Arkaelus

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Technology in Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI

Well, then! teleports behind server I guess we'll just have to be... katana swish Extra-cringe! tips fedora

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Technology in Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI

cracks knuckles Time to make a new fake account and nuke them with shitposting and Grandma Memes!

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to 196 in Genius

Yes, 100% my point! Who needs to know stuff when the Government and rich people are already looking out for our best interests? Poverty is a non-issue, everyone owns 2.5 houses per capita, this is a utopia! Books just ruin everything!

/s.

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to 196 in Genius

This'll only happen once education is restructured almost entirely. Critical Thinking has not been on the menu for a long time (if ever), and it's not in the interest of the Powers That Be to increase critical thinking in individuals - people who really think tend to ask relevant, but uncomfortable questions.

Conspiracy theories are a side-effect of biased education.

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Technology in AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames

This says more about us than it does about the chatbots, considering the data on which they're trained...

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Lefty Memes in Gotta find that equilibrium

Oh, just oscillate between the two states on a minute-by-minute basis, the whiplash'll make you want to sleep for a year straight. Problem solved! (/s, of course)

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Lefty Memes in Pizza should be more than enough

Turbo-family time! Quick, time for a general meeting to present slideshows of the Big Boss' last vacation, gotta make'em feel included!

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Technology in Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse

S'all good, Capitalism subsumes criticism of itself and sells it back to us.

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

Not slighting the dismissal of those who didn't partake, don't get me wrong! Every situation has nuance, not denying that! I was referring to the overall culture which took root there, and from that the purely utilitarian observation that it's easier to change the mentality if you change the people (in one way or another).

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

My initial reaction was to laugh my ass off at the extra drop of crap in the collective cup. Upon a second take however... considering what a horrifying den of depravity ActiBlizz became during the past years, this may turn out to be for the best in the long run...

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to 196 in Oppor(ule)tunity

Terrifying concept!

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to Technology in Gen Z is choosing not to drive

Hell, I'm a Millennial and it's a no-brainer... Food or gas, emission taxes, road taxes, maintenance costs, and everything else which comes with owning a car. Including the car itself. And that's just from an economic standpoint, I'm not even gonna go into the impact it has on the climate and how EVs are mostly just expensive and not-really-efficient pieces of jewellery still.

Arkaelus , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to 196 in industry rules

While I understand your point, I still tend to disagree. I've had ten years of experience working in QA, both on games and on misc. software, and the amount of bugs with which games are shipped as of late shifts the discussion from severity and prioritisation to volume - it isn't a question of what should have been fixed first when basically everything is busted. As such, it becomes a business problem entirely.

Another aspect which underlines this is the fact that, taking Baldur's Gate 3 as an example since we started with it, it's usually the latter half which is most affected. These trends taken together indicate a front-loading with QA in order to sell, then (hopefully) stealth-fixing the latter half before people get to it. Which doesn't work, because you get maniacs like me who spend 200 hours in-game during the first two weeks after launch. Same goes for Rogue Trader, for example. Game's all there, technically, first two Chapters are pretty much sterling, but how is one supposed to appreciate the creativity behind it considering half of the game may be inaccessible due to bugs (talking about soft-locking quests, busted progression triggers, busted scripting, and even more mechanical aspects which require trial-and-error with repeated reloads in the hopes that you stumble upon the right combination of actions which bypasses the bug).

In my perspective, creativity, while it is to be appreciated, becomes sort of moot in this case - it'd be like ignoring the fact that half of the painting is drafted on napkins with a big TODO stapled to it, or being sold a partly assembled phone with the promise that they'll send you the rest of the components later on down the line.

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to 196 in industry rules

No, the industry needs to stop selling half-baked goods because they know they can get away with it. Having to patch a game for months, non-stop, after launch day, after it's been, as you've said, a century in Early Access, is not a misunderstanding of bug severity, it's focusing on profit more than on the product. Not taking away the games' 'goodness,' but just as an underbaked cake, you still have to swallow a lotta raw eggs with that goodness.

Arkaelus , 5 months ago to 196 in The most basic rule is action and reaction

Oh, that's the plan! Started out with a couple of external drives for the important stuff, but at this point I'm preparing to set up a proper NAS considering how things are going... Might as well...