anything that is very popular is by definition bad

More like, it’s the lowest common denominator type stuff. In other words, average at best.

Is this Dark & Darker?

I agree those are some of possible motivations, but I also think there are countless other motivations for it in the wild. The “We get to choose exactly what is included and what is not” thing I personally think is more a “minimalism” mindset than realism, but that’s just my perspective. A lot of people who do realism, just go there and draw exactly what they see, or they have people pose for them. They ofc choose the scene and pose, but they don’t deliberately strip detail for artistic value like minimalists do, which means minimalists push way heavier into this “control what’s included and what not” territory.

Okay, but why do we love art of nature then? If you go further, some people love hyper-realistic art of nature, while others prefer surrealistic or abstractionist/minimalist stylized art of nature. If we talk about scale between absolute chaos and absolute order, art covers it all.

Idk, but if you want some cool indie game recs: Pseudoregalia, Dread Delusion, Demon Turf.

It’s the breaking of the patterns that sound good in music, but only in specific ways. Other ways sound discordant.

I like a lot of different music and I also like harsh noise, when it’s adventurous like Merzbow. It sounds discordant, but it sounds great and I enjoy listening to it. Maybe you should go more fundamental, “why do we humans like information entropy” or something like that.

Have a lot of those metrics in place & keep the formula private. If leaking the formula into the public seems probable, then make formula polymorphic: certain weights differ based on RNG seeded by hashcode of game’s internal ID. This doesn’t fully protect from gaming the formula, but it makes automated influence unreliable and hits botters business. It’s a questionable approach, but I think it hits botters way more than it hits legitimate reviews, because in legitimate reviews there are zero expectations how certains reviews contribute to overall score. Such expectations can only exist, and thus can only be ruined for malicious actors. This definitely has some limits of how much it can contribute to overall score, because RNG shouldn’t be able to make a good game with legitimate reviews not reach good overall score. Unreliable means that botters were able to take 1000$ from client and bump their game, but then they take 1000$ from their next client and their shit suddenly doesn’t work anymore for unknown reasons and client is mad and botters decide to quit their business and move to something else.

Review weighting formula needs updates, if it’s not taking this into account already. There are many many ways to do this. For example, review and it’s score are multiplied by coefficients that are computed from hours spent in the game, percentage of achievements completed, time from the last review posted on the same account, number of people who clicked “this looks like a shopped review” button, etc.

Visa been doing similar things for a while.

Yeah, but we need something like Lustercard, Rizza and Pornpal here, since the problem isn’t on content company level.

I like the term. It’s punchy, memorable, can be used jokingly and with sympathy, or in critical way to refer to the formulaic/generic side of a certain game.

I think a lot of abandonware is legal? Devices like this usually support few dozens old consoles, which you can’t even buy, and you can’t buy games for them. Stuff like commodore64, old nintendo, etc. And you upload stuff there via USB usually. So the problem I guess is to see where the line draws, because some of those ancient games are legal to pirate now while others are still illegal because their right holder is still in business even though they effectively are abandoned and impossible to buy.

This is not even exclusive to US. Those payment processors actually even tried to shut down some specific japanese dating sites/apps.

“I asked ChatGPT” and my post got 180 replies 🔥

That capacity is something that no one could ever count on now when considering a platform for their porn game. Those particular games being shovelware is either a coincidence or maybe they intentionally decided to not show the full list in article with higher quality ones on display.

LM Studio looks cool, but I wonder, why their GUI app isn’t open-source? Also their site has careers section, where do they get money to operate like that? Couldn’t find anything about their monetization model.

Either poorly-federated instance, or you look in the wrong place? Here’s a good one: https://peertube.wtf/videos/browse?live=false

Also, lazier. I’m more likely to stick with information from the first 1-3 search results I decided to click, while AI will parse and summarize dozens in fraction of time I spend reading just one.

In this study they asked to replicate 1:1 headline publisher and date. So for example if AI rephrased headline as something synonymous it would be considered at least partially incorrect. Summarization doesn’t require accurate citation, so it needs a separate study.

I use it instead of search most of the time nowadays. Why? Because it does proceed to google it for me, parse search results, read the pages behind those links, summarize everything from there, present it to me in short condensed form and also provide the links where it got the info from. This feature been here for a while.