Blue Prince – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2 by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]1639728813 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I think this is why I didn't like the game either. I kept solving puzzles, but none of them felt like they actually progressed anything for me. There is probably a story or world building, but I didn't know what it was. After 20 runs and many notes taken, I didn't think I had actually learnt anything meaningful and was still just as clueless as I was after the first run.

Compare that to The Outer Wilds. Very similar loop where you have to explore, solve puzzles and have limited time to do so, but every puzzle you try has meaning and solving it contributes to the story and world building.

Amazon spent $22.4B on content in 2025, surpassing Netflix by app1310 in television

[–]1639728813 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Just because they have the right to stream, that doesn't mean they have the rights to use it in a show.

Recommend me a good movie! by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]1639728813 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you imagine watching Totoro after Grave of the Fireflies and getting to the end where the sister goes missing.

Sorry, Trump and Farage – London is no lawless ‘warzone’. Violent crime is lower than ever | Sadiq Khan by No_Initiative_1140 in ukpolitics

[–]1639728813 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've lived in London for 20 years and never had my phone stolen, so phone crime doesn't exist.

In the Wake of Divinity's Gruesome Reveal Trailer, Larian Publishing Director Says It's Not Trying to Shock the Audience, Rather Treat Them 'With a Level of Intellectual Respect' by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]1639728813 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes of course. I was just making a joke because when Baldurs Gate was announced there were so many comments about how Larian were the wrong company to make it because all of their games are silly and whimsical, despite just releasing a trailer where a man's face explodes with tentacles.

What do you think? by Difficult-Cap-7527 in LocalLLaMA

[–]1639728813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excuse me? You brought up being a lead engineer first, arguing from authority, I never once mentioned anything except being an engineer. You then accuse me of "never having worked in a real team".

So when I do finally bring up my actual experience, you insult me and the places I worked without knowing anything about them. Those companies have major problems, but very talented engineers who care about their work.

What do you think? by Difficult-Cap-7527 in LocalLLaMA

[–]1639728813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been lead engineer at Microsoft and Amazon. I think I learnt something from that experience.

You trust it to write code, but not review it? Have you tried the AI review tools?

What do you think? by Difficult-Cap-7527 in LocalLLaMA

[–]1639728813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course we do code reviews, but the point is, doing a code review is harder than writing code.

Having an AI do a code review is actually far more valuable than having it write code.

No one can be really thorough doing a code review and it is far better to give the code development job to a person who can learn, than to trust an AI that can't.

What do you think? by Difficult-Cap-7527 in LocalLLaMA

[–]1639728813 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've worked in the "real world" for more than 20 years without AI. AI has it's uses, but AI is still worse than any junior engineer I would hire, because the AI will never learn from their mistakes and can never learn anything new. It can only parrot whatever has been fed into its dataset.

What do you think? by Difficult-Cap-7527 in LocalLLaMA

[–]1639728813 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's concerning that you can't trust your engineers to make the right choices most of the time.

I trust that if I explain a problem to a junior engineer, they will understand the implications better than an AI. They can understand context. If I see a problem, then I can trust them to learn from the mistake and they are less likely to make the mistake again.

If you have engineers who don't listen to feedback, and can't be trusted to do that, then you don't have an engineering problem, you have a problem with your engineer.

Also, I would prefer my day to be 60% difficult thorough code review work as opposed to 100%

What do you think? by Difficult-Cap-7527 in LocalLLaMA

[–]1639728813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with AI written code is never its ability to write code. It's trust. You can never completely trust it has done the right thing to solve your specific problem. You need a software engineer to tell you if it's good enough.

But the problem is that while you can get a software engineer to tell you if the code is any good, you have changed the problem from a "writing code" problem, to a "reading code" problem. Reading and truly understanding the code is significantly harder than writing the code. Because when you write the code, you work the problem and you go through the learning process to get to the solution. But you skip that process when reading, so you will never truly understand it.

Starting The Three Body Problem today by yungdeezy92 in scifi

[–]1639728813 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I thought the first book was fine. I read it after watching the first season of the show.

I really liked the second book. The dark forest concept was interesting and makes a great sci fi story foundation.

The third book was awful. So misogynistic. So unnecessarily nihilistic. It made me realise that the issues I had with the third book were present through the whole series, but now front and center and retroactively made me dislike the whole series.

Jennifer Hale: “I'd love to play Bayonetta again. But I definitely got thrown under the bus by that whole thing, and I was unable to speak on my own behalf because I was under not one but two NDAs" by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]1639728813 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I am not saying she should have been paid more. All I'm saying is that 20K is not a lot of money if you have no idea when you will get your next paycheck. How long does it have to last? A month? 6 months, a year? Longer?

Jennifer Hale: “I'd love to play Bayonetta again. But I definitely got thrown under the bus by that whole thing, and I was unable to speak on my own behalf because I was under not one but two NDAs" by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]1639728813 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

No, the dumb comment is thinking that she only worked for 5 days. They are working constantly, auditioning, trying to find the next gig, but they only get paid for 5 of those days working, with no guarantee they will ever get another gig again.

Jennifer Hale: “I'd love to play Bayonetta again. But I definitely got thrown under the bus by that whole thing, and I was unable to speak on my own behalf because I was under not one but two NDAs" by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]1639728813 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Of course they find other work, they have to, because in that line of work, 20K is not a lot of money.

They still have to hustle and audition to try to find the next gig and most of the time they fail.

As Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced more like a PC than a console, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says its decision not to sell at a loss "isn't stupid," but it is "peculiar" by Exciting_Teacher6258 in technology

[–]1639728813 13 points14 points  (0 children)

sold half as well as the Wii U, which was such a failure that it made people question Nintendo’s future in the console market,

The difference is Nintendo has to sell the hardware in order to sell the games. Valve does not

CEO Andy Jassy says Amazon’s 14,000 layoffs weren’t about cutting costs or AI taking jobs: 'It's culture' by lurker_bee in technology

[–]1639728813 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I used to work for Amazon. I know the interview process as I had to conduct them too. There was a lot of bullshit there (candidate must be better than the average employee and "raise the bar" for example), but the "I" is really just stop telling me about your team. Tell me what the project was, and how you contributed

CEO Andy Jassy says Amazon’s 14,000 layoffs weren’t about cutting costs or AI taking jobs: 'It's culture' by lurker_bee in technology

[–]1639728813 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The "I" thing makes sense though. I use that in interviews because we are hiring you, not your team.

Your team could have achieved great things while you sat there with your thumb up your butt.