“Not a good party to donate to” is a REALLY soft way of saying literal actual Nazis.

Tuta uses AI internally. Is why Yen was talking about them in the emails

Mullvad was funding literal Nazis in Sweden unfortunately

Funnily enough, this could technically work in a place with unsafe drinking water but with freezers.

From the looks of it, a local offline network would have been cheaper still

You’re probably young, but there used to be that job.

And that became obsolete by infranet connections. You know, a local computer not connected to the internet.

I can work with that, mainly world design and SFX. And it’s good that you have experience in programming. Just know game development is a different beast, unlike standard software development. I agree it can be useful in some minor things, but from personal experience of just using it to understand the technology, it really mucks things up when it comes to interactions. It’s good for repetitive code generation (especially collision) but not for tasks such as enemy AI. As long as you know how to code for game systems though, it can still speed up the process.

You also have to remember that when it comes to making a game, you’re not competing with production but you’re making a form of interactive art (or, of only for the money, a gambling machine, but that’s not what this game looks to be). LLMs won’t make much of a difference in the indie field, because you’re not a large studio with shareholders that needs to focus on speed and cutting costs. You have time and flexibility, and no shareholders to answer to.

You have a good concept, but not really a game.

If you’re willing to transfer most (nearly all) of the workload to be non-LLM, message me and I’d be willing to help.

But know it is not industry standard to use LLMs for games. They do not write optimized code, which is the last thing you want for a game, let alone an MMO.

I can also help build you a basic lightweight website you could self host if you’d like.

None of the LLMs could figure out what I meant when asked “Find me lion and the lamb iconography examples used before the messianic age”. They kept instead pulling up Christian things specifically (even though Judaism beats it by hundreds of years). Even when I emphasized to ignore Christianity / Christian sources they’d keep insisting on it.

It doesn’t matter how you process the data - looped transformer, harnesses, etc. These are still glorified overgrown statistics machines, and will default to whatever floods it’s data the most because there is ZERO intelligence.

I’ve also checked how they do code, and it’s terrible. The great for very beginner stuff or boiler plate code. By anything as advanced as a website and it’s shit.

Sure, it technically can make a functional website. I tested it just to see how it works. But it does it the equivalent way a human technically can make a functional car out of cobbled together scraps from a scrap yard. It used SO MANY <div> classes for no goddamn reason. So much inline CSS too. It’s like, good fucking luck fixing an issue manually and unravelling the tangle of containers it’s made. You’d have to use the LLM again just to change things at that point because it’d be easier, and hope it doesn’t break a button. Mind you this is a simple HTML and CSS website, not even JavaScript. There’s no way in hell I’d trust anything more complex created via vibe coding.

“profitable”

https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle/

Uh huh. And that’s despite government propping and no returns on stocks on top of possibly cooking the books.

“revenue” that’s propped up by the government and ignores other factors, such as overall expenses, competing open source models, and non-realized assets.

The difference between Microsoft and OpenAI or Anthropic is that Microsoft has a profit model.

There’s absolutely no way that the big LLM companies can make enough profit to overcome their expenses in the next decade even, especially since the technology on the open front only continues to improve. That’s why the LLM bros keep hyping it up via fear mongering and criminal activities like hacking - to keep selling the illusion that it’s AI.

I never said Google

My mistake, I thought you were the other commentator

1. Then why mention Google search in your previous comment?
2. There’s more countries than Poland. That’s just an example. You could try Spain - they have a big market too, for example.

Or you could do option three I mentioned and you ignored - buying straight from China if out of options. It’s likely the thing you wanted was made there anyway if you can’t find a European courier service to ship it to you.

We both know why Amazon is successful. But unless you or I get a couple million euros minimum, we can’t do much about setting up a competitor to Amazon (Also they operate on multiple languages too btw, there’s Amazon.de in German or Amazon.es in Spanish).

Firefox browser at least translates well enough. If it didn’t exist, you’d have a much better reason, but it does.

It’s not that hard to boycott Amazon, but people from 1st world countries have gotten extremely lazy for very particular things. This is one of them. Buying something already takes more effort than not buying something - units you’re someone born with a silver spoon in your mouth I suppose. People in these countries have a more “throw it away” attitude than a “needs to keep working a long time” one. It’s cultural.

Does it take more time to give something without Amazon? Yes. Does it take a lot more time though? Not really. In the end, it really comes down to just not caring enough about fascism/climate/corruption. Because realistically, by choosing Amazon, you’ve already decided that those things matter less than whatever doodad you’re buying, and outside of something that’s from the base layer of the hierarchy of needs, like medicine or food, you don’t have a good reason.

I’ve grown up poor. I’ve gone through times of poverty so extreme I went without food for nearly a week, and other times would walk miles to forage for food in a forest. While in university. The ones in high horses are the ones privileged enough to think needing to buy something from Amazon is a realistic issue.

I live in Finland and have managed to always find an alternative. Ireland gets way more shipping options than Finland. You’re literally just not searching hard enough.

1. don’t use Google. It always only tries to give regional search options. Use Startpage and change the region.

2. search in a different country’s language. If searching in Poland for example, search in Polish.

And heck, if you somehow still can’t find what you need from those stores, just look at China - EU shops. Most of Amazon’s shit is from China anyway, so might as well avoid the middleman.

Doesn’t internet require a subscription service?..