No spyware if you pirate it. In line with the themes too.
wizardbeard
joined 2 years ago
Slap a silencer on and it'll be just fine.
Even most stealth games allow you to pop two heads at once if you're fast enough the second guy can't yell.
I'm a big fan of Watch Dogs and Cyberpunk style stealth hacking though. Jump into the security cam network and kill everyone in the building using environmental hazards (and in Cyberpunk, spontaneous combustion and other fun tricks) while you sit comfy a block away. Real fun to still get the stealth mission objectives popping up after when you walk in like you own the place. Or when the game still has pre-scripted dialog about how tight security is while I'm walking through a pile of their corpses.
If you were being properly pendantic, you'd realize that the term AI has existed for fucking decades prior to the current LLM boom and even machine learning, and has regularly and repeatedly been used to describe the type of (comparatively) simple algorithms used to manage NPC actions in video games.
You may also know that Valve recieved a shit ton of press praise for the complexity of the algorithms and tricks they used to give their NPCs life in a large number of their previous games. Simulating predator/prey dynamics in aliens, command structure in soldiers, and even making the appearance of troops communicating information audibly (both human soldiers and aliens having specific phrases and sounds for different situations) all in Half Life 1.
With Half Life 2, they made a large stride pushing back against the uncanny valley through how they managed facial animations. They also made groundbreaking use of pathing nodes with different contexts which allowed NPCs to build off the communication and dynamically flank you (outside of the previously common scripted set pieces). Also some stuff that's escaping me right now with player led platoons.
In Left 4 Dead, they used one set of algorithms to direct the overall PvE match flow, a separate one to handle large groups of enemies as a group, and then even more to manage individual enemy entities when they were close enough to players. Again, groundbreaking for the time, with many PvE and horde defense games since adopting similar "director" algorithms.
In every single aritcle written about this shit, the term AI was used. In articles about monsters in the original DOOM, the term AI was used.
Effectively "it was our word first".
Tyler McVicker has such a good connection with Valve that years ago they made a post on their official twitter calling him out by name to state that he had no exclusive or insider information, labeling him just a "passionate gamer".
His youtube name was fucking Valve News Network. He swore to never cover Valve games again, which lasted all of maybe three months.
Yeah, he was such a nuisance to Valve and their employees that Valve made a public statement on their twitter calling him out by name to "remind" the public that he had no exclusive insider information and was just a "passionate gamer".
Tyler got so butthurt that he changed his entire branding away from Valve News Network, swore he'd never cover Valve games again (that didn't last very long), and to this very day closes his videos with a signoff of "Tyler McVicker, passionate gamer"
I was wondering where the unpopular opinion was hiding. Here it is!
Most people don't see it that way. They see obtaining and running the game as separate steps.
uwu the computer made a lil fucky wucky!
Yeah, an important reminder that nothing on the fediverse is truly private. Use rotating alternate accounts, opsec, and VPN/proxies if you believe yourself to be in potential danger for your opinions.
Sure, the way I worded that is. Especially when divorced from the rest of that section.
But I hope it is clear from the rest of that section that I'm drawing a line to separate the idea of CIS = majority default vs. the attitude that CIS is the only valid option.
CIS being the majority default is just reality. Statistics.
CIS being the only valid option is bullshit.
When distilling concepts like that into the shorter statement "cisnormativity is a problem", I feel that nuance is lost. The almost immediate follow up question is "Do you have a problem with CIS people being the norm/majority default, or do you have a problem with the fact that they are the norm/majority default is being used by some to suppress the validity of other options?"
being born into a little seed cash and enough comfort to go a while without working a straight job. As Julie says when someone repeats that Amazon was started in a garage: Ain't no garages in the trailer park.
We need look no further than the "hackathon," that sad facsimile of the days when we were all learning the basics so fast that the world could be ours with just a day or two of focused effort. Hype up an exciting atmosphere, assemble some folks with so few attachments in life that they have time to spend all weekend at a hackathon, and this ritual will summon up the old gods. The hackathon is the proof that people believe this can work, and it is the proof that it doesn't.
Exactly. This isn't some little iconic flourish in the corner, footer, or the header. There's also some general rule of thumb with watermarks being flagrantly disregarded (keep it simple and monochromatic so it doesn't impact content legibility).
And even if I personally didn't have a problem with it, I would seriously question the competency of any law firm that mis-read their audience so dramatically. I can't imagine many courts looking at that and not having at least an immediate knee jerk reaction of "The hell is this? Are they fucking with us? Is this a joke?" which is an absurdly poor opener to your case as a lawyer.
If some firm got a headshot of the lawyer handling the case scowling and used that as the background of every page in their document they'd be laughed out of court. Just because "dragons are cool" or something doesn't make this any less silly.
Edit: The dragon icon in the footer is perfect if they wanted some visual flair to set them apart, and it's a relatively simple monochromatic design. It just makes it even more absurd that they didn't just use that and instead went for this detailed and visually busy picture.