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  • I can only speak for myself. For me it felt really great being able to explore the world having absolutely zero idea of what is what, how much game is left, etc. It is reminiscent of a time when I was a kid and playing a game was exactly like that.

    I even got quite sad when my friend "accidentally" told me

  • Eh, nothing I did was "figuring out which loophole [they] use". I'd think most people in this thread talking about the mathematics that could make it a true statement are fully aware that the companies are not using any loophole and just say "above average" to save face. It's simply a nice brain teaser to some people (myself included) to figure out under which circumstances the statement could be always true.

    Also if you wanna be really pedantic, the math is not about the companies, but a debunking of the original Tweet which confidently yet incorrectly says that this statement couldn't be always true.

  • People mention Spore because the official FAQ mentions Spore.

    Thrive is never gonna be “from puddle to space adventures”-type of game.

    People also mention Spore because this is exactly what the devs are envisioning. To quote the FAQ:

    Gameplay is split into seven stages – Microbe, Multicellular, Aware, Awakening, Society, Industrial and Space.

  • It's even simpler. A strictly increasing series will always have element n be higher than the average between any element<n and element n.

    Or in other words, if the number of calls is increasing every day, it will always be above average no matter the window used. If you use slightly larger windows you can even have some local decreases and have it still be true, as long as the overall trend is increasing (which you've demonstrated the extreme case of).

  • so the names of the ai characters HAVE to be stored in game....

    Some games also generate names oh the fly based on rules. For example, KSP stitches names together based on a pre- and suffix and then rejects a few unfortunate possible combinations such as Dildo, prompting a reroll.

    I suspect with your game, they just fed it a dictionary of common words though without properly vetting it.

  • Yeah, if Mozilla's goal is 1200 clips/day and 2400 validations/day then I have a strong suspicion that Stellaris uses a pretrained model and there are no royalties for the people whose voices were used for the pretraining. Not that it would be feasible to spread royalties among that many people in the first place.

    What could point against that suspicion though is that Stellaris doesn't need a "perfect" model so maybe they can get away with much, much less. After all the whole gimmick is that it is in-universe AI. A (near-)flawless model would be (near-)indistinguishable from a regular voice actor. Then there would've been no need to hire a bunch of voice actors to train an AI in the first place.

    Assuming that it is pretrained -> finetued though, the only hope is that those initial files were donated willingly and not scraped somewhere. Otherwise their "ethical" argument goes out the window.

  • I'm not really up-to-date on voice synthesis. Have we reached the point where we can get enough training data from just a handful of voice actors to train a model of this quality?

    Or is this a case of them using those voice actors for fine-tuning a pretrained model and just being quiet about that?

  • I'm leaving my review as is. Sony trying this and saying in their tweet that they're "still learning what's best for PC players" does not instill me with enough confidence to give it a thumbs up.

    As you mentioned, it's a lot easier to lose trust than to (re)earn it.

  • I'd argue that with their definition of bots as "a software application that runs automated tasks over the internet" and later their definition of download bots as "Download bots are automated programs that can be used to automatically download software or mobile apps.", automated software updates could absolutely be counted as bot activity by them.

    Of course, if they count it as such, the traffic generated that way would fall into the 17.3% "good bot" traffic and not in the 30.2% "bad bot" traffic.

    Looking at their report, without digging too deep into it, I also find it concerning that they seem to use "internet traffic" and "website traffic" interchangeably.

  • There are quite a few other roguelike (or roguelike adjacient) games that do beat it handily. To give a few examples:

    DF started development in October 2002 (according to their own website, scroll all the way down.)

    UnReal World's first release was in 1992 and is also still getting regular updates.

    NetHack has gotten new versions ever since 1987. The latest big change was 3.6.0 in 2015, 3.6.7 came out in early 2023 but there's no reason to believe there won't be a next version. If we count that in 1987 it started as a fork of Hack, we could even add another 3 years in the front as Hack was published in 1984.

    Edit: I just realized: In the world of MMORPGs we also have a few examples: Everquest which came out in 2000 and is still getting expansions. Even WoW isn't too far behind with a 2004 release date, which probably means development began before DF's development too.

  • On MAL and temporarily, yes. From memory, I can think of two anime that were temporarily ahead of FMA:B.

    Kaguya-sama's third season was ahead of FMA:B when it was airing in 2022. It now sits on 12th with a score of 9.02.

    Pingu in the City was memed to #1 shortly before its first episode aired in 2017. It now chills in the mid-tier with a score of 6.52 on 6596th.

    However, I think Kaguya was only barely ahead of FMA:B at its peak. Meanwhile Frieren is at 9.18 currently while FMA:B in 2nd place is on 9.09. That is a full 0.09 lead, which is over 10% of the way from FMA:B to a theoretical clean 10.0.
    Another way to put the lead into context is by doing the next 0.09 step down from FMA:B, which lands us cleanly at 9.00. An anime with a score of 9.00 would be at 13th, between Kaguya-sama 3 (9.02) and Fruits Basket: The Final (8.98).

    Edit: With the final episode done, it's now sitting at 9.34. I will assume it's gonna drop a bit again over time, this is still an absolutely insane score. 27% of the way between FMAB and perfect 10.0. Going from 9.34 is now a 0.25 step down to FMAB, the next 0.25 step would be down to 8.84, which would be a tie with Kimi no Na wa at 28th.

    I can only repeat again how mindblowing this is. The difference between Frieren and FMAB is the same as the one between FMAB and Kimi no Na wa. And that is ignoring how much harder every 0.01 gets the closer you get to 10.0.

  • I definitely paid with some time investment, but you bet I wrote a short script to automate toggling that rule on/off. It's also not like I had to run that script every time I wanted to play a game. Only to play a game in my brother's library while he was playing something else or when I wanted to play one of my games and he was already in one.

    Summing up the time investment vs. the cost of games, and using a time-money conversion rate that assumes I had a well paying job in my field and wasn't still a student, it was definitely profitable.

    You're definitely right on the frustration front though: I bought many games just to not have to deal with this. It was mostly used for games one of us was on the fence about. Or (like in the Outlast case) only one of us really wanting to play a game and the other just playing along because playing together is fun no matter the game.
    Now, in the former case, it might be back to sailing the seas.

  • I think people are more negative than positive about this change. The old system allowed for far more freedom at the cost of being more annoying to set up.
    This change cracks down on anyone who used the old system in unintended ways, i.e. to share games with family members not living in the same household. For now that check only compares store region/country, but I wouldn't be surprised if they tighten the requirements further in the future.

    It's also a negative compared to the old system if one of your (adult) family members throws a huge tantrum, allowing them to cause a lot more damage and inconvenience than before.

    Edit: I just wanna mention, I am saying this as someone who is usually "RiDiNg sTeAm’S DiCK".