MeatsOfRage @ MeatsOfRage @lemmy.world

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People are more likely to go online and complain than to compliment. But why take internet comments so seriously. I have a handful of trusted sources that I use to get my opinions on games. DLC Podcast for example is a favorite of mine. I've gotten to know their tastes and where they overlap with mine so when they get excited about a specific thing I'll know if I'm likely to enjoy it based on our shared interests.

When you get a handful of voices that have a strong overlap with your own taste then you can get outside of the tribalistic bitching of the hive. Comments don't even concern me anymore.

I mean, there's plenty of private sellers at stores in your city who are hurt by Amazon. Ultimately the local shop or the Amazon seller is going to lose the sale to the other and I'd rather the money stay in my community.

The dates make it specific and actionable. Just saying boycott Amazon is obvious but doesn't rally people like a time sensitive group effort. And it's not really pushing purchases. Lots of people just buy everything through Amazon so this gets people to try alternatives and if a few of those stick as long term changes it's a net win.

Ah, I ate the onion

Wtf is the point of this article if you're not going to include pictures

Pictured here sending down good ideas

Incase you missed it or didn't finish the article they're looking for support (I suspect they won't be getting any from the government)

Their Patreon https://www.patreon.com/techdirt

Let's just say they moved me... TO A BIGGER HOUSE.

MySpace mail when?

Coolio was a part of a group called WC and the MAAD Circle. Hard to tell but it might be them.

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They were also featured on a track from the same album. I'd say there's a good chance it's them.

Blast Corps

Not aware of a Payless comp to this. They did have a campaign where they put their cheap shoes in a luxury pop-up store and had influencers gush about the high quality products which was pretty funny.

You'd come in and slap down your penny and they would go "we can't charge less than a penny so do you want one or two?"

There's a famous case study where JC Penny launched a big campaign where they wouldn't put people thought the rat race of sales and coupons and just offer the best price at all times. Almost bankrupted them. Turns out people want the rat race.

Once again, what's the value here. We only see AI when it's someone who's not very good with Mid Journey prompts. We're getting to the point where people are using these tools in ways that no one will know the difference.

Content aware fill in photoshop has been around forever. AI.

If ask chat gpt what this unreal engine error message means. Al.

if get a quick llm made script to tune up Some physics, Al.

If the guy making the music generates some starter melodies. AI

If l generate a rock texture and clean it up myself to the point where no one knows. Al.

All of this is AI and all of this will go unseen to the end user, so once again we'll be expecting developers to self report and only the honest ones will.

Here's a test give yourself 1 or 2 seconds to make up your mind. https://www.sporcle.com/games/Raydon/image-real-or-ai-generated

It's tough isn't it and this is you analyzing the pixels, something we don't do passively.

It's already got a name, AGI... Artificial general intelligence

What's the value here? This is based on the developer saying so and there's no obligation to do so. Black Ops 6 is loaded with Gen AI, the loading screens are obviously Mid Journey like and some of the actors have been replaced by digital performances which was in the news. They won't get tagged here for AI because it's not in the description.

So basically this is going to just have people filtering out devs who are honest and realistically that'll just be a few indie devs who had to use these tools because they're a one man team that can't afford artists.

I think we have to face the facts. Every game is going to be using these tools going forward. If you run a large studio and say no one use AI I bet you your artists are still speeding up making base textures. Your music guy is generating some starter melodies. Your writers are drafting up some filler to pad out the supplementary text.

These tools are as ubiquitous as photoshop (which has had content aware fill all the way back to CS-fucking-5) and unreal engine now (which has added it's own AI features). The idea that's there's only a handful of shady individuals and mega-corps using these tools is naive.

They have reels running on pixelfed.social (in the browser)

Oh sweet. Already use both anyway, didn't know they were Canadian

This was literally a gag in This Hour Has 22 Minutes https://youtu.be/oYUI4hu950w