much like the internet has.
I’d wager 99.9% of the art and content created by AI could go straight to the trashcan and nobody would miss it. Comparing AI to the internet is like comparing writing to doing drugs.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 6 days ago:
The hardest thing to believe is that call centers still had humans somewhere to call/answer calls
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 week ago:
I’ve been using baggy jeans for around 20 years now, I don’t intend to stop. Fuck the fashion police!
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 week ago:
Being born male isn’t an impediment. Make a statement, wear yoga leggings everywhere!
- Comment on they come 1 week ago:
They trained real hard while chafing English seamen’s cocks
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
For Palworld, a new island takes 6 months, per the article. Probably talking about Sakurajima and the big southern one. That makes sense, since it’s not just putting stuff there and calling it a day on the first finished thing, some level design has to happen so the place makes sense and doesn’t feel super boring to explore.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
Solution: bring a cheap plastic chair as part of your luggage
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 1 week ago:
In a way, piracy can fix that problem too, since pirate servers existing for ongoing games means they’ll never actually die, unless the server source code gets taken down and nobody archives a copy. I mean, WoW Classic only happened because a private server running vanilla got too big, despite Blizzard bullshit of “You think you want it, but you don’t” and “We don’t have the code to roll back”.
Star Wars Galaxies, Phantasy Star Online, City of Heroes, Warhammer Age of Reckoning all still exist and can be played, despite being “dead”, thanks to private/pirate servers.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 1 week ago:
Gotta save up for some hard drives to download and keep my GOG games, plus some
piratedtotally legally acquired titles - Comment on Vampires are from Jersey 1 week ago:
Wet sand
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 1 week ago:
The PS3 suffered from lack of games and low stocks for the first 2 years, if I’m not mistaken. Pretty sure they only managed to pull through because they’re a megacorp, with other areas covering up the losses in the meantime. Having a much lower failure rate compared to the 360 certainly helped, too.
The X1 died by M$ showing their hubris at every opportunity before launch. “We’ll block used physical game sales! Fuck games, this is your home media server! The kinect is mandatory and will spy on you! Yes, even while the console is powered down!” - Sony’s marketing was just “We don’t do any of that”
- Comment on The lemming anatomy 1 week ago:
Hey look, we all got a funny number above our heads!
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- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 1 week ago:
Man, I 'member those times. PS3 launch was complete joke, scalpers sold the console for thousands of dollars, with one in particular going for over 17k. This, remember, in 2006. Everyone was making fun of it, from ScrewAttack to VGCats
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
Maybe not here in the fediverse, but there are dozens of youtube channels that are all about whining about “the woke” ruining the gaming industry, “explaining” how every spectacular failure we’ve seen in the last few years (Starfield, Concord) are because of DEI wokeness, etc.
- Comment on negative rizz 1 week ago:
Burn that shit (the car, the bags and the shitbag)
- Comment on Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing 1 week ago:
So, I’m guessing there is no way to play offline, or any private servers floating around
