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Revan343, do games w Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all

for real this time

That’s what they said last time. Actually, I think this is what I said last time, too.

Can’t wait for the next update

Kolanaki, do games w Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Wonder what it will add.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

i saw one mod that had a digging in the trash skill i thought was pretty neat. i mostly play on console though so <shrugs>

Skullgrid, do games w AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

doesn’t have to be an ethical nightmare. Public domain datasets on local hardware using renewable eletricity, who’s mad now, the artist you already can’t afford to pay because you have no fucking money anyway?

very_well_lost,

AI would be fine if we just changed everything about it

lol

onslaught545,

Not all LLMs are the same. You can absolutely take a neural network model and train it yourself on your own dataset that doesn’t violate copyright.

riskable,
@riskable@programming.dev avatar

Training an AI is orthogonal to copyright since the process of training doesn’t involve distribution.

You can train an AI with whatever TF you want without anyone’s consent. That’s perfectly legal fair use. It’s no different than if you copy a song from your PC to your phone.

Copyright really only comes into play when someone uses an AI to distribute a derivative of someone’s copyrighted work. Even then, it’s really the end user that is even capable of doing such a thing by uploading the output of the AI somewhere.

Mika,

I can almost guarantee that hundred billion params LLMs are not trained on that, and are trained on the whole web scraped to the furthest extent.

The only sane and ethical solution going forward is to force to opensource all LLMs. Use the datasets generated by humanity - give back to humanity.

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

The only sane and ethical solution going forward is to force to opensource all LLMs.

Jesus fucking christ. There are SO GODDAMN MANY open source LLMs, even from fucking scumbags like facebook. I get that there’s subtleties to the argument on the ProAI vs AntiAI side, but you guys just screech and scream.

github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms

Mika,

even meta

Lol, ofc meta, they have the biggest bigdata out there, full of private data.

Most of the opensources are recompilations of existing opensource LLMs.

And the page you’ve listed is <10b mostly, bar LLMs with huge financing, and generally either copropate or Chinese behind them.

6nk06,

Where are the sources? All I see is binary files.

vrighter,

there are barely any. I can’t name a single one offhand. Open weights means absolutely nothing about the actual source of those weights.

Mika,

Besides, the article is about image gen AI, not LLMs.

onslaught545,

That’s an LLM, buddy.

Mika,

Article directly complains about AI artwork. You know what LLM even means?

onslaught545,

Yes, I do. I also know that multimodal LLMs are what generate AI artwork.

Mika,

Then you should provably know that image gen existed long before MLLMs and was already a menace to artists back then.

And that MLLM is generally a layered combo of lots of preexisting tools, where LLM is used as a medium that allows to attach OCR inputs and give more accurate instructions to image gen AI part.

null,
@null@lemmy.nullspace.lol avatar

Image Gen AI is an LLM?

onslaught545,

Yes, it is. LLMs do more than just text generation.

null,
@null@lemmy.nullspace.lol avatar

Source?

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov,

What do you think the letters LLM stand for, pal?

HarkMahlberg,
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth avatar

Beyond the copyright issues and energy issues, AI does some serious damage to your ability to do actual hard research. And I'm not just talking about "AI brain."

Let's say you're looking to solve a programming problem. If you use a search engine and look up the question or a string of keywords, what do you usually do? You look through each link that comes up and judge books by their covers (to an extent). "Do these look like reputable sites? Have I heard of any of them before?" You scroll click a bunch of them and read through them. Now you evaluate their contents. "Have I already tried this info? Oh this answer is from 15 years ago, it might be outdated." Then you pare down your links to a smaller number and try the solution each one provides, one at a time.

Now let's say you use an AI to do the same thing. You pray to the Oracle, and the Oracle responds with a single answer. It's a total soup of its training data. You can't tell where specifically it got any of this info. You just have to trust it on faith. You try it, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. If it doesn't, you have to write a new prayer try again.

Even running a local model means you can't discern the source material from the output. This isn't Garbage In Garbage Out, but Stew In Soup Out. You can feed an AI a corpus of perfectly useful information, but it will churn everthing into a single liquidy mass at the end. You can't be critical about the output, because there's nothing to critique but a homogenous answer. And because the process is destructive, you can't un-soup the output. You've robbed yourself of the ability to learn from the input, and put all your faith into the Oracle.

Skullgrid, (edited )
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

The topic is : using AIs for game dev.

  1. I’m pretty sure that generating placeholder art isn’t going to ruin my ability to research
  2. AIs need to be used TAKING THEIR FLAWS INTO ACCOUNT and for very specific things.

I’m just going to be upfront: AI haters don’t know the actual way this shit works except that by existing, LLMS drain oceans and create more global warming than the entire petrol industry, and AI bros are filling their codebases with junk code that’s going to explode in their faces from anywhere between 6 months to 3 years.

There is a sane take : use AIs sparingly, taking their flaws into consideration, for placeholder work, or once you obtain a training base on content you are allowed to use. Run it locally, and use renewable sources for electricity.

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

as someone who has studied ml since around 2015, i’m still not convinced. i run local models, i train on CC data, i triple-check everything, and it’s just not that useful. it’s fun, but not productive.

HarkMahlberg,
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth avatar

Wild to see you call for a "sane take" when you strawman the actual water problem into "draining the oceans."

Local residents with nearby data centers aren't being told to take fewer showers with salt water from the ocean.

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

Is that a problem with the existence of llms as a technology, or shitty corporations working with corrupt governments in starving local people of resources to turn a quick buck?

If you are allowing a data center to be built, you need to make sure you have power etc to build it without negativitely impacting the local people. It’s not the fault of an LLM that they fucked this shit up.

very_well_lost,

Are you really gonna use the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument to defend LLMS?

Let’s not forget that the first ‘L’ stands for “large”. These things do not exist without massive, power and resource hungry data centers. You can’t just say “Blame government mismanagement! Blame corporate greed!” without acknowledging that LLMs cease to exist without those things.

And even with all of those resources behind it, the technology is still only marginally useful at best. LLMs still hallucinate, they still confidently distribute misinformation, they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.

What tangible benefit is there to LLMs that justifies their absurd cost? Honestly?

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

making up deficiencies in your own artistic and linguistic skills , getting easy starting points for coding solutions.

LLMs still hallucinate,

Emergent behaviour can be useful in coming up with new ideas that you were not expecting and areas to explore

they still confidently distribute misinformation,

yeah, that’s been a problem since language, if you want a statement more close to the topic at hand, the printing press.

they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.

so does the fucking internet.

Are you really gonna use the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument to defend LLMS?

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Mika,

you can’t be critical about the answer

You actually can, and you should be. And the process is not destructive since you can always undo in tools like cursor, or discard in git.

Besides, you can steer a good coding LLM in a right direction. The better you understand what are you doing - the better.

HarkMahlberg,
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth avatar

You misunderstood, I wasn't saying you can't Ctrl Z after using the output, but that the process of training an AI on a corpus yields a black box. This process can't be reverse engineered to see how it came up with it's answers.

It can't tell you how much of one source it used over another. It can't tell you what it's priorities are in evaluating data... not without the risk of hallucinating on you when you ask it.

eldebryn,

Out of legit curiosity, how many models do you know trained exclusively on public domain data, which are actually useful?

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

anything trained on common corpus. which, oddly, is harder to find than the actual training data.

eldebryn,

I mean this respectfully, but that wasn’t an actual answer.

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

no, it sort of reinforced your point.

eldebryn,

I see, that’s fair.

SharkAttak, do gaming w PC modders optimise Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater before Konami does, and add Hideo Kojima to boot | Eurogamer
@SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Wouldn't this encourage companies to be sloppy, cause "others will fix it for us"?

bitwise,

The Bethesda Model™

SharkAttak,
@SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Only Bethesda?

entropicdrift,
!deleted5697 avatar

Only if it’s a PC-exclusive

Wildmimic, do games w Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all

That game will be the second coming of Terraria

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Feel like it’s already there

ech,

What second coming? Terraria still has another update in the pipe.

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

I am firmly convinced that we will continue to receive sporadic Terraria updates until Red literally dies

Wildmimic,

didn't say that the first appearance was over already ;-)

hypnicjerk, do games w Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all

everyone look surprised

BurgerBaron,
@BurgerBaron@piefed.social avatar

Same look I use when a rock band "retires"

Poopfeast420, do games w Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all

Looking forward to the next final update.

cybervseas, do games w Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all

This is his happy place when we needs to relax from working on Haunted Chocolatier.

De_Narm, do games w AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare

Honestly, it would be weird for any industry to start caring about ethics after all this time.

Not an endorsement of AI but a criticism of capitalism.

Dagnet, do games w More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer

Let me guess, they toned down the RPG elements of a series known for being RPG heavy in order to reach a wider audience?

givesomefucks,

The author picked a clan that’s all about brute force…

Then complains the game was about brute force except for the parts where you play a vampire from another clan.

I don’t even know much about WoD, but I know he picked the most boring clan and then complained it was boring action.

The reactions to what clan you pick is where the RPG parts seem to come in from other reviews I’ve read.

It’s not like it’ll be a perfect game, but I feel like whoever wrote the review didn’t really get the game.

Agent_Karyo, (edited )
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

Nah, the maps were all linear and there were no multiple solutions.

It’s pretty clear they made a random action RPG.

Call_Me_Maple,
@Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world avatar

So it isn’t an immersive sim, there could still be some strong elements of role play involved in terms of dialogue decisions. I’m hoping for the best.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

IS VTM Bloodlines (not to be confused with VTM Redemption or VTM Dating Sim Game) particularly known for being RP heavy? Or, at least, should it be?

Because I played Bloodlines and I even did a replay a few years back. Yeah, the hub city sounds a lot more “alive” than in the article… in the sense that just about every NPC had an interaction. But we also had maybe like ten NPCs (outside of the people dancing to Kidneythieves. Great band). This kind of feels like any game where the engine/tech is at the point that we can handle actual crowds but… how many people in a crowd do you expect to have a conversation with you if you walk up to them?

And the rest of the moment to moment gameplay really did feel like corridors with a few vents you could walk through and a LOT of people to mow down.

Don’t get me wrong. I really would prefer a VTMB that is what we “remember” VTMB to be and not what it actually was. But… that article very much sounds like just about every Troika game: Some REALLY cool dialogue based quests that have little to no bearing on the game outside of what XP bonuses you get. And then pretty janky ARPG combat once they ran out of money. And in that sense? Get the banner because it is Mission Accomplished.


Also my memories of VTM Redemption are that it was some super deep CRPG spanning centuries and was amazing. But I am pretty sure it was also an ARPG with some dialogue. I should replay that…

bitjunkie,
VindictiveJudge, (edited )
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

Not sure if this is what they’re talking about, but they made an ARG as part of the early VTMB2 promotion stuff. You had to do stuff within a fake dating app called Tender that was made in-universe to help vampires find feeding targets.

mcv,

I don’t think any CRPG is RP heavy. I don’t think it’s possible for a computer game to roleplay. Well, maybe if they integrate LLMs? But generally, any RP happens entirely in the player’s head.

I think CRPGs that are sometimes seen as RP heavy, are just very well written. That’s not the same thing, although I suppose it’s possible for good writing to inspire RP in the player. But that depends as much on the player as it depends on the writing.

I enjoyed the original VTMB a lot, mostly because of its excellent atmosphere.

ninjabard, do gaming w You'll have to pay for a $20 DLC to unlock two out of six clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.

Damn. Toreador is my favorite. Oh, well. Drink up, me hearties! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

MangioneDontMiss, do games w More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer

Man I remember interviewing to work on this game back in 2017. That was back when hardsuit labs was working on this game. How many studios has this passed through at this point?

Call_Me_Maple,
@Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world avatar

It was just Hardsuit and The Chinese Room, until hardsuit was eventually removed from the project. The game did however get delayed a handful of times. Let’s just hope that whatever concept they have of the game now is strong enough to ship this time.

Onyxonblack, do games w More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer

It’s gonna SUCK!!!

NanoooK, do gaming w You'll have to pay for a $20 DLC to unlock two out of six clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.

Paradox won’t stop doing crap like this because they still sell plenty of DLCs. Stop buying.

onlooker,
@onlooker@lemmy.ml avatar

Not defending Paradox’s scummy business practices in any way, but by and large Paradox games’ DLC usually came after their games have been out for a while. What’s happening with VtM:B2 is a whole other level of shit.

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

Paradox DLCs also classically add a ton of content every single time. Sure Stellaris kind of sucks as a new player because there’s $260 of content, but it’s perfectly playable and even good with only the base version and then you pick whatever new content you like as you want more of it. Rimworld has the exact same strategy and I don’t see people complain about that. They release a complete game without any obviously missing parts and then keep bolting on cool new extra parts for the next 10 years.

All that to say, yeah this is kind of out of character for Paradox. Which does have me concerned about this.

QuantumStorm,

Not to mention, if you’re playing multi-player, only the host has to have the dlc and everyone playing gets access to it.

rayquetzalcoatl, do gaming w You'll have to pay for a $20 DLC to unlock two out of six clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world avatar

Haha, nice. But people always pay it so this sort of thing will keep happening, as it has for a decade or more now 🤷‍♂️

interdimensionalmeme,

In their defence, and I hope, in the case of the first game, each clan was an entire new storyline and it was awesome. I might buy it, if the base game is on special in 2 years for 30$ and the DLC is 10$ on special

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