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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Of Luck To Your Life Everyday⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Needs more clipart…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda unveils new logo⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I once heard that in the video game industry, you start pre-production of a title about a year before you get started with proper development (a.k.a. “production”).

So, pre-production means brainstorming the game concept, theme, maybe initial concept art, maybe some prototypes etc…

But to quote Wikipedia:

The game entered pre-production by 2018, formally being announced during Bethesda’s E3 2018 conference. The game entered active production in 2023 following Starfield’s launch.

So, presumably they kicked in pre-production for a few weeks in 2018, specifically to produce that trailer. And then put it back aside and didn’t really get started until 2022 or so. 🙃
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Starfield’s revenue sits at roughly $300 million across all platforms. […] a figure surely sabotaged by the Xbox and PC-exclusive RPG being readily available on Game Pass from the second it landed.

Well, let’s not forget that it was often not highly regarded, because the content was spread out so much. And that it launched in the wake of Baldur’s Gate 3.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, similarly, you don’t rewatch movies or series all too often, but there’s quite a lot of people that just play one or two games pretty much forever…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #191 insp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That speech bubble looks like it’s straight out of Microsoft Visio…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨` ` ` `⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, that’s fucking creepy, that it’s the same expressions, but also she suddenly has really long arms to hold that kid…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the donuts any good?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, I thought it might be “day/night”, but the imprint on the wall does look like “daylight”. Some folks are gonna be disappointed, if they show up after sunset…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this absolute bullshit from reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair, the likely reason in this case is AI companies mass-downloading Reddit posts for their training runs. You can’t really cache the internet, so from what I understand, every training run they scrape this stuff anew.

For many smaller sites, it’s effectively a denial-of-service attack, which is why lots of them have put up this thing:
Anubis bot protection screen

For Reddit, it might just be additional traffic that they have to pay for and which doesn’t give them any profit. Although, if Reddit is still as unstable as it was years ago, I also wouldn’t be surprised, if they got DoSed by that a few times as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
With the comic style plagiarized here, I fully expected throwing a baby to be one of the steps…

Artwork from cartoonist Joan Cornellà, where a woman throws a baby like she’s trying to score in basketball.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cheating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, presumably a model similar to this, with the ‘eyes’ serving as status lights:

A rice cooker with a red status light for “Cook”, an orange status light for “Warm”, and an on/off switch below that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I’d also be surprised, if most ovens could even regulate the temperature that accurately…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, it always felt like the worst decisions under Spencer were forced onto him by investors. For sure, there’s some leeway in how you please investors, and she will be given more leeway at the start as well, which could get out of a rut and make things somewhat better.

But ultimately, I still expect her to play the CEO role for a profit-driven corporation. Because that’s what she was hired for. She was not hired to be the saving grace of gamers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, still wild to me how they seemingly bought up half the gaming industry and how little output they produce from that…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

Xbox tried to play nice and put their games on PlayStation. Sony didn’t return the favor.

My assumption is that Microsoft made their games non-exclusive, because it gives them more sales in the short-term. If you need a good quarter to please investors, that’s an easy way to do it, at the cost of your Xbox brand.

At least it would be wild, if they assumed that Sony, a profit-driven company, would just return the favor.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Said first millionaire: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Brannan

It’s quite wild. He’s also considered the first to publicize that there is a gold rush, much like these modern AI companies hype up their products to no end.