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MysticKetchup,

Oh neat, had no idea they were remaking Trace Memory, and that it had a sequel that never released outside of Japan.

MysticKetchup,

Ah, so the US is just the outlier here. Shame that the sequel didn’t live up to the first game. There were so many fun puzzles that made you feel clever when you figured them out

MysticKetchup,

It’s a theft deterrent

MysticKetchup,

How do you feel about JRPGs? The “Tales of…” series is on Steam and combat in them is real-time (though it doesn’t take place on the world map).

MysticKetchup,

It’s pretty funny that some hacked together code in Java originally done by a single guy for a side project outperforms a ground-up rewrite done by one of the biggest software companies in the world.

Just goes to show that a complete refactor is a thing you should never do

MysticKetchup,

I wonder if that counts merchandising or spinoff game revenue, which is probably more than Minecraft itself at this point

MysticKetchup,

Well they offer subscriptions for Realms, which is essentially just private server hosting (likely for confused parents) and the Bedrock edition has microtransactions. But Java edition is probably the best $20 I’ve ever spent in gaming

MysticKetchup,

Lol sorry, I did not mean it in a judgy way. I just figure most parents don’t know or care enough about Minecraft to host a server themselves but I’d probably do the same thing in their shoes

MysticKetchup,

People aren’t being replaced by AI because the AI is as good or better than them, people are being replaced by AI because the AI is massively cheaper than them.

We’re going to end up with shittier products so more profit can end up in shareholders’ pockets

MysticKetchup,

My guess is they’re from a mobile gacha game where they realized they needed to sell waifus

MysticKetchup,

Sometimes just holding up that mirror is enough to remind people. I think we overestimate how much bad activity on the web is active maliciousness and how much is the occasional poorly thought out post on a bad day

MysticKetchup,

Super pretty! Is this on peaceful or do you have a way to keep mobs away?

MysticKetchup,

It used to be that if you wanted an open world game you had a handful of options, and for RPGs Fallout and Elder Scrolls were really the only options. Nowadays we have more open world games than you can shake a stick at. Bethesda doesn’t seem to realize that the rest of the industry has caught up with and passed them in a lot of ways

MysticKetchup,

It’s pretty hard to make a “small scope” 3D open world city game with driving and shooting elements. The sheer amount of work is more than the vast majority of indie devs can achieve. There’s a reason most of them go with procgen wilderness survival games. The closest I’ve seen is something like Cloudpunk but that has a fraction of the gameplay elements that makes GTA popular

MysticKetchup,

Pretty much, is anyone from their golden age still even at the studio? Makes sense why they need to rely on their past hits if they can’t make any new ones

MysticKetchup,

If anything this is great news for actual collectors, since they can probably find what they want for much cheaper now

MysticKetchup,

Incredibly sad, Scott has always been such a positive icon and influence in the industry. Hope he manages through this.

MysticKetchup,

Well good thing we can trust Microsoft, it’s not like they’ve ever done anything evil before

MysticKetchup,

Feels very much like they’re just following the trend of a bunch of streaming services that just add a + to the end. As long as it’s good though I don’t think it matters much

MysticKetchup,

Something so beautiful about a perfectly toasted sandwich… This is art

MysticKetchup,

Yes, all those wonderful capitalist innovations like minimum wages, the 5-day work week and paid holidays.

Oh wait those are all things capitalists fought tooth and nail against and social movements made happen. You’re assuming that because something good happened under capitalism that it’s because of it, but most of the actual good things that lifted people out of poverty were anticapitalist. Meanwhile all the needless suffering and deaths because of capitalism never seem to get attributed to it despite the fact that wealth hoarding is responsible for creating so many resource scarcity problems that we have the ability to solve.

MysticKetchup,

Because capitalist countries keep using their massive wealth to dismantle socialist/communist countries. Just look at the history of US interventions in Latin/South America, which replaced a lot of democratically elected leftists with murderous dictators so we could have cheaper bananas.

Also it’s a lot harder to create a system that works for everyone instead of an oligarchy run by the wealthy. The reason so many countries slide into capitalism is because it’s a pit that self-interested parties are constantly trying to drag people in

MysticKetchup,

The number of billionaires in China is increasing, the fact that they’re enshittifying is because they’re getting more capitalist not less

MysticKetchup,

Depending on how you feel about Minecraft, Vintage Story might be something like what you’re looking for

MysticKetchup,

IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.

So it’s less effective than a regular phishing email?

MysticKetchup,

Yeah this is the issue. I’ve been trying DDG and while it’s got less bloat it’s either the same as Google or less accurate 99% of the time. There are times I was searching for something I had found before and had to switch back to Google because it wasn’t coming up in DDG

MysticKetchup,

But can it run DOOM?

MysticKetchup,

I’m convinced that tech reviewers live on a different planet than us. They’re always fretting over trivial things that would be nice to have but far from dealbreakers for the average person and then ignore or barely mention the stuff a regular user would need

MysticKetchup,

Give them a break guys, they’re just a small indie company that doesn’t have the money to pay animators to do an actually good job /s

Aside from how awful the animations are, I’m wondering why they felt they needed them at all. The little chibi portraits would have looked fine as static images

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Like it or not, Pokemon is far and away the biggest influence on monster tamer games so most games are gonna look similar to it. I’m assuming you’ve probably heard of Shin Megami Tensei (though the gameplay is very un-Pokemonlike) but you might already look into Siralim or Monster Crown

MysticKetchup,

This is also just a bad article. No real justification for why they listed one over another, just a listicle that mentions a couple of the greatest hits

Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....

MysticKetchup,
  1. The amount of ads on YouTube only seems to get more and more invasive over time. And I’d have less of a problem with them if they didn’t keep showing me the same ads over and over and over again.
  2. Even with all that, I would pay (subscription wise, not like I haven’t rented/bought movies from them) if I actually knew where the money was going. YouTube is surely expensive to operate, but we don’t know how much money it costs to actually run it vs how much money is extracted via executives and shareholders.
MysticKetchup,

Basically every tech company “operates at a loss” because of overzealous growth and money going to their investors/parent company/shareholders. I’ve never seen a detailed breakdown of any tech company’s financials released publicly, so I doubt there’s any way to prove this one way or another.

They make less money off of you when they can’t serve you ads

Genuinely I’d be interested in seeing a source for this since every metric I’ve seen from third parties is that ad free purchases gives them waaaaaay more money per user compared to the tiny RPU from ads. But maybe Google being its own ad provider changes that

But practically, I don’t really agree/expect that YouTube should serve you content (or even more so, people with aggressive adblockers) without you giving something in return.

Never said I was owed anything by them, just that I have no moral or ethical qualms continuing to use adblock on a giant corporation

MysticKetchup,

I think if you consider how people will use it in real life, where they would generate a bunch of images and then choose the one that looks best, this is a fair comparison. That being said, one advantage of this kind of survey is that it involves a lot of random, one-off images. Trying to create an entire gallery of images with a consistent style and no mistakes, or trying to generate something that follows a design spec is going to be much harder than generating a bunch of random images and asking whether or not they’re AI.

MysticKetchup,

If you do another one of these, I would like to see artist vs non-artist. If anything I feel like they would have the most experience with regular art, and thus most able to spot incongruency in AI art.

MysticKetchup,

Do we need to be more efficient? We have the resources to feed everyone on Earth and have leftovers we just aren’t allocating it correctly.

We could also increase efficiency even further by reducing meat/dairy consumption. Lab grown stuff feels like an over-engineered tech bro solution to a societal problem

MysticKetchup,

Binging with Babish has an easy one that never fails for me, just make sure to use San Marzano canned tomatoes and add a huge amount of herbs. I’ll eat it right out of the food processor while I’m cooking it’s that good

Twitter is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. (mashable.com)

By now, you may have heard about Elon Musk’s handpicked CEO for X, Linda Yaccarino, and her disastrous interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at Vox Media’s Code 2023 event. However, somewhat overlooked amid some of the more viral moments of the discussion, Yaccarino dropped some previously unknown stats that don’t exactly...

MysticKetchup,

Because there isn’t an alternative with other people on it. Now that it’s confirmed that it’s actually declining, it’ll start to snowball its way until we hit critical mass

MysticKetchup,

Yeah and it’s missing actual people over there

MysticKetchup,

It’s not a super descriptive term for sure, but I have no idea what it would be called otherwise. It’s similar to things like Metroidvanias or Soulslikes in that it’s a very specific niche without a clear delineation of what it is, but fans will know it when they see it

MysticKetchup,

It’s kind of a nebulous definition, but typically they’re games in which you have a variety of options and systems to complete objectives. So things like Deus Ex where you can stealth, fight or hack your way through the plot. Usually the games will have a robust amount of physics or interaction with various objects so there’s always a variety of things to do in a level.

MysticKetchup,

Hashtags dump a bunch of stuff into my feed that I just don’t care about. I just want a good way to sort search results by something other than chronological order so it’s easier to find people to follow, a chronological timeline is fine as long as I can choose what shows up there

MysticKetchup,

Megalodon, though I do like Tusky as well

MysticKetchup,

Wow no shit, it’s going to be very annoying to see every single company try to slap AI onto their product in order to market it until the hype dies down

MysticKetchup,

Just from casually checking traffic stats on various websites it doesn’t seem to have changed much, though I have no idea how accurate those sites are. This is more likely just Spez copying Elon’s dumb ideas in an effort to increase monetization

MysticKetchup,

Thank goodness, Fandom does nothing but ruin wikis. Most the ones I frequent have moved away from it, just wish the MTG community could migrate

OpenAI’s new AI image generator pushes the limits in detail and prompt fidelity (arstechnica.com)

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced DALL-E 3, the latest version of its AI image synthesis model that features full integration with ChatGPT. DALL-E 3 renders images by closely following complex descriptions and handling in-image text generation (such as labels and signs), which challenged earlier models. Currently in research...

MysticKetchup,

Nah that Guardians of the Galaxy art is exactly what I’m talking about. It makes basic mistakes even a child could point out and looks more long a knockoff. And refining it is just rolling the dice to get a better result, whereas an artist you can actually give feedback they can understand.

The game assets look a little better, but if you look carefully you’ll notice that they don’t tile correctly. It’s 90% there but the last 10% is the hardest part and it’s important especially for large projects and not just single static images. Not too mention they look generic as fuck, you’re not going to get the next Hollow Knight or Darkest Dungeon with an amazing original style from AI, you’re only going to get existing styles mashed together. The more specific the vision for the artstyle the harder it will be to generate it.

Also the idea of a Tiktok feed of AI generated content is exactly why I hate AI art. Sure, go ahead and use it to help existing artists generate cheap assets that would otherwise be random brush strokes. But replacing them? The idea that AI generated slop will have anything close to the quality and meaning of even cheap art is ridiculous. Why would anyone want that when they could have actual art made by real people, more of which exists today than anyone could go through in their entire life?

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