That’s a good way to describe it, too. Yeah. Amy Shira Teitel had this video the other day about how reading skills are dropping massively and how it links into short-form video and short-form entertainment in general.
And it made me realize: I like cozy reading every so often. Sure. Currently reading the third Legends&Lattes book, and it’s fantastic as are the first two. But I could not do that all the time. It’s too lightweight in prose and content for that.

Similar thing with AI text, and in particular in long-form AI-generated text. It’s not text meant to keep you engaged while reading it, just not actively disengage you.

There is also the old german documentary.

No, it was an AI. They’re not real, despite people always acting like they are.

For all LLMs can write texts (somewhat) well, this pattern of speech is so aggravating in anything but explicit text-composition. I don’t need the 500 word blurb to fill the void with. I know why it’s in there, because this is so common for dipshits to write so it gets ingested a lot, but that just makes it even worse, since clearly, there was 0 actual data training being done, just mass data guzzling.

At my gaming PC, I got Logitech G560 speakers and also a G733 headset. Both were gifts. I slightly prefer the headset (used to gaming with headphones after decades), but the speakers are nice to give my ears a temporary rest plus them lighting up the wall behind the monitor is cool.

On the TV, an Ultimea soundbar + rear speakers set. Cheapest I could find with surround where subwoofer and rears are wireless as due to my living room layout running cables there would be impractical. Not the best soujd but worlds better than the TV itself and good enough for all my gaming needs.

I wish they’d replace Tim Sweeney with AI. Would genuinely have better takes on most topics, too. Sigh.

Yeah that shit is like selling heroine specifically to vulnerable people in depressing phases of their life. But wth gambling ads and dark patterns in video games we somehow accept it. 😕

what is holding a banana for an hour

Pretty weird, tbh.

1. consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns

It’s a certain “tone” to their written text. It’s difficult to identify from small blurbs like the ones you got there, but once you’ve seen enough LLM output, even if someone tells them to write in a specific “style” they’ll still have a certain uncanny type of expression that is almost, but never actually, how humans write.

Buy two! Save double!

Same with that CEO. “Things happen”. 🤷

Disgusting!

I’ll stick with the strongest superpower of them all, I am Cables Never Tangle Man!

… that then gets applied to everyone within 100 metres of you on top of yourself.

Especially if you watch people game there’s 0 chance you missed the big ones this year looking at the awards, those being CO:E33, Hades 2, Silksong, DS2, Split Fiction and MKW. They were all streamers and youtubers were doing (and kinda still are with Silksong) for months.

Assuming you play on PC I’d near-universally recommend it. This is because if the dodging/parrying mechanics do annoy you, your only option is to change to Easy, which also reduces enemy damage by a ton and makes the game boringly simply. Mods allow you to have the slightly more lenient timings of Easy but the HP/damage numbers of Normal, which for me personally was a nice combination as I got frustrated parrying the later bosses.

Where were you looking then?

Not at any of the 159 positive reviews opencritic has aggregated? Not at any of the >5000 positive Steam user reviews just in the first week, either? Neither any of the ~60 positive reviews on GOG, either?

Where exactly did you look?

I’d say it’s a “good weird-game” instead of a “good, weird, game”. Which granted it shares with the first game.

Oh wow, you entirely missed Death Stranding 2, Hades 2, Hollow Knight Silksong and Clair Obscur? The latter basically took over the entirety of all gaming discussion and news for ~2 months.

I mean not a bad thing in itself, helps to play games not just read about them. Just surprised that in particular CO:E33 went by you, my grandma heard about it even though she could not associate the name because mainstream TV news had a short bit about the music in it.

I dunno. It’s a very well-made game, but also kinda… understandable not on the same level as Hades 2, Silksong of Clair Obscur.

Plus it got a GOTY nomination or two, I bet. Which just doesn’t put it high enough though.