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- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 8 hours ago:
I’m so disappointed we came so close to having a Cuno RPG, only to have that ripped away.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 8 hours ago:
If it was an RPG that was even close to contending for that title, I would acquiesce to it.
Except it is. And I don’t think the burden of proof is on the article writer, when culturally, it’s just accepted that it is either the greatest RPG, or one of the greatest RPGs. Maybe you didn’t like it, but that doesn’t invalidate the facts of how high people regard this game.
It’s not some damned marketing strategy. It’s sitting at 91 on MetaCritic (even after all of the backlash about ZA/UM), won Game of the Year for many many outlets, and any individual who has played it all the way through will either call it the greatest RPG they ever played, or one of the greatest RPGs.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 9 hours ago:
That was made 25 years ago. And just off the top of my head, Xenosaga surpassed it.
- Comment on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning 9 hours ago:
Well, it seem damned easy for Amazon to just delete the fridges, so it being on two different continents really didn’t matter, did it?
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 9 hours ago:
I’m talking about the general sentiment from articles like this, not the article itself. The content of the article doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
It’s the Constant. Fucking. Beratement. of the technology.
Like, we fucking get it: You’re a technophobe and hate technology, and love to write articles that shit on LLMs, because that’s what gets clicks. And judging from the votes from this forum, most everybody falls for the clickbait, which then generates even more hateful articles because they know it gets them views.
Meanwhile, out there in the real world, people go to work, and use this sort of technology in their day-to-day jobs. There’s this extreme and jarring disconnect between public opinion, what the news report, and what’s actually happening in real life. I feel like I’m watching Fox News half the time. It’s like all of these haters of LLMs suffer from a massive cognitive dissonance when they are in the workplace. Or they are so behind the times that they aren’t using this technology. Or they don’t even realize the things they use are using this technology behind the scenes.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 9 hours ago:
Exactly. There’s a finite amount of time available to teach somebody all of the useful skills needed to live life and build skills for a career.
Schools are no longer teaching cursive, or if they do, they don’t spend a lot of time on it. Same thing with all of the manual math operations. Learning algebra is more important. Hell, learning how to use a calculator is more important.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 15 hours ago:
Calling it cheating is about as dumb as when math teachers called calculators cheating. If everybody has access to a calculator that can process any division math problem you throw at it, learning how to do long division is suddenly not very useful.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 15 hours ago:
Imagine it’s the late 90s to early 2000s, and millions of people are on this anti-Internet bandwagon, while scores and scores of articles (on paper, of course) are always pushing this negative slant towards the Internet. People reading this shit about how the Internet is going to doom us all, and we should reject it in favor of traditional media and research.
This is what these last few years feel like. Just an outright rejection of useful and life-changing technology, while the corpos embrace it. The complete 180 to how the late 90s actually turned out, when corpos were slow on the uptick with this whole Internet thing.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 15 hours ago:
So bad that I had to hop on a forum and go “Hey, so, there aren’t any good choices in the dialog tree, did I fuck up my character generation? Should I start over?”
Your first mistake was thinking it was like any of those other CRPGS with dialog trees. No, you didn’t fuck up your character generation. Your character is a fuck up. That’s part of the story it’s trying to tell.
How you engage with the game is figuring out how to un-fuck-up the character in a matter that is realistic. Or just ignoring whatever lessons the game gives you and continue down the same self-destructive path. Or somewhere in-between. All paths are have their creative stories to tell, and even being strange and weird with it can still lead to solving pieces of the crime you’re trying to piece together.
Yeah, I don’t get games where “You want some fuck?” is a valid dialog choice.
Because it’s fucking funny when you didn’t know what the actual dialogue entry was going to be, you took a gamble, and the “pay off” is that your character says the cringest fucking line to some woman he’s immediately attracted to. So cringe that even your own Volition (best fucking mental power, btw) is like “the words already left your mouth” as if he was already smacking his goddamn forehead right through to the other side.
Your. Character. Is. A. Fuck up.
If that bothers you, and you want to play something that involves some extreme power fantasy, where you can pick a class and play a completely silent blank slate, then this game is not for you.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 16 hours ago:
It’s really worth playing. The voice acting is stellar, and it really is the best “role-playing” game, in the sense that you are fully immersed in role-playing a character. The mental gameplay mechanics are GOAT, and one-of-a-kind.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 16 hours ago:
I mean, only because you picked some build that gave you 1 HP.
- Comment on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning 16 hours ago:
“I put my carton of eggs in the fridge, and the fridge fell over, breaking all of my eggs.”
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 2 days ago:
I didn’t even like the Bioshock Infinite DLCs. I thought it ended perfectly with the original Infinite ending.
Long video, but B4Brandoss articulated why much better than I could.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 2 days ago:
And doing this with just 13 games? F95 catalogues 13 games… a day. I feel like GOG needs to up their game here.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 3 days ago:
That’s not true. If you give it context, it understands and retains context quite well. The thing is that you can’t just say “write code for me” and expect it to work.
Also, certain models are better than certain tasks than others.
- Comment on Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content 3 days ago:
True, this is good news. But, it should not have come down to the entire fucking government of Japan weighting in on the global impacts of this insane decision!
Is this truly the amount of mountain-moving we have to do to counteract a single organization’s opinion?
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 3 days ago:
As it samples itself it will get worse. LLM and similar generative AI is not the future, it is already the past.
This is such a delusional and uninformed take that I don’t know where to start.
The people behind LLMs are scientists with PhDs. The idea that they don’t know how to uncover and repairs biases in the models, which is what you’re suggesting, is patently ridiculous. There’s already plenty of benchmarks to disprove your stupid theory. LLM tech is evolving at an alarming rate. To the point that almost anything 1-2 years old is considered obsolete.
LLMs are useful tools, if you actually know what the fuck you’re doing. They will continue to get more useful as more research uncovers different ways to use it, and right now, there’s a metric shitton of money being poured into that research. This is not blockchain. This is not NFTs. This is not string theory. This is actual results with measurable impacts.
I’m not trying to defend this rich asshole CEO’s comments. Satya can go fuck himself. But, I’m not so delusional that I’m going to ignore the tech as some NFT-like gamble.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 3 days ago:
Yep, and the general public is too stubborn to accept a little thing like nuance. Neither are the CEO assholes that can’t stop talking about layoffs and replacing jobs, out in the open.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 4 days ago:
This is BS. Whatever payment processor they develop will need to interact with all of the major credit card processors: VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. All credit and debit cards use these four brands as the backing network. There is no way around it.
Nobody is going to add a new credit card brand, not even Steam. Amazon doesn’t do it. Twitter doesn’t do it. Ebay doesn’t do it. Nobody does. If they did, they would face immediate retribution from the VMDA empire. Their payments would cease, and Steam would collapse overnight.
- Comment on [Megathread] Payments Processors & Collective Shout VS NSFW games 6 days ago:
I’ve posted this elsewhere, but this video is a really good breakdown of the situation.
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 6 days ago:
The P in GOP stands for Projection.
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- Comment on Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue 1 week ago:
Let’s shed a tear over the $2M/yr New York models that aren’t getting paid.
- Comment on Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue 1 week ago:
I think this confusion is proving the pointlessness of mags like Vogue and models in general. Why do models exist? They certainly weren’t there to impose their overly high unrealistic body standards for women.
Especially with all of the airbrushing and photoshopping going on. Have you seen videos of digital editors working off of the source material? They fuck around with a LOT of the details, even to the point of changing arm/leg length. It doesn’t seem like much of a leap to go to AI at this point. Even if they didn’t, they would just use AI tools within Photoshop to almost do the same thing.
Models only exist for advertising. That’s it. I don’t understand why we would treat advertisers as some protected class. This is just the inevitable fate of an already pointless industry.
- Comment on Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue 1 week ago:
It’s noticed as AI because the company told the fans it’s AI.
If they did a good enough job with the filtering and inpainting and didn’t say anything, they probably would have gotten away with it for a period of time.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 1 week ago:
Civvie 11 had a good video on both Descent games.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
State monopolies are fine. The government is owned by the people, and when corporations don’t think an industry is profitable, the government’s job is to step it and take on that job themselves. That’s how we end up with utilities, 911 services, the post office (back when it wasn’t fucked with by Republicans).
The problem with copyrights is the corporate stank that gatekeeps enforcement. When a large corporate entity sues a small party, the small party is fucked.
Also, Mark Twain and Disney fucked up the length of copyright over the last 150 years. The social agreement was that we were supposed to get most of this shit into public domain in a reasonable amount of time. 80 years + life of the author is not a fucking reasonable amount of time, by any stretch of the imagination.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
And a single woman and her organization seems to hold a disproportionate amount of power over the payment processors.
I don’t understand it. Payment processors could easily tell her to pound sand, but they don’t.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
Copyrights exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
So, fuck them. Let AI destroy the fabric of copyrights.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
It’s also a dumb fucking argument in general.
LLM models are not magic. They don’t store the entirety of human history in a 10-20GB file. That’s a fucking stupid idea. They look at something, process some weights, and move on to the next thing.
It’s like going on Google Image Search, and seeing all of the copyrighted images on your browser. You didn’t “steal” those, just because it was downloaded. That’s not how copyright works.
Please stop parroting this stupid fucking argument.
