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- Comment on 4 hours ago:
it doesn’t make any sense to have a centralized distributor acting as a middleman. The current implementation requires bringing your own game files either manually or via a steam connection. There’s only two games, the minecraft clone mentioned is just a web browser game and not actually minecraft.
Since most browser games simply “just work” when you go to the website i’d just create a profile launcher firefox link, and then in that profile build out each game you want as one of your homepage links, which would just be a grid of bookmarks basically. It’s entirely overkill for exactly two games imo, and if you’re on a desktop that can run these games you’re better off running them natively.
If you’re on mobile you’re currently SOL it looks.
- Comment on 4 hours ago:
So browser games are games that run in a browser. The browser is the app.
Are you saying you want some silly 3rd party wrapper “application” that simply loads a page in whatever browser without the typical URL controls like so many android and apple “apps” are? because that’s just silly.
If you want to click an icon to open, create a hyperlink shortcut and click that to launch it… you could even create a separate profile that launches JUST for games, so that it doesn’t show up in your normal profile or interact with other cached files or cookies or even have the same addons.
- Comment on 4 hours ago:
The answer alex, is “What is the name of the app for browser games?”
:P
- Comment on 8 hours ago:
It’s called Firefox
- Comment on After Racist Texts, New York G.O.P. Is Set to Disband Young Republicans 22 hours ago:
I’m sure if you compare the list of participating members today to what is there in a year with the ’new’ org things will be strikingly similar, albiet with a couple of changes that are responsible for making sure the things said are not written down in any way that links back to their names.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 5 days ago:
You won’t see it in any official announcement as they want to make sure their retailer partners have the opportunity to liquidate this holiday season before announcements next year. There are also a multitude of other reasons. You do not simply announce you are closing down a console while the businesses you still rely on to distribute products beyond just xbox consoles are holding onto stock.
This guy has had many insider information in the past, going back to 2023 when many microsoft titles started releasing on all consoles including the switch. Console wars are dead and software rent seeking and digital sales are the future: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/microsoft-revamps-xbox-game-pass-plans-and-hikes-ultimate-to-29-99-a-month-ultimate-gets-ubisoft-classics-and-more.1688694/page-29#post-270866538
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 5 days ago:
Console exclusives are dying because there’s more money to be made by selling on all platforms than isolating to just one. It’s not like first party peripherals are superior to 3rd party ones anymore.
It’s just a matter of time until Nintendo breaks and starts releasing on PC. Money is their #1, and their consoles don’t traditionally make money, the software licenses sold do. Just a matter of time until their ownership demands it in the pursuit of more profits.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 5 days ago:
I mean, yeah. Sega completely got out of the hardware market. They never removed their hardware from shelves before announcing a replacement hardware solution, they simply let it run out and pivoted as a business to software, retaining the brand.
Imagine the potential liability a company would have by announcing they are exiting the market when they are beholden to shareholders. Announcing they are shutting down something would immediately cause a drop in share price. I would cause sales to plummet- possibly triggering lawsuits from retailers.
They’d never announce they were shutting down. There’s too much value there in the brand, even if it’s not what it used to be.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 5 days ago:
You point the finger at retail and on some level it makes sense to want to funnel users towards your digital distribution platform to completely cut out the middle men and take the entire cut for yourself. So maybe it’s a lot of this…
..but i’m looking at that 50% subscription increase as a sign of what they want. Rent forever, own nothing.
Hardware has costs and overhead associated. They need support people and to have depot services. The cost to sell a console today is getting to be on par with a gaming laptop or desktop (not high end, but something that can play games.) The margin after retailer share has to be lower than ever, and sales tax tariffs are coming hard and fast.
You can develop your games with studios all over the world though and sell them through your US publisher for no import sales tax… especially if it’s on your subscription platform that is effectively impossible to tariff.
Ultimately Microsoft has a vested interest in Windows gaming, since it helps keep their market share and recurring subscription revenue. Few are linux gamers like I, and games are still being made that have 0 possibility of linux support, bf6 being the newest.
There’s a momumental challenge of escaping the microsoft ecosystem, and they’re pushing hard into the always online track everything you do on your computer and phone home to the mothership and sell your data to whoever is willing to buy it. Subscriptions will likely remove ads from future versions of windows.. and the holy grail of total control DRM is not far behind between forcing tpm/secureboot that ONLY works on windows 11.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 5 days ago:
I don’t think there’s much of a history of consoles being removed from shelves before a successor is announced.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 5 days ago:
Yeah, remember how microsoft said this wasn’t their last console and they aren’t getting out of it?
Yeah… they lied.
- Comment on Microsoft Appears to Have Quietly Ditched the 10% Xbox Game Pass DLC Discount — Including for COD Points 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft is maximizing subscription revenue this year. It’s all about increasing that y/y revenue while burning cash on AI that will explode in their face revenue wise, unless the subscription price hikes land.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 2 weeks ago:
My boss showed me the article yesterday, but apparently it’s the old news from earlier this year. It went from 70 to 100 back in Feb.
That’s still a giant increase from whatever you would have paid last year.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 2 weeks ago:
They’re also upping the sub price for some home user office plans. Apparently it’s milk the customer time at microsoft.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 2 weeks ago:
Relies on proper leadership that isn’t following current MBA principals.
It’s too easy to go for a cash grab. Broadcom is a great example.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism doesn’t really see building a well treated highly compensated team of exceptional high skill workers as consistently generating more money for them.
For this to work you need a few people at the helm who actually give a shit about long term results. Capital wants bigger numbers with each earnings report which doesn’t always happen with gaming.
I for one have no comprehension as to how blizzard has maintained it’s following, but it’s a great example for how even the best companies can turn to shit by shareholder/board member directions. The money got too big with WoW.
- Comment on Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading 2 weeks ago:
There has got to be some kind of collusion going on to try and lock us into only approved software. They want to make it so the only source of content is something we must pay up for. I can’t comprehend this push for a walled garden when places like the EU are explicitly banning this anti-competitive behavior.
Google’s plans to remove sideloading from android are similarly anti-competitive.
Mandating secureboot to play games like Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty 2025 is similarly moronic. It’s not going to stop cheating.
- Comment on AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event [Gamescom] Booked Random Meetings for Attendees [404 Media] 1 month ago:
They're coming for our jobs.... by scheduling so many meetings that no one can actually work!
- Comment on AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors 2 months ago:
The thing that LLMs are great at is taking a LOT of datapoints and coming to a conclusion based on all of them.
Humans can look at a few but get overwhelmed.
if you feed a ton of diagnostic data including past incidents, blood test, perhaps DNA tests, i'm pretty sure LLMs will be able to better figure out a diagnosis than a doctor using traditional methods.
When users self-diagnose, they're often wrong, because they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Garbage in garbage out regardless of the entity trying to process it.
This study is one that put doctors against a LLM, 90% accuracy for chatgpt, 74% for doctors not using LLM tool. https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2024/12/03/ai-diagnosis-ec
So chatgpt wrong 10% of the time, doctor wrong 26% of the time. 2.6x worse failure rate by real docs... for that one anyway. The better the data for chatgpt, the better it's diagnosis. Humans probably won't get much better, but LLMs? I bet they will.
We're likely to have an intermediary step where HCPs handle the symptoms, testing, etc and then it's fed into a medical focused LLM. The LLM will output potential diagnosis for a doctor to review for sanity, even though the doctor is probably less accurate it will make everyone feel better, and then the doc will slap a diagnosis on their profile.
LLMs will be infinitely better than humans at figuring out drug interactions (it's just a big fucking database), allergies (they can't forget you're allergic to NSAIDs like my wife is, and who routinely has been given them by HCPs who fuck up.) Who knows what else.
- Comment on AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors 2 months ago:
Nah, I just consistently put more effort in than you clowns.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11263899/
ChatGPT4 rated higher than physicians at taking text input and getting a diagnosis in that study.
Here's a completely different one. 90% accuracy for chatgpt, 74% for doctors not using LLM tool. https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2024/12/03/ai-diagnosis-ec
So chatgpt wrong 10% of the time, doctor wrong 26% of the time. 2.6x worse failure rate by real docs... for that one anyway.
It's just a matter of time for medical diagnosis to be done by LLMs first, and then simply be reviewed by a doc for sanity because humans "don't trust" technology.
So here, you literally just prove you're an asshat, and I brought data.
- Comment on AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors 2 months ago:
Do you have any evidence that doctors are superior to doctors? I haven't seen any of it. :)
- Comment on AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors 2 months ago:
If you post on reddit asking for advice, and you die after following the advice despite there being no claims of anyone being a doctor, who does someone sue?
IMO shouldn't need disclaimers stating that absolutely everyone and everything is not a lawyer, is not a HCP, etc, etc. It's just a given.
If you google something and just blindly do what the first result says, do you have a case against them too?
- Comment on AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors 2 months ago:
There are no arguments otherwise here.
I'm not here to write beautifully crafted arguments when no one has yet to disagree.
- Comment on AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors 2 months ago:
and if the argument is "Bbbuut the LLM was wrong once and someone DIED!"
The comparison is the human being wrong over and over and over and over to the result of countless deaths. Malpractice lawsuits must be rare compared to the amount of mistakes that are made, simply because it's difficult to get to the point where you win, and extremely costly if you fail the suit.
We already have people posting on social media for medical advice. LLMs just can't be worse than that.
- Comment on AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors 2 months ago:
I feel like this is the self driving car thing again.
How often are human doctors wrong in their diagnoses?
How often are LLM doctors wrong in their diagnoses?
I'm pretty sure the former is close to 75%, and the latter substantially less. I've heard of so many people go to doctor after doctor and not get the right diagonsis or treatment for whatever they have going on, and it takes 5+ to find the one who figures it out and gets them treated.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #63 - The Alters 2 months ago:
Finally, someone who is creating something that isn't short format video... or really fucking long format video.
Reading what you have here has been wonderful. Thank you!
- Comment on Tinder’s mandatory facial recognition check comes to the US 3 months ago:
Really? catfishing is this much of a risk that we'd rather eliminate privacy completely and provide biometric data that tinder can then sell to whoever?