Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
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Video games used to be about fun.
Couldn’t have said it better myself!
All the weird, off the wall, “who cares, we hope it makes money, but we’re doing it anyway” feel is gone. Get a bit from the indie space, but a lot of gaming feels like “what can we put out that’ll get us literally all the money?”
William SRD on YT does a lot of masquerade universe games reviews.
The sad reality is that the masquerade universe is insanely deep, incredibly rich, and almost never gets a game that does it justice. Redemption and Bloodlines were by far the best games in-universe…and even they don’t really do the material justice.
I hated it too. Not for any of the valid reasons you have though…
We didn’t have a PC powerful enough to play Myst. So I’d have to go play it at the library and remember to bring my floppy so I could have my save. But the library’s copy had a scratch on the disc, and it would always freeze/crash half way through. Hit that point twice, and I’ve never played it since…
I don’t think I’ll actually need to have windows installed ever again. I’m on Garuda linux (Arch based btw,) and everything I actually want to run, that doesn’t have a native package, runs in proton/bottles/wine as good or better than in Windows. No regerts, and I’m not going back.
The only program that I felt tied me to Windows is Fruityloops. Runs better in bottles than it ever did on win10 or 11. There’s a few VSTs I like that either just straight up don’t work, or are temperamental in bottles. That said, I’m not wedded to any one synth or effect, and I firmly believe that restrictions foster creativity.
For my part, I used aerotweaker on my win 11 machine to disable most of that junk.
Cool, that’s good info! 👍
Too late for me, the only Windows devices I interact with are work PCs, and tbh, they’re barely running win10, so it’ll be interesting to see how the org deals with EoL. We’re forced to go through data security training yearly, and still store and transmit most of said data through American servers. 🤷 Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Ubuntu seems to be trying lol
Yeah, not a big fan of how Canonical does things. I run an Arch derivative…btw 😉
Unfortunately they do make quite a decent starter distro. 🤷
Fair. My main issue, beyond it just not providing any benefit to me at all, was not being able to get it to fuck off and stay fucked off. Like OneDrive. Why the fuck is everything automatically installing and saving to the OneDrive folder? To try and force it down my throat, and M$ can fuck themselves with a rusty cleaver for the displeasure.
It’s arguably garbage. Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
I’m not going to proselytise, I’m just pointing out that it was one of the factors that helped the decision to fully switch easier for me personally to make.
The policy allows AI to use any data “regardless of whether it is for non-profit or commercial purposes, whether it is an act other than reproduction, or whether it is content obtained from illegal sites or otherwise.”
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
I’ve been to Japan quite a lot. My wife’s half Japanese, and was born there. So we go to visit family often.
After all these years, everything I’ve learned about them and their culture. Still, all the time I’m blown away by the crazy dichotomies. Often a leader in technology. But if you needed a Koseki (family register, fills a similar niche as a birth certificate but more nuanced) up until really not that long ago, as far as my wife knew, you could go in person, send a registered mail request/application, or send it by fax.
Buy so many different things from vending machines, amazing cell service almost everywhere, even in the middle of nowhere…but almost all transactions are cash only.
Despite having the world’s third-largest economy, Japan’s economic growth has been sluggish since the 1990s. Japan has the lowest per-capita income in the G-7. With the effective implementation of AI, it could potentially boost the nation’s GDP by 50% or more in a short time. For Japan, which has been experiencing years of low growth, this is an exciting prospect.
Personally doubt. I have the personal opinion that we’re seeing a bubble. Kinda like Tulips. ML algorithms are definitely useful for a lot of (very specific) things, but it’s like NFTs, slap AI-ish buzzwords in there, add a couple zeros to the end of the figure on the bill, and laugh all the way to the bank.
Western data access is also key to Japan’s AI ambitions. The more high-quality training data available, the better the AI model. While Japan boasts a long-standing literary tradition, the amount of Japanese language training data is significantly less than the English language resources available in the West. However, Japan is home to a wealth of anime content, which is popular globally. It seems Japan’s stance is clear – if the West uses Japanese culture for AI training, Western literary resources should also be available for Japanese AI.
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YARRRRRR! AVAST YE SCURVY SEADOG-CHAN!
Fuckin love it. So very Japanese.
Buddy. Thanks so much for linking that article. Informative and hilarious. Was a really good read. I think asking about the Anti Commercial-AI License was the best decision I made today. Hooooooo. That second to last section (last quoted) had me in stitches. If you remember any other articles, or ever decide to do that write up (can’t remember, blog? 🤔) one day, hit me up. I get the sample size is miniscule, but I’d be interested in reading stuff you find interesting.
Thanks for the informative and concise explanation!
Japan already considers nearly everything fair game
This… THIS blows my mind. The Japanese system being what it is, where copyright and patent is enforced by companies so viciously. My understanding is if companies don’t enforce it through law suits then their patents and copyrights are weakened a lot faster than in say the US. Hence Nintendo’s penchant for being litigious.
It’s probably a cost-benefit calculation. Go after a mega-corp and they’ll drag it through the courts for decades and do their best to waste every penny you have. Nail the person who’s crippled, on disability, cannot afford to pay for subscriptions to view or use something, it’ll be way cheaper, and now you’re the Law and Justice people.
Thinking about it, that’s literally just a long winded way of saying exactly the same thing, but I feel that context matters a bit.
Kiddo, you OK? You keep making thought out, reasonable, definitely-not-shitpost comments. If you’re taking a break from it, turning a new leaf, I’ll support you kid. Your mum and I care about you, we just want to see you thrive, and be the best you can be at whatever you turn your hand to.
Couldn’t help the deep-cut joke. Keep this behaviour up and I’ll have to change your user tag 🤣❤️
Steam’s best rated games of 2024 aren’t what you’d expect!
Oh?!
One high budget game that made a splash because it came from China and still appeals to a western audience. Another high budget game from a much beloved IP where even the shitty offerings have quite a large and rabid fan base. Then a bunch of Indies that were labours of love, made by people who give a fuck and aren’t just trying to extract as much money from players as possible.
Nope. Not surprised at all, that totally tracks.
Sure. That’s great news for everyone who doesn’t know how damaging Roblox is. It’s a platform, rife with child abusers, that’s designed to exploit the labour of the children they are exposing to predators. They know it’s happening, there’s been loads of exposés and lawsuits. And yet they do nothing because they make a shit load of money.
I know you were joking, and almost certainly not intending “Roblox with titties” as actually a good thing…but it’s exactly what they want. They want to make all the money from users being paid either nothing or a fraction of what CockStar is pulling off their work.
We’re in the Biff-Timeline, Marty! I hate it, and I don’t know how we fix it…
Sadly, almost certainly not going to happen. Maybe a “cost of doing business” fine…