Roko’s basilisk is just regifted Pascal’s wager and should be treated with the same level of respect (none)

The point is to make generative AI sound more intelligent/human/powerful than it is. It’s also complete hogwash and the real title should be “llms generate text that they’re directly prompted to”

I’ve found that laughing in their faces and putting in 2 weeks is fairly effective at breaking that wall. Amazing what money they can find when faced with the alternative. Otherwise, the correct move is to actually leave. All of you cowards that submit to the machine make it worse for everyone.

Running those power hungry gpu based data centers is going to cost beaucoup bucks regardless of the usage.

I don’t use retro achievements because games are supposed to be fun rather than about checking boxes.

You’re falling for the “we’ve constructed this machine to tell you no so you can’t argue with us” ploy

There are plenty of cross platform frameworks and libraries that don’t involve web tech

I don’t understand why you keep replying without even pretending to engage the points and arguments that I’ve made.

Do you think saying “the game is available elsewhere” addresses what I said about marketplace dominance at all?

Do you think anything you’ve said that only applies to this specific game addresses anything I said about systemic problems?

You aren’t even trying to have a discussion. You’re just saying “I don’t like the game anyway so it’s good it’s not on steam” and pretending it being available on other storefronts and that it happened to go viral has any bearing on any of the points I’ve made when it obviously doesn’t.

In any case, it’s pretty clear at this point that you’re not going to engage with me faithfully, so I’ll be on my way. Have a good day!

They are getting loads of marketing from this

This particular game is. It won’t always apply to every game, which is why I want digital marketplaces that have so much market dominance they can make or break studios to not choose which games they allow on their platforms based on vibes.

This seems pretty straightforward and your argument is incoherent at this point.

My argument isn’t incoherent just because you refuse to engage the scenario from a systemic rather than one-off perspective.

Yeah and what I am saying is this is stupid shit to do that for.

You need to work on your reading comprehension.

So what you are arguing for really is for Steam and Epic to distribute this.

Yes, I am. There doesn’t appear to be a non-moral-panic reason for it to be barred, and being barred from steam will have a deleterious effect on the game and on the studio’s ability to keep making games. I wish company didn’t have that power, but they do.

You’re not even trying to understand what I’m saying if you think that deciding if this particular game is the hill to die on is what I care about. I don’t give a shit about this particular game. I care about maintaining the principles of not letting moralists dictate what art and media is appropriate for everyone else.

1. The person in these comments that has actually played the game said there isn’t actually a single child in the game.
2. I’m never going to decide to just accept bullshit “because it’s not surprising”. That’s completely asinine.

I literally don’t care if they had a little girl talk to a naked horseman (who is being treated by the game like a regular horse and not a man at all to make a point). My point is that banning things that aren’t child porn because of moral outrage leads to the moral crusaders escalating. Next thing you know they’re gunning for lgbt themes, then going after violence. It’s ridiculous and should be ridiculed and dismissed instead of pretending things are child porn just because you don’t like them.

Submitting to moral panic bullshit doesn’t placate them. It only emboldens them.

1. I like having the upstream versions of software instead of it being patched by package maintainers.
2. I like having up to date software. It means that issue trackers for software I use are relevant
3. Doing distro upgrades when they end support never works gracefully and i have to completely reinstall. I’d rather just use a rolling release which in practice works and is supported indefinitely
4. I do like bleeding edge updates. For wine for instance

Is the space pope reptilian?

This was then sent to the server as pure sql, no orm.

ORMs are overrated.

No, that sounds like moral panic bullshit. If the naked man is not in a sexual at all context because it’s straight up treating them as horses the whole game to be surrealist or whatever, and the kid was fully clothed, then I honestly don’t see what the big deal is. Perhaps it was worse than described, or maybe… There is something we don’t know

Feels like some key piece of information is omitted here tbh

No people should only have ideas that perpetuate the status quo!