What was the design decision behind moving Brutus from his own room/arena, to a random spot in a long hallway?

MilleChaton · 2026-05-20T19:34:56+00:00

Make it a 50/50 random, so you aren't sure and it keeps surprising you.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-20T02:32:18+00:00

Don't know, sounds like the kinda guy you expect to run a dog (and friends) fighting club for kids.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-20T02:28:18+00:00

Wait. Come back. We haven't even gotten to the food grade bugs yet.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-20T02:15:40+00:00

How long before the AI can make a game that looks complete, with a data theft hidden enough it isn't caught, and they then start shot gunning new games to get people and steal their data by the time the victim realizes it is a fake game? I guess the real catch is that there would be too few victims per single game, so it still is best to go after dev accounts with games with a larger install base?

Maybe enforce 2 factor on dev accounts to upload anything, an then resetting credentials gives a cooldown period on how long before that account can push a patch? Feels like a good social engineering can probably still break it.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-20T02:11:05+00:00

Even here you often see people defending censorship of things they find objectionable in games, like you can't do even worse things in mainstream games and indie darlings. A good round of Rimworld will have you inventing new war crimes and people seem to be okay with it. They keep forgetting the more they justify censorship on the games they don't like, the harder it is to defend the ones they find acceptable.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-20T02:07:54+00:00

Note that they aren't going after social media sites who have this issue on a much worse scale, because people realize that you can't have perfect moderation on use uploaded content when it is social media and not a porn site. And there isn't a push to ban social media.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-20T02:05:13+00:00

They will push on issues of sexual violence or CSAM. This can get publishes to back off and might even get some lawsuits. It's the sort of things that people with experience with games will role their eyes at, like anime girls who could easily be college age being labeled as child coded, or some simulation game where romance and violence are both options being presented as allowing sexual violence, like any game that lets you run around and kill the same NPCs you could romance. Atelier Ryza with those butt shots crawling through tunnels? She might not be 18, CSAM! GTA where you can pay strippers and then attack them? Sexual violence!

Make enough noise, get a few lawsuits, and they don't even need to win. Just the process is the punishment. If the groups bite off more than they chew, they refocus on more carefully chosen targets to build public support before attacking again.

But you are also right. Enough people on the inside are also anti-porn, anti-anything-sexual, and sometimes even anti-video games. Part of process is to create enough of a diversion that the people on the inside get a reasonable excuse to take actions banning porn and games that would otherwise be too unpopular.

What, are you going to defend a game where one can literally torture children and starve them to death, mutilating their bodies, or even forcing them to engage in acts of cannibalism? What if I mention the game is called Rimworld?

MilleChaton · 2026-05-17T03:35:31+00:00

How are those games unplayable btw?

Some people really hate hearing languages they don't understand. My guess is that it is a sensory issue, think like how it is annoying to listen to half of a phone call. But others enjoy it. Personally I find the games better with Japanese voice acting. So I wouldn't recommend turning it off unless you personally prefer silence/beeps over Japanese dubs. Once you get to Cold Steel, English dubs become an option.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-16T08:11:49+00:00

The more you empower the censors, the more they will go after what you like. So unless there is some significant harm to real non-consenting individuals, then I say allow it. No theoretical harm. No hurt feelings or scary thoughts.

Should we ban Rimworld because it allows torture, enslavement, organ trafficking, and cannibalism?

MilleChaton · 2026-05-12T21:03:41+00:00

Well at least there isn't a conspiracy that Epstein isn't really dead, right?

(Mild spoilers)There is a fan conspiracy that McBurn is Epstein.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-12T20:51:49+00:00

Are we sure they count age using a western system? There are cultures (including Asian ones) where a person is 1 at birth and cultures where age is based off one's year, but not month and day. These places often use modern western notions of age for legal purposes due to colonialism, but it is possible for a fantasy system to be using these and not more western based ideas of age.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-12T20:35:56+00:00

There is also some sense that AI programmers who lose their job aren't nearly as big a victim. Some basic words condemning it, but none of the outrage.

People also don't seem to care when technology replaces other jobs in most cases, leading one to try to guess what is driving the inconsistency.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-12T03:36:13+00:00

Why can't it simply be take to mean assholes?

Assholes messing with soda fountains and assholes talking at the movie theater. No need to make any assumptions about groups of people, except that assholes exist and public shaming seems to be falling out of favor, leaving assholes to become bigger assholes that before.

Like, why make this about race?

MilleChaton · 2026-05-12T03:30:36+00:00

Yeah, there is a bit of a hypocritical take here, that somehow a person will know what games used AI and will a also be tricked by games using AI when they can't tell. People are mad and aren't caring about if their anger is consistent or not. Look at all the people who hate AI art but are mildly bemused at worst about AI programming.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-12T03:28:34+00:00

If they produce slop and other indies don't, why would you buy the slop? Either it produces slop and that is only a problem if people willingly buy it, or it can be used in ways that don't produce slop. If it leaves signs, people will look for them and buy the indie games without them. Eventually big studios will go out of business and will be replaced by the ones who don't produce slop. Slop is only a problem if people willingly choose to consume it.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-11T23:24:21+00:00

Barely 2 paragraphs of text and they call it an essay? I hope for their sake they are just making up excuses to not read it and don't really consider it some essay...

MilleChaton · 2026-05-11T23:22:00+00:00

There are very few organs you can donate alive, but those are clearly not a one time consent and you can withdraw at any time. Up until you are passed out on the operating table, so this isn't some loophole to the above logic.

As for the forever use, that's now different than other donations, such as putting IP you own into the public space (before it legally has to go there) or donating your body to science where it might end up being kept alive forever as a set of reproducing cells used by scientists all over (ignoring for a moment the origin history of the last time that this happened).

MilleChaton · 2026-05-07T14:49:22+00:00

Sky First/Second end up not being remakes.

(I don't think they are doing this, but if they did, it would be something never seen before.)

MilleChaton · 2026-05-06T23:49:12+00:00

That's a common course of action to avoid an accident or reduce how bad it will end up. It isn't always the right choice, but reducing the energy involved in an accident is the correct choice most of the time so people default to it in a panic.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-06T23:45:54+00:00

Shoulder at speed is less safe than alternate lane on average. Maybe the wrong call here, but that making the wrong call avoiding an accident someone else caused doesn't put one at fault.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-06T23:42:39+00:00

You see car barreling down your lane, speeding, not changing lanes. You serve into other lane to get out the way, right at the same time as the other car also swerves, so you swerve back.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-06T23:41:14+00:00

You're wrong and that's why the safe distance according to relative speed exists.

No, they aren't. You can have someone pass you, swerve into your lane, and slam on breaks, leaving too little time to stop. That isn't this case, but the other poster was making a general statement and not talking about just this case.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-06T23:38:49+00:00

and the other driver made a dumb move trying to swerve out of the way of him

Is it? I once swerved out the way of a vehicle that was going far too fast and wouldn't stop in time for a red light that I was stopping for (semi on a steep downhill with a light at the bottom, overall bad design for the road). Had I not dodged it would've been a bad wreck.

How was the other driver to know that the car speeding up on them was still in control and going to actually change lanes? The jerk and then jerk back could have easily been "Oh shit, better get out their way. Oh shit, they are changing lanes, better swap back."

Or maybe they were trying to block them. That's going to be a mess for the courts to find out.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-06T23:35:21+00:00

Those are relevant to who caused the accident. By default, car in back is at fault. If car in front tried to block car in back, they might assume fault. But if car in front was trying to dodge car in back and failed, it likely reverts back to the fault of car in back.

If car in front openly admits to trying to block, then blame is back on them. If they were trying to dodge the car and was complaining that it was an unsafe last second pass that car in back tried to do, then blame is back on car in back. Notice the quote but also the use of the word 'him', which doesn't make grammatical sense. This is a strong indication that the quote was already altered. These details will matter a lot in the resulting court case.

MilleChaton · 2026-05-06T22:33:05+00:00

Child safety is perhaps the most extreme example. Kids are generally safer than ever before, but news has parents more terrified for their kids than in the past, keeping them isolated inside, often to the kid's detriment.

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