Cethin

@Cethin@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  People have this issue with video game characters who don’t even pretend to have intelligence. This could only go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And you still haven’t seen him acting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This panel from Dead Account reminds me that I'm getting old⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have one, but it makes sense. It’s before they felt the need to lock everything down because users might make it the thing they want, instead of selling them a partial solution for a year. Modern devices are fucked, because you don’t own them. If you want something out of it that it doesn’t provide by default, you’re shit out of luck until next year when it might.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it won’t be good, but it’s going to happen eventually. Sooner is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really think someone needs to make a modern evolution of Dark Cloud. Maybe the technological limitation was actually a benefit though, because a modern game would probably try to do open world, full 3d construction, and things like that. The technology at the time required that they keep it fairly simple but also really well designed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a question. Is this for you in the future, or for someone who may find it? If it’s the latter, and it’s just information you want to store, not media, I’d just go with paper. Storing digital data is both hard and error prone, and it also requires them to have the technology and power to read it. If things really go to hell, this isn’t a guarantee. Paper ensures they can at least view it no matter what. It’ll degrade eventually, but it’ll hold up better than digital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  An ammo box is probably cheaper than a pelican case. I’d go for that no matter what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  4 years of development and they didnt have anything to show except for a CG render?

  Anything to show you. They aren’t beholden to you.

  Are there any examples of games which have had 4 straight years of radios silence that have not had major development problems?

  The vast majority! Game dev cycles are often 8+ years now, and you don’t hear anything from them until about a year before launch. You think about the canceled ones, but most of them that launch you just don’t consider, which is good. No news is good news, as the saying goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would we have seen it? You normally don’t see anything until they’re gearing up for launch.

  I think it’s more likely MS looked at their portfolio, looked at how much this was costing, and decided it didn’t fit what they were looking for for how much it was costing.

  This is not to say it’s a good call, just that MS executives are pretty shit at game development analysis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on what? Who have you seen be convicted of making deepfake porn? Under what law?

  Then you’re provided a law where it’d be illegal:

  Hmm, interesting, thanks. Has anyone been charged or convicted with this law yet?

  This seems to heavily imply you don’t believe it’s illegal until someone’s been convicted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stupid sexy apples⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to expand on the end bit: honey bees in the Americas are invasive European honey bees (meaning they aren’t invasive to Europe, or Africa and Asia either). There used to be honey bees in the Americas, but they’ve been extinct for an incredibly long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not convicted. That’d be some crazy speed.

  However, your insistence that it hasn’t happened yet so can’t happen is insane. There has to be a first case in which it hadn’t happened before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. Almost no one who has an opinion on AI is a technophobe. I’d argue it’s the opposite. To be informed enough to have an opinion means you must like technology. However, LLMs have been proven to be confidently in a inaccurate and misleading, and it creates situations where people believe they’re correct when it just made shit up.

  Sure, it help you get an answer pretty quickly, but then you have to check it for accuracy (if you aren’t a fucking idiot who just trusts the thing innately). It doesn’t actually save any time most of the time if you actually learn how to do it yourself. For example, I sometimes use a local model to write boilerplate code for me, but if I ask it to write anything that solves a problem it’s almost never correct. Then I have to parse it and figure out what it was doing to fix it, when I could have just written it myself and been done.

  Yeah, it’s great if you’re an idiot and just want to sound smart. It’ll give you an answer that seems reasonable, and you can move on with your day. However, there’s very good odds it isn’t correct if it’s anything complex and/or niche. (I think I saw something not long ago saying 70% chance of being wrong.) If it isn’t complex or is common, you didn’t need a fucking LLM to solve 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’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheating is when you skip a part of the process, and when the process is there to help you learn something then you’re cheating yourself. It is the same as math teachers enforcing no-calculator rules. They weren’t doing it to be pointlessly strict. They were doing it to force you to excersice your brain. You need to know the processes they’re asking you to do. Once you know how, then you can use a calculator without missing out. Knowing the process is incredibly helpful in higher math, or in practical applications when you need to think of how to get to a desired result from what you have.

  It’s like going to the gym and having a robot lift the weights for you. Sure, the reps got done but you didn’t actually get anything out of it. Is that useful or are you just wasting your time and money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really how that works. Sure, it isn’t liquid, but you can still borrow against it, and you don’t pay tax in this like you would if you sell. That’s how the wealthy can still buy things without having to pay any reasonable amount of tax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot were, but not all. I believe Itch made the decision to allow this type of content only if it’s free for now though, so a lot has gone totally free (with the option to donate).

  I’m not totally sure on any of this, because this content is not something I follow, but I think I heard this is the case somewhere here recently. I could be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a heads up, because of payment processor stuff, most are free on itch.io right now also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hats are more commonly the subject of alien photos than aliens.

  FTFY

  If you can’t identify the object that’s flying, it’s a UFO. It doesn’t matter what it is. A flying hat that isn’t identified is still a UFO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there anyone who sells games that aren’t bad in some way? You don’t become successful in capitalism by being altruistic. Any company successful enough to run a market probably has some skeletons in their closet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG NSFW Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it’s a slight against them. There’s a whole shit load of stuff not included. Just because something wasn’t doesn’t mean it was a choice. It would have been nice, but we can’t really know why there’s none here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a suspicion $80 was made up to anchor the price, so when they drop it to $70 stupid people think they won and are getting a deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you that time isn’t the measure of value. That’s not what the person above said though. Honestly, I think it was a pretty bad game. The writting didn’t trust the player, instead they beat them over the head that it’s a goofy critique of capitalism. The characters were boring. The game in general just wasn’t very fun.

  Honestly, it did fall into what you’re saying where it felt bloated. There was potentially a good game in there, but it was buried under everything that wasn’t interesting but they thought they needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have a theory that the absurd $80 price was to make as feel like we won when it drops to $70. This isn’t a win. Don’t celebrate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw the System Shock remakes into your replay. They’re Bioshock in all but name, except you get more freedom (that decreases steadily over time with each game in this “series”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With the right team willing to take risks, I agree. There’s still so much it could explore. I doubt this is that though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, they are largely anti-american and woke, but in a good way. Woke is good, and America has some fucking issues. If you’re choosing to be not woke or actively pro-america, then you might be doing something wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good racing games on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  🏴‍☠️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve heard putting a rock in your shoe is effective, though obviously not comfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, even though batteries have gotten smaller, and I’d prefer a larger one, mine still trivially lasts a day. I’ve got an inductive charger at my desk too, so it’s rarely drops below like 80% even. They easily last long enough that carrying extras to hot swap is not required and just a hassle. I guess if you’re going camping or something, it might be nice, but that’s about the only situation I could see being useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And also none from the person above, but the logic doesn’t check out. Using basic inference, we know it isn’t about legal content. That already wasn’t allowed, so no changes needed to be made. There must be another reason. What is it? I don’t know. I’m not making a claim to knowledge of what it is. I’m only proving that it isn’t what the other person claimed. Burden of proof is on the person making a claim, not the one disputing it.