100% agree on positioning. I think a big issue with that is also that most captions are generated now as far as I can tell, and sometime don’t even get the words or spelling right. Positioning being added in a world where they won’t even have a human check it seems unlikely 😑

Yeah “these days” is getting to be a pretty wide range you’re not wrong 😅

I keep hearing things are mixed for the theater, but I went to the theater to see the odyssey the other day for the first time in a while, and it had the same problem! Sound mixing is trash these days…

I actually feel the opposite. I know the old ones you were talking about and those do suck, but on streaming apps the subtitles are often in the way of things in the show. Even worse, I’ve seen subtitles go over the top of baked in subtitles in the show, sometimes obscuring text with worse text. The most extreme example being a character speaking another language in the show, the show has baked in subtitles for it, and the streaming app subtitles cover it up and say “speaking Chinese”… Yes I’ve really seen that happen more than once. 🤦‍♂️

I didn’t realize those random zombies had back stories

How does it know?

What part of the bird is inside his head? 😬

This. Some people seem to take the desire to learn from a person as a personal attack, too.

Nah, now your back hurts.

And then they give you a very short character limit in which to do so, thus leading to a lot of summarized patch notes due to those limits.

It’s all posted by this same guy

The big reason this shifted was because of how detailed modern AAA environment are. The environments are now richly detailed, which makes it confusing since interactivity hasn’t kept pace with visuals. This required more heavy handed guidance like yellow paint, or interaction prompts on objects.

I think classic WoW is an interesting thing to study in comparison. It doesn’t even tell you what’s interactive at a glance, but it’s clear because there are so few objects in each area.

Opposite goals. If it’s in your pocket it needs to be minimal size. If it’s deep in your purse, it needs to be easy to grab.

That point about it taking more time applies to a lot of things with AI it seems like. It’s only fast when you can trust it, and for important things you can’t trust it.

I wish I remembered where I read this, but a while back I heard a hypothesis about a similar idea to this article: basically that humans only have a certain amount of high cognition tasks in them in a given day, no matter how much time we have. Basically, those low effort rote tasks that take up a lot of the day are less taxing than more complex tasks.

The idea was that even if AI reduces these kinds of tasks, that doesn’t actually mean we can fit more complex tasks in their place without burning out.

This research seems to support that idea.

Maybe you enjoy debating people, but you also don’t owe it every asshat on the internet to justify everything you say if you don’t feel like it.

What in the chicken fried fuck

Also be aware that sometimes when people share things they aren’t looking for criticism, so don’t be upset if they ignore it.

It’s respectful to ask if someone is looking for criticism before you unload on them out of nowhere (you’ll get more of their attention, too!)

Shout out to guild wars for hosting their wikis on their official site. No ads, lightning fast, and still run by community members. I don’t know why more companies don’t do it.

The ai image on the article is pretty ironic