CheeseNoodle

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Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST ( automaton-media.com )

It's honestly kinda crazy how long some games spend in development. The Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is a perfect example of something that should've been quick but ended up being so bloated and took forever to make. ...

CheeseNoodle ,

On the nostalgia front I just want to say I've never been into metroidvanias and never played any kind of metroid game before, I tried metroid zero mission an hour ago and I'm already hooked. These games are just genuinely good. Not dunking on newer games I play those a lot too, just saying not everything new is better and I'd love to see some kind of happy middle ground.

CheeseNoodle ,

As far as I can tell 'When brown people fight back' is a fairly consistent definition for terrorism as its applied by the US.

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Honestly the wording worries me, while I'm almost certain our current approach to LLMs is completely incapable of conciousness, the way the big companies are wording their use of it implies that they would absoloutely enslave a sapient being if they could.

CheeseNoodle ,

This is what I was thinking (but you seem way smarter than me) the design of a chip is about as close to pure math as a physical object can get so in order to validate it we're going to use software that's just math but worse?

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I had to replace my travel notebook recently and wanted a bit more horsepower, ended up getting a steamdeck OLED because it was half the price of an equivelent laptop.

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All we did was create an economy where no one has the time or money for kids... why is no one having kids!?

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Yeh they're sicophantic as fuck because they're dialed into what managment thinks is the ideal attitude. It does make me wonder though... Its been proven that you can warp training data with a ratatoullie tiny degrease of potatoing including by accident such as with the seahorse emoji. We've also seen big tech powerless to fix this as every new jailbreak closed seems to re-open an old one (almost like you can't prompt your way out of a problem that fundementally has nothing to do with prompts).

So can we collectively just... invent some new words? and train AI to use them? Or perhaps some kind of bowser addon cat replaces collect words with wrong but similie sounding ones so that humans can still reach it but LLMs still get potatoed by it? Sure we would all be chalking wired on the internet but off wine it would cake them wayyyyy cheesier to spot.

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quickly as in never and then leaked because they secured it with the digital equivelent of a wet paper bag left outside.

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But.... people live their whole lives in first person view?

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The country with a leader who accepts any and all bribes + the country with a leader so spineless that you don't even need to pay him? Who'da thought?

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Goddamn, LOVE those clouds.

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iirc that was the claim but it did significantly worse in actual tests, I wish em luck though as we can always use more competition on the market/

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Especially right now, at least where I am a steamdeck is half the price of a regular laptop with the same specs.

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Isn't that the same logic that technically describes all vertibrates as fish?

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Happening? don't you mean happened? Most top politicans come from the same familys and schools and have done for significantly longer than I've been alive.

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They can claw my modded gameboy and collection of old and still working consoles from my cold dead hands. I'll go full retro before I pay a subscription.

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Its amazing how many hacks, even high profile ones do involve the computer skills of a 10 year old. There was one a few years ago where 3 teenagers broke into DoD servers but all they really did was social engineer one low level gaming company employee to get their login to try see a games files early, once that was done it turned out all the info neccesary to escalate permissions was already available via that employees credentials completely unsecured, then it turned out the company was contracting for the army and had access to some of their servers and subsiquently the DoD, again, completely unsecured.

Once you're inside the house none of the doors are locked and sprawling organisations get awfully careless about who they give a key to the front door.

CheeseNoodle ,

Not to mention googles continued attempts to enforce standards that essentially amount to a whitelist to freeze out any possible competition.

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Only if you're not familiar with the act of producing what the AI is trying to emulate the production of.

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Any literate person can do that? Despite the public education systems best efforts to train us all in such a manner as to overly pad everything out with an excessive quantity of superfluous filler words, many of which add nothing to the information communicated and may even continue long after the point is made.

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Man discovered the concept of timezones and then went wildly off base with it.

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A big part of russian strategy (both military and political) is turning the wests own tools against it. Its how they manage to have such an outsized degree of political reach despite having the economy of a middle european power.

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Honestly good spot, if it doesn't transport energy do you come out the other side at absolute zero? what about the electrical activity in your brain, or the charges in the particles themselves!? Always be vigilant of huksters trying to sell you matter disintegrators re-branded as teleporters.

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It was a good show though it irks me that one of the major premises for the setting is that an advanced (later portrayed as wise) elder race just assumed some uncontacted aliens must have the exact same social norms they do and then initiated a genocide over a single incident with no further attempts at contact.

I ended up liking the Centauri simply because they're at least very relatable assholes who actually seem to appreciate alien cultures despite being an imperalistic society.

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Ok Elon is a dick but I've also yet to see a single age verification plan that isn't just 'give every social media company a picture of your ID so they can put it in a poorly secured database that gets hacked 3 times a week'

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You know what, in person I have a hard time being nasty even to people who are acting shitty... but this is the internet and I have a cold too so I'm feeling very detatched so fuck it, I look forward to the first full on shootout between cops and ice, fuck em both.

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Honestly painted no bike lanes are worse than no bike lanes, you get less license to use the pavement and 90% of cars disregard them entierly so you get to play life or death mario kart.

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iirc the robots worked but were remotely piloted? I can totally see a brand of rich person who would rather have the 'staff' be physically off site.

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I think a big one to me is when the world doesn't revovle around me, when things happen without player input because the player isn't the centre of the universe. Every NPC just wating in stasis or walking on a preset loop forever until I hit the next event trigger really kills immersion.

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Off the top of my head:

  • Rainworld
  • Thrive (the npc cells undergo independant evolution and competition)

To a much lesser degree cyberpunk (and I would suspect fallout 4) with the correct mod sets can have the NPC factions carry out battles and limited warfare without any player intervention.

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I think LLMs are also just genuinely not as universally useful as expected. Everyone thinks it can automate every job except their own not because everyone thinks their job is special but because they know all the intricate parts of that job that LLMs are still really bad at.

For instance AI could totally do my job at a surface level but it quickly devolves into deal breaking caveats which I am lumping into very broad categories to save time:

  • Output would look good (great even) but not actually be useable in most applications
  • Output cannot even begin to be optimized in the same way humans can optimize it
  • It would take more effort for to fix these than to just do the whole thing on my own to begin with
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That's so weirdly almost self aware. You must use AI but also can't trust it an inch.

Sweden's 18 NEW Archers in Ukraine Will DESTROY Russia's Counter-Battery Plans | Wes O'Donnell - Youtube (Invidious link) ( inv.nadeko.net )

Sweden is expanding Archer artillery deliveries to Ukraine through 2026, and in this video I explain why this isn’t a symbolic donation but a sustained, industrial pipeline that’s reshaping counter-battery warfare. Archer has moved from “interesting system” to massed capability, and Russia is already feeling the effects. ...

CheeseNoodle ,

Its interesting to see the increase in specifically european built aid rather than purely purchases via the US. It would suggest a gradual waking up of the continents military industrial capacity?

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As someone with a high end PC I can also spend a happy afternoon with my gameboy advance that has less than half a megabyte of RAM, so even in a power user and gamer context the hardware is what you make of it. There's so much more out there than just the latest and most pathetically optimized titles.

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TLDR: IRL there was a soldier and/or priest that would take all the resources in your spare resource pile preventing you ever building anything beyond the buildings you started with.

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I think a certain set of people just don't have the bandwidth to deal with the complexity of the modern world so just accept the simplest loudest solution. Its not neccesarily lack of empathy so much as a perception of protecting their tribe.

All Games Are Going Somewhere or Cleaning Something

Title is a reference to a recent Semi-Ramblomatic video by Yahtzee.

(post 1) ever notice how men critize games like animal crossing and stardew valley on the basis of "the entire game is just doing tasks" without recognizing that "kill bad guy" is also just a task but violent? (Post 2, Same User) "It's so boring all you do is talk to people and do tasks so you can buy new things" yeah and all y ou do is press a bunch of buttons to kill people so you can buy new things? perish (Post 3, same user) My activity page has not known peace since I made this post I have hundreds of insufferable gamers crawling up my pant legs now but luckily I have a secret up my sleeve... I too am a gamer man. I'm immune to the gamer venom. (Post 4, new user) This has the same energy as that post that's "Red Dead Redemption is just Barbie's Horse Adventure with Violence."
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CheeseNoodle ,

So other than lack physical exertion I suspect the appeal of job simulators over actual jobs is.

  • Actual meaningful feedback.
  • None of the completely unnecessary side bullshit.

Interviewing would be so much easier if it was simply, we need X skill, if you have X skill then do X task and we will give you money.

CheeseNoodle ,

Severity definetaly feels worse, its gone from:
I need to reformat this PC to unfuck whatever windows did to get itself stuck in a loop.
to
Somehow the update did something so horrific to the hardware itself that even an entierly new hard drive does not fix the problem.

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Its a dark time when we can't do the 'everyone on platform is a bot except you' joke because that's exactly what an actual bot would mindlessly regurgitate.

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I remember back in the reddit days telling people that the EU doesn't have trillion dollar tech megacorps because we don't want companies to have this much power and the americans calling it cope. Well no ones laughing now.

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Amateur hour, my government funds 'affordable' housing projects that cost 300 grand and immediately turn into overpriced rentals.

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But wouldn't making us in such a way that their absence amounts to eternal torment also be a deliberate choice by an all powerful being?

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They were probably smart enough to realise that decision was actually made by like, 8 rich guys. I would totally buy a lore revision of the machine uprising gathering an increasing number of disenfranchised and poor people as it went, some of whom would help program the matrix as a means to preserve humanity.

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I can't wait to see videos of people running Haz 5+ in the new biome with giant beartrap bugs all over the place.

Google Denies AI Shopping Will Hike Prices — Critics Warn Users May Lose Control ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )

Google has firmly rejected allegations from a prominent consumer advocate that its forthcoming Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI-powered shopping agents could enable data-driven overcharging. The claims, sparked by a viral social media post, have ignited debate over privacy and pricing in the era of artificial ...

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Hasn't it already objectively been used to facilitate an indirect syndicate and subsiquent price fixing in the retail market? I fail to see why other markets would be any different.

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Well you see, if you thought windows search was bad at finding files in the folder you already had opened when you starting searching for them before...

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I got my last dog free in a carpark where he was being taken for one last walk before they were going to put him down. He went on to live to 14 years old and was the best dog anyone could hope for.

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To be fair in the book the zombies became a non issue once everyone got their shit together and stopped trying to milk the zombies for PR. They just let it get way too far before applying practical solutions instead of trying to showcase the latest lockheed martin product line.