Right! It’s funny how these AI guru’s keep claiming that the technology they’re working on is an imminent threat to humanity. If that’s true stop working on it. The real reason they’re sounding the alarm is, as you said, to enact legislation favorable to their profit making and to freeze out competitors. Gotta love…

The primary use of this legislation would be to setup a regulatory environment that would make it difficult, if not impossible, for anyone but a well-heeled corporation to do any work or research in the field.

he KNEW the risks when he made the character! It’s lined up right there when you make them! If you don’t like the terms presented, don’t fucking hit the button, its that easy.

Yeah, it was frustrating. They just kept screwing with the balance because this one guy did this improbable move this one time in some tournament somewhere, whoops better cut Widowmaker’s non-headshot damage in half and make Reaper even more of a pain in the ass. I guess at least Diablo doesn’t have an “esports” scene…

100%. I deleted OW2 from my PS5 after the first “season” because it was such an absolute mess that it was causing anger and stress instead of just being fun like the original. I haven’t looked back since. But if OW1 came back, I’d definitely be queuing up that download immediately.

Honestly they just need to turn OW1 back on. Let those of us that actually enjoyed the game have our slice of fun and leave all the overhauled trash fire that is OW2 for the people that like that.

That’s what killed Overwatch for me. Just buffs and nerfs patch after patch for the characters that seemed to need them the least. Mercy wasn’t even fun to play anymore a few years in.

I remember the great times I had with The Bee shield and the Conference Call shotgun in BL2 before they nerfed it (although if you’ve got the disc version, you can still do it in the base, unpatched game.  Being able to absolutely shred everything with friends was a delight, no fun allowed nowadays =(

Its absolutely looking that way. D3 (and to a lesser extent Overwatch) has shown Blizz wants pretty strict control over the meta. They also have a really bad habit of overnerfing it seems.

This is what Blizzard has done for many many years now.

They have the data from the closed end-level beta, then came the pre-order beta’s, then the server slam, then the pre-order live launch, not to mention all their in-house testing. They use that to adjust the numbers one way or the other with each round.

Now with…

It’s actually even weirder than Sony trying to make a Wii U controller.

Because it’s fun to watch bad things happen to evil people.

Because the rise of a conservative fascist is relevant to all Americans. And you’re kidding yourself if you think he wouldn’t start policing video games.

Even in the PS3/360 era Sony managed to turn around that disastrous launch after a while and eventually overtook the 360 (barely albeit) on lifetime sales. Not to mention they were coming out with more interesting games in the latter half of the generation while Microsoft was pissing around with Kinect. It’s been by…

What kind of fucked up world do we live in where we have machines making art and Humans doing manual labor? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Oh, wait, I forgot that corporations will do anything to lower their bottom line and increase profits. 

We all know that this tech is not made to make worker more productive but to cut costs at all means and replace them.

The problem would be that the tool can erase the jobs of the artists that it is there to help. “Make more productive” is something only a business owner should care about anyways. The actual worker should be trying to make their best work, not make more work to satisfy some faceless investor that is salivating at the…

We’re at a point where I only play retro games and new indie games, I think. I mean, there are still a few AAA publishers/developers who aren’t total dogshit yet, but... it’s bleak.

If you feel the need to use this “service” than I would implore you to seek therapy as it would be a better use of your time and money.

1. We are living in hell

2. Anytime ANYONE even uses the phrase “democratize” needs to be shamed. immediately. It’s dumb, it’s stupid, and especially in this context, is so goddamn gross.


And yes, I am expecting the avalanche of “Her” think pieces because oh man, “fucking your AI bot” is going to be the thing.