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Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music

6 days ago by inclementimmigrant to c/games

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Rideshare Stimulator has finally gotten a genAI disclosure on Steam after a furore, with Saber's CEO insisting that it's "swim or die" with genAI at large.
Dojan 99 points 5 days ago

Ah cool. So they didn’t bother to make a game but want people to buy it. No thanks.

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makyo 20 points 5 days ago

Yeah I’ll vibe code my own game if I want an AI game

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mp3 88 points 6 days ago

Rideshare Stimulator ? 🤨

EDIT: wtf it's not a typo

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athatet 38 points 5 days ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if ai came up with the name as well.

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mushroommunk 24 points 6 days ago

Sybian missed an opportunity here to make this game first

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rtxn 16 points 5 days ago

https://buttplug.io/

It's open-source, written in Rust, and has plugins from Stardew Valley to Ultrakill.

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tpyo 5 points 5 days ago

Butt can it do grandmaster level chess tournaments?

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mp3 8 points 5 days ago

How do you think Magnus Carlsen is so good? 😏

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Dremor 1 point 4 days ago

"We were vibe coding before it was cool." 🤣

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tanisnikana 12 points 5 days ago

Guess we’ll be goin’ down together.

(think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts)

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wreckedcarzz 4 points 5 days ago

Well, this is my stop

screams see you tomorrow

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Corngood 81 points 5 days ago

"Here’s more truth: that statement is remarkably pathetic for the CEO of any company to be making, and combined with the AI use it will do far more damage to Saber’s reputation than it ever could mine. This screed will be many people’s first exposure to the Saber brand."

She nailed that analysis

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Damage 11 points 5 days ago

Yeah, never heard of them before, seems like they make lots of ports? I surely will remember them now if I ever see a game with their name on it

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OrgunDonor 6 points 5 days ago

It's a shame, because they have been involved in some great games. Especially early on, with games like time shift and inversion (being pretty good lower budget games), and then World War Z and leading into Space Marine 2 with their fun horde tech.

Their stance here though is the nail in the coffin though, well maybe shotgun to the feet. Will steer clear of them now.

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artyom 60 points 5 days ago

The game also includes a mix of radio stations featuring human-made music and AI-generated music

This is probably the wrong audience to ask but if you don't give a shit at all about the quality of the music, why not just use royalty-free music? Isn't that easier? And cheaper?

After watching the trailer, the AI-generated dialogue is (predictably) just terrible.

I just don't understand this shit at all. You're Coca-Cola and spend $5 b-b-billion/year on advertising but you're gonna skimp and save like $1k on paying a human to create quality content and instead just outsource it to shitty AI-generated images? WTF is happening?

Also unrelated but why is "Stimulator" in quotes? Who are they quoting? Is it facetious? Is it not a stimulator? Is it supposed to be some kind of terrible joke?

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Funkt4st1c 17 points 5 days ago

Stimulator, as opposed to simulator is my guess.

Also, 100% agree. If something is so meaningless that you could give it to a robot, just chuck $500 at the nearest idiot with a guitar or throw royalty free classical music or make up some garbage song

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viral.vegabond 34 points 6 days ago

Fucking garbage.

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itsworkthatwedo 24 points 5 days ago

Rideshare simulator...isn't this just shitty Crazy Taxi? Or the cab side missions in GTA3?

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Remember_the_tooth 35 points 5 days ago

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growsomethinggood 15 points 5 days ago

Terrible news, that's not even the name. It's stimulator. Gross.

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itsworkthatwedo 6 points 5 days ago

Haha, I assumed that was a typo. OK.

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artyom 24 points 5 days ago

So there will be some sort of punishment from Steam for lying about their game on the store, right?

E: I retract, as the game was not released yet.

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DrPop 24 points 5 days ago

I've bever heard of this game, now I'm seeing multiple articles on it. Could this be a marketing tactic?

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SystemDisc 7 points 5 days ago

Yes, of course it is

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Nouvellalia 14 points 5 days ago

The fact that people are spending so much time in games doing something menial they could be actually doing in real life, bothers me terribly.

I mean, wasting hundreds of hours in a game isn't healthy at all, but I completely understand why you'd want to be a super elf, or explorer Big Boobassa, or a magic plumber escaped from the drudgery of the poo, or any of the others. But, not cleaning your room so you can play "Clean Your Room", in which you are a regular human and it takes just as long to clean but in the end you still have a baseball hat full of cream cheese under your bed in the real world, speaks to a mind and society of eldrich horrors withering souls to tiny raisins and collecting them like candy for aeternal snacking.

"Hey heeee! Come on over! Have some fun with CRAZY dead-inside taxi!"

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chunes 8 points 4 days ago

The fact that people are spending so much time in games doing something menial they could be actually doing in real life, bothers me terribly.

Sounds like you're in the wrong community then.

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Nouvellalia -9 points 4 days ago

Oh shit, did I stumble into the boringafphonegames comm?

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PieMePlenty 6 points 4 days ago

Hey, we're all broken inside. You don't need to point it out.

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