What do you think, McCarthy, can you give me a number crunch?

I can only speak for programmers. Artist compete one against each other. Programmers help each other. Entire sites like StackOverflow exist so one programmer can get help from multiple programer. Why is like this, we can arguee and have opinions. I think programmers understand that their work is secret and only…

also any random artist can take inspiration from another, if i make a collage from say photos etc that makes up a picture is that my art or am i stealing other peoples art?

why are these complaints not levelled at other AI things, where are the scientists complaining their work is being used by drug discovery AIs, the coders complaining their code snippets are being used by AI code completion systems, the writers complaining that GPT3 is stealing their work. why is it only seemingly…

Surprised that there was no link to that fantastic Defunct land video:

I didn’t expect them to buff Sombra so much.

Shut the fuck up snowflake

The intended audience doesn’t change that these games are predatory. You make it sound like criticism regarding the exploitation of whales is somehow platform dependent.

Sorry, John, but I did read your entire article. And yes, many of our opinions do run counter to your own because the argument isn’t simply “Diablo is exploitative” which you clearly understand, it’s that the exploitation it contains, the skinner box that ActiBlizzard uses to hack the brains of neuro atypicals who can…

Nope. Listen, I’ve loved Diablo from day 1, played Hellfire, used to wake up before school to grind for runes in D2, and enjoyed D3 post auction house, but there is no way in hell I’m downloading Immortal. Yeah, I could play for free, but number of downloads is still a metric Blizzard uses; number of “potential…

Oh, look! Another article about how a public personality is offended by polarized opinions that run counter to their own! When WILL this anti-cancel culture end, I tell you!? These shrieking influencers are simply unbearable! It’s literally the worst thing to have ever happened to people without a public platform!

Because the game dies without F2P players. Without the lower spending playerbase the whales have no one to show off to, no one to destroy in pvp, no one to play with, no one to talk to, no clan wars, no anything. These games need people to play it to make it more alive and show others how fun it is so they can flip…

As I said, by keeping the game alive. Even the whales won’t continue to pay if the game is dead. By playing, and encouraging others to play, you’re keeping the community around the game alive, and keeping the servers active for people to play with/against.

This is a terrible take.

So remember how Ari and Zack were calling this game’s microtransactions “not that bad” just a day or two ago?

Yeah, the fact is, it IS an exploitative game. The entire model is designed to exploit people. Just because someone doesn’t have to does not change that fact.

everybody should also watch “In Search Of A Flat Earth”.

This video is GOLD. Awesomely explained. And nobody is dumb for not understanding how the architecture of this works, because IT’S extremely complex and abstract.

I used to do work like this. we had a guy at the docks that would call when a container ship full of TV/VCR combos would come in, he would tell me what truck and what highway it was on

Why do we need them? What benefit does it have putting these systems into our games? Who is using these things? It feels like a very small audience. And also, these technologies are still not using sustainable energy and are a target for money laundering. As a developer I feel deeply uncomfortable that there is a…