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- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games | 404 Media 1 day ago:
well it isn’t so much about copyright as it is about protecting kids. Is there an AI voice thing related to child predators that I am not aware about?
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- Comment on Splitgate 2 is ‘unlaunching’ as developer 1047 Games cuts staff | VGC 1 day ago:
I kind of feel like the golden age of “rebooted live service game” is behind us, tbh. We had games like FFXIV and Rainbow Six: Siege that launched rough, but committed to fixing it and then successfully turned it around. In those days, there weren’t many live service games, so people were willing to wait out a possible turnaround. In the time since, we have been absolutely drowning in live-service games, and many of them are free-to-play. Why would I wait for the Splitgate turnaround when there are 3 other live-service f2p shooters that I haven’t even tried yet? If I’m a kid or young adult that came up on Roblox, I might even be content with the shooters built into that platform.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games | 404 Media 1 day ago:
lol
- Submitted 1 day ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on Sony has acquired 2.5% of Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco in a ‘strategic partnership’ | VGC 1 day ago:
“Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero publisher Bandai Namco” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
- Sony has acquired 2.5% of Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco in a ‘strategic partnership’ | VGCwww.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 Editions are technically exceptional and essential | Digital Foundrywww.eurogamer.net ↗Submitted 2 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Nintendo Switch 2 set a US launch month record at 1.6 million units | VGCwww.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Splitgate 2 is ‘unlaunching’ as developer 1047 Games cuts staff | VGC 2 days ago:
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- ‘The age of game mechanics is over’, claims Shadow of the Colossus director Ueda | VGCwww.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 7 comments
- Donkey Kong Bananza's Chaotic Co-Op Mode Is Engineered to Make Kids Happy and Parents Upset | Crossplaywww.crossplay.news ↗Submitted 3 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 1 week ago:
Half-assed Google search suggests he’s worth somewhere between 20 and 70 million.
Sounds believeable, but I will point out that a google search alone is not a reliable source, so we still truly do not know and we shouldn’t be making statements like this without reliable sources. Page one of a google search is just all the publications that paid google the most money to be on page one. IME, most of those are trash-tier AI-gen articles.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 1 week ago:
You’re absolutely right, there are consequences for people other than the cheating couple, and that is something to consider. It just sucks that you can’t even go to a concert anymore without thinking deeply about how you might be observed.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 1 week ago:
That he is a billionaire and doing something deeply unethical is what makes the story go viral all over social media.
Is there a reliable source that he is a billionaire? I haven’t seen that in any reporting. “Billionaire” is a four letter word around these parts, I would be careful about throwing the label around without solid evidence.
Perhaps the problems this exposes are not just our grim and omnipresent surveillance apparatus, but the attached system of gig-economy content creators all racing to the lowest common denominator for scraps of engagement and ad revenue
This I think is the real story. This isn’t necessarily about our surveillance state, but more that we are constantly observed by the world and it is a specific type of hell that we cannot escape. The fact that this makes adultery more difficult is a bittersweet benefit, I guess, but there are no guardrails on this sort of thing. If this was in any other context besides a cheating CEO this would all be supremely fucked up, and that’s why I think this is an article worth talking about.
- Comment on FromSoftware reportedly has another unannounced game that ‘could release next year’ | VGC 1 week ago:
I always worry about that with From, and Japanese studios in general. They are often black boxes, and the only reason we don’t talk about them as much is because they do a good job of “keeping it in the family”. Maybe From is way bigger than we realize, or maybe they are just grinding entry level devs into dust. We truly just do not know.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 1 week ago:
It is worth briefly considering the dystopia of this situation and its aftermath. It is not clear exactly how the Astronomer CEO was initially identified, but we have seen numerous cases where TikTok commenters and creators use Pimeyes and other readily available, often free facial recognition and social media research tools to identify a person. The Astronomer CEO’s name, his wife’s name, the head of HR’s name, and the third company executive’s name and social media profiles are all over the TikTok comments and Reddit comments. His latest LinkedIn post was full of comments about the incident, left before he disabled comments and ultimately deleted the post. Commenters have pointed out that his wife has removed his last name from several of her social media profiles.
Today Polymarket opened two new Byron-related bets. The first asks the question: “Andy Byron out as Astronomer CEO by next Friday?” As of this writing, the site is giving him a 40 percent chance of leaving. Polymarket doesn’t care if he resigns or gets fired, the bet pays out to its “yes” voters so long as he leaves.
The crueler bet, and the one with more activity, is the “Astronomer Divorce Parlay.” A parlay is a series or combination of bets, and this Polymarket listing requires both Byron and Cabot to get divorced. An announcement will satisfy the bet, it doesn’t have to be an official filing. But it can come from Byron and Cabot themselves or their spouses. The image attached to the bet is a screenshot from the moment the Jumbotron filmed the couple embracing.
Brands are using Byron and Cabot’s face to build hype. The NEON film studio posted a picture of the couple on X to promote its upcoming horror movie Together. Chipotle commented on the story with a picture of its billboard that reads “It’s OK to Cheat.” Most chilling, the NYC Department of Sanitation used the viral moment to remind everyone that it has cameras everywhere.
But one does not have to have sympathy or empathy for a CEO to see how this sort of thing could and often does go off the rails. This example is emblematic of the problem specifically because it’s easy to laugh at these people and because they’re doing something distasteful, but not illegal. The same technologies used to dox and research this CEO are routinely deployed against the partners of random people who have had messy breakups, attractive security guards, people who look “suspicious” and are caught on Ring cameras by people on Nextdoor, people who dance funny in public, and so on. There has been endless debate about the ethics of doxing cops and ICE agents and Nazis, and there are many times where it makes sense to research people doing harm on behalf of the state or who are doing violent, scary things in to innocent people. It is another to deploy these technologies against random people you saw on an airplane or who had a messy breakup with an influencer. And of course, these same technologies are regularly deployed by police and the feds against undocumented immigrants, regular people, and people wanting to visit the United States on tourist visas.
- The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Mediawww.404media.co ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 13 comments
- FromSoftware reportedly has another unannounced game that ‘could release next year’ | VGCwww.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 7 comments
- Comment on 'Friendslop' Isn't Real, But People Love Posting About It Anyway | Aftermath 1 week ago:
i like your positivity. it’s true, except that the landscape for indies is also v grim rn. The kind of investors that fueled indie games of the past have dried up. Kickstarters for games still happen, but it isn’t the like the glory days. And discoverability is a nightmare, releasing an indie game these days is a bit like playing the lottery. But I’ll tell you, when a $20 or under indie game catches my attention, i’m pretty inclined to impulse buy. They are more enticing than the $80 games, for sure.
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- Comment on Donkey Kong Bananza Review Thread 1 week ago:
Excited to see a new game from the Mario Odyssey team, and excited that this one seems to have turned out well! I wish i had anything else to say about this game, but it literally just came out today. I usually don’t play new releases and I never buy a console in the first year of release, so…I look forward to playing this on a Switch 2 or emulator in 5 years. lol
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 1 week ago:
key excerpt:
Most 3D printers work by heating up a filament—often, but not always, plastic—and extruding it through a metal nozzle. The nozzle puts down hundreds, or even thousands, of layers of the heated plastic to form a solid object. Each individual level of the print is called the print line. “So on the firearm, I’m seeing from the trigger guard—maybe print line 200—and the top of the magazine well—print line 400—the marks are staying consistent,” Garrison said.
It was an exciting discovery but it also wouldn’t be admissible as evidence in a criminal trial. Despite the promise that we may one day be able to match a printer to the object that made it, Garrison stressed that the work was in its very early days and that it would take years, perhaps even a decade, of science to work out the truth of toolmarks and 3D printers.
- 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Mediawww.404media.co ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 22 comments
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 week ago:
where do we think we would be at at this point if electronic payments were handled by government entities? Not trying to defend Visa or Mastercard, just genuinely curious what others think.
- Comment on Ross Scott Gets A Second Chance For His ‘Stop Killing Games’ Crusade 1 week ago:
really didn’t appreciate that last paragraph
Now, it’s very easy for me, someone who is not building a political action campaign around this topic, to tell someone like Scott that he needs to do better this time. But I’m going to do it anyway. I want this to work. I want the needle to move faster towards preservation of our gaming culture and towards the fulfillment of the copyright bargain with the public. So, please, let this go better this time around.
Ross devoted a year of his life (so far) to making this thing happen, purely out of his own passion for games. He gave it his all and the thing almost failed due to factors outside of Ross’s control. And then you want to turn around and tell him “that wasn’t good enough, do better next time” while sitting on your ass writing your shitty little tech articles for your shitty tech blog? dude even acknowledges that how cowardly it sounds, and then proceeds to say it anyway. fuck all the way off.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time [Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan] 1 week ago:
boooo typical nintendo casting L. They could have cast Hunter Schafer, the literal perfect Princess Zelda. I mean… look at her!!!
