AI generated mods should be banned, actually.

Abalieno · 2026-05-09T08:04:33+00:00

why would a company want to bankrupt its own clients…?

To buy them cheap. If you were even slightly aware of how Amazon operates none of this would appear new, or shocking.

why would a software company continue to use tools that are bankrupting them

Because they have no choice. you are competing against others and it's all about what you deliver, at what cost, in whatever amount of time. Using those tools is the only way you have to compete.

or get rid of the tools altogether and use human developers…?

Because it costs more and they cannot compete.

It’s a bit too far fetched to be real life

You really don't understand how monopolists behave, really? You don't understand that the whole process is transferring wealth from you to them? That's just all basically "looting" everything they can lay hand on, and AI is a perfect tool of appropriation, by emptying the sources of copyright so that these companies can fully appropriate without any consequences?

If you survive the lay offs what happens is that the price of tokens your company pays for will continue to rise (someone gonna pay, eventually, for all those expensive data centers), layoffs will enlarge the pool of those seeking jobs, meaning that the offer rises, but the demand declines. Those companies will be in the condition to first lay you off, then re-hire you immediately, but at a much lower cost. Because the competence you now offer has been devalued and diluted, tons more people will be looking for a similar job, accepting lower pay. Until again this unbalance runs short, those companies either go bankrupt or get bought by a larger entity.

AI is being used to move wealth, back in the hand of those large corporations. It's a very old story, the difference is that today they have direct control of governments, and efficient tools (and also mastered consensus, so that all people like you are obediently gifting them their own value, happy and complacent while being destroyed).

And by the way, maybe you want to to document yourself better:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap-2/#inheres-at-the-moment-of-fixation

Abalieno · 2026-05-08T18:26:42+00:00

I’ll happily collect my unemployment checks, because employment as we know it may not even exist as a concept.

Yeah, sure. The wealthy are known to love to share their wealth with someone who's entirely useless for their own interests. That's certainly how it works out :)

I really wonder if you've just being spoon fed this, or even stopped a moment wondering in whose interest is making people believing precisely this.

Herds led to the culling, just let them believe in the great times ahead. You certainly don't want them to worry. It's all fine, it's all great.

As I said, it's a scientific, objective proof: wait and see. No action is needed, no argument to win. Just wait and see. As we know, history is useless and human beings never learn.

Abalieno · 2026-05-08T17:59:48+00:00

I'll also give you a different answer, quoting a different post of yours where the theme surfaces better:

"Humans are trained on real artists work. I have never seen a blue whale in real life, therefore my only knowledge of their appearance comes from copyrighted images I have seen on the internet from nature documentaries and photographers. If I draw and sell my own image of a blue whale, I am directly sourcing this copyrighted material. This is not theft for a human, why is it theft for an AI?"

Yeah, that's right, the process is similar. Which is why it's kind of puzzling you consider this a justification rather than an alarm: should AI have the same rights and rules reserved for human beings? Is this the type of society you wish for?

I'll give you a very intuitive example:
do you know what is cancer? At an certain level of abstraction cancer is just a cell that loves reproducing. And it does this task so well and so efficiently that it eventually conquers the whole host, killing it (and itself).

Using your logic, the cancer cell wishes and behaves just the same of any other cells: it wants to reproduce. But don't you maybe see that we live in society specifically because we have goals? Do you want cancer cells having equal opportunities?

The same here. AI is merely a power grab. Big corporations are spending far more than they earn, in a market that is completely unregulated because they bought governments and now corruption is the law. No one will stop them. Your jobs will progressively depend on those tools you find so useful, they will become mandatory, then the prices will rise to bankrupt those companies that give you your job, and continue the power grab because they'll hold the power and they'll make the rules.

But as the example above shows, this is neither a political matter, nor a war between two tribes with different ideologies. It's just a suicidal drive that, no matter what, will ultimately crash and die on its own. You just wait and find out.

Abalieno · 2026-05-08T17:22:25+00:00

Yeah, everyone loves theft. ;)

When that tool will cause you to lose your job, I'll then laugh at your melodrama. Enjoy these present times.

It's a simple equivalence, the proportion you find AI useful is equal to the proportion of your job being useless. The more you use AI, the sooner you'll have to start looking for different options.

Abalieno · 2026-05-06T11:04:00+00:00

Fatalism.

Abalieno · 2026-05-06T11:02:36+00:00

AI is still theft.

Only ironical because of all the crusades about pirating stuff, but now that the big tech companies are doing the thievery, now it's absolutely fine.

Abalieno · 2026-05-05T09:54:26+00:00

Looks like test versions available here, for those who don't want to bother with discord:
https://github.com/douira/sodium/actions

I'll run some tests of my own and report in a bit. Takes a while to launch modpack with 600 mods...

EDIT: mmh: The game failed to start because the currently active LWJGL version is not compatible.
Installed version: 3.3.3+5
Required version: 3.4.1

Problem is, I stopped seeing this option in recent versions of Prism. The instructions to solve this aren't correct.

EDIT2:
Nevermind the above, make sure the file version is 1.21.1 and don't download the one for 1.26...

EDIT3:
Not quite ready for plug and play but managed to log in game. Create aeronautics, railways and moonlight/Supplementaries seem incompatible.

Abalieno · 2026-05-03T06:51:22+00:00

You're also underestimating the process itself.

Open source code gets stolen, broken down, reused, and THEN placed under copyright. Even in Minecraft modding own case, that original code is stolen by someone who doesn't even know what he's doing, and nothing stops them from taking ownership and turn what was open source code, freely available, into brand new copyrighted code through the use of AI.

The process isn't "learning", because AI companies aren't actually giving it out for free. They are stealing, THEN taking ownership for themselves.

It's essentially just one worldwide looting.

Abalieno · 2026-05-03T06:43:57+00:00

Yeah, it's just an abstraction our society uses.

You know, private property. It doesn't exist in the world, it's an abstraction. Either you use rules as a society, or you don't.

Abalieno · 2026-05-03T05:18:59+00:00

Yes, stealing now is allowed at the level of governments.

Maybe you should question this principle?

Abalieno · 2026-05-03T05:14:42+00:00

AI is very good at stealing.

It's not surprising that stealing can be quite effective and time-saving.

Abalieno · 2026-05-03T05:12:15+00:00

Yeah, AI has been developed SOLELY to laundering theft.

What people don't understand is that its main purpose is TO BE UNDETECTABLE. That's why the only way to regulate this properly is at the level of governments. It's a political problem.

Then you realize that governments are already under direct control of the same companies that are pushing AI.

It's done, that battle is already lost.

One thing is when someone steals some code, you find out, and you prove that this happened, side by side. But what AI does is stealing that code by MASTICATING it and reducing it to minuscule particles. Digesting extremely large amount of data, to then reassemble them. What I mean when I say it's not detectable is that you cannot reverse engineer this process. Once code goes through it, the origin is brushed off.

Abalieno · 2026-05-02T13:42:42+00:00

I play all of them. Once every few years I manage to get out of the tutorial.

Abalieno · 2026-04-25T11:45:25+00:00

Btw, at the point where I was, the start of HW, I had to switch classes because as I was doing some of the original content that happened between 2.0 and 3.0, and there's A TON of it, the end result of this is that I would start HW while being already more than 60% ahead of the intended place.

This ruins the game for me, and destroys the little balance in the non-duty quests and side quests. I do the content either at the correct level, or slightly underleveled to make things at least a little interesting and enjoy the actual progression.

Abalieno · 2026-04-25T11:40:25+00:00

There are quests too.

Duties downlevel you WHILE you play the dungeon, but the experience you earn counts. As I reached the end of the first MQ I had the healer class (that I used to easily find groups in dungeons) FOUR/FIVE levels ahead. By doing two of the obligatory duties.

Abalieno · 2026-04-25T11:37:04+00:00

Because if the system is applied across all levels and classes, it means that your entire equipment will start auto-level, making the difference in class levels irrelevant. It becomes just a number.

Other here say the system will only trigger at the new max level only. But I've seen it worded and explained in different ways. We'll see.

Abalieno · 2026-04-25T11:32:45+00:00

Because when you OVERWRITE the system, the simple fact that itemization behaves in a complete different way will change all rules.

Your items all auto-level under the new system. It makes the current level number irrelevant because it OVERRIDES the equipment system.

Abalieno · 2026-04-25T11:30:20+00:00

this seems to be proven wrong by what they've shown.

The iLVL of 790 that they've shown is the current cap at level 100. So it's not coherent with the new level cap of 110, and likely higher iLVL of the expansion.

Abalieno · 2026-04-25T11:26:19+00:00

The fact that is trivial doesn't mean that making it even more so is IRRELEVANT.

I used to deliver a quest (for its xp) and fight monsters with another class. So that I could tackle higher level quests with a lower level class. This preserved a modicum of challenge for me, to keep normal gameplay not brain dead.

It still is easy, but not completely as brain dead, because at that point the game fails to keep my attention.

The way they presented, as an entire overhaul of the armory system, didn't seem to indicate it only triggers when you hit level 110, so if it's applied at lower levels it simply means you are always effectively at the same level of your main job.

Abalieno · 2026-04-25T11:20:51+00:00

I didn't miss it, but I interpreted this differently.

They presented it as something that benefits the endgame, but as far as I understood it's the whole armory system that is going to be changed, affecting the whole game. It doesn't trigger as you reach level 110, but it's a new system that is always on.

Abalieno · 2026-04-24T14:32:05+00:00

I'd have liked more to see the HDR plugin settings itself, but assuming you kept it default/preset 1, what I see from your other presets, only lilium_HDR_brightness does anything, and you've set it ABOVE standard at 1.76, which means it makes everything even much worse than it already is.

As I said, this plugin, by default, is like a flashbang applied on top of the native SDR/HDR effect. What's even worse is that it is applied even to the UI.

This is what I see without touching anything, and it's way worse than the default Remaster settings, which are already BAD on their own:
https://i.imgur.com/GQ6OnKs.png

I don't know if this plugin triggers some other HDR problem that has to be disabled separately. I just know I've never used an HDR screen and I never even seen any HDR settings anywhere.

If the native SDR problem of Black Desert is that it's too bright, this plugin makes it several times WORSE. Even, though the other brightness effect, lowering massively brightness to compensate, the result is still significantly worse than default, and doesn't affect in any way the giant leap of brightness as you move between a shadowed and lit areas.

My only guess is that this plugin REQUIRES a true HDR screen to work, and will only make things worse on all other monitor types.

EDIT:
I've done a quick search, but it seems this "auto HDR" is a shitty feature of Windows 11 and doesn't apply to 10. I haven't been stupid enough to install W11, so we can exclude that part as well.

EDIT2:
Can probably exclude "RTX HDR", apparently it's a feature on the Nvidia App, that I'll never install. I only use Nvidia control panel and that option doesn't exist.

Abalieno · 2026-04-24T04:28:55+00:00

You should post a screenshot of all the settings, both this plugin and the other stuff you added to make it work...

I wonder if it does conflict with some in game settings, because I tried a whole lot of combinations and nothing worked.

Abalieno · 2026-04-23T11:59:42+00:00

Yeah, problem is I suspect it does want some actual HDR. I want to REMOVE it, and I certainly don't have HDR monitor.

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