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- Comment on This is a prototype of SMB3 on the PC, ported by id Software. Nintendo of America liked it, but HQ in Japan killed it to avoid competing with the NES. Watch Mario jump to sounds of Commander Keen! 1 hour ago:
Is this what happened after “Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement”?
Actually, it looks like Lane Roathe chimed in on the top comment.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 1 hour ago:
I don’t think John Carmack is sociopathic. He just thinks differently, and isn’t the most socially-adapt person. He was trying to reason out why the decision was made in the first place:
“Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal.”
He’s definitely not wrong. I still think Microsoft’s decision was pretty fucking stupid, but disposable entertainment options are at an all-time high, and even with gaming, you can throw a stick up in the air and have it land on a game studio.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 1 hour ago:
The problem with what you’re saying is that they’ve always bought out other studios and then fucked them up.
Just replace “they” with “all publicly-traded companies”. That is the nature of buyouts and short-term stock market thinking. Just look at all of the buyouts EA turned to shit. Or Activision. Or countless other smaller studios that have died to larger buyouts.
If a company gets bought out by a corporation like this, they know what they are getting into.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 3 days ago:
I’m pretty sure they hired Asha Sharma just to gut the entire Xbox department and force its closure. It’s losing them money, but they want to continue to pretend that they care about gaming.
They’ll hype up the PR, pretend that they are restructuring, and then announce some “sad news” that they had to completely shudder the Xbox brand after a few years of pretending.
The thing is that Microsoft isn’t doing great in the Windows department, either. They are pissing off so many people that they’re losing grip of their near monopoly. And Copilot is almost as bad as Llama in terms of LLMs.
What the fuck do they have left? Office?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Half? You mean 99.99%? Take any random indie game… find its physical copy. I’ll wait.
That’s not even counting the miles and miles of asset-flip slop that’s out there.
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 2 weeks ago:
AI analyzed an existing piece of artwork someone created, copied it, then spit out a slightly modified version and called it an original creation.
“AI” did none of those things. As much as you want to personify tools, a human was paid to use LLMs to generate that output. It did not magically create that out of its own free will. These are not people, and they do not act on their own.
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 2 weeks ago:
How is this any worse than airbrushing models and Photoshopping movie posters?
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 2 weeks ago:
Might as well do the meme right:
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 weeks ago:
It’s wrong to wish people dead
I had this attitude 20 years ago. I no longer do. I’ve come to realize that there are certain rich fucks who are actively harming humanity directly (Hitler, Kissinger, Reagan, world leaders who send the poor to useless wars). Even the rich fucks that just hoard money are actively robbing from the poor to do so, and some of those people die as a result.
How many people does a person have to kill before they are too far gone to save, and are just evil? How many levels of indirection does it take before they wouldn’t be considered evil? What happens if a person indirectly kills millions of people? Is that still far enough to call them evil?
These are the questions you should ask yourself when you try to plot out your own moral compass.
- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 4 weeks ago:
Depends on what you mean by “fanboys”. No, the hype isn’t as real as these rich assholes make it out to be. LLMs aren’t going to replace all human workforce everywhere ever, like some of these techbro dipshits quickly find out.
But, I’m still going to use technology that produce a tool in two minutes what would have normally taken me two hours to do. Sure, I have to code review it, but that doesn’t take nearly as long as the work itself.
- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 4 weeks ago:
Slop that produces inaccurate results and then tells you it did no such thing.
I use Claude at work and local LLMs at home, and they all produce good code. The Kagi agents work pretty well at searching for information that would have taken me 30-60 minutes to find. Although, I generally favor thinking models because they are good at edge cases.
You have to know how to provide good context for the situation, like examples, prior art, documentation, etc. Many people have a hard time even expressing an idea to a group of humans. Imagine your (pointy-haired) boss shows your department a picture in the next meeting:
B: “Go make this thing!”
D: “What thing?”
B: “Here. This thing. Make something just like it for our company!”
D: “Well, we can’t just copy it outright. What color should it be? What do we want to improve on? How do we tie it to our existing software?”
B: “I don’t know. That’s your job to figure out, right?”
That’s how most people treat LLMs. Garbage in, garbage out.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 4 weeks ago:
marketing has gotten a lot better in the intervening years.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humans 4 weeks ago:
People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It’s gone down since then, but only because email isn’t that important of a communication platform nowadays.
Bad actors attack with the tools they’ve got. If it’s not protected, it’s exploitable until it is.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t matter. Pre-ordering is stupid on any platform.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Cautiously optimistic, but I’m wondering if this is going to turn into some damned Playstation exclusive or not. And I don’t like how much they are pushing this pre-order crap, but I guess that’s every major launch title nowadays.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Control is well worth it. Quite possibly the best translation of a SCP-style universe, while retaining a serious/creative tone throughout.
The first 15 minutes is one of the best intros to a game I’ve ever seen. It latches on to this crazy weirdness in so many directions at once.
- Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026 5 weeks ago:
My point is that I took a famously overrated game that showed a clear disconnect between paid-off journalist shills and users who actually played the game. One of the sites exposed the disconnect. The other gave it a “80% player rating”.
- Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026 5 weeks ago:
Tried it out with Mixtape: This and this both look the same, except Metacritic exposes the brazen astroturf campaigning going on with this mediocre game. I would also expect OpenCritic to have critics that weren’t directly paid by Annapurna Interactive on the list to drag the score down. Instead, the critic score is even higher.
- Comment on The Dead Economy Theory 5 weeks ago:
Yes, the sociopath, narcissist and billionaires have taken over. There is no more democracy. There is no more rule of law.
And what do you do to those sociopaths, narcissists, and billionaires? Talk to them to death? Your words have no meaning to them. You can’t expect empathy from sociopaths. That’s literally in the definition of the word.
There is probably no way, at this point, to end the corruption peacefully. Possibly no way at all.
No, there isn’t. We were past that about 10-20 years ago.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 1 month ago:
Especially when the price of consoles are matching PCs. The price of being that lazy is too high, and that’s not even factoring the advantages of everything you get out of a PC.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 1 month ago:
Fiddling with a PC? You buy a PC and it’s done. Install Steam, install games, let’s go.
At best, if you want to switch OSs or try out new things, you’ll spend some time learning how that works. And if you want to try to stretch out the longevity, you can get new RAM, new video card, a replacement CPU. But, all of that is your choice.
As a bonus, you get something way way more powerful than a console that has a web browser, document editor, video/music player, Jellyfin server, streaming platform, whatever you want.
- Comment on Amazon has cancelled The Lord of the Rings MMO, but promises it "continues to explore a compelling new game experience" set in Middle-earth 1 month ago:
Releasing? LOTRO has been around for decades. Just play that instead of some New World garbage.
- Comment on Heaven's Gate Still Answers Emails 2 months ago:
You and I must have been watching different videos.
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- Comment on It's Official - TurtleWoW is Over 2 months ago:
That would involve a level of risk that a corporation that bought out a corporation that bought out Blizzard is not allowed to take. But, of course, they will gladly take billions of dollars and light it on fire for shitty decisions like the Metaverse or laying off tens of thousands of their own staff.
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
The joke that starts a new chapter…
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
No, I said “don’t die!”
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
Featuring the single best joke ever told in a video game.
- Comment on Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. 2 months ago:
I don’t need to install DeArrow. I just don’t subscribe to YouTubers that rely on clickbaity thumbnails and titles.
- Comment on Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. 2 months ago:
If that’s the conclusion you’re walking away with, then clearly you’re arguing in bad faith.
