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  • It’s because a person can crank out a deep fake in 3 hours, and a crappy one in one. It never cropped up because… well lets be real it was a couple of weirdos that were doing it, unless it bubbles up from the dark corners of the internet you risk the Streisand effect by bringing attention to it.

    AI can crank out 40 in a minute. 7200 in three hours. That’s an entirely different beast. The sheer mass and volume ramps up the odds of any image bubbling up from the dark corners of the web falling into the limelight and now this problem that wasn’t big enough to merit thought is rearing up it’s ugly head right in front of us.

    You can generate unique pictures of Taylor Swift faster than even Taylor swift can generate pictures of Taylor Swift. Within one hour of Taylor swift being seen with a man (and you have enough images of the man) you can create a dozen images of her on a date with that man and attempt to sell them to paparazzi.

    The problem is volume. Just like how email made everyone connected and allowed the Nigerian Prince scandal to occur.


  • I mean, that’s a quest at it’s core but a good game works it into a narrative and makes it blend. Ideally making all 6 steps anything but tedious. Ideally interesting and fun, but at all times avoiding tedious like the plague.

    Best example I’ve seen is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ADco41g9s&ab_channel=Nathidraws

    Two identical "perform quest for NPC"s, which is your step 4. Negotiate for a thing in a briefcase from somebody who probably will double cross you.

    Which one is more tedious? Now combine a 4 minute run in a barren wasteland in your steps 1 and 6…

    A few other things that Cyberpunk did, There are several ways to handle that mission, those several options can cause 3 major shifts in that faction. Which affect other missions later on, indeed any time you deal with the maelstrom gang.

    Cyberpunk had a lot of flaws but, they’re at least innovating. I’ve never been in a legit standoff like that in a game. It’s always been in a static looping animation at 8 paces.








  • Wait that was real?!? I thought that was satire!!!

    Jesus Christ that’s the kind of name an angsty teenager gives their life changing app.

    It’s the most milk toast edge you could possibly give a website.

    The only time that name is acceptable is for a website of nautical pirates.

    How did he even get the domain from the edgelord who had it before who refused to get into myspace and decided to build his own website from scratch?

    How many times did he have to misspell twitter before he put his foot down like this?

    But if X is twitter, how will he mark his emerald mines on his map at home?


  • PSA:
    Edge is also what you should use whenever you’re making a public presentation and need to open a browser.

    Why? Because you never use edge, therefore autocomplete is almost empty which means you can type:

    1. x
    2. p
    3. h
    4. r

    With full confidence that NOTHING will appear that you will not want public.