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- Comment on Canadian innovation. 8 months ago:
Also, "usually trouble".
Have very rarely seen anyone have trouble crossing. Unless it's Tesla, BMW or Audi SUV, then just let then go pass, because they can't drive anyways.
- Comment on Homer 8 months ago:
It has nothing to do with suburbia.
It has everything to do with the politics of Thatcher and Reagan. Their policies of annihilating unions, human rights and tax cuts for the rich created this dystopian reality we now have.
If we cut out the rich and restore what we used to have for rights and protections, we can try to save ourselves from extinction.
- Comment on Larian Started Work on Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Then Canceled It: "The Studio Was Elated" 8 months ago:
They were lamenting that all of the team at Hasbro-Wotc that they worked with on BG3 was laid off.
Not that Hasbro caused layoffs at Larian.
- Comment on Henry Cavill Is Playing Wolverine In Deadpool 3 | Giant Freaking Robot 9 months ago:
Other way around.
He signed on to make the Witcher series, true to the books.They moved it away from that, and audiences turned away from it.
Cavill was right.
- Comment on TIL 11 months ago:
Pregnant women would increase the average to greater than one complete skeleton per person.
- Comment on How the rest of the world sees the US and Royal Navy 11 months ago:
Nah, I'm Canadian.
I know that the HCMS Vancouver snuck into visual range of a US carrier group before being told to screw off.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 11 months ago:
Because you need a middle class to have a high standard of living.
And you can't have a middle class when your culture has internalized class oppression that tells you to never question your superiors.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 11 months ago:
Because you need a middle class to have a high standard of living.
And you can't have a middle class when your culture has internalized class oppression that tells you to never question your superiors.
- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 11 months ago:
There are already mods that add voices to mod-scripted lines for Skyrim and Fallout 4. As well as a joke mod where the author took all of the recorded voice lines for Deep Rock Galactic(DRG), ran them through AI translators 40 times, then had an AI record the end result using the intonation and inflection of the characters in DRG.
However, the quotes from MS in the article provide an insight into their plans.
- Replace all localization teams.
- Replace all QA teams with AI that just run the level infinitely.
Interestingly, both of those show a fundamental lack of understanding of what a LLM can do. Yes it can do basic translation, but it fails on context in translations. E.g:
The French translation "you are a fool" can be "tu es un imbecile" but can also be "vous etes un imbecile" depending on the relationship context of the people talking.And asking AI to replace QA entirely.. oof, I guess I know to avoid MS games at launch from now on. Will be a lot of bugs.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 11 months ago:
Don't forget how he abandoned PC gaming when Unreal Tournament 3 bombed after they released shitty mid tools and the modding community they built up over UT 2k3 and 2k4 dissolved.
- Comment on Starfield End of the Year Update 11 months ago:
The problem is that the spice and flavour of Skyrim was not using the fast travel and just exploring.
With modding to add random encounters and roaming friendlies/neutral mobs, Fallout 4 was great too. Even more so recently with the flyable vertibirds so that you could get the in-game fast travel that used resources.
But neither of those can exist in a game where fast travel is a clue and unavoidable gameplay mechanic.
- Comment on I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help: 1 year ago:
laughs in aliased Gmail addresses.
- Comment on "Fun" competition 1 year ago:
Pretty sure this is the video. It's just that old.
- Comment on Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield 1 year ago:
The trick is that they want paid mods so they can do nothing and get a decade of profit. Consider that many of the mods on Nexus have millions of unique downloads.
Even if they charge 3 bucks a mod and get a third of it, that's tens of millions of dollars with zero effort on their part.
But the primary issue is that the current modding framework they're pushing onto Skyrim doesn't support framework mods, so none of the big mods Skyrim is known for, and have kept it alive so long, could happen.
- Comment on Light No Fire Announcement Trailer 1 year ago:
Play the new Warframe update until then. Its got some trippy maps coming.
- Comment on When a employee training video goes insane 1 year ago:
With declining education in the US, I suspect that might be getting more common.
- Comment on Gonna be a great day! 1 year ago:
It's a pyramid scheme that the old farts have already invested in, so they want it to become standard.
- Comment on Rockstar Games regarding Grand Theft Auto VI 1 year ago:
Personally it has more to do with the infection of MBAs into AAA game dev space than the old guard retiring.
- Comment on The Escapist murica-fires Editor-in-Chief - loses Yahtzee Croshaw and entire video team in hours 1 year ago:
- Comment on Percentage of sewage being released to the Environment without treatment 1 year ago:
The Mesopotamians are attributed to the invention of sewers in middle of the Bronze Age.
The Scottish invented sewage treatment in the 18th century.
- Comment on Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia 1 year ago:
Tell me you don't understand that its exactly what Trump did.
- Comment on Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia 1 year ago:
The debt is a tax writeoff. The entire company is a tax writeoff for him and his clique.
This will allow them to gain billions more without spending a cent in taxes.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
Elsewhere they have pointed out that the rotating strikes allow the still working members to inform on attempts to move production around the strikes, and move the strikes in kind.
That has resulted in Ford giving some big concessions.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
They're trying a new strike strategy that plays the companies against one another. By rewarding companies when they play ball they can allow them to get a potential leg up on their compeition who maybe decided against a particular thing.
It allows the union to better pressure the companies and allows the union strike funds to go further. It's a novel approach, and is working so far. Hopefully it will bear fruit.
- Comment on Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games 1 year ago:
Because China is increasingly looking broke, so daddy Tencent's purse is tightening. On top of that, the world's banks now have interest rates to look after again, so their free money streams have ended too.
But the rich want to keep their free money train going, so we're all paying now.
- Comment on Mike McMahan Calls On Fans To Help Keep ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ From Facing The Same Fate As ‘Prodigy’ 1 year ago:
Get them to stop making their own damn streaming platforms, pick one or two and just live with those.
I want to see lower decks, but I'm not paying for yet another streaming platform to do so.
- Comment on Thanks to everyone who suggested i play Titan fall 2 1 year ago:
It was dropped between CoD(which at the time was riding high) and the legendary BF1, which was the WW1 one that was universally acclaimed and revitalized the series.
It never had a chance to do well.
- Comment on Thanks to everyone who suggested i play Titan fall 2 1 year ago:
Without EA intentionally fucking over Respawn as the producer for Titanfall 2 by making it have the worst possible release date, and driving them to bankruptcy, this would have been a major IP.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
E.G. the newfound celebrity of the BG3 VAs as they run around on social media.
- Comment on I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal 1 year ago:
One review for the new DLC explicitly stated that he was requested by CDPR to use only their provided footage. "To avoid spoilers."