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• Is this meant as a rhetorical question or are you seriously asking?

  on Did this new Marvel video game censor LGBTQ+ content in its Middle East release? in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 1d ago

• Multiple people mentioned there are on the Epstein list. They probably misheard "kitty exploit" as "kiddy exploit".

  on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• And what did you actually do?

  on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: in c/games@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• The fact that all of your posts have been involved in sleazy ad campaigns doesn't give any legitimacy to this one. It's just digital begging using a false AI sob story.

  on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: in c/games@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026

• Yeah, I'm going to have some doubts about the "AI replaced me" part. My company works heavily with AI now and no one has lost their job. What their job was is EXTREMELY important here. Did they make birdhouses at a financial firm?

  Nevermind. I found him:
  https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/woodland-hills/theseus-games-inc
  https://www.themarque.com/profile/justin-berenbaum
  His LinkedIn connects Thesus Games with Xsolla.

  Yeah, he wasn't "replaced by AI".

  NOTE:
  If you're thinking that maybe it is just a dev working for Thesus Games, you can check the comment history on that account like: https://lemmy.world/comment/24338752
  Name changes have to go through leadership meaning this was Justin speaking.

  on After a year of struggling and losing my job to AI, my game finally made it to 4000 wishlists! This is how it feels: in c/games@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026

• I don't see how game streaming at least in the US market would ever work without higher performance infrastructure anyway. Functionally, it's not a matter of bandwidth but latency. Xbox servers are centralized regionally, so even with latency within WebRTC range (like sub-20ms), cross-country traversal can add up to 30ms which makes games feel awful in terms of control.

  on Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits] in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• That's wild. So basically a user asking for compensation is treated as the same threat level as that user walking into their offices armed.
  That "considered reasonable according to social norms" is REALLY open ended, too. That sounds a lot like the social norm they've been trying to push for "you won't own anything and you'll like it".

  on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• It has gotten to the point where devs are just being asked to disprove a negative, though.

  "Ok, well you didn't use AI in what you showed but you used it somewhere else."
  Short of devs wearing body cams to try and prove literally every step in every process, people are going to have to have some faith that developers aren't using it.

  on "Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy in c/games@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• There is a game that is upcoming that I was interested in that clearly used generative AI in a gameplay trailer. I should say I'm not pro/anti generative AI. I'm right down the middle, I see the issues and the potential, so the presence of AI itself for me isn't a deal killer (Crimson Desert for example).

  But, the issue is that this game falsely represented what is going to be in the game. The lighting isn't planned to be that good. The model rigging isn't meant to be that fluid. Etc, etc. The problem is a matter of dishonesty.

  If a developer uses generative AI for test assets and placeholders, I don't see that as an issue (especially if they admit to and own that fact). If they use that material for trailers to showcase their work when that will not be part of the work, then that is a different story as that introduces that dishonesty.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 24 Aug 2026

• I'm just going to end this here with a final comment:

  I know I'm not going to change your mind on this. It doesn't matter what evidence I provide, you just aren't ready to have that conversation. And that's ok.

  This has never really been about you. It's been about all the others. It's about showing how while there is a lot of AI hype, there is an equal amount of anti-AI hype. Misinformation is misinformation. Doesn't matter your stance.

  We have for 4 years now both simultaneously and perpetually been 3 months away from the AI bubble popping and 3 months away from AI stealing everyone's job.

  So, for those that see this insane comment history, understand as well intentioned as some of these posters are, most everything they say is completely fabricated. They are just passing it along without knowing any better.

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 20 Aug 2026

• I'm just going to end this here with a final comment:

  I know I'm not going to change your mind on this. It doesn't matter what evidence I provide, you just aren't ready to have that conversation. And that's ok.

  This has never really been about you. It's been about all the others. It's about showing how while there is a lot of AI hype, there is an equal amount of anti-AI hype. Misinformation is misinformation. Doesn't matter your stance.

  We have for 4 years now both simultaneously and perpetually been 3 months away from the AI bubble popping and 3 months away from AI stealing everyone's job.

  So, for those that see this insane comment history, understand as well intentioned as some of these posters are, most everything they say is completely fabricated. They are just passing it along without knowing any better.

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 20 Aug 2026

• Ok, so despite everything you said, it is NOT the environmental impact that matters. What matters (at least now) is the number of services it provides. I hate to say it but "You're just choosing to cherry pick one thing that everyone who's upset should ignore."

  This is gonna sound like a broken record here but... https://kbin.earth/m/gaming@beehaw.org/t/3103626/ChatGPT-LLMs-and-Automating-the-Fun-Out-of-Roleplaying-Don-t/comment/14132956#entry-comment-14132956

  Let's be real here: If subject A destroys the environment and subject B destroys the environment to the same degree, why is the quality/quantity of service provided by either the deciding factor to you when you yourself have stated this is a matter of environmental concern? The outcome being the exact same, the path you take to it is irrelevant. That is the most illogical reason to be ok with anything. And this isn't me putting words in your mouth, this is literally what you have stated in your comment history.

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 20 Aug 2026

• I'm curious though, what would I have to be doing for you to believe that I'm... I dont know, "allowed"? to talk about AI's water usage impact?

  I would say you are starting to approach an opposing view as treating yours as "wrong thought" when confronted. That is an absolutest method that is only ever used to justify what you think is right and vilify all else. It isn't a matter of what is "allowed". There is no restriction to that. But if you put out an idea or belief that can be deconstructed and proven incorrect/incomplete, then people have the right to speak against it.

  There are lots of points you can make that are completely valid and evidentiary by nature, but AI water usage isn't one of them. It has been debunked to point that I would bucket it into the same group that "vaccines cause autism" fit into.

  EDIT:
  Actually I wanted to point out something about the trending mention. You say you don't try to sway opinion on the meat industry but you do for AI because you get more traction. That's called audience alignment and is part of shared identity signaling (used algorithmically to define what is currently trending).

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026

• Can run on a raspberry pi and does run on a raspberry pi are two different things. I don't think raspberry pis are the solution here. I'm not cherry picking either as both are clear evils. That is the point. Current non-AI datacenters are using more power in total than AI datacenters. That may (and likely will) change, but the argument that AI datacenters are destroying the environment when the other is destroying it even more (but let's ignore that one) is moronic by nature.

  That by definition isn't cherry picking. It's pointing out the logical fallacy in popular thought.

  I work in devops. These two things are more alike then you think.

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026

• That is a valid point, I think. That isn't "but what about the environment" but only when convenient. That is local pricing issue which has a very direct and very trackable impact.

  If a datacenter opens next door to you, the utility consumption goes up meaning your bill goes up. Unless the datacenter operators are somehow offsetting that increase financially (and that the money is actually be allocated by the city for that purpose), then there is the real impact of datacenters.

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026

• AI datacenters do not cause drought. There is no evidence to support that claim. And if you think you do have evidence, I would love to see the source.

  And you totally can contain multitudes. People should be like that. But they in practice aren't. They follow what is trending. For example, if you look through your comment history how many comments will be pertaining to the US meat industry? How many to datacenters?

  I would argue that you care a great deal more about one than the other. Which, going back to my original point, why is that 1% more important than the remaining 99% (or specifically the 50% that you care so much about)?

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026

• "they're doing bad so I can too"

  I don't think you understand that the "so I can" part implies you. By virtue of even posting, YOU are pushing datacenter demand. These comments don't just live in the ether. The whole point is you are cherry picking what you are upset about based on what is trending (as you even mentioned). The point being you are MORE upset about the lesser evil, not that one is justified evil and the other isn't.

  If you enjoy the Two Wrongs Make Right fallacy, then I think you'll love the Special Pleading fallacy.

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026

• I find the environmental argument is always a weak one to make, though. CO2 emissions for non-AI datacenters peaks currently around 210 million tons, with AI datacenters peaking currently around 100 million tons.

  So why is more pollution from subject A acceptable, but less from subject B isn't?
  I've seen people say because A gives "something of worth", but then that just undermines the whole point of being harmful to the environment. Destruction of the environment is kinda an absolute in that instance, the source shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether or not we accept it.

  The same for the water usage thing (which was debunked). AI datacenters use 68 billions gallons annually (at least by 2028 projected). People are upset about that, but not about the 26 trillion gallons that US agriculture uses. All because "something of worth", but if it's that big of a deal why are people focusing on less than 1% of the total consumption? How is that 1% needing protected but the remaining 99% totally disposable?

  on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026