Sludgehammer

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Eh, I don't know how well the game is known, but I'll throw out A Robot Named Fight, since looking at Metacritic it seems like it never got much mainstream attention. It's also (unsurprisingly) on sale right now, only $3.24 in the US.

Anyway, the game is a metroidvainia roguelite mashup. The gameplay is more the Metroid side of "metroidvania" being very obviously inspired by Super Metroid. You traverse a randomly generated map, getting unlocks for future runs by accomplishing various things though out that run, think Binding of Issac's item progression.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Yeah... definitely what Russia needs now is to start Winter War part two.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 28 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what percentage of attendees are actually just press covering the event?

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Honestly, that's a pretty nice single wide.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Now I'm picturing trying to conduct a video meeting with a 10-40 minute lag for the people on Mars.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From the first vid:

"Strawberries are 1000 rubles a kilo"

So let's see 1000 rubles is about 13 dollars, and a kilogram is 2.2 pounds . So a little over six dollars a pound. That's about what strawberries are locally. Good to know that "the country is imploding" prices are about the same around the world.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Algaefa this time.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Based on his recent projects I'm guessing the next Ultima game is gonna involve NFTs and/or a macropayment online store.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Podunk area of Northern California actually.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It varies, but it’s something like $7.50 to $8.

Really? Wow, in my area it's like $12.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Oh yay, Twitter shitposts are in command of the military.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

And eventually there's just one company left, so you have no choice but to buy from them no matter how expensive or slapdash their product.

 

So firstly sorry if this isn't a appropriate post for this community, but I had a shower thought a few days back.

LLM's have gotten sufficiently advanced that they can usually detect Markov (or randomly) generated text even when it's fed into the front end. As such, it seems likely that most "AI" companies either have or will have some sort of pre-screening pass to "clean" the raw data crawled from the internet. Heck, I'm sure they're filtering the data with a AI detection algorithm too.

However, there was this conspiracy parody site a while back called "Verified Facts". The sites down now and something that wanted to install a Firefox extension, so don't go there. Luckily there are many instances of pages still on archive.org to get an idea for what sort of stuff it generated. And I was thinking, this is some (mostly) grammatically correct, constantly on point drivel that would probably bypass both Markov and AI detectors.

So it seems like if you were going to make an "AI tar pit" you'd get much better results with one that tricks the AI into ingesting auto generated Madlib pages filled out with a list of randomly picked words.

 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

 

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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