This is not really sustainable though. Now you have a specific weapon resistance on a specific enemy - you’ve made the game more complex and in an “invisible” way. And if that keeps happening, you end up with a massive tangle of invisible rules around the weapons and the game becomes too arcane to figure out what’s…

It is easier for some to believe they are being personally targeted by a shadowy global conspiracy that is simultaneously a minority position and yet also all powerful, than to accept the world left them behind and they need to change to catch up.

I’m a computer engineer who began with aspirations of being a game dev, graduated, and then said “ah, nevermind” and went a different path on what sorts of software I went into. And here is exactly why:

The way that makes sense for me is that, you would pay the voice actor for their work on the game and a license to use an AI trained on their voice for that game and no other. And of course it would be a clear part of the contract, as they talk about.

Another big reason (for the enthusiasm the system has one way vs another) is that wage theft typically ends up being a civil court issue, rather than criminal, and that puts a ton more burden on the victims to build a case and then sue. The law in many places draws a distinction between taking something out of the…

I’m pretty sure it’s just human superstition at work. The amount of effort it would take to code a system like is being described is non-trivial given there are no hard “specs” just skill point spreads, and given there is no real trading system, what purpose would it serve? Even when Diablo 3 had the real money…

The “super short and rough” of it: In Warcraft, all dragons are fully sapient, have cultures, cities of their own, etc etc. There’s different kinds, but the red dragons have a fairly utopian society and their favorite profession in life is to be a doctor/healer (explained to set up what sort of tone we’re dealing…

I think the reason skill slots are limited is a LOT of abilities are extremely powerful at 1 point in (anything that grants unstoppable, invulnerable, moves you, causes CC, etc), and “+category skills” (like, “+1 to defensive skills”) are very common. If you could slot all your abilities, you’d have a piano of 10-15…

I want to say “I don’t get how this surprises anyone” because gaming is just a mainstream thing people do now. As time goes on I fully expect “ratio of male to female gamers” to be pretty much identical to “ratio of male to female humans” (and this study shows it’s getting closer to exactly that, and on some platforms…

I don’t have a source for this alas, I wish I could find it again, but I once read an interview with a retired hollywood exec who talked about the death of the ‘middle project’ as being a big factor in the talent churn of new directors and trying to hold onto old directors like Spielberg forever. That, in current…

They were measuring the usual suspects people jump to like break times, hours at work, etc. Even lines of code written even though I thought we had all moved past that. The particular data I meant was what the conversation was about in the article though, numerical performance evaluations. They did an analysis of…

Ugh I’m dealing with an organization right now that is like that. Fortunately I don’t work for them, but working with, and it’s painful.

The lawsuit gets facts about how these systems function incorrect, so using it as a reference point for how the system works is... not a good plan. I can write a lawsuit saying that Toyota’s cars are training local bees to attack me on site; you’d be a fool to cite my lawsuit as proof that Toyota’s vehicles train bees.

This is factually incorrect and doesn’t even pass a basic logic test: if AI is just storing and ‘collaging’ existing art, why is the offline (offline remember, once training is done, you dont need internet to run one of these) training data from hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes of art data, only a few gigs or even…

Because systems like chatbots learn from their interactions, and those jerks are the ones who spend all day trying to feed them those inputs.

Could these AI’s be created without the data sets?

Seriously, when humans create art they don’t literally layer a bunch of picture one on top of the others and start tracing over the bunch of them using smoothing tool to better blend their features.

Yeah likewise this comment just educated me too.  Wonderworld what the heck, hah!  I’ve even heard it said, but my brain just keeps filling in ‘wonderland’.

A point was made elsewhere that it’s easy to dismiss operating costs. China may be a large income source but operating overseas in a very different market can also become quite expensive and localization is never cheap. Of course we have no way of knowing what the income and what the expense was unless they show the…

Holy cow dude, settle the heck down and take a breath. You just went sheer shrieking madman there and projected that onto me - look how fast you went to personal attacks and stayed there your whole post.