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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Genuinely one of the most interesting developments / discoveries I've read.

It's also wild that we may have literally matrixed a fruit fly and no one is talking about it.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago
  1. Is a completely different question that has absolutely zero to do with disc based games, and the answer to that question is readily available in the form of Right To Repair legislation.
[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Top AI researchers should go fuck themselves right to hell for handwaving away and ignoring the inherent problems with their work while plowing ahead full steam so they can get personally rich.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Cory Doctor's recent book on Centaurs and Reverse Centaurs is worth reading.

The core idea of that is that centaurs are a human top and machine / alien body, they're effectively augmented humans with all this technology to help them excel.

Reverse Centaurs are human bodies and machine / alien tops, where the humans are just checking the work of systems and are subservient to them. He points out that that's one of the fundamental differences between Amazon and the Postal Service is that in the case of Amazon drivers, they basically function as a reverse Centaurs where they are just an appendage of the delivery car, tracked and managed by that car, to do the tasks the car can't do on its own.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lmfao you mean spending his personal fortune on land conservation and spending much of epic's on breaking up monopolies that harm everyone?

Oh wait, I'm sorry, I forgot, he also made you install a second launcher, and since you were mildly inconvenienced by not being able to deep throat Gabe 30%, you thought Tim Sweeney was the devil?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol like thats the only possible axis or lens to view a game through.

Battle Royale shooters got more popular then traditional team deathmatch games for their inherent pacing.

Battle Royale games always involve these dynamic phases where sometimes you're looting, sometimes you're exploring, sometimes your battling, sometimes you're sneaking up on people.

That naturally creates the kind of varied encounters that games like Halo or Cod only got through randomizing game modes, and rather then only having downtime between matches to talk with your friends online, there is natural downtime built into segments of each scenario when you're exploring and looting.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lmfao. Watch Tim Sweeney get brought up, and watch some PC gamer claim he's the devil because he had the audacity to create a second launcher and pay for exclusives.

Epic spent a massive amount of their Fortnite money on lawsuits to break up the iOD and Google Play monopolies.

And while doing so, still offer their top tier engine for reasonable costs to third parties.

And Tim Sweeney personally spends most of his money on buying up land for conservation, but yeah, he's totally the devil for making you install a second launcher to play some games.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure yeah, this stuff happens all the time, and often persists until people start noticing the application being sluggish and they go and investigate and fix the slow points.

Alternatively you have tightly integrated software that only one team can work on and it takes years to come out and every time a feature needs to change its another 6 month job of reworking everything, and debugging and fixing security issues is a nightmare.

In most systems, not just computers, there's a tradeoff between a highly integrated and high performance design, vs a modularized loosely coupled one that's more adaptable and resilient.

Just look at automotives, Teslas have a unibody design that makes them cheap to build and low weight, that also makes them enormously expensive to repair and impossible to find aftermarket parts for.

Choosing maximally integrated is rarely the best path, there is always a middle ground, and one important difference between the paths is that it's usually easier to go from modular to integrated than vice versa.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Everything could do this but sometimes you don't want to.

i.e. you're trading off the background indexing resource usage for instant search results. On a consumer PC where you're constantly on it and searching for stuff that's worth it, on a remote server that you're logging into to bug fix but is normally just running a headless application it may not be.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Lol, "the C Programming language is an abstraction of assembly and I for one, won't have it!"

Some of those frameworks and no code platform bloat are because of that. Most are there to make working on large multi team software projects feasible.

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