Ben Lubar (any pronouns)

video game magazine reviewer who gives a subscore for how good the pornography people have made about the game is

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I very much believe that if capitalism hadn't tried to turn large language models into infinite money and they were strictly in computer science land, people would find them really cool the idea that weighted sums can independently figure out relative meanings of words via context clues is genuinely really cool the algorithm isn't even all that complicated! it just works with very long lists of numbers

the steam forums are a place where you can see assholes being assholes to each other why are people so angry about literally everything

I love how every video game either doesn't simulate an economy or has some kind of way of cheating at economics really makes you think

why do minecraft mods not use SI units if the world they take place in is made of unit meter cubes

I love how people who have no idea what they're talking about will often latch onto one word that they know means a bad thing but they aren't quite sure what bad thing it means. I've been called a "corporate bootlicker" for understanding how the Steamworks API works.