Prey 2017 or Prey 2006?

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 - https://www.xbox.com/games/store/phantom-dust/9PCDNBHR11MR

That’s one hell of a chungusaurus

I hate this centralization of “all games in one”, it’s eerily similar to the centralization of the internet into the big social media sites.

You could argue the same for any game engine (Unity) or game with a big modding community (Garry’s Mod). The big difference here is that Roblox aimed straight at children right from the start and also offers a no friction hosting of those creations

I tried getting a 10yo kid playing the emulated version of Fire Red on his tablet. He thought it was too slow and just went back to Roblox

Anything with video call will almost invariably not have any other features you’re looking for.

So, all that anal probing was, indeed, science? TIL

he did actually earn his own money,

How?

How is it for file sharing? It’s my main use of telegram

I’ll just go with my typical RPG reaction and say: I attack the boulder

Depends on the game. Parrying in the opening moments of Witcher 2 is a fucking pain, because it consumes 1 bar of stamina, as does rolling dodge, and you only have 2 stamina at that point, which also takes forever to regenerate. If the enemy isn’t dead after 2 parries, you’re fucked for 20 or so seconds because you have no way to actively avoid damage other than running away

On the other hand, the parries in the Batman Arkham games and Shadow of Mordor feel great.

He also solved the crime by knowing the plot in advance

anon is a closet gay confirmed

I tried to ask Oracle, but they just redirected me to the manuals and closed the ticket

The door on the bottom right looks like a fridge, the thing in the middle looks like a door, there’s enough empty space there to put a damn bed in there.

State run social media only for state profiles. Let the people have their own stuff otherwise. The whole idea of the fediverse can accommodate both. The piece even gives a passing mention to mastodon.

They can be smaller, similar to the forums that have been around since the internet’s heyday, but consolidated as “spaces where we can maintain slightly more meaningful relationships.” | These projects don’t have to aspire to be the great public square where everyone gathers, because, sometimes, we just want to talk to our neighbors;

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

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”

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.