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I disagree with this premise. I think games like age of empires and StarCraft had mass appeal and success. They brought in audiences who don't normally like games, and broadly were well received by young, old, and different genders. Especially age of empires 2.

Modern RTS games are just (mostly) sloppy, unfinished, cashgrabs with no vision. They suffer the most from the transition to 3d as well. If a major studio actually put work and time into a polished, 2d, isometric, RTS that wasn't solely focused on being an esport, I think there is a major vacuum for them to fill.

It kinda reminded me of those old PS3 commercials that David lunch directed. Kinda liked it, tbh

Tbh, I think a lot of people are doing extended phone calls and discord convos these days. I can't go to the grocery without hearing a few loud speaker phone convos, and back when I was more social online I'd leave Skype running in group calls for hours a day after work. (I especially hear Spanish convos over the phone in public from workers phones. I suspect many of these people don't speak English well and are calling family and friends for social stimulation. I live in FL, USA)

The only thing stopping me now, I think, is I live with my partner and spend tons of time with them, so my social battery is constantly low.

Is that turtle flipping me off...?

Man, if I was personally responsible for laying off 1500 people, I'd flush myself down a toilet. People like this guy are just shit.

Good!

Probably if there is some sort of universal intelligence evaluating our actions and decisions, it would turn anyone entertaining this idea into an worm in their next life. The premise that the good fortuned should be passive to suffering, and enable it, out of some misguided moral calculus is absurd. You can't game the system.

Mario vs Rabbits is a surprisingly fun turn based tactics game. It's something different gameplay wise from much of the switch library.

I saw someone mention Mario Odyssey. I hadn't owned a Mario game since Mario 64, but I thought it was incredible! It's just fun as all heck, and the surreal tone of the game kept me entertained. It has a bizarre mashup of "realistic" styles with the Mario universe. There isn't co-op exactly, but one person can play as the hat, helping out. Just, don't count it out because you aren't hyped about Mario. It's a quality game, and stands on its own merits.

Ugh... I'm deep on the ai sphere, and this seems like a bad idea to me. Gpt (let's face it, they are probably using open ai) can be deeply biased and arbitrary in it's evaluations.

For example, "Two apples and four oranges," might score better than: "4 oranges and 2 apples." for inscrutable reasons. Say, if the question spelled out the numbers, and the LLM has a weighted bias to favor overall textual consistently, it might produces a reason to dock points apparently unrelated to that weight, such as: "incomplete sentence." for the second answer, but not the first.

Students may also receive lower scores due to cultural biases towards certain phrases, and factors as straightforward as their name.

Finally, AI will hallucinate errors constantly if you ask it to evaluate text without any errors. Constantly. Consistently.

The attrition is slow, but every user lost to Linux is likely lost forever. After a year or so of totally free software, who is going to build a new windows compatible PC, buy a Windows 11 license, and pay for subscription service just to do word processing, or play a few incompatible games?

Windows completely overestimates people's willingness to throw out their laptop or PC just to get a new OS paintjob. For every person who does it, another one will leave their ecosystem forever.

I believe Librechat would achieve your goals, but you'd need a PC or server to host it in. It supports all major API.

Kobold light might with as well, and doesn't need to be hosted locally, but I don't think it supports Claude haiku specifically, for unknown reasons.

Additionally, the official Claude api workshop is pretty good on desktop, but it only supports Claude.

I mean, be careful. These llms can be honeypots for data. Like, if you're using it for cover letters, or work, you're sending tons of personal info to random websites.

I would recommend sticking to actual, reputable vendors for llms, or running your own. I have a GTX 1070 and can run some pretty decent models these days locally using koboldai.

Bing is probably the only way to use gpt 4 without paying for it, and Microsoft probably won't steal your bank account info.

There is almost no chance that it is truthfully based on gpt 4. If you want a free, open source llm with 32k context and generous limits, I recommend using huggingface.co/chat/

The nous-hermes model (you can select different models) is uncensored, and performs really well for a open source model. Plus, they have data controls so you can turn off data gathering per model. Huggingface is a reputable vendor, and doesn't claim to be something it isn't.

This feels... Scammy? Not to be accusatory, but gpt 4 is expensive to run. It is impossible for people to use it for free.

What llm is actually providing the response here? Either someone is footing the bill for an API and acting as a proxy, a situation which raises many red flags, or the model you're talking to is something far cheaper to run, like a mistral model.

Even the second case is sketchy. 😅

In some respects, I can see this. Games such as unscrupulous MMOs are often carefully engineered to distort your ability to manage time and money. However, many games are still produced as entertainment products meant to compete on a basis of artistic or entertainment value. The addictive aspect doesn't come from a manipulative design, but Rather just plain old fun, and in those cases similar arguments could be made about strawberries or books.

I would like to reiterate that there are addictive video games which really do try to manipulate you. Just like how a breakfast cereal might market itself as healthy and balanced while loaded with sugar and deceptive portion sizes, leading to unhealthy habits, a money first video game will contain elements carefully crafted to distort player's perception and reasoning.

It's just... All mixed together.

It's a bit strange that a pacifist country has fighter jets to sell.

I've never in my life been a baby wipe user... Untill I got a bidet at home. Now I stock work with them just so I can clock those work hours.

It looks amazing, too! If Konami would hire a crew to go fix up the level scripting and maybe flush out some content, it'd compete with current releases

'Metal gear 5, the phantom pain' and 'Death Standing' both look amazing on the deck and are worth checking out if you don't mind Kojima studio's whole deal!

Personally, I'm totally desensitized to this kind of stuff in anime, but I understand your issue. Some people will say, "just don't watch the gross stuff," but I think that's unfair. It's a little bit like asking someone who doesn't like sexism not to consume media which contains it.

Like... That would be miserable. Tons of great movies, tv, books, fiction, nonfiction, etc contain casual, misogynist content. You should enjoy media freely and still be able to complain about it, or advocate for change.

Likewise, tons of excellent Japanese media has questionable, underaged girl stuff in it. It's always going to be weird to a lot of people if it goes unacknowledged.

So... Your opinion might be unpopular, but I think it's totally valid!