[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 24 points 5 months ago

Have fun and do whatever you want!

It's a very chill game, but you can make it as stressful as you want by trying to do everything.

There's no time limit, you can play for as many years as you want, so don't stress and try and get everything done as fast as possible (unless that's fun for you).

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 34 points 6 months ago

They do. There are plenty of indie Devs.

The reason why everyone doesn't do it is because it requires significant capital to be able to support a dev team through production for a number of years.

Not to mention they will still have to deal with publishers potentially fucking them over, as shown with the Helldivers 2 PSN fiasco.

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We've all got one. That pile of books waiting to be read, some of them surely doomed to linger for years as other more enticing novels are selected instead. What's in yours?

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I'm not usually a huge fan of rogue-likes, but I've enjoyed a few, like Hades. I bought Balatro last week and have been absolutely smashing it ever since then. I love the way the game works, each run being so different even within the same framework, and the feeling when your build starts to go off is so incredibly satisfying.

Anyone else hopelessly addicted to joker poker?

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 26 points 9 months ago

"Pokemon with guns on PC."

That's a great sales pitch.

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If you've never heard of wet bulb events, get ready for a new level of climate anxiety. When the air kills you!

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago

Creation Engine is based on Gamebryo.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

It was 2000 shares, he's already sold like 50k in the last year. Nothing sinister about it.

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The massive 10 book epic fantasy series is a classic of the genre. If you've been interested in the series at all, this is the cheapest price I've seen for the whole lot.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

TLOU is criminally low on this list. Easily top 3, and personally, I'd put it at 1.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 29 points 1 year ago

Mmmm, nah, I think that sometimes, people are stupid.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 35 points 1 year ago

Marcel LUX III SARL

Company wholly owned by the EQT group, a publicly traded global investment organization. This is just going to lead to more enshittification.

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[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 249 points 1 year ago

Pay 44 billion for a brand, then change it. Pure genius.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org to c/creative@beehaw.org

I have completed and released my first short story, Hide. It is a prequel to the novel I am currently editing, Singularity.

Blurb

Deep in the mountain lakes of the Yukaan Empire, Tomas ij’Lu’kan, a haunted ex-soldier and recovered addict returns to a hunting hide he visited with his father as a child to scatter his ashes.

Someone is waiting for him in the darkness of the hide, someone from his past, left long behind. In remembrance of the man that was his father, he and the other are forced to confront the transgressions they have made and the secrets they have kept from one another.

Viewable for free on my Patreon, on Royal Road, or on my Substack.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago

Hi, it's me the author!

First of all, thanks for reading.

In the article I explain that it is not exactly what authors do, we reading and writing are an inherently human activity and the consumption and processing of massive amounts of data (far more than a human with a photographic memory could process in a hundred million lifetimes) is a completely different process to that.

I also point out that I don't have a problem with LLMs as a concept, and I'm actually excited about what they can do, but that they are inherently different from humans and should be treated as such by the law.

My main point is that authors should have the ability to decree that they don't want their work used as training data for megacorporations to profit from without their consent.

So, yes in a way it is about money, but the money in question being the money OpenAI and Meta are making off the backs of millions of unpaid and often unsuspecting people.

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A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm actually surprised by the comments in here. This technology is incredibly disruptive to authors, if they are correct that their intellectual property has been misused by these companies to train LLMs, then they absolutely should have the right to prevent that.

You can both be pro AI and advancement, and still respect creators intellectual rights and the right to not have all content stolen by megacorporations and used by them to create profits while decimating entire industries.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 62 points 1 year ago

This is a strawman.

You cannot act as though feeding LLMs data is remotely comparable to reading.

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Just wondering why lemmy is on a .ml domain. (Which is Mali) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml

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