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  1. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    Considering how blatantly evil Google is now, it's good that it never caught on.

    Considering how blatantly evil Google is now, it's good that it never caught on.

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  2. Comment on What are your favourite anime and/or manga? in ~anime

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    Hunter X Hunter (2011) - The greatest shonen ever, filled with fun characters and exciting moments. Vinland Saga - Historical fiction epic set in the viking age. I personally prefer the manga,...
    • Hunter X Hunter (2011) - The greatest shonen ever, filled with fun characters and exciting moments.
      Vinland Saga - Historical fiction epic set in the viking age. I personally prefer the manga, especially since season 2 has notably worse animation and direction since they gave it to another studio. But it's still an amazing watch regardless.
    • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - It's a classic for a reason. Some parts are worse than others but overall it's a fun wild ride. The first few episodes are OK but once you get past part 1, it starts getting really good.
    • Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Great fantasy, kind of in the same vein as Avatar The Last Airbender.
    • Steins;Gate - An anime about time travel and grand conspiracies. It's a bit slow at the start but when it kicks off, it's really good. There's a sequel called Steins;Gate 0 which is much worse and isn't worth a watch.

    If we're counting movies, some of my favorites are:

    • Akira - Crazy plot and some of the best animation you'll ever see in the medium. Watch it blind if you haven't already seen it.
    • Perfect Blue - Disturbing drama about a pop idol who's getting stalked.
    • Wolf Children - Drama about a mother who has to raise children that can transform into wolves. It's a bit melodramatic but I think it's just fantastic.
    • The First Slam Dunk - Movie based on THE sports manga of all time. I watched it before I read the manga and even then I loved the movie a surprising amount.

    Honorable Mentions:

    • Attack on Titan - Some of the best moments in any anime ever, but it totally fumbled the ending and last arc.
    • Ranking of Kings - Ditto. Fantastic at the start but the ending is really dumb and ruins everything the season was building up towards.
    • Cowboy Bebop - Almost in my GOAT but there are too many episodes I didn't really care for.
    • Monster - Excellent drama about tracking down a serial killer but boooy is it slow sometimes.
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  3. Comment on Part of me wishes it wasn't true but: AI coding is legit in ~tech

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    LLMs are great for rubber ducking, helping you figure out what to do next, and writing generic boilerplate code that's been in its training data a million times (which is like half of your tasks...

    LLMs are great for rubber ducking, helping you figure out what to do next, and writing generic boilerplate code that's been in its training data a million times (which is like half of your tasks in web development FWIW).

    I genuinely don't believe it's good at anything else. I keep seeing posts like this that are shocked and amazed at how wonderful and efficient it is and I can't help but think of the study that found it actually causes more problems than it solved, despite people using it believing otherwise: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/study-finds-ai-tools-made-open-source-software-developers-19-percent-slower/

    We're 3 years into the LLM craze and I've yet to see where the benefits are. If they were so good, why aren't they being used to easily fix open source issues? Even if it's just AI assisted? Because almost any code touched by AI that isn't ultra-generic is full of hard to find bugs and so many subtle issues it'll make the person reviewing your PR rather block you than deal with time wasting hallucinations.

    There are like a million FOSS apps and tools out there and every time AI has a hand in "helping", it's obvious even when not mentioned. Because it produces bad code that looks right. And there hasn't been any major case of it actually helping fix major issues, the only thing I can see is that a lot of companies boasting using AI all the time coincidentally had the quality of their code/apps go down. See: Microsoft bragging about 30% of their code being written by AI, and suddenly new Windows 11 updates having weird and crazy bugs (like the task manager nonsense).

    54 votes

  4. Comment on Starfield reviews – Top Critic Average: 84 in ~games

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    Destructoid and GamesRadar+ are quite popular and they've given it 10/10. IGN Spain has also given it a 10/10.

    Destructoid and GamesRadar+ are quite popular and they've given it 10/10. IGN Spain has also given it a 10/10.

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  5. Comment on Starfield reviews – Top Critic Average: 84 in ~games

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    It's so conflicting that many reviews gush about the freedom and replayability while others complain about how shallow it is. Which is it? The IGN reviewer gave this game a 7/10 despite giving...

    It's so conflicting that many reviews gush about the freedom and replayability while others complain about how shallow it is. Which is it? The IGN reviewer gave this game a 7/10 despite giving Fallout 4 a 9.5/10, and Fallout 4 had basically no roleplaying or dialogue trees in it.

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  6. Comment on What is your favourite cutscene/cinematic in any game? in ~games

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    On a more lighthearted note, Asura's Wrath: the final bit between Asura vs Augus has always been such a highlight for me in video game cutscenes. 10 years ago I thought this was the coolest thing...

    On a more lighthearted note, Asura's Wrath: the final bit between Asura vs Augus has always been such a highlight for me in video game cutscenes. 10 years ago I thought this was the coolest thing ever, but after playing it again on an emulator I still think it's the coolest thing ever. It's honestly a bit sad it never got ported to modern consoles, or gotten an animated series that it so obviously asked for.

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