bjornk

Playing video games: Makes him feel like he's wasting his time cause he's now old and has responsibilities.
Scrolling social media for hours and hours: No problems there, totally not wasting his time!

I have news for you kid, everything you do in life is a waste of time, at least waste it on something you enjoy doing.

Funny thing is, cause I've already done it so many times before, anything to do with the topic of "why video games aren't fun anymore" etc. now makes me feel like I'm wasting my time. Probably due to old age.
 

Didn't think it'd be fun to watch, but it was.

Believe me, I really try not to be doom and gloom all the time, but you all should seriously consider the possibility of not being able to afford to escape into video games in the future. The real real-life will most likely slap humanity in the face soon and wake them up from their slumber once again and this time going back to it won't be that easy. I realize that it sounds really vague, but imagine you were someone in Europe during WWII, which wasn't even a century ago. What would you do? Where would you go in order to escape from the horrors that surround you? Imagine you were an Ukrainian or Russian or Turkish, who used to play video games and suddenly a war breaks out, or a massive earthquake destroys your home. What would you do when the real real-life told you "You can run, but you can't hide!"?

4 hours ago, ritualclarity said:

Calling today's gaming industry in a "dark age" means that we will be in a renaissance. A time when games will again be special. I don't think that.

The only thing I can consider as some kind of a renaissance for video games may emerge from the creative use of AI and cloud computing, if it offers a kind of experience that cannot be achieved by any other means. However, I still the think the current mentality (i.e. greed, identity politics) that surrounds the video game industry needs a hard reset, otherwise it'll continue to plague everything.

In many ways what's happening to video games is similar to what happened to radio and television. They were each very popular for a time until a new alternative came along. They still exist today, but not as what they used to be. They both thought the audience would never leave and listen or watch whatever the crap offer, and they were right, at least for a while, until a new alternative, the Internet and the online stuff came along. Things in video games industry will also go on like this for a while, until a new thing comes along to replace it. Till then the current audience won't abandon it completely and the quality of games will continue to drop, just like what happened to radio and television. Only when a new alternative shows up the industry may feel the need to reinvent itself.

7 hours ago, endgameaddiction said:

 

14:32 I'm glad to see more and more people realize this fact.

On 6/24/2022 at 3:21 AM, bjornk said:

As I have said before, you've already played the best games that these developers could ever make. *snipped*

In 21st Century, one can have a male body and a goatee and pretend he is a female, and call it as progression, cause the physical appearance of a gender totally develops independently of their gender roles... Delusional fucks.

Looks like Firefox finally has a working implementation of the ECH draft, which wasn't the case for version 96.x and older. Don't know which version received this update first, but I'm posting this using portable FF version 110.0 and SNI messages seem encrypted.

How to check:

https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/ should report

https://crypto.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace should report

sni=encrypted

https://defo.ie/ech-check.php  should report

SSL_ECH_STATUS: success

Yet another reminder to not waste time or money on games that are not complete. You're not a developer, a designer, a tester or the funder of somebody else's game, you are not to build somebody else's dream or take part in somebody else's scamming scheme.

Imagine a character creation screen, in which, instead of fiddling with sliders to browse through the premade assets, you verbally describe what kind of a character you want, just like in the videos above, and the AI generates the character for you from scratch, once you are satisfied with how she/he looks. All the body meshes, textures and everything. Yum, so mouth-watering... Too bad I won't live that long to play with it, but we're getting there.

One of the reasons why I wanted to try Midjourney AI, was to try to create or re-imagine one of my game characters in a more photo realistic way, like a real person, using the /imagine command on Discord, as shown in the videos below. If you're okay with sharing your phone # to create a Discord account you might want to try it out too.

18 minutes ago, endgameaddiction said:

It's supposed to be Harley Quinn

Not a DC character I'm familiar with or have ever been interested in, not to mention I've never seen any shows/movies with her in it. I wouldn't be able to recognize her even if the sound recording was in perfect quality and sounded exactly like her. It's also a bit like saying someone "sounds like Batman", but which one, West, Keaton, Kilmer, Clooney, Bale...?

Guess I'm in big trouble now, cause she doesn't sound like any real person or fictional character that I know of. Who is she?

She sounds like a real person despite the poor sound quality.

Edit: Ugh, never mind, it is a voice changer and that's cheating, I thought it was a text voiced by AI.

3 hours ago, Nessa said:

Don't forget to install the latest skeleton too to avoid bone problems.

Nah, I'd rather take my two sabre cats and head to the street to wait for my good death.

Keep in mind that the free accounts that these AI companies offer are nothing but a basic demo and are pretty limited in what you can do. Despite that I wanted to try out Midjourney to create some AI art, was even willing to create a Discord account until they asked my phone number, fuck that. Anyway, let us know if you can find some interesting stuff.

On 12/6/2022 at 5:08 PM, Nessa said:

Wow. The Todd is getting old.

On 2/19/2023 at 6:47 AM, endgameaddiction said:

Todd needs to install Fair Skin Complex to reduce his age appearance.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, as I'm the same age as Todd.

46 minutes ago, vancleef said:

Punctuation marks are confusing to many semi-literate people and it's now considered offensive to use them because it makes dumb people feel...well...dumb.

Constantly avoiding negative emotions (e.g. getting offended by minor things) is one of the things that make people dumb. It's akin to skipping school on the days emotional training takes place.

First Google, now Youtube, both completely broke the search functionality. Two massive corporations run by complete retards. Youtube search, which has already been shit, now completely ignores command filters like the dash (e.g. character creation -hogwarts). Why would I even use your shit if I won't be able to find what I'm looking for?

@endgameaddiction I've recently been using an AI generated "voice pack" for the mod "Sexist Guards" in Skyrim and most of what you say is true for at least half of the AI generated talk, but occasionally the quality is indistinguishable from an actually voice acted line, which, by the way, makes the game quite amusing. When the overall quality of the AI generated speech is more of less the same and it doesn't sound robotic, I think it's preferable to not having speech at all.

Procedures, training time and the quality of training sets are very important in AI based speech generation, so the quality will no doubt improve in the future. The only downside of using AI generated voices in games locally is the massive size of the generated sound files, which requires a significant amount of storage space and memory.

"SHUT UP BACK THERE!"... Hilarious.

...as I have said many times before for decades... Imagine yourself arguing with people who defended Fallout 4's dialogue interface in an age of intelligent virtual assistants (Siri, Cortana etc.)... anyway, not gonna lecture you about that right now (though I might, later on), just gonna share some stuff related to this topic...

Note that there's also a HUGE dilemma in the increasing use of AI in seemingly everything we do. It will create many social issues, massive unemployment etc. just like the Industrial Revolution, most likely will be far worse. It is another and definitely more important topic to discuss, but not in this thread, which is mainly for fun. Perhaps there won't be "a future" for video games, BECAUSE of AI, who knows... Edit: Human civilization will NOT survive the climate change, so perhaps we shouldn't worry about the AI either... well then let us enjoy our few remaining decades playing with AI...

Skyrim - AI voiced dialogues (for the player and NPCs)...

Morrowind - NPCs voiced by AI

Fallout NV

ChatGPT in Bannerlord (NPC dialogues thru AI)

4 minutes ago, vancleef said:

But on the bright side.

You gotta be joking.

No offense but . Potter series were for little children, mainly the millennials, definitely doesn't interest me in the least.

1 hour ago, Nessa said:

Sooooo.....

$400,000 missile to shoot down.... a $12 balloon. And the first missile missed.

Have we reached peak insanity yet?

If you're calling that "insanity", it means you haven't had enough experience with humans yet. This planet is literally a madhouse.