Hollow Knight seems like mainstream game industry shit to me. Solid game, massive hype, lots of sales. And I wouldn’t even remember it in a couple months if not for other people.

It’s like how Shovel Knight is a really good platformer but then you play it and it’s… just a good platformer. An indie gem! But also, something you’ve played before.

You know what AAA companies didn’t do 20 years ago? Dwarf Fortress.

Great observation! You’re definitely not alone—people have noticed a shift in internet discourse in recent months. This is likely due to the rise of AI. Would you like to delve into the societal effects of a dead internet?

It’s the gall of a dying warrior.

Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.

We can’t even think of an original term. We can’t think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.

Cruft can be a hard thing to debug. Mainly when you’re not used to memory issues and haven’t learned all the best practices.

There’s also zig if you want to play with memory. You’ll know a lot about allocation, that’s for sure.

How much do you know about transformers?

Have you ever programmed an interpreter for interactive fiction / MUDs, before all this AI crap? It’s a great example of the power that even super tiny models can accomplish. NLP interfaces are a useful thing for people.

Also consider that Firefox or Electron apps require more RAM and CPU and waste more energy than small language models. A Gemma slm can translate things into English using less energy than it requires to open a modern browser. And I know that because I’m literally watching the resources get used.

I’m not good at anime, is he doing an ahegao face?

But even before recent tariffs, modern console prices weren’t dropping nearly as fast as history suggested they should. In fact, Sony first raised the nominal starting price of the PS5 Digital Edition back in 2023, way before Trump’s current trade war was even on the horizon.

I’m not saying Trump is to blame but this is misleading. Trump hurt our economy with tariffs during his first term nearly 10 years ago. During 2023 he was releasing “Agenda 47” policies, in which he specifically mentioned more tariffs. Here’s Trump threatening tariffs 8 months before Sony raised the price

For regular people, Trump tariffs came out of nowhere in 2024. Corporations and people holding stock have different perspectives.

There’s two types of gamers.

People who like sandboxes with the understanding that there are some toys / structures to play with.

People who just like playing in sand and don’t care if a sandbox is literally just a box of sand.

Battlefield players don’t play battlefield though. CoD kids do.

They added class customization and crazy weapon unlocks. Optimized for “battlefield moments” instead of “using your brain.” They need the game to be adhd friendly which left no place for the Commander system. Reloading was changed to be magic per-bullet bullshit instead of based on magazines. They’ve cultivated a culture of “look at those buildings collapse, man I hope the next battlefield is like a Michael Bay movie, oh man it’s like battlefield 1 we’re so back”

If new battlefield games are fun for you then you are more like CoD kids than people who installed realism mods for 1942.

Are you guys talking about Battlefield? A AAA fps with 128 players? With absolute bangers like 1942, Vietnam, 2142, 2, 4, and 1?

No idea why people like it. Dead franchise imo

No server browser btw

Way too old for someone like him

Holy shit I didn’t hear about him