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- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 2 days ago:
I always cringe a little bit when someone says a person has ‘become a parody of themselves’… but honestly, what else is there to say about Molyneaux?
Peter Molyneaux really has become a parody of Peter Molyneaux.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 2 days ago:
I’m 1000% sure Molyneaux is gonna try to use AI to develop as much of this new game as possible.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 2 days ago:
I’m not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn’t directly involved with since like… 2010?
What we’ve seen of his new game really isn’t that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers’ attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.
Then when you consider Molyneux’s propensity towards feature creep, it’s probably safe to assume that even if the game is a ‘success’ by most conventional metrics, it won’t be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 week ago:
You may be interested in this new research from a few weeks ago! space.com/…/the-search-for-life-on-venus-just-too…
- Comment on ugly little cutie 2 weeks ago:
MFW my mom tells me I’m handsome
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 3 weeks ago:
Trump is pre, peri and post-criminal.
- Comment on United States of Autism 4 weeks ago:
The US should just switch to paracetamol. Problem solved!
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 5 weeks ago:
Fusion restaurant
Can I get an order of the yellow cake to go?
- Comment on Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator 5 weeks ago:
LOL, since when does AI respect copyright?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
Yet!
- Comment on I just beat Bloodborne for the first today, and it's probably one of the best playthroughs of a video game that i have ever had and stories of one as well. 1 month ago:
Paleblood Hunt intensifies
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 1 month ago:
Yeah, Activision was my first thought as well.
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 1 month ago:
Shouldn’t it be trivially easy to demonstrate “prior art” in this case, making the patent invalid? I guess that requires someone to get into a legal battle with Nintendo… but it’s not like this is some niche mechanic. Surely there are other entertainment megacorps who are currently in violation of this “patent” and do have the resources to fight it in court.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 month ago:
Probably sarcoidosis
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
Don’t be pedantic. Anyone with half a brain knows that when someone brings up “climate change” they’re referring to “human-made climate change” — and it’s completely uncontroversial that the changes we’ve made since the industrial revolution have greatly outweighed the changes of the Earth’s natural climate cycles.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
Are you really gonna use the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument to defend LLMS?
Let’s not forget that the first ‘L’ stands for “large”. These things do not exist without massive, power and resource hungry data centers. You can’t just say “Blame government mismanagement! Blame corporate greed!” without acknowledging that LLMs cease to exist without those things.
And even with all of those resources behind it, the technology is still only marginally useful at best. LLMs still hallucinate, they still confidently distribute misinformation, they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.
What tangible benefit is there to LLMs that justifies their absurd cost? Honestly?
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
AI would be fine if we just changed everything about it
lol
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 months ago:
I’d happily chat with Marie Curie for 3 hours while Einstein and Bohr argue with each other in the background.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 2 months ago:
People are buying entire consoles for one or two games. If folk can afford a 450 USD switch 2 for mario kart they can afford a facebook (ugh) quest for 300 bucks that regularly goes on sale.
The difference is that you don’t need an entire room to play the Switch 2 (hell, you even need a TV). It’s easier to scrape together the $500+ required for a console than it is to afford a down payment and a mortgage, or the extra rent for a two-bedroom instead of a one-bedroom apartment.
Consoles and VR are both luxury goods, but the barrier for entry with the former is much lower than with the latter.
Space will always be the most expensive peripheral of all.
- Comment on Graham Hancock interviews Bible translator, Ancient Hebrew expert 2 months ago:
Bible translation is a fascinating subject, but Graham Hancock is one of the biggest crackpots working today (and even if we were not, biblical scholarship is not his field of study). If you’re interested in this stuff, there are much better sources of information out there.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
For some reason all I can see when I look at this is this guy
- Comment on Best World-Building Game Coffee Table Books? 2 months ago:
This is slightly outside the bounds of what you asked for, but I think you might appreciate Vermis.
It’s an art book/game guide for a dark fantasy action adventure game, except the game doesn’t actually exists. The whole thing is entirely fake — basically all of the world building of a video game but without the actual game. The art is fantastic and there’s really nothing else quite like it.
I think originally it was only available in paperback, but a hardcover edition is available now as well for more of that “coffee table book” vibe.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Pre-order bonuses are a garbage anti-customer practice anyway.
- Comment on Help. 2 months ago:
It’s literally that.
- Comment on Upset about progress 2 months ago:
That’s like saying that advertising has become a “pillar” of society.
Like… yeah, I guess… but that doesn’t change the fact that anyone with a functioning brain fucking hates it.
- Comment on Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock 2 months ago:
What the actual fuck
- Comment on *must tap* 2 months ago:
We’re not exactly sure, but we do know they’re not from impacts.
They occur in a region of the planet called Tombaugh Regio, which has some of the youngest surface features on all of Pluto. The leading theory seems to be that the pits are caused by ice fracturing as the ‘crust’ of the planet is stressed by internal forces.
We still don’t know for sure what’s heating Pluto’s interior, but one of the great discoveries from New Horizons is that Pluto is a very active world — possibly even as active as Earth’s surface. Warm(ish) water in the interior likely behaves similarly to how magma behaves on Earth, leading to activity analogous to plate tectonics and volcanism.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 3 months ago:
Evrart may be corrupt, but he’s still a better boss than Corpo trash
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 3 months ago:
Mario and Luigi’s lesser known cousin, Pagliacci.
- Comment on Planck units 3 months ago:
10^9 Joules is roughly the chemical energy of a full tank of gasoline. The mass-energy of the car (or even just gas itself) would be many, many orders of magnitude higher.