drw85

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by drw85 2y ago
I agree that the busy work in todays open world games are mostly boring and not providing any kind of experience. But that's also part of the problem of modern game design. Side content is mostly boring and useless.
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by drw85 2y ago
But this is exactly one of the problems of today. Everything uses UX metrics to base their design around. It makes the end result boring and predictable and the opposite of immersive. I agree that there needs to be pacing, but there are gre
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by drw85 2y ago
Yes and No, i think modern games lead more people to be like this. Because quest markers and gps navigations and hints and creative/story modes. Also a heavy emphasis on the rewards rather than the quest. I notice this myself when goin
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by drw85 2y ago
I also think this signals a change in how games are played these days. There are many players that don't want to be challenged or explore, they want to complete tasks and get rewards. Some of them don't really care that much about
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by drw85 2y ago
But in this case you're not selling, you're buying.
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by drw85 2y ago
It's even worse, since they dropped the core now and just call it .NET. So searching has become even more of a pain. It's also pretty much a mess, because many things were different between the versions. So let's say you go
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by drw85 2y ago
It's not only kids that buy these. I know a lot of 40+ year old men that buy skins and useless junk in video games all the time. They spend a ton of money on cosmetic junk in short lived video games. It's puzzling to me, but
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by drw85 2y ago
Why's that insensitive?
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by drw85 2y ago
In my opinion, this is largely due to the fact that the focus is mostly on quantity and not quality and has been for a while. Writing has been about putting out X puff pieces per day and very little of the industry is actually interested in
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by drw85 2y ago
They pioneered the google spam with their useless website that requires a login for everything. I excluded them from all searches years ago because 75% of google image search results are Pinterest spam links.
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by drw85 2y ago
Congrats on making on of the most useless and toxic websites on earth.
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by drw85 3y ago
I guess squash means to eliminate it in this context.
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by drw85 3y ago
But what would those principles be? Are our principles aligned with other beings in mind? Other Humans, animals, etc.? At this point we have a bunch of rules and principles that have exceptions if someones benefit from violating them outwei
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by drw85 3y ago
What if the adult on the messenger has a button to send drones to the childs house? Or turn on/off the electricity/heating/access of that house?
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by drw85 3y ago
Since actual AGI is nowhere near, everything about it is speculation. So his point about there being no evidence is valid for the time being.
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by drw85 3y ago
Doesn't mean it will be more good for or to us.
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by drw85 3y ago
Has human deaths ever prevented anything from being developed further? Did we phase out guns, drones, bombs, nukes, fracking, etc.? If there is money to be made, it will be made.
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by drw85 3y ago
There are countless possible means to do that. Maybe it'll social engineer someone to connect the network to the outside world. Is the network really isolated? Can the AI find ways to breach it? If i look at what security holes humans
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by drw85 3y ago
How can there be alignment, when humans themselves aren't aligned anywhere? Giving it a fancy name like 'superalignment' is typical manager bogus.
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by drw85 3y ago
It's mostly change for the sake of change. If you're not changing something, you're stuck. We went full circle a couple times already in the last 30 years, because when you keep turning with no sense of direction, you might
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by drw85 3y ago
They're actually putting too little money into the actual development. A huge part of the budget is marketing.
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by drw85 3y ago
Inquisition was like a single player MMO. Grindy, level restrictions everywhere. I was extremely bored by it and didn't finish it.
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by drw85 3y ago
I don't think access to bing or google solves this problem. Right now, there are many questions that the internet gives unclear answers to. Try to find out if a plant is toxic for cats via google. Many times the results say both yes
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by drw85 3y ago
It's not that easy in many parts of the world. Whatsapp became the standard communication not only with your friends, but also businesses. You talk to your bank manager via whatsapp and your doctor etc. No Whatsapp, no talk.
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by drw85 3y ago
The good bits are also very short lived. Basically once you get all items you need for a build it's fun for an hour, but from then you only get marginal improvements in grinding to get even better versions of the same items. For me tha
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by drw85 3y ago
I think aside from everything that's been mentioned already, i feel that companies are being very manipulative about these things. The games industry is a good example, they tune many games so that they're less fun and then try to
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by drw85 3y ago
Aren't you just hiding the flaws in the overall system by confiding the tests to your microservice? That's my experience at least. Things still break, you just notice it later.
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by drw85 3y ago
I actually worked on an Azure based project recently and it was very similar. It was a small semi static contact form that was deployed on 27 web apps (9 services x 3 environments) and used a NoSQL storage, redis, serverless stuff, etc. Ins
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by drw85 3y ago
I don't think that was the point. The point was that the majority of people like convenient things, but a small subset of users on here like complicated, old and hacky things.
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by drw85 3y ago
From a customers perspective, does the multiple stores approach on Android benefit me in any way? I now get bombarded with conflicting updates for apps from multiple stores. They all try to get in each others way and it's much harder t

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