Notices by xianc78@gameliberty.club

@tatsumoto There are things for which I need Real Actual Windows, baremetal. The alternative is to go without pay.

I do run Linux on my primary machine and one of my laptops. I've been running Linux of some form since 2010, and Gentoo since 2017. Spare me the marketing pitch.

@PurpCat @tinosoft @madonline Anyone who doesn't interact with him or his friends from Gab (he brought a lot of Gab refugees over to FSE back in 2019-2020).

Actually, I used to interact with him a couple of times back when he was on FSE. He blocked me, but I don't know why. Maybe it's because I called Trump controlled opposition. I haven't interacted with him at all we he moved to Poast. It's just not worth it.

@madonline @tinosoft I don't even bother interacting with that guy.

@beardalaxy I think they really wanted to focus AI because otherwise custom content would require users to have some basic scripting knowledge, which is extremely uncommon for the target demographic of this type of game. It's a brilliant idea in theory, but in practice it results in a ton of bugs and AI hallucination and as @SuperDicq said, if effectively renders the game SaaS, otherwise it would require a REALLY beefy PC to run.

Though AI facial animations are just some useless gimmick for creating social media videos.

tl;dr inZOI is an empty prototype that focuses way more on AI technology than anything fun or meaningful, don't buy it right now. maybe when the game fully releases it'll be better but the direction seems kind of flawed from the start.

this game is extremely early access.
think of sims, except instead of a team of people very deliberately putting lots of stuff together for tons of different contexts, it's all run by a shitty AI.
the foundation is fine, and i do like some of the ideas the game is going for, but it really seems like they focused way too much on random AI features instead of making an actual game.
the graphics are also pretty on the surface, but completely fall apart in motion. no matter what settings you're playing on it's going to look bad. i really, really hate modern rendering techniques. sims 2 looks better than this shit because it's actually a stable image and it's pretty clean too.

definitely DO NOT BUY until they really get more stuff here. there's barely anything to do and there are only some extremely specific things you can interact with. going to school is a rabbithole, which is horrible when you consider that the in-game time even on the fastest setting is ridiculously slow. i've got it set to 48 minute days, the lowest one, whereas sims 4's default is 24 minutes. if it could be sped up more that would be fine, but it still goes by really slowly especially when there's like nothing to do. NPCs seemingly never talk to your character, you have to initiate every interaction and they'll often just walk away after you say one thing unless you queue things up.

it does kind of feel like this game is leaning way more into AI features than being a life sim, like why in the absolute fuck did they spend so much time developing AI that can track movements onto a character? there's no point whatsoever.

played for not even 5 hours and yeah, it just made me want to play sims instead. there's really a whole lot of nothing here and that's a pretty good way to describe it. there's a lot of shit, it's just that none of it is actually meaningful or valuable at all.

paralives can't come soon enough.

this is what inZOI looks like without any anti-aliasing, DLSS, or raytracing in 1080p. high settings. completely unacceptable. all of that crust rapidly flickers, too.

@Junes I remember all the drama surrounding that guy.

It looks like ThinkPenguin launched a new proxy service that allows you to buy almost any physical goods from any clearnet shop anonymously.

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/privacy-proxy-purchase-physical-goods-proxy

@beardalaxy @picandor @Lemonid @tomie I wonder why that guy didn't go after projects that Nintendo genuinely doesn't care about like the Mother 3 fan translation of the Satellaview restoration projects.

@beardalaxy @picandor @Lemonid @tomie I remember Iwata saying that he didn't care about fan games, but after his passing, Reggie made comments saying "please respect our properties and we will respect yours".

It wouldn't surprise me if half of these Nintendo C&Ds are fake. It seems like Nintendo themselves go after fan projects because they have something similar they are working on (e.g going after AM2R because they already had a Metroid II remake in the works). Meanwhile there are so many fangames and ROM hacks that Nintendo never seemed to care about like Mari0.

@picandor @Lemonid @tomie Why would someone even create a fake C&D? Are they trying to stir drama?

@Lemonid @tomie Normally I do, but I do know that Miyazaki made comments about the tool and how it was "an insult to life itself".

@tomie @Lemonid Some Mastodon user was passing it as real. I assumed it was real because of a recent quote from one of the people who worked there.

This is just bullshit. I don't care that much about the whole Ghibli AI filters, but they are really stretching the current copyright system with this. The only thing that Gib Studio could be violating is trademark law by calling it Gib, but everything else is wrong.

1. You cannot copyright or patent an art-style.
2. The AI is only using Studio Ghibli's work as a reference while also using a real life photo to create a drawing. It's like if I took a photo and drew a cartoon version of it in Butch Hartman's style and used Fairly Odd Parents screenshots as references.
3. People are mostly using the tool to share images on social media. They aren't doing anything for commercial purposes. It's no different than people who draw pictures of themselves in the Powerpuff Girls art-style for example.
4. People aren't stupid enough to believe that Studio Ghibli would endorse something because something is drawn in it's artstyle. People have been drawing offensive memes using various works and they almost never harm the reputation of the original creators...unless you are Ben Garrison.

@therem @picofarad
>in support of a fascist agenda
>doesn't give a shit about copyright

Okay let's get into what fascism really is. On the economic side, fascism supports the merger of state and corporate power (i.e the creation of artificial monopolies).

Copyright (along with other forms of "intellectual property") is when the state gives a person or a group exclusive rights to use a certain idea, thus creating an artificial monopoly on said idea.

It seems like copyright itself is inline with the ideas of fascism.

@beardalaxy @icedquinn I wonder if it could be moddable enough along with having online play so that two people would essentially be playing two different games while being connected to one server.

That's one of Sim's creator, Will Wright's ideas when creating the original Sims, back when it was still called Dollhouse. One person could be playing a restaurant simulator, commanding workers in an RTS-style gameplay while another person could be playing a DOOM-like FPS and try to rob the store, all on the same map.

@beardalaxy @icedquinn I wonder if it could be moddable enough along with having online play so that two people would essentially be playing two different games while being connected to one server.

That's one of Sim's creator, Will Wright's ideas when creating the original Sims, back when it was still called Dollhouse. One person could be playing a restaurant simulator, commanding workers in an RTS-style gameplay while another person could be playing a DOOM-like FPS and try to rob the store, all on the same map.

https://yewtu.be/nsxoZXaYJSk?t=4374

I may agree with the message, but making children's books about this is just as cringe as LGBT books for children.

@lina That too.