For anyone young, I must stress - this is one of the less ridiculous ads, for its era. There’s actual screenshots! Barely! The blathering edgelord copy is at least vaguely describing the plot and the gameplay. The cultural sensitivity is… par.

1995 is a good year to leaf through some EGM issues online. There were like ten active or upcoming consoles, and nobody was quite sure where things were headed.

‘You should relax.’

‘No YOU should relax, about how I’ll never relax! HA! Owned! Calmer than you are!!!’

Dolt.

For a Shapiro script? We’re gonna find out how much lipstick you can put on a pig.

A math professor’s recent video lamented the automation of mathematics as a loss, because we won’t develop the tools to approach those problems ourselves. His key example is graph theory emerging from Euler’s bridge problem.

His key mistake is obvious: these are the tools to approach these problems, ourselves. Euler inventing topology to solve that puzzle ultimately produced a variety of practical uses. Spicy autocomplete being capable enough to even argue it earned a millennium prize makes it more than capable of advancing other fields. We can bemoan that no single person deeply understands a new aircraft wing that’s twice as efficient, but if the damn thing stays up, we kinda have to roll with it. Quantum physics are already proof the universe doesn’t care if humans understand it.

Lemmy’s not big enough for that. You’re losing a significant portion of all posts, mostly thanks to sites themselves doing clickbait nonsense.

Put the name in the headline.

Kiana Mai had made some haha-this-sucks posts about how some of her best work is forever locked behind an NDA.

Which is fucking bullshit.

I don’t feel much need for a more detailed or formal argument, on that point. I don’t need to fly a diagonal flag and declare workers must etc., in order to say, copyright doesn’t mean keeping a fucking cartoon secret… forever.

I will say copyright only exists to provide the public with new works. Businesses are entitled to most of the money and some control. Not all. And if you don’t want the money, we still get the result, assholes. The art belongs to us. Copyright is only an incentive for there to be more of it. It is our gift to you. It is not an exchange. Give us what is ours, and either take the money or don’t.

The reliance on real P.T. files makes this port more authentic than previous hobbyist efforts to re-create the look and feel of P.T. for a PC audience. And while PS4 emulators recently reached a point where they could run P.T. completely, this native port also sports extra features, like upscaling and frame-generation, a camera mode, experimental third-person and VR support, and a “museum” section where you can look at and listen to in-game assets (including “unused content”).

Abrash says all optimization is caching.

Reader View, or turn off its Javascript in uBlock Origin.

Have fun dying mad about it. The rest of us will be over here doing stuff anyway, while you seethe.

The tech isn’t going anywhere. It already runs on your phone - like, on your phone. No one could stop you. The part that does the scary thing is small and fast and will only get stronger. Most people are going to use it for utterly unremarkable tasks, or the sort of above-board goals they never found time for.

Insisting they’re not in any way responsible for what they make, or that it is utterly disqualfied from being creative, personal, distinct, or expressive… that’s only gonna go over well with like-minded curmudgeons. Grumble away, I guess.

Also I disagree with that label. I’m taking the radical position that… it’s probably fine. It largely works, and people can do stuff with it. Staying mad about it is poorly justified and bad for your health. It’s just a chatbot. Make your peace.

Meanwhile the insistence that ‘AI [thing] isn’t [thing]!’ gets shakier and fuzzier, but no less loudly confident. An AI cartoon isn’t a drawing, sure. But it is an image conveying someone’s idea. AI music is still a song, by any definition. It’s usually well within western music theory. AI reverse engineering has demonstrably produced byte-for-byte identical results, and some folks still insist it doesn’t count, somehow. What is anyone supposed to say to that? It’s an absurd denial framed like philosophy. A counter-poke and saying ‘relax’ do not make someone a delusional cultist.

You have to be able to understand disagreement in terms besides an opposite extreme.

You pay this much to be told “no?”

No one on DS9 gets a cool hat.

The contrast in those screenshots might be a bit too honest.

The game is evidently a port of the MSX title Godzilla-kun by Compile, which has the most adorable cover art.

Sounds like it narrowly missed being part of the Crazy Castle licensing clusterfuck.

Reminded of some commercials showing burgers, hot dogs, ham sandwiches, etc., being gently squeezed, all overflowing with a layer of artificial neon goo, looking honestly enticing for how smooth and thick it is.

Only it’s not a Velveeta ad. It’s for French’s.

This is already a clean-room reimplementation, not a binary decomp.

That’s still not what clean room means.

Y’all will bend over inside-out to pretend these models need a terabyte of linear algebra just to copy-paste a text file they obviously did not have.

If only some technology could could summarize huge quantities of text, or modify code the user doesn’t fully understand.

Bemoaning capitalism is certainly one response to an aggressively libre / gratis clone of infamously greedy software.

The bubble will pop any day now. God willing, every leading company swiftly goes under. And then, people will continue using this technology, because long-term maintainability is such an absurdly high-level concern that it obviously won’t stop anyone from exploiting this witchcraft. This is just a thing computers can do now. It will continue to improve as people fuck with how networks are designed and trained, even if none of them are throwing around three-comma budgets.

Businesses won’t need you to understand and support their processes, because they’re not gonna hire you, they’ll just make the software themselves. It’ll be a fragile mess, much like their databases. And much like their databases, so long as billing works and they keep making spoons or whatever, apparently that’s good enough.

Lemmy is such a weird mix of starry-eyed idealists who think every election is one protest vote away from going full communism, and skeptical pragmatists who are certain nothing good will ever come from things getting easier.