But Jaheira is married to Khalid...

This is too hard!!! How am I to decide between Max from Life is Strange, Dolce and Xiao Pai from Rune Factory 4 and Tae Takemi from Persona 5?! At least Judy from Cyberpunk is a clear no-go, since I am a dude and she isn’t into that, otherwise she’d complicate matters further.

Keep an old system running is a lot of work, regardless of scale. As someone mentioned security is a thing. Someone’s gotta keep all dependencies updated to include security patches. For some projects those updates will just stop coming or only be in newer major versions that include breaking changes. This might…

Did you read the article? This is only about online play, you can still download from the store. Your comment is totally orthogonal to the article.

The games don’t generate themselves. The direction still comes from humans. Nobody who has ever used a tool like Midjourney would think otherwise. If your issue is not with distribution of economic reward, but with an inferior product, none of this will be an issue if you are correct, since the games will be inferior…

Have you considered how many more people we could employ in road construction if we got rid of excavators?

Granted the situation around training data is wonky. That’s not the company’s problem though, that for the courts and legislators to figure out. The company’s job is to make money by producing desirable games. Expe…

I prefer socks that have effort put into them

If something uses AI art and it needs someone to expose it, it always massively impacts my experience... Where are we gonna meet tomorrow to smash the looms?

I think the benefit of Nintendo being able to focus entirely on a single system is generally underappreciated in the success of the Switch. Past Nintendo consoles struggled due to a lack of good games. If Nintendo didn’t provide critical mass, the console didn’t sell enough and 3rd party games wouldn’t get ported.…

Cyberpunk 2077 which is the best game in decades

In the US wages have gone up in the last year, particularly for service workers. Inflation also has gone back down to 3%. Take-home pay at the bottom had stalled for a long time before this.

But have you considered that high employment for poor people makes many services more expensive for me in particular?

Still WAY easier and less stressful than being a nurse or a teacher or a waiter, with more salary and more free time.

Interesting! Was that in tech? AFAIK, it’s very common. That’s where the “resting and vesting” joke in Silicon Valley came from

There are some philosophies that encourage regular layoffs. Many companies have the problem of managers building fiefdoms and getting more power and reward if their org has more people. So there is always incentive to grow your team. Firing people also is a PITA, even if deserved. You gotta do a PIP, it takes lots of…

I dunno’ about pension advantages, but some companies reward their employees who have worked their the longest. Sometimes it’s just firing them last. They might get a comparable job, but they’re still starting over. There’s usually a probation period at the beginning where you’re not getting health insurance.

Having held leadership roles in tech companies (not in gaming though), I do know that it still takes more than a few months to fall out of date and a P5 at one company will quickly become a P5 at another. In fact, switching companies is often a quicker way to get promoted.

Absolutely. Have you ever had any people leadership responsibilities? It’s absolutely tough to have to make decisions that impact other people, especially if we are talking thousands of other people and billions in other people’s money. Your time is also in super high demand. Everyone wants you involved in more…

screwing over their seniority, benefits, and pension advantages.

I think you are barking a little bit at the wrong tree. A lot of shareholders want long-term gains as well. Not all of them though and the quarterly reporting cycle doesn’t help.