Eyup, I’ve waited 6 years to get World and now I am comfortably playing it at max settings with a light sprinkling of mods. I’ll do the same with this one.
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Rinn@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025English10·2 months agoGood news: I’m sounding less and less like a conspiracy theorist nowadays. Bad news: see above.
It’s not isometric though, the camera can be controlled, zoomed in/out/rotated, and it has a full 3d world. And it’s huuuuge. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think any game should be that large, but BG3 has at least some justification for it.
Rinn@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Nvidia unveils its flagship RTX 5090 card — with AI-juiced frame ratesEnglish3·4 months agoAh damn, I have it and enjoyed it a lot - it’s fun! The card assets have always been obviously generic, store-bought assets… but at least they were still made by humans. I remember the first AI controversy in that game, I think it was centered around the main menu’s background image, where the castle turrets and towers kinda didn’t line up.
I don’t know how I feel about this, on one hand this is such an incredibly niche product that I can understand wanting to save every scrap of money, but it sets a bad precedent going forward.
Rinn@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Nvidia unveils its flagship RTX 5090 card — with AI-juiced frame ratesEnglish3·4 months agoName and shame? Which game?
Rinn@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024English19·4 months agoMusk got banned in Path of Exile 2 for cheating. I’m not sure what angle to take here, but you gotta admit that it’s a bit funny/satisfying. (how does such a busy [assume I’m making air quotes with my fingers] guy have time to play video games? why is he so obsessed with status that he’d try to cheat his way up the leaderboards, and not for the first time either?)
Rinn@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024English16·6 months agoI’ll bet quite a lot that they’ll learn the exact wrong thing from this and decide that they just weren’t republican enough.
Rinn@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI next model Orion by December, it's 100x cooler bro trust me bro no we're not releasing to the public bro it's just too dangerous and cool broEnglish40·6 months agoSo how many ChatGPT 4s have they precariously stacked up on top of each other this time?
Rinn@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Radio Kraków fires announcers, replaces them with AI bot voicesEnglish8·6 months agoA seemingly small detail that really bothers me about this story is that those glorified chatbots were given backstories like they are actual humans - in their bios they have things like “an acoustics engineering student at AGH [local university]” or “passionate about queer issues”. And… can a chatbot have a student id? I somehow doubt that AGH has ever issued an id for a bot. Can a chatbot be “passionate” about real issues that real queer people face (especially in a country like Poland which, while it’s been getting better on LGBT+ rights, is still one of the worse places in the EU to be queer) and should it pretend like it has faced these things too? That seems like a horrible idea.
Rinn@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like itEnglish21·6 months agoI got the testicle part :P it’s just that “piroshkis” doesn’t sound Polish at all, and since we’re talking about Poland… Even “pierogis”, with its unnecessary “s” would be better.
Rinn@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like itEnglish3·6 months agoAs a note, as this story is about a Polish radio station the word you’d want to use is “pierogi” or “pierożki”, no “s” at the end either.
Rinn@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024English20·6 months agoA publically funded radiostation in my city has fired all of its hosts and replaced them with 3 AI “hosts” (non-English link).
They’re trying to defend this by saying that all of the hosts were just independent contractors and AI is not the main reason they’re firing them, and that the AI thing is just going to be “an experiment to appeal to Gen Z”. Fortunately, most people’s response seems to be “fuck off with this crap”.
I just… can’t with this. Even if they really were firing the hosts anyway (which is possible), I absolutely hate that they are using public money to run “experiments” with AI media. Heads should roll for this.
Yeah, that video was rough. I wasn’t actually expecting him to be super lefty or anything, but the “both sides bad and should talk more instead of screaming” take was still a blow.