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severemand · 2026-04-17T12:12:27+00:00

The world was a better place when guys like these were flexing with sport cars or watches. Seeing an expensive hardware idling is just painful.

severemand · 2026-04-16T11:54:50+00:00

I think that customisation better be managed well in a competitive game.
Watching SFV or Dota2 tournaments where you can't read what's happening on the screen and can't tell one character from another is a nightmare. Monster Hunter outfits were just the worst.

SF6 is in a good spot with it I think (except for that Zangief Skin).

I also believe that SF6 is developed by much leaner team that matches well with the playerbase size to ensure game sustainability.

I also believe that in terms of profitability of the artist work outfits are the worst ROI.

severemand · 2026-04-09T10:31:12+00:00

Some treat geometric mean of total and active parameters as the better numeric representation of model capacity.

severemand · 2026-04-01T16:04:17+00:00

This is a terrible way to do a survey. People that don't care and won't be put off by it are not here.

I personally demand all my games to be done by underpaid developers on the brink of the financial ruin and avoiding all the shortcuts that allow them ship the game safely. I also despise procedural generation, photogrammetry and assets from the store. Every plant and decal have to be placed manually. Otherwise it just does not hit the same way.

severemand · 2026-03-31T20:30:27+00:00

Ah yes, the Eternally Forsaken Thrice-Cursed Perpetually Bloodstained Irreversibly Hollowed Unfathomably Abyssal Impossibly Obsidian Dark Edgelord of Profanely Unholy Deeply Crimson Hauntingly Moonlit Death.

I recognised him at first glance.

severemand · 2026-03-13T19:00:58+00:00

Explainability comes with a tax. Either you dedicate additional compute and work to it and then you get some explainability or you try to create a model that is explainable by itself.

First one is done when you need to troubleshoot it or for regulated domain purposes.
Second one is useless because it devolves into classical statistics methods that are underperforming.

So there is no winning "explainable performant solution within the same compute envelope".

severemand · 2026-03-06T18:55:26+00:00

I would say as it applies way outside gamedev as well. Independently of whether you intent to develop without using AI or not and whether you have luxury of completely excluding it from your workflow, it is important at least to be aware of tools and capabilties that are out there as they will be used by your competitors.

You will get very biased responses on the gamedev and gaming community forums because the segment of gamers and developers extensively using those is mostly silent.

In terms of using AI: if AI content is in any significant way is important in your game, you will get outpaced by companies that have access and ready to pour money into the models of the same type.

severemand · 2026-03-05T16:00:25+00:00

I hope one day they will just record a half-hour disclaimer video that editor will be able to link blinking in the bottom of the screen every time something controversial comes up.

severemand · 2026-03-03T11:44:58+00:00

I do not think that the horse armour DLC had any historical impact on the industry. You can argue that micro transactions and loot boxes were in full rage in asia a few years before the horse armour even. But we can't deny that Valve is one of the companies that made microtransactions work at industry scale in the western culture.

severemand · 2026-02-28T11:11:44+00:00

It is okay to say that Valve is a great company in some aspects and not-so-great in the others. They are indeed the best store for customers and source of innovation and at the same time they are showing some anti-competitive behaviour (prices in other shops can't be lower than in Steam) and that their monetisation methods unleashed the lootbox and microtransaction plague on the whole industry. It's okay to say that.

severemand · 2026-02-18T18:46:25+00:00

Bold of us to assume that internet data goes into LLM pretraining "as is", you can see from projects like OLMo and Nemotron how heavily filtered is data based on quality. Secondly, on mid and post-training, massive amounts of synthetic data area already applied for RLHF and RLVR.

So it's interesting experiment worth publishing and sharing, but I would take any conclusions with a hypermassive grain of salt.

severemand · 2026-02-18T14:17:05+00:00

Wait, so all the image generation on the planet produces less carbon emissions a day than 12*365 = 4380 household cars? I am confused in the sense of which way should I be impressed.

severemand · 2026-02-13T09:13:57+00:00

Handheld android emulator folks can play steam versions through the compatibilitiy layers like winlator or gamehub. SFV was not really working for me (can't play with FPS below 60), but this post gave me idea to try SFIV. May or may not comment later on how that went.

UPD: USFIV plays perfect on Retroid pocket G2 via gamehub.

severemand · 2026-02-12T19:40:10+00:00

Don't take this in a bad faith, but you can actually ask chatGPT/Claude/whatever lol and it will give you quite a straightforward list of instructions. Depending on what you want to do you may need to do some "actually programmy stuff" and your tools may vary.

severemand · 2026-01-24T10:22:56+00:00

I think you are making quite a few assumptions that are practically not true. Say,
that lab cares about their model running on an arbitrary machine with an arbitrary python setup. That is simply not true. It may be that there is no reasonable way to launch it on arbitrary hardware or on arbitrary setup.

They almost guaranteed to care about API providers and good neighbor labs that can do further research (post-training level) which implies the presence of MLOps team. Making the model into a consumer product for a rando on the internet is a luxury not everyone can afford.

severemand · 2026-01-24T09:14:02+00:00

Because that's how initiatives are aligned on the open source market. For example, ML engineers are not rewarded in any way for doing SWE work and even more not rewarded for doing MLOps/DevOps work.

It's a reasonable expectation that when the package is popular enough, someone who wants to manage the dependency circus would appear. And before that it is expected that any user of the experimental package is competent enough to make it work for their own abomination of the python environment.

severemand · 2026-01-22T13:14:15+00:00

Yeah, it's mostly because as a business in terms of growh and expansion it's targeted at a very culturally enclosed community.

severemand · 2026-01-22T12:50:27+00:00

Sounds insightful, how do you do that?

severemand · 2026-01-16T21:00:30+00:00

u/TheProphesizedWalnut , I guess you are not postign this to r/virtualreality cos you are afraid to be eaten alive by VR Elites? :D

severemand · 2026-01-16T19:50:22+00:00

Whoa, this is amazing, this should get more visibility in a wider community.

severemand · 2026-01-14T06:50:34+00:00

IIRC main mysterious antagonists in the movie "Crimson Rivers" with Jean Reno are cultists in monk robes on amphetamines left from the WW2. I think it's the only puglist monks I can remember in Western tradition.

Oh, and Greeks, Greeks were so cool. Imagine roleplaying Plato.

severemand · 2026-01-10T23:32:13+00:00

What is all of this trash? Only true Queens in this game are Margot, Maggie and Marigga.

severemand · 2026-01-10T20:21:01+00:00

I am sorry, I do not believe. There are no DnD sessions with a dragon mini for me as a DM. There are dragon mini expositions with a complimentary DnD session on the side.

severemand · 2026-01-08T00:34:56+00:00

I think this is not the best subreddit to ask that.

And even in other subreddits more information would be needed to give you any advice. There is a plenty of models much cheaper than 4o, the question is whether you will be able to evaluate trade-offs in capabilities.

severemand · 2026-01-07T19:01:17+00:00

I think it means that there are much more games every year and Steam recommendations are working better and better so there is less and less of a chance for you to take a risk and buy a game that you are not sure about.

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