Look, not weighing in on the convo or anything, but I feel that if I have to be burdened with the following knowledge everyone else does too:

Even as someone who prefers Xbox over PS, I’ve heard this “asymmetric sticks are more ergonomic” talking point parroted since time immemorial, and yet I still have not heard a single scientific explanation regarding what exactly makes offset more ergonomic compared to symmetric? 

Perfectly normal reaction to this story, the therapy really seems to be working for you.

I mean, they could have easily paid a human being for that same help. Having to deal in English is far from a new or unsolved problem for overseas corporate executives. AI can be extremely useful as a sounding board to help with writing, but deferring to it to write your public apology statement for you is rather tone-…

AI can be an incredible and useful tool to allow people to more easily express their creative ideas and designs in ways that were simply not an option for them to do even just a couple years ago

What’s, uh, what’s your point here? Artists should they just shrug and say “sure, machine, steal my voice and wages and put words in my mouth, lest I be considered old fashioned?”

Every industry that is utilizing AI is a bigger power grab than you may realize - why else are they trying to insulate the masses through the concept of “convenience”? Yeah, THEIRS! This is bigger than simply automation, corporations are literally making a push to control your individuality, your creative skills -…

The amount of improv had steadily declined over the seasons and while it is noticeable in its absence, the quality of the show wasn't impacted. 

Could well be the case, but writers with Roiland’s sense of humor are a dime a dozen.

Honestly, Minecraft has the same problem. It needs mods and a co-op buddy to really shine.

Counterpoint: one of the biggest movies of the year is a biopic about a physicist and the morality and politics around his work. Art and profit are not an inverse relationship. Pandering to the lowest common denominator often drives off anyone with an intellect above that of a potato.

Yes, but also no. When you make something that absolutely hits in a big way with a bunch of people, you dramatically increase sales. Overly complex means that many people will avoid it, and so you want to avoid that, but this is different from dumbing something down. When you dumb things down, it pisses people off,…

We really don’t need to call it “X.” 

The button consumes something you own and have paid money for without asking, and its strategic placement suggests this behavior is intentional. So yes, it IS bad!

That was only ever the PS3, and they course-corrected. Meanwhile my household still needed to buy two Xbox 360s because of the red ring, so it’s not like MS was winning or anything.

The CEO is not correct, at least in the sense that this is not a thing that Sony started. This has literally been how the industry has worked for decades.

Be quiet, Microsoft. Everything you’re accusing Sony of doing (paying studios for console exclusivity, keeping DLC exclusive to one platform over others, etc), you have also done in the past.

It will pay off for them, that is, for the people who are pulling these levers. Like, in the case of Reddit the people in charge are doing what they’re doing to add whatever marginal value they can to the IPO. It doesn’t matter if the company crashes and burns after that, their pockets will be sufficiently lined.

Personally I don’t care that the app is hot trash. I don’t use it.

I’m pretty sure the ‘free’ thing is a persistent myth about fan works. Charging money is a factor in the fair use test but it’s not the only one. Free art would still have to pass the overall test.