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- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 1 week ago:
Well, they don’t much any more. The normies moved to apps.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 2 weeks ago:
line go up
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 3 weeks ago:
But since the total sample size is much smaller due to language categorization, review bombing is much, much easier and impactful when it does hapoen for the speakers of the language the bombing is targeted at.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 weeks ago:
Sorry what? I couldn’t hear you because of the fucking
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
outside
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 4 weeks ago:
A sucker is born every minute.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 5 weeks ago:
The problem they describe will self-correct; the “market” will drive that. But it might not be pretty. The things below are already happening, but will be further instigated:
New AAA non-franchise titles will be less common because return is less likely amongst the sea of new games coming out. Investors will continue to gamble on them, but they’ll be fewer and further between.
Mid-budget AA games not in a niche will disappear. You’ll still have your city builders, your milsim squad shooters, your competitive RTS games, but you won’t be seeing many new AA action platformers, multiplayer CoD style shooters, block puzzlers, adventure RPGs, etc. They’ll either be bare budget / indie or mega budget.
You’ll see dev cost continue to be driven down to mitigate this risk, making quality suffer. Asset flips, AI, and outsourcing will increase for most studios that don’t get recurring revenue from live service games.
Indies will continue to be random breakout hits, but their studios will die fast because followups to their breakouts often drown in the sea too.
Being an employee in the industry will probably mean jumping from company to company where you might only stick around for 1 - 2 titles before a major layoff. Contracting will get more common.
- Comment on Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports 5 weeks ago:
If EA weren’t already so bloated and full of suits, I might imagine this would allow them to pump the brakes on their scummy moneymaking policies.
- Comment on Coincidence 5 weeks ago:
No because Neil was short for Neilbert
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 month ago:
Or alternatively (historically), expendable peasants that you don’t want to finance painstaking archery training on.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 month ago:
It’s not exactly hard to operate a firearm. They are designed to be used by the lowest common denominator of person - total morons.
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 1 month ago:
Treading water figuring out how to make money somehow when ChatGPT by itself is a colossal money dumpster
- Comment on 'Ultrabroadband' 6G Chip Clocks Speeds 10 Times Faster Than 5G 1 month ago:
Is the range 10x shorter?
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 month ago:
Anti-immigrant sentiment in the US has been a thing for hundreds of years. Consider watching Scorcese’s “Gangs of New York” for a (fictionally dramatized) depiction of it in times past.
As for why mass deportations are possible today - - until the late 1800s, immigration to the US was essentially unregulated. The Chinese Exclusion Act and later systems of quotas and literacy tests introduced around the turn of the 20th century instituted the first national immigration policies.
I frankly don’t find it unfair or unreasonable that the US government’s executive branch has chosen to enforce existing immigration laws for political gain. Americans should change their immigration laws if they get upset when they’re actually enforced. If anything, the executive branch was utterly failing to enforce laws that representatives had placed and kept on the books for a long time. If you want more immigrants, make it easy and legal to receive more immigrants without tests, long wait periods, or country of origin quotas.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ten years from now, when you’re ready, you pull a Luigi. Go out a hero.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 months ago:
Wall hacks could be defeated by the server only reporting the positional information about enemy players to game clients when it detects that the client player’s camera should be able to see some part of the other player’s silhouette. This is possible, albeit computationally expensive, but the main functional issue is latency. Nobody wants enemies magically popping into view when their view changes quickly because their ping was more than 6ms lol
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 2 months ago:
Microsoft is getting out of the games business.
- Comment on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives 2 months ago:
Good job Cloudflare
- Comment on Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time 3 months ago:
At the end of the day, it’s still CGI. How much fine grained creative control really needs to go into a building collapse?
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 months ago:
Using generative AI to replace toil and not the creative human process is fine imo. Even doing something like generating visual things, to me, is OK if it’s driven by real creative intent and doesn’t result in something that looks low quality. But it’s not very simple to get output that you can tweak in fine ways to get predictable changes based on specific creative intent - human language is not descriptive enough to really capture that. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is accurate. You’re also shooting yourself in the foot when you end up with a ton of assets or systems that you don’t have fine control over because you can’t do something simple like tweak a layer of an image because what you got at the end of the day was just a raster output from a black box.
- Comment on im frend :( 3 months ago:
He brought an antipasto salad and everything too 💔
- Comment on Innocence 3 months ago:
You’re magnitudes more likely to lose an arm operating a lathe or cutting wood professionally than pushing paper in a camo outfit, which is what over half of US military personnel actually do all day.
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?! I hate anything that requires verification and codes! 3 months ago:
Crunch uses scammy tactics to stop you from canceling. They lied to me twice to my face. Tried to charge me a fee too on cancel. Can also only cancel in person at the original signup gym. Pick a better business to deserve your money.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 3 months ago:
Neither of these topics should even be drawing media attention, considering how frequent and non-notable they are. They just report on this stuff every day because it’s cheaper and easier than exclusively finding and reporting on real local news, and television news needs filler content for selling ad spots. Ever had a day where there was no news, and they ended early?
- Comment on AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios 3 months ago:
It’s not “learning” anything. It’s a computer program outputting text it was modelled to output.
- Comment on Perfect Anatomy 3 months ago:
Idk if this anatomy is accurate for terrestrial snails too, but to be fair for aquatic snails the turds float away immediately.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 3 months ago:
Praying is just talking to your imaginary friend, and having it tell back to you what you want to hear.
These elected representatives are no more mentally developed than elementary school children. Must be from a state full of lead pipes.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 4 months ago:
But, it takes a lot of work by designers to get the fake lighting to look natural. Raytracing would help avoid that toil if the game is forced RT.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 4 months ago:
Try looking for crops to grow that are nutritious but relatively low maintenance. Sweet potatoes, sunchokes, groundcover strawberries, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, etc. Bonus if you can grow excess to sell at local farmers markets for some extra income, though the easiest the grow ones probably won’t fetch a great price. Also, look for native options. Less maintenance, and local pollinators are more likely to help out.
If you’re not squeamish, rabbits breed very quickly and just eat grass. Chickens are good for eggs and meat.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 4 months ago:
Just donate plasma. Works great, gives some other schmuck your plastic.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It’s a bit strange to think about, but our brains seem to have adapted to information accessibility today by more readily remembering how to find the information instead of the information itself. (See Betsy Sparrow et al)