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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • For sure, valid to fear the enshittification of steam. But they aren’t killing proton. Maybe ignoring proton at worst. But Steam has profit motivations for not being reliant on Windows, which has actively been trying to supplant them with the Windows Store for years.

    As another separate, profit-motivated company, with a gaming division and a lot to gain from eating Steam’s lunch, Microsoft is not Steam’s friend. Proton is a critical bargaining tool for them, and not having to include windows licenses for devices like the Steam Deck helps their costs too.


  • Yeah, my first thought as well was that “pulling up” would be pulling the steering wheel back, which wouldn’t do anything. Certainly wouldn’t swerve the car all the way off the road, you wouldn’t want to jerk a plane left or right in that scenario either.

    So… definitely made up. But still an amusing greentext.



  • Best guess as to why this happens is that your nerves are on edge the first few times. You don’t know what to expect, you’re watching the boss very closely because you don’t know what they can do, you really want to brag to your friends that you “killed so and so first try”.

    Even as early as a second try, especially when you got close and have therefore assessed the boss as “easy”, you relax a bit and start to think you know what’s coming. And that’s when you’ve really got to learn the fight for real.



  • Fiction is fiction. This is the same kind of logic that adults used when I was a kid because Harry Potter promoted witchcraft, or when the country had a moral panic because Call of Duty had their children killing people. Nothing in the game literally advocates for or glorifies IRL slavery, that would be absurd.

    If you can’t parse fiction from reality, then you aren’t fit for just about anything. Movies, music, video games, books, etc. Every medium frequently depicts things you shouldn’t emulate. Even the literal Bible has depictions of slavery, rape, incest, and murder.


  • I don’t necessarily disagree that we may figure out AGI, and even that LLM research may help us get there, but frankly, I don’t think an LLM will actually be any part of an AGI system.

    Because fundamentally it doesn’t understand the words it’s writing. The more I play with and learn about it, the more it feels like a glorified autocomplete/autocorrect. I suspect issues like hallucination and “Waluigis” or “jailbreaks” are fundamental issues for a language model trying to complete a story, compared to an actual intelligence with a purpose.



  • Hmm… bluntly, a lot of games struggle to hit their target framerate on the Switch as is. I’m not sure there’s available overhead to implement streaming. At the very least, I’ve not heard of anything either!

    If you don’t want to buy a capture card, but have a PC, the easiest way may be to dump your games and run them on an emulator like Yuzu, so you can stream from the PC.


  • Honestly, would still be nice to have, for how much Xbox controllers are the de facto controller on PC as well.

    Lots of games there between steam input, emulators, etc, where it just feels odd to not have that gyro in what’s otherwise a very premium controller (I’m using the Elite controller). It’s my favourite controller hands down, and yet I consider using my Switch Pro Controller just for gyro in some titles.

    And yeah, better to lay that groundwork now for the next generation than miss out on it entirely.