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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Game developers are seen as free labour” I emphatically agree.

  There used to be a commercial for a school called Westwood College Online University. The gist of it was in the commercial it showed two dudes playing video-games. The infamous “tighten up the graphics on level three” commercial.

  The message of this commercial pissed off so many people at the time but I often think people misread its intentions. A lot of folks would say to me “This is a joke, video-games are much harder to make. This school is a joke too.”

  The message I got from it was much more sinister. It suggests three things simultaneously:

  1. video game development jobs are dream jobs where you don’t do “real work”.
  2. You should feel lucky just to have this job. You can be this lucky too.
  3. You can defraud your parents by taking this college program but really you’re just playing video games. Your parents are dumb.

  Video game jobs from that era into the 2000s were looking for eager young people to make games because these adult-children were often suburban, middle class kids with support systems in place. Studios could offer unpaid internships for any opportunity to work at their “dream job”. When in reality, these parents were effectively paying these studios to hire their children. They had hopes that their children could climb a corporate ladder starting at a higher level. Their parents often were boomers with access to that wealth.

  TLDR; I 100% agree with you. The video game industry is the way it is because it’s been addicted to free labor for a long time. They have failed to cultivate and retain talent with developers “burning out” after five years on average. They break common sense labor rules and violate workers’ rights unlike any other tech industry. Everyone in that industry just complied for years because they were brain washed to believe they were “so lucky” to have this job.

  I’m not surprised this is where it ended up.

  Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I stil don't know why they thought it was ok to be this on saturday morning cartoons for young kids to watch back on the day. Ren and Stimpy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I met Bob Camp once in Atlantic city. He told me very many strange things about his life as an animator but when I told him that those close-ups haunt me in my dreams he simply laughed and said “Yeah! We call 'em Gross-Ups! It was our favorite thing to make!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The demos run on the back of two 5090 GPUs… At what point do we even acknowledge I shouldnt need to be using nearly 2kW of power on a gaming PC on a dedicated circuit in my home? Simply diminishing returns at a certain point and nvidia is bringing us way past that point into very unreasonable territory.

  Is it cool they could do it at all?.. I GUESS?! But they’ve definitely lost the plot here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer is Feynman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here for this comment 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This started a few months ago across the board. It’s the dumbest realignment of their application stack ever … With that being said, I think it’s clear that the future of Microsoft is going to be them attempting to move the entire OS experience into the cloud no matter how misguided or unwarranted that approach may be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨70% of games that require internet get destroyed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Piracy is essentially a form of archivism. The digital age literally ended scarcity in digital media and these people were like “well that won’t do”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon blames millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically they blame their own children too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep recommending BazziteOS but Jorge Castro over at the universal Blue project has a really good point “Most people don’t install their operating systems” and that plain fact is what stops people from moving to Linux.

  Valve has momentum because they are selling you a system with the OS already on it. Sell more gaming PCs with pre installed Linux on it and the support will follow. Valve’s first attempt at getting Linux based gaming hardware out there failed but that didn’t stop them and the real push is coming this time.

  If you do install your OS (most people here have once or twice), try Bazzite out. I’m running it on the minisforum Bd790i with a radeon 7800xt and it works great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Mickey 17' Faces Tall Order at Box Office After $19 Million Opening Weekend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this movie this weekend. It was ok. There were a lot of missed opportunities and unexplored plot points. The film consistently stumbles just to keep the pace up. It had enough story to be a limited TV series but it was condensed in a way that made it feel rushed. With that being said I enjoyed the acting and cringed actively as I watched on in horror at what effectively is unironically already the world we live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dino Crisis 1 & 2 just got enhanced PC re-releases, courtesy of GOG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Make Parasite Eve but with the turn based gameplay of “Yakuza:Like a Dragon”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube devs be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  These platforms seem more vulnerable to alternatives than they ever have been before but it turns out the opposite is true. The hosting infrastructure is so expensive that it prevents competitors from even starting. Datacenters are basically a cartel and getting your foot in the door is near impossible without bouncing in on the heels of someone who’s in. Making compute storage cheaper is not the name of the game when it’s easier to profit by simply limiting access and driving the price up.

  On the other hand, YouTube has never been profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost had a gd heart attack!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  AAA title Published by Epic Games, doesn’t use unreal engine, mega-chad move.

  I can see them in the future publishing it on steam as it has no integration into epic in any technical way. Epic will want to recoup their costs though by optimizing the release window for steam so expect it (if at all) to have a steam release when control 2 lands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I passed on this one because I always feel like there’s a real chance I’ll get screwed one way or another by Ubisoft so I just avoid them outright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait 'till they go to sue Valve for enabling people to perform piracy of their software on their platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regain Control in my ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Stay with me in my ass

  • Miki Matsubara
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  In the modern game industry, you get hit with layoffs even if you do well so it doesn’t really matter what the quality of your product is in the end… You still get laid off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 Reasons Why Bill Skarsgard's The Crow Remake Bombed At The Box Office⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I was too busy seeing alien: cromulant a second time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The full original Marathon trilogy is now free on Steam, but Bungie are still quiet on the reboot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope Bungie realized that if they make another free to play shooter that it will cut into the profits of their other free to play shooter.

  People who still play Destiny2 are like people who drink Hennessy. “When a mfka drink Hennessy all he drink is Hennessy” - Kat Williams

  Maybe they can try something smaller, more original, and riskier and see if people will buy that. Shorter development time, tighter budget, minimize the scope of the first title and see what people will buy. Leverage the fact that you have all this game tech, expertise, and capital and make three smaller projects that do not compete against the core product directly and come to market quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly when I think about it, this is just Mac Users have been doing for years. It’s ok to have different devices that do different things.

  With that being said, I know my journey with computers was me breaking a lot of stuff and installing software I shouldn’t as a child. If they want a windows PC, make them come up with the build. That’s the best way to share your hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feel the burn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t EMPTY THE GREASE TRAAAaaaAAYY!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this article shouldn’t be called how to. I’m trying to make heads or tails of this documentation but I would love to see more. I just want to recompile Mystical Ninja starring Goemon as it’s my favorite N64 game from my childhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  💯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Large language models are going to replace search. Naturally concise recommendations are easier for humans to interact with than a swath of web pages. The problem that you get here is this is going to disincentive the creation of new web content outside of the walled gardens we already have. The walls are just going to get higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a thought, remakes like this tend to appeal to people in the PC crowd. We’ve all moved to PC for various different reasons. Better games, better prices, better hardware? Emulation and software preservation is the name of the game for a lot of people. Those people are working everyday to make things like the steam deck the dream game console they always wanted. That’s the kind of person who will go back and replay Final Fantasy 7 four or five times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Says It Will Reveal Switch Successor By March 2025, But Not At The Direct Next Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no … Anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve graphics dev gets Gamescope working on NVK with Explicit Sync⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so stoked for this! I want this in Nobara and Bazzite Asap!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo is going to be the company that makes or breaks the legitimacy of the DMCA. If it wasn’t for the DMCA they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on as they’ve lost in court several times before.

  Honestly I think they’re going to start having problems in places like Europe if Nintendo can be classified as a “gatekeeper” on their locked down hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MattKC announces plans to develop an open source DIY WiiU gampead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of Android based Pocket devices out there like the retroid. Imagine having a retroid or ayn odin that can also double as a wii u controller.