You’re gonna find that air-cooling things in a place with no air does not work as well as you’d think.

Pulling water out of the air is a very power intensive process. You’d be trading what is a not-really-a-big-deal water consumption rate (at least on the east coast) for an increase in greenhouse gases. No thanks.

Just for giggles, I did a search on the Bolt near me, and they were all $5k over MSRP. Dealers must be smoking crack if they think I’m paying 7% on $5k over MSRP for cars they can’t move.

I know everyone’s got their own list in their head, but:

I almost understand putting X-2 over 9. X-2 was a really good game that got mostly overlooked.

Running popular forums costs real money, and it takes real time to maintain and moderate. It’s easy to gloss it over as “people are so greedy”, but thousands of bucks a year in hosting costs have to come from somewhere. 

I had legitimately forgotten Sea of Thieves was even a thing.

I agree. Great presentation spread, but, geez, the release dates are fuzzy on a lot of this.

That logic works if you think this can be prevented 100% by the party organizer. I don’t, and I think the logical outcome of that policy would be 1) non-adherence and/or 2) companies stop throwing parties. The fun thing about (2) would mean that the parties would shift to even less controlled settings, where more of…

I’m gonna ask this seriously: do you really want the PAX crew trying to control every vaguely PAX-related event in town? Is that even a rational expectation? Should they be the ones trying to arbitrate what goes on at random parties/gatherings and then dole out consequences based on whatever they’re told?

Yeah, I read this article and was basically “is this really worse than any other big convention?” I’m not excusing the behavior, it’s abhorrent and unacceptable, but it’s just not clear to me that gaming has a problem in particular (or that this article proves it does). I’ve been to some other industry trade shows and…

Yeah, this sounds insanely unlikely to say the least.

Sounds like my experience on XSX. There’s no doubt in my mind that the enemy AI is horrible[1]  and there are some serious technical problems otherwise... but the CORE of the game has some promise and is probably fixable.

There are protective details that aren’t secret service, and don’t necessarily get cool guy armored cars. Cops also are generally in vehicles without bulletproof glass, and thus also benefit from this sort of training.

If I was making millions of bucks a year and had very limited personal time, I’d probably consider it, TBH. Planning a nice vacation is a pain, and what’s another $6k a year if you’re spending $150k on your 2-3 awesome family vacations?

Hey, I lean libertarian. I’m with you. The war on model training is going to work about as well as the war on software piracy, which is to say, not very, and with even less justification. The idea that every new piece of art will now need to be vetted for AI usage sounds absolutely insane on the face of it.

There’s a lot of creative types out there who are panicked they’re going to be out of a job, and are basically fumbling for any reason to outlaw this technology (be it for art or the written word) or regulate it to uselessness. They don’t want to come out and say that directly, because it’s 100% counter to every other…

That isn’t really what the article says, but whatever makes you feel good.

So, first of all, I never wrote the words “above and beyond”. You want to argue with what I wrote, let’s start with what I wrote. :) I hold people to do the jobs they were hired for, and I will frequently consult job descriptions to make sure my expectations are in check.

My take as a manager dealing with a remote team after having had a local team is that the 100% remote work crew seems less engaged as a general rule. It’s not uncommon to see people trying to do double dips (they get caught), work just enough not to get fired, be unresponsive during the day for no reason, try to do…