Sometimes it’s refreshing to read science fiction like this. I mean, truly, imagine a world, somewhere in the future, that’s so much like ours, and yet so different. Humans driving responsibly! It sounds so ridiculous! But you can’t help but wonder... what if we ever really got there? I guess that’s what good sci fi…

Sure, it’s an article about how Musk was proven wrong - but it’s worse for it. I don’t check the weather to read, “sky still blue behind clouds or whatever.” That’s not news - Elon Musk being wrong and/or a complete tool isn’t news. The first car with a Level 3 certification is news.

Exactly. It would be really difficult to craft interlocking systems that both adhere to the internal logic of the existing universe and support a compelling 3rd-person wizardy action game mechanics.

I expect High On Life has already done the majority of the business it’s going to do - short-ish single player games don’t tend to have a long sales tail, especially when they hit the cultural zeitgeist like this. If you don’t have the money/time to play a game like this now, then in, say, 6 months when you do, are…

Yeah, that’s exactly the thing - hastily imposing an arbitrary “good / evil” morality system in a new setting is one thing, but enforcing existing and established norms within an established universe is very different.

He resigned a week prior to their announcement of his resignation, and only a few days after his prior arrest reentered the news cycle?

So creative expression through developing digital applications and tools “should be focused on solving things we actually need solved, like medical care and dangerous labor people don’t want to be doing.” Does that go for visual arts and literature? Should people only draw medical diagrams, and write safety manuals?

That’s not how these algorithms work. They’re not “designed for stealing original work.”

The work that went into developing the AI tools is, in itself, an act of artistic creation. They did not spring forth, fully formed, from the brain of some faceless corporate drone.

That’s my personal take on it - obviously different strokes for different folks and all that.

You bring up a couple important points. First, the most effective way to improve traffic will depend, like so many other things, on context. There is never a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Certainly there have been situations where widening the roads made a long term improvement.

I generally agree with that sentiment, but the devil is always in the details.

Isn’t everyone working at Kotaku too young to be the old man yelling at clouds?

Yeah, complaining that “there’s inflation AND this thing costs more!” is like complaining that it’s raining and you’re getting wet.

Just seeing the divisive takes reminiscing about the combat in a few posts here is enough to show that it was, like or not, at least interesting and unique.

Again, there was a purposeful differentiation of the two. I literally called out the notion of a traditional public space, and a private space that is open to the public for business purposes. That was purposeful in order to avoid the sort of bad-faith bullshit you’re getting so hung up on.

I literally said, “including a privately owned business that is open to the public” to differentiate it from a public space. I didn’t write very much, so there really wasn’t much to misinterpret. So, kudos on that.

But it’s not encouraging you to shoot people. It’s a game. You play it with a controller, and press little buttons and wiggle an itty bitty joystick around and get mad at 12-year-olds. You’re not shooting anything.

You’re wrong on a lot of facts here, but it’s worth noting that recreating a version of a public place, including a privately owned business that is open to the public, in a transformative way for use in an expressive work is not “deeply in the wrong.”

I think you’re just smacking right into a wall of selection bias. There’s not a lot of interest in - or reason to write - stories that amount to, “person runs company and does a fine job. People mostly like them and things are going along pretty well, actually.”