I am disappointed that the “Read More” button wasn’t brought in on the gag and relabeled “Would you like know more?”

Oh, hey, shocker — that thing Microsoft execs specifically said they weren’t going to do, they went ahead and did anyway! It’s almost as if their reasons for why they needed all their recent mega mergers, how it was going to help competition was, what’s the word again? Oh, right. It’s lies. Their ‘reasons’ were all…

Because they aren’t yet. It takes time for developers to really get the hang of all the hardware-specific capabilities of a console, the how, where, and when a console’s unique capabilities allow for unorthodox or novel approaches to replace more routine and less-performant methods. This has been consistently true for…

It’s a manifold issue. A long-lasting high concurrency of users indicates sustained, ongoing interest in the game. That means there’s substantial audience and market for continued development and support. That in turn means a higher likelihood of more DLC and expansions, etc. But Starfield isn’t showing that.…

Ramin Djawadi has done some amazing theme songs, including Game of Thrones.

That would imply that there were any ideals involved in the first place. But bigotry and intolerance aren’t ideals. They’re flaws. Gross, inexcusable, willful flaws. Because even though a person can happen into having these flaws as matter of upbringing, *keeping* them is a choice. It’s a choice to remain bigoted, to…

By the ‘logic’ on display here, the great turtle-stomping epidemic of the 80s caused by Super Mario Bros must have been horrific! Oh, right. That never happened. Because that’s not how this works. That’s not how ANY of this works.

When mountains and centuries of hard data contradict everything you just said, I think you’re the one in a bubble, bub.

So then no, you don’t understand the difference. You could have just said that and saved yourself a bunch of pointless keystrokes of meandering ignorance.

Valve isn’t a publicly traded company, and one generally decent guy exercises nearly absolute authority over the platform, while his focus has never been on maximizing the profits generated by it.

If you actually think it’s going to be finished in a few days, are you in for a surprise....

...publishers are knowingly, intentionally selling access to a game before it’s finished. Pretty sure they’ve stopped giving a f*** what they’re selling as long as they get their money. And if they don’t, well, that’s [insert random scapegoat] to blame. Why? Because their customers have told them that they’re okay…

Valheim really rubbed me the wrong way with all of its mindless busy-work tasks. Torches and fires that have to be constantly refueled. Food that lasts 10 minutes, except not, because its effects start decaying halfway through. Oh, and food isn’t optional, since beyond the first-ish zone, everything will 1-shot you…

They’re either copies, or they’re not.

If they were exactly the same, as you claim, the two models would perfectly overlap. They don’t. In many instances, they’re not even close.

Can’t...why? Because you say so? You think there’s some ‘magic’ need for ~8 billion people, some purpose being served that can’t be served any other way? There’s literally nothing those people contribute to the lives of the wealthy and powerful *EXCEPT* their creative labors. Everything else only exists to keep…

‘People’ won’t need to work. As long as your definition of ‘people’ are the billionaires. Nearly everything will be fully autonomous, with a very tiny number of people whose sole job — and only means of survival — is to keep those systems running.

Hey! I can cite statistics too! Here’s one! Nearly 10% of the US population lives in poverty where starvation is a daily reality! Oh, wait, that’s more than 6.6%. Hmm... well, maybe things are better elsewhere. In Africa, nearly 1/2 the continent’s population lives in poverty. Well, shit, that’s also more than 6.6%.…

No. There will be no mines in the near(ish) future. There will be no need of manual labor. Because there will be no laborers. The only ‘workers’ who will be left will be the tiny number of people it takes to keep the vestigial-economic machinery of this world running smoothly for the billionaires who will own the…

All of this isn’t a problem inherent to AI tools themselves. Rather, it’s a product of AI tools under a capitalist economic system. Under a more equitable economic system, AI tools wouldn’t ‘replace’ people. They’d free people up to do something else, something more enjoyable, more interesting or more productive,…