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  • Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies

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  • I'm not buying it because the first one was buggy as shit, had a draw distance that's laughable even for a Unity game, had incredible music that's it's barely heard because it cuts off all the time, wall "suggestions", clipping, other graphical glitches, and has the gall to advertise "Hit F8 to report bugs" every moment it's showcasing its own bugs.

    And don't get me started on the design flaws. The Insulting unrealistic O2 meter. There's not enough keyslots. Torpedos are useless. The Cyclops is useless, and yet, you have to spend all of these resources just to get some material for the final rocket. It dies to leeches in very short order, and moves around like a space cow.

    Also, the whole game taunts a story and then delivers a milquetoast ending.

  • ‘Fargo’ and ‘Alien: Earth’ Creator Noah Hawley Says YouTube Is His ‘Biggest Competition’: ‘You Are Losing Eyeballs to Things That Are Free’

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  • DaVinci resolve is not open source. If you want pro level features like HDR 10-bit colors and other features, it costs around 300 €$£.

    I didn't say it was open-source. Most of its features are still free, though, and paying $295 for fully-functional video editing software is much better than the alternative.

    Software like OBS are free and open-source, which is why it's the de facto video capturing software. Eventually, we'll end up with free, open-source, robust video editing software that can compete with DaVinci. For simple work, there's already software out there, like Shotcut.

  • ‘Fargo’ and ‘Alien: Earth’ Creator Noah Hawley Says YouTube Is His ‘Biggest Competition’: ‘You Are Losing Eyeballs to Things That Are Free’

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  • Linux, and variations of it, dominated every device, because you can download the OS for free and use it without issue. Blender is one of the biggest 3D modeling tools, because it's open-source and free. DaVinci Resolve, GIMP, and other Adobe replacements, are steadily becoming the standard tools because they are freely available and people are sick and tired of greedy subscriptions. Corridor Crew put out new greenscreen tech for free to a very hungry audience, and it may end up as the de facto keying technology for years to come.

    People want free. People demand free. The internet has been founded on the concept of free since its inception: information wants to be free. If you are not offering free, you are in the way, and that monopoly will fall over eventually to your free competitors. You cannot possibly beat free, especially when the ecosystem is well-established and maintained.

    I'm posting on Lemmy, and hopefully, everybody here already knows this.

  • Rogue Trader is my first Warhammer 40k game and it has enthralled me. What other great games in the 'verse have I been missing out on?

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  • Mechanicus is a great tactics game with a BALLER soundtrack

    Pretty much the best Warhammer 40K soundtrack out there, and the whole game is just dripping with atmosphere. The sound design is some of the best I've ever seen.

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  • I have REALLY gotten sick of the “git gud” crowd.

    I've always been sick of it. It's impacted how developers create games.

    Once upon a time, hard and difficult games on 8-bit and 16-bit platforms were created accidentally, either because of design bugs, or developers not having time to run through proper play-test cycles, or only doing the play testing themselves. We put up with it because we were kids and had a limited budget for games, so we played what we had. It was never intentional, since they wanted to make sure it was balanced enough to appeal to the general audience, but still have difficulty levels for people who wanted to try out a second harder playthrough.

    Then, games like Dark Souls came along, which pretended that hard games were a From Software invention, and propped up a community of egoists and digital sadomasochists. All they did was make the designs more deliberate, to the point of developer trolling. (I know this started earlier on in the indie scene, especially roguelikes, but Dark Souls popularized it.)

    The "git gud" crowd pushes this narrative of "if it's possible to do, then it's the player's fault for not having the skill to do so", to the point of personifying a game with statements like "the game is punishing me with bad RNG" or "the game is actively trying to kill me". This completely ignores the developers' responsibility of instituting balanced difficulty levels, since it's the developers' fault that "the game" does these things.

    Again, it has really impacted how developers create games nowadays. First, the "git gud" crowd is loud enough that developers now think they deserve a voice, as if difficult games weren't absolutely everywhere, even before Dark Souls. The popularity of speed running makes them think that have to cater to that crowd, and streamers streaming impossible challenges skews that difficulty Overton window even more. Developers think they have to make some impossibly difficult game, so that streamers, who famously play video games for a living for thousands of hours a year, will advertise their game and push it to the top.

  • We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

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  • This predates the ai bubble. There used to be a really common “plagiarism detector” (something like CheckMeIn?] that would generate a “similarity score” with a database of literature. Institutions were welcome to set their own thresholds of what they considered too similar. I hit the threshold multiple times in completely original works by using language that was simply too literary or formal in nature.

    This is because all art are forms of remixing, whether it's intentional or not. We're teaching the wrong lessons here.

    For many many centuries, art and artists, whether it's musicians, artists, actors, writers, essayists, whoever, they have been facing an uphill battle of oversaturation in each creative industry. It's only gotten worse in the past 50-75 years, and we're more exposed to the sheer numbers now. We are throwing a drop of water into an ocean and hoping people will notice.

    Trying to use "plagiarism detectors" against databases of millions or billions of pages is about as pointless as accusing songwriters of plagiarizing songs based on four notes. There are only so many musically-useful combinations of four notes, and they have all been used. Adam Neely has been reporting on this garbage for years.

    LLMs are just making the problem even more obvious: creativity is not unique, it is not unique to people, and people have been mentally trained to expect uniqueness so much that we purposely ignore 99.999% of the material that is offered to us. As such, only 0.0001% of the ones who create earn any sort of popularity, and the rest starve to death. We ourselves are starved for content, as we consume anything that fits our extremely narrow definition of creativity like the voracious vampires we are.

  • GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams

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  • As somebody who has used Fiverr, there's a lot of good artists on there, but it does not cost five dollars.

  • Is Star Trek Discovery worth a go if I liked Picard and like Strange New Worlds?

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  • Voyager has its moments, but I would consider it the weakest of the three. Admittedly, I didn't keep up with the whole series, because I was kinda bored of the concept.

    TNG is classic episodic Trek, with very good writing in most of its episodes, even if the first season was a bit weak at spots. Even then, parts of the first season were still interesting. It really hits its stride on the 3rd season.

    DS9 is my favorite Trek. It tackled darker themes that TNG and Roddenberry didn't want to touch, shades of gray that exposed cracks in the Federation, but still remains Star Trek. It didn't completely throw away the ideals of the Federation in a weakly-written, grimdark manner like Picard. DS9 had some of the best written episodes, and by the 2nd or 3rd season, it was (copying off of B5) telling an overarching narrative that really kept you interested.

    Though, Babylon 5 is the series that really started the whole narrative approach to sci-fi. I love both B5 and DS9, but DS9 did steal a ton of ideas from the B5 bible that JMS gave Paramount, during his initial pitch. DS9 had a lot of really good individual episodes, but I thought Babylon 5 had a better, more memorable narrative.

  • ‘Eternally spellbinding’: the TV shows that baffle you – but you can’t get enough of

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  • I had some issues with the almost nonsensical decision-making of the end of Season 2. But, I can forgive some of it because of the sheer amount of risk-taking on display to show well-crafted mini-stories within the main plot. And they had the balls to really end the series with a proper finale.

    Some parts were messy. Some parts were loosely-connected with bad logic. But, it was still one of the most creative series I've ever seen.

  • Gimp 3.0.8 is officially released 🥳

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  • Valiant efforts, but I hope Adobe and their software die a horrible death.

  • Gimp 3.0.8 is officially released 🥳

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  • Absolutely. Been using GIMP for years, and I have zero need to switch to bloated, Windows-only, monthly-subscription garbage.

    DaVinci Resolve, too. The improvements on Resolve 20 are amazing.

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    Bluesky just verified ICE

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  • SOMA, off the backlog after nine years

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  • ‘Pluribus’s Rhea Seehorn: “I’m Too Thin-Skinned” To Read Online Theories; Season 2 Will Be Back “As Fast As We Can”

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  • JMS had a plan with Babylon 5. He knew how to carry a series forward, figured out alternate plans in case of emergencies, and despite everything, people still remember it 25-30 years later.

    Same with Sam Esmail and Mr. Robot. Or The Expanse, despite how many cancellations it got.

    The only thing people remember Lost for is how much they fucked up the ending. Or BSG... fantastic series, terrible ending. Just wasted potential tarnishing their legacy.

    At least, Vince Gilligan has a good track record.

  • The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless

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  • That was a long watch, but worth it.

    Thanks!

    I missed some of the aspects discussed in the video when playing through Soma the first time, because I was expecting Amnesia like scary monsters.

    Funny, I didn't even know who the studio was until much later, so I had the opposite reaction. I found out they made Amnesia and thought "huh, okay, that explains the Proxies and other monsters".

  • The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless

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  • There's a Safe Mode, and if you don't like horror games or anxiety-inducing chases, it's a good compromise. I talk about that in the intro.

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  • Simon is the most audience surrogate of all time. Also, I think his continuous lack of understanding is partially due to his "flat" scan, being done when the technology was in its infancy.

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  • Space Quest Historian put out a good video talking about these kinds of games. I think it's too easy for people to get so hung up on these definitions. I know everybody has these kind of expectations of what a "computer game" is supposed to be, but story-focused "walking simulators" still have a place in an interactive medium.

    You can't put yourself in Simon's shoes like this in a movie or TV series, because you're controlling him in a first-person view. It just wouldn't be the same perspective, which is critically important in a game where the POV is almost a centerpiece to the story.

    It's a different kind of game, sure, and not everybody is going to like the lack of traditional "gameplay" or whatever you want to call it. But, it's a category of game that should be respected as just a valid a "game" as any other computer game. It's just far more story-focused than most.

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  • Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"

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  • if I remember right, so peopld using ublock don’t even count towards the creator’s views now :-/ this may be outdated now

    This was a temporary problem that was discovered by a bunch of creators and eventually fixed by uBlock Origin.

    I'm fine paying for YT Premium, because I watch YouTube all the time, but I don't even understand why people try to use YouTube's monetization. It's pennies compared to getting subscriptions from Patreon.

    I turn off ads for all of my videos, because I'd rather just have the freedom to not worry about de-monetization. If I ever end up needing the money, I'll use Patreon to fund the channel.

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