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- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 week ago:
Both Valve and Epic are private companies and thus have a bit more of a say over what they do than public companies would. Sweeney actually just answers to himself, and I mean that pejoratively, otherwise he would have invested in EGS more to compete with Steam and focused more on Unreal Engine’s near-monopoly in the AAA space.
- Comment on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board following release of Jeffrey Epstein emails 2 weeks ago:
Good.
- Comment on AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline 1 month ago:
I do know all of this, it’s just dedicated hardware for a step we’re currently simulating in shaders. Dedicated hardware that if I’m not mistaken exists on NVIDIA graphics cards already.
That’s an added capability, not a rethinking. But it will enable raytracing in a way that is far less expensive.
- Comment on AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline 1 month ago:
Yeah, not sure if “use upscaling, raytracing and compress a little more” counts as “rethinking”
- Comment on iPhone Air Durability test | JerryRigEverything 2 months ago:
The thumbnail is honestly upsetting. Sure, I watched, but how many just won’t because their suspicion was “confirmed”by the thumbnail.
The phone is extremely durable for its dimensions. Apple Engineers did a good job and should be commended.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 months ago:
PS5 is supposedly no longer sold at a loss.
That said, the margin per console is probably not good enough for their required profit growth, hence this.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 3 months ago:
Pretty sure the dollar weakened by 10% over it being harder to trade with the US.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 3 months ago:
Well, that’s tariffs for you. Completely expected, though a ~10% bump on the PS5 doesn’t adjust for all the tariff increase IIRC.
- Comment on A List of Open Source Game Clones 3 months ago:
OpenMW is a full engine, not just a rendering engine. And as of the recent release, for those that may not know, it’s technically capable of launching levels and worlds in Bethesda games up to Fallout 4, though of course they’re just loading maps, not scripts or other non-MW logic. (Yet, we might see that in the future)
- Comment on YouTube's ID Verification Has BEGUN! 3 months ago:
Totally. It’s network effects, really. People will only leave if the content or people they follow leave. And right now there aren’t many good platforms which comparably pay creators based on watch time / play count of static media, so the creators won’t leave.
- Comment on YouTube's ID Verification Has BEGUN! 3 months ago:
I’m all for using other things, but the reality is that YouTube has a de facto monopoly on video hosting on the internet. If you want reach on the internet, it’s YouTube or basically nothing. Therefore YouTube is the best place to get YouTube users upset at YouTube.
Other companies which could compete with YouTube on scale host porn and choose not to make a “clean” version to compete.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 4 months ago:
I’m just adding historical context that those games were exclusives. If them being exclusive meant “the ps5 has games” then timed exclusivity didnt really help in this case.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 4 months ago:
The handheld PC and things like SteamOS have crossed the moat that console games used to have as a defense. The PC is coming to the living room, attaching to your TV, and playing games controller-first. The question will be how well will those games play and will they be exclusive
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 4 months ago:
FF7 Remake, Rebirth and FF16 were timed exclusives, though both have since left and Square Enix said “never again, it wasn’t profitable enough.”
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 4 months ago:
Valve relies on Visa/Mastercard to process billions worth of transactions occur every year. They’re not going to rock the boat unless they want to risk the whole business.
Their (relative?) silence, to me, is indicative of just how bad this duopoly is, and that Valve sees no alternative worth publicly mentioning at this juncture.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 4 months ago:
Fairly certain the NPC in Morrowind could theoretically be killed by a combination of his own drain health spell reflected back at him and/or - once he’s out of magicka - dying to fire shield.
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 4 months ago:
No. Distribution is left to the developer.
But the silver lining is that you’re outside of a walled garden and outside of a company’s control.
- Comment on BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race 4 months ago:
Technically just a neural net, but yes
- Comment on BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race 4 months ago:
BYD uses lidar, so yeah, Tesla
- Comment on Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later 4 months ago:
If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged' 5 months ago:
Oops, they just admitted that leadership doesn’t really DO anything.
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 5 months ago:
Just about. I did an audit and about 90% of Sony’s games eventually hit PC. The largest one which has not made the leap yet is Astro Bot.
- Comment on Portable Network Graphics (PNG) New Specification 5 months ago:
JPEG-XL is only really in limbo because Google chose to kill it in Chrome in favor of AVIF. Had that not happened, there would have been far more demand for it to be properly implemented everywhere. Sucks, but you’re right that we’ll have to stick with AVIF/HEIG/WebP.
- Comment on Portable Network Graphics (PNG) New Specification 5 months ago:
I said in a previous article that this is great, but we should be adopting JPEG-XL as it is current and can now compress pixel-perfect / lossless images better than old PNG. IIRC this revision of the spec doesn’t improve compression yet but it’s coming.
- Comment on Robotaxis VS Reddit: Users Collect 11+ Videos of Tesla Robotaxi Incidents in First 36 Hours 5 months ago:
As if Tesla stock is traded rationally…
- Comment on Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices 5 months ago:
I agree with your argument overall, but I think it would be reasonable to say they are broader-purpose computing devices now, and are not yet general-purpose. Consumers don’t have an expectation to reach for their game console to do an arbitrary thing. They generally can expect their phone or laptop to.
“There’s an app for that” just isn’t true for huge swathes of apps on almost all consoles.
- Comment on Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices 5 months ago:
I don’t have explicitly what you’re looking for as I am not a lawyer, but game consoles aren’t a general-purpose computing device (despite theoretically capable of being one if appropriately jailbroken), and as such, prior case law for PC doesn’t apply.
iOS/Android tend to be classified a general-purpose computing device because it does all the same things a PC does (or did) and more. It plays games and does banking and plays music and browses the web and displays pictures and movies, etc etc. For some, it’s their primary and only computing device.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 5 months ago:
Best I’ve got for you is this
Post in thread ‘Nexus Mods site has been sold’ www.resetera.com/threads/…/page-2#post-141554013
- Comment on Things I reference with friends 5 months ago:
You can’t just say perchance.
- Comment on MindsEye - Official Launch Trailer | 2025 5 months ago:
Mad world remix in a trailer is just …. So samey