Yeah AI as a dev is shit, but AI as a more thoughtful auto-complete is actually pretty great.

To me it looks like AIs currently are right at the boundary between being a tool and being a companion. But to be a full companion, they can’t be up against the boundary, they need to be well established and tried and tested as a companion to be used repeatedly, so we’re still a few decades out from that from what I can tell.

No man’s sky is not really the fitting example you think it anymore. Over time the devs put in some work.

Yeah I’m pretty sure the changes he praises have made me not play this game in about 3 years.

And running game studios as a business sound wrong to me. Yes, you need to make money, but it’s a creative branch and as soon as you make a pipeline for how you make your games, people will get bored of it, see Ubisoft.

Maybe they had big issues with monetization but what he’s talking about doesn’t sound healthy at all for the developers and artists working there.

Also I’m still a bit salty that I paid for destiny2 and then they made it free and introduced DLCs. Such a slap in the face.

I know this is a bit late, but copilot is only ok if used for code completion. I switched to the free tier of supermaven a month ago and it’s been way more helpful, as it can handle context better. Probably cuts coding in half and takes away a third of debugging.

Asking chatgpt for code has also become better, but imo still not reliable enough to regularly use. Just had some docker code written and it got it wrong 3 times so I gave up on that.

I get your point, AI can only save time if you know exactly what you’re doing and it will only be helpful sometimes. But when it is, it’s such a time saver.

• nothing. I have autism. There’s nothing wrong with me, but I’m obviously a little bit different like other people, which in itself is neither good nor bad.

• because we need a descriptor and that’s just what my friends use; we know what we mean with it and what we don’t.

Also I’m gonna take those questions at face value, but I’m just gonna note the first question is a bit out out of left field, as no one implied that something’s wrong with that.

But I don’t wanna assume you are an asshole, so I’m gonna take it as a misunderstanding.

Let’s go through examples:

“He’s retarded” - that’s a slur, unless it’s ironic.

“That was retarded” - not a slur, cause it’s kinda taking a dig at an action, not a person.

“I’m retarded” - technically a slur but almost always used with a hint of irony, therefore usually not a slur.

That’s how I use the word with my friends. And I have autism, so technically 100 years ago I would have been the resident retard ;)

That’s very well put

Yeah I mean ratings are giving you an idea of whether there’s a chance you like that game. The higher the rating, the higher the chance. But there’s always a bit of chance involved.

I tend to buy highly rated games much more often, but if I really am hyped for a game with an OK rating, I still might give it a go. You never know if it will hit your specific niche.

Man if big studios are constantly layng ppl off, that means in a few years we will probably have an influx of even more small game studios and it’s gonna be way harder for big companies to acquire them.

Though I don’t like the layoffs, I like the world in which game developers are back to steering their own company again.

Took long enough but it finally seems like consumer protection groups are pushing against this internationally.

The cool thing is, if either EU or US make laws surrounding this, it will put an incentive in place for the other to follow up. And because the US and EU are so influential, a lot of other countries will follow up. Even better, because China is already putting pressure on everyone to put limits in place, considering this year they already put laws in place against that. One of those rare China Ws.

I’m rooting so hard for them.

Oddly specific question

Why is Pirate Software a fraud?

I appreciated his take on it. Don’t trust politicians to come up with a good solution, always present the issue when you have a good solution ready. And the solution proposed by that petition was weak at best and outright dangerous for the industry at worst.

If you want to force specificity on buying v getting limited time access, that’s fine, but that’s not what the petition focused on.

If you wanna force devs to plan ahead with huge infrastructure cost to make sure servers will be online for a specific time, this might result in online games being unjustifiable for smaller studios.

If you want to shield independent people hosting unofficial servers to games, now that’s a different conversation that we first need to have to figure it out, before proposing an exact solution through a petition. Mind you this is a more complicated topic, as this gets into licensing and IP law.

And I really don’t think stop killing games is clear on those, and that makes this endeavor a lottery with the entire multiplayer games industry in limbo.

Give me another more precise initiative and I’ll join, but until then I’ll definitely not sign anything. If we change things, we should change them for the better, so let’s do our due diligence first.

No self awareness whatsoever

From the trailers it even looks like the story is gonna be super linear and boring. At that point they’d need to rewrite the whole thing. Even the most ambitious studio is gonna have a hard time committing to that.

That sounds like a really dumb design idea. Why make a federating protocol if you still rely on the server? I don’t even get why they did it at all then.

That’s indeed very interesting and peculiar.

Weirdest troll 2024.

Yeah Mario Galaxy is one of those creative masterpieces imo

For me it’s 4 Lemmy results and then 2 reddit results and after than chaos ensues.

That’s fair, but I would prefer that over Linkin Park sounding like a completely different band.

Or Dream State, where 3/5 members got switched out and they stuck to the name, and now they sound completely different.