Jerkface (any/all)

I remember texture mapped graphics on a 6502.

Corporate Needs You to Find the Differences

Why make a new game when you can make money from micro transactions in your current one.

You are being facetious, but the question demands an answer: there IS no good reason for investors. It’s very likely Rockstart genuinely would not have made as much money developing new properties as they did exploiting their established ones. And if they did, it would have been a gamble vs a virtual sure thing.

The demands of capital are not compatible with art. These companies don’t serve our needs, they exploit our desires. Don’t buy art from corporations, buy it from artists.

When I came across this (not for the first time) a few years ago, I was staggered. It was like I saw a kid shooting hoops when graduated from elementary school in the 90s, came back 30 years later, and saw the same kid still shooting hoops with a beard around his knees. I really aught to see what three decades of development produced…

No, these guys manage a version of top. There are dozens of versions. Every major OS has their own top, or an equivalent. I bet there are even linux distros that don’t use this version of top.

You’re talking about procps-ng top.

Settle down. You’re on the verge of giving yourself skin failure.

You’re calling people names. It’s very obviously not “about DISCUSSION” for you right now. Those things are utterly incompatible. You’re presently seeking emotional gratification through abuse. The bizarre choice of “incel” comes across as projection when you talk like that.

Your previous comment missed the point so widely and smugly, it also fails to engage in meaningful “DISCUSSION”. It’s okay to say something stupid, just try not to be a raging asshole about it.

Are you joking right now? Acting like you just won the argument??

meanwhile NetBSD runs on toasters from the 90s

There’s basically no such thing as anonymized telemetry. The data provided is so rich, it is inherently identifying.

Whenever I hear about heart disease, I’m sure glad I have cancer!

how do you know when someone murders vulnerable individuals don’t worry they tell you and tell you and tell you and tell you and tell you and…

Grilled slab of portabella adds a lot of juice and umami without being gooey.

You can get romas at a decent grocery this time of year. They are used for making sauces, mainly.

Content theft is a separate issue. We can agree to ban the fruits of content theft without drawing arbitrary technical taboos.

Markov chains are both probabilistic and data-driven. For example. LLMs are not that far removed from markov chains. Should game developers be allowed to use latent spaces or is that too sloppy AI?

Okay, but (ignoring that procedural generation can also be probabilistic) what is the functional difference? The point I’m getting at is that you cannot banish the one without necessarily limiting the other.

I think you are reading in the “designed by humans” part. Even when that is nominally true, the whole point of procedural generation is to create a level of complexity and emergence that the outputs are surprising and novel. Things no one expected are desirable. I think the distinction being drawn is not meaningful; in both cases, it is entirely possible and likely that no human being understands how a given output was arrived at.

The difference between “generative AI” and “procedural generation” cannot be meaningfully nailed down.

“And also, you can go fishing. But instead of fishing up fish, you fish up cars.” (I am assured there are lore reasons for this.)

Ohhh, MAGNET fishing. Preferable at least.