You have a Minecraft server. You generate money from it (selling VIP packages, et cetera). You could generate more money if you had more players. You can have more players if you consistently DDoS other more popular servers; the experience for these players will be horrible and they might give your server a chance.
> Bézier curves are great, but there are certain things they just can’t do. For example:
It would be nice if we had a better explanation of what is wrong with the Bézier curves in the example. I've put the spring Bézier example side by side with the javascript simulated one, had them both trigger at the same time on a keyboard press and I can barely notice a difference; one doesn't look better than the other to my eyes.
Where do you see a Bezier-based spring example? I think the one in the section you quoted is just to show what a spring animation looks like, so you know what you're missing by sticking to Bezier curves.
I'm on my phone right now, so I can't actually verify how the one in that section is implemented.
As an unpaid volunteer to a multimillion dollar corporation that has just erased a huge collective volunteer effort, listing in writing the reasons I'm unhappy is already way too much effort.
Asking that same volunteer to hop on a video call is just insensitive. They're the one providing free work; if you care about solving the problem and not losing the volunteer force, you should go where they are (the forums) instead of asking them to come to you (video call). They probably don't want to take time out of their schedule to waste their time talking with a community rep. And they probably don't even want to do a voice/video call.
I've been playing with Suno lately (I'm an amateur/hobby musician, for context) and I've been making some tracks for my own enjoyment. I've shown it to friends and got mixed reactions.
Personally, I think it's still uncanny similar to these AI image gens with multiple hands and nonsense details in the background. You can one-shot a lot of passable stuff but the moment you want to put more effort into it (e.g. correct a word or two, slightly change the style of a section) the track gets really messy very fast.
Directory Opus, replacement for File Explorer. It's got a whole bag of tricks but I just appreciate the built in "convert to x" and FTP, oh and the bulk file renaming. Oh and built in support for various archive formats (no more winrar). Oh and (etc etc)
Even if you could generate real-time 4K 120hz gameplay that reacts to a player's input and the hardware doesn't cost a fortune, you would still need to deal with all the shortcomings of LLMs: hallucinations, limited context/history, prompt injection, no real grasp of logic / space / whatever the game is about.
Maybe if there's a fundamental leap in AI. It's still undecided if larger datasets and larger models will make these problems go away.
I actually think many of these are non-issues if devs take the most likely approach which is simply doing a hybrid approach.
You only need to apply generative AI to game assets that do not do well with the traditional triangle rasterization approach. Static objects are already at practically photorealistic level in Unreal Engine 5. You just need to apply enhancement techniques to things like faces. Using the traditionally rendered face as a prior for the generation would prevent hallucinations.
People seem to use VPNs to avoid IP based issues, like Netflix or ip bans/associations, not sure anyone would use it for actual privacy -- at best its obsfucation.
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