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There have been 60hz interlaced displays, that displayed alternate fields and so did a complete refresh 30 times a second. Actually, I guess that’s what NTSC broadcast TV was. It looks like ass in every other application, though.

A very “gamer” headline and title card. Not in a good way.

No, they moved to Discord because there was a for-profit corporation that was extremely motivated to move people to Discord. Mumble is better in every way that an anti-consumerist cares about.

Mumble is THE SHIT.

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…

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.

I really fucking hate how every game has to have a fishing cliche shoehorned into it.

Do people really associate Psygnosis mostly with the PS1?? Gross.

Ohhhh, is that the distinction. I admit I rarely if ever used TS myself.

Mumble was always better than Teamspeak, still kicks ass

If you’re still on Discord, you’re a sucker and a class traitor.

Hyperbole perhaps but long term support is not an issue I think people need to be super concerned about.