I partly agree with you in that everyone using the same UE5 engine is bad

But I really don’t agree that deferred rendering techniques are inherently bad. Maybe they cause negative incentives for developers that lead to worse games in the long run, but you might as well blame capitalism at that point

I like techniques such as TAA because they do work better as anti-aliasing in my experience. I’ve multiple times had the choice between TAA and traditional AA and I think TAA simply does what it sets out to do better. Upscaling and frame generation are also nice to haves as optional features people can enable. Sometimes I use them, sometimes not. But it is bad that companies use these techniques as a crutch, indeed, but I don’t want to see them gone

There are better cryptocurrencies for the actual use case of currencies than bitcoin like monero

That’s fair, but unless what you do requires windows in some way (like, say, Photoshop), Linux tends to be better for productivity as well, if you learn it

But of course, I understand that it takes some upfront work and learning to change your workflow, so I don’t blame people for not doing it

The cost of living crisis is global. Exploitation of labour is global. Everything for profit’s sake is global. Climate action being hampered due to corporate interests is global. Wealth inequality rising is global.

What’s the alternative? Continuing as we have so far? Doesn’t seem to have worked out so great.

So you unironically think they are worse than Google?

…really? I don’t think you are being serious

…now the question is do we want to implement a command for that

In fact, there are already abliterated models of deepseek out there. I got a distilled version of one running on my local machine, and it talks about tiananmen square just fine

Deadlock isn’t as bad but god, the amount of racist, bigoted, and straight up fucked up things people have said are tiring and enough for me to never want to be on a mic

There’s only so many times you bother listening to someone yelling at their teammates, throwing out slurs, or even telling people

Before you just start considering perma muting everyone

I presume it’s due to African American Vernacular English (AAVE), there is a cultural aspect there that is detectable through voice

I can’t even get them to use mastodon or Lemmy, they’re not gonna go to an alternative discord

Okay, great, now convince 30+ other people I chat with on the service

Yes I know it sucks and will just keep on enshittifying, but it’s not so much as it being a replaceable social media for me, as it is a primary way for me to keep in contact with partners, friends, finding out about and participating in arrangements, and meeting new people in my local area. Stopping using discord is effectively cutting myself off from the local communities

Everyone in my social circle uses it, and will keep on using it. Maybe once some breaking point is reached due to ever increasing enshittification people will start being interested in alternatives, but we’re far from that point still

I do

Honestly it’s really easy to suss out someone’s political opinions if you just try a little bit

Disposable vapes, not vapes in general

Banning disposable vapes are just a strictly positive thing

A single AGI could be copied into a million copies near-instantly. That would be significant

Sure, but deadlock isn’t exactly late. And if there’s a time when you want to add more developers, then an alpha when the game is still in the early stages is the best time to do so

I mean, they’re not gonna stop developing deadlock once it comes out. It’s likely gonna be a decade long project at least. More hands won’t hurt.

Why would it never be easy? There’s no fundamental reason for why it can’t work as well as on windows, or any other operating system

It’s in closed beta right now

average person would be able to understand the MD5 checksum

Well, it ought to be just yet another skill in the modern world such as reading, critical thinking, media literacy, paying your taxes, etc. I think just saying “average person won’t understand this” is a bit of a cop out. Like, yes, you’re right, but there is no other way around this, it needs to be implemented as a core feature in social media, the verifications of origins.

This stuff isn’t just going to get better by itself. AI will only get better at faking as time goes on.