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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

To each their own. For me, a good lore and dialog is what makes a good RPG stand out.

If I want action and reflexes, I'd go play an action game. If I want strategy, I'd go for a puzzle game, or a 4X, deckbuilder, etc. But in a proper RPG what I look for is good lore, engaging story and some level of freedom that makes me feel I'm having an impact in that world. If AI can help with immersion and/or dynamic changes, I'm all for it. Of course, for that to happen they need to make sure it does stay in character and does not hallucinate something incoherent.

If there's an AI chatbox that actually can stay coherent and be set up as a game without feeling like you have to input too many instructions to the AI to push the narrative (I think AI Dungeon gets close) then well, you could almost consider that being an RPG already. After all, the first RPGs were all text based. So I would already consider that the first iteration of AI-based RPG game. But translating that to a live 3D environment would be the next step.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Only if they use it the same way and within the same context. But isn't that what always happens when a new gaming system/idea explodes and clones start poping up? I don't think that matters much, in fact competition might actually be a good thing.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The article talks about how they are ok with using AI for things outside generating images, texts and so. For example, they are fine using the rudimentary AI of any typical enemy in one of their games. So I expect procedural generation that does not rely on trained bayesian network models is ok for them.

It looks like they just seem to be concerned about the legality of it... so they might just start using it as soon as the legal situation for AI models is made safe.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Saying that I dont trust a homophobe is not “sharing my political opinions”

That's true.

However, you did not just say that. You mentioned how he supports some homophobic politics (ie. regulation against gay marriage), which you (and I'm sure a lot of people, me included) disagree with. That's politics.

You also shared your opinion about why you think privacy is important for our society. That's also politics.

I'm not saying that what you said is wrong... I'm saying that what you said is political. Sharing political opinions is ok. It's not like talking about politics is somehow a bad thing. At least not in this context. A lot of what surrounds the choice of a web browser like this is political.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You still call the period before when the sun is directly overhead “morning” and the period after “afternoon” and similarly with “evening”, “night”, “dawn”, “noon”, “midnight” etc.

Note that the Sun position is not consistent throught the year and varies widely based on your latitude.

In Iceland (and also Alaska) you can have the Sun for a full 24 hours in the sky (they call it "midnight sun") during Summer solstice (with extremelly short nights the whole summer) and the opposite happens in Winter, with long periods of night time.

I think it still makes the most sense to decide that the days of the week (“Monday”, “Tuesday”, etc) last from whatever time “midnight” is locally to the following midnight, again probably rounding to the nearest whole hour.

Just the days of the week? you mean that 2024-06-30 23:59 and 2024-07-01 00:01 can both be the same weekday and at the same time be different days? Would the definition of "day" be different based on whether you are talking about "day of the week" vs "universal day"?

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bash. By default it might seem less featureful than zsh.. but bash is a lot more powerful and extensible than some give it credit for. It might be more complex to set it up the way you like it, but once you do it, that configuration can be ported over wherever bash exists (ie. almost everywhere).

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

I have purchased every single open source game that I've seen listed on steam as paid. Examples:

For more FOSS games on steam, there's a decent list collected on this curator (also pointing which ones are only partially open): https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38475471-Libre-Open-Source-Games/?appid=1769170

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In that counter argument they are essentially admitting that 99% of their content was distributed without the copyright holder's consent.

In the CDL lawsuit, they have admitted that of the millions of books we have digitized, they themselves have only made about 33,000 available to libraries; only about 1% of what we have done, and only under restrictive and expensive license agreements. This is, they claim, the essence of their copyright rights: the ability to restrict access to information as they see fit, to further their theoretical economic interests, without regard to libraries traditional functions and the greater public good.

Was it fair use in the past to redistribute reprints/format-conversions of works without the copyright holders consent?

I agree that copyright law sucks.. but that's why it needs to change so it actually serves "the greater public good". The judiciary system is not the right place to advocate for that (they don't make the law, just interpret it), so I don't really think there's much hope in them winning this. Sadly.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The thing is that we do have "Morning!", "Hello", "Hey", "Yo!", "Hi!".. and many other greetings that are not in the form of a question that actually leaves it open for the other person to respond with honesty and that is often also used as a conversation starter. If you really aren't open to a conversation, use one of the shorter friendly greetings.

If I say "how's it going?" and they answer with something I don't have time to hear... at most I would excuse myself and politelly say that I don't have too much time to talk.. but complaining about the other person actually answering truthfully makes no sense.

Of course it's just a comic, but still.. I don't think the one answering is in the wrong here.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"you want a government backdoor on GPL licensed code? publish the backdoor for everyone to use, see and exploit/check for themselves. And/or watch as people simply take a version of the software built from a more reputable source without that backdoor instead. Thanks for the money!"

"you want to force all foss projects existing in the global internet across countries to get paid by you or close? enjoy your logistic nightmare as you pay to be made fun of by all other countries while I fork projects with one click"

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If they really think there's no reason to hide anything, why are they prosecuting Snowden for exposing something that was hidden?

Before having surveillance on people, they should have it on themselves.

Imagine how many corruption cases could have been prevented if the government was publicly monitored, with live streams from all offices, like a "big brother" show set up in the white house with live recordings of all calls and communications, so the voters can judge by themselves and monitor if the person they employed as the servant for the country is doing its job.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The thing is that being "willfully ignorant" has served them well, so it makes it the smart move when the goal is "line go up".

Give me money and call me stupid, why would I care what a few "smart" people think when millions of "stupid" people give me all I want?

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