Everything has to be live service now. Can’t even blame it solely on the companies themselves, a game will go a few months without updating and I’ll see people online calling it a dead game

I wish there was a way that they could both somehow lose

One issue with video games now is that there are so many and they all take so much time to play now. And since companies push out games so quickly there’s no point buying anything before they push out a patch to fix all the bugs in the initial release, might as well use that time to play some of the games I already have and then pick up what I want on sale.

I’ll happily pay full price for a short, creative indie game, but that’s already probably much cheaper than a big budget game anyways

At this point we need to treat AI web scrapers as DDoS attacks and prosecute the companies and people involved the same way we would those

As great news that this is, pretty fucked up that all of their very reasonable demands have to actually be negotiated for and aren’t just basic rights for workers

At the end of the day it’s still a video game designed to be fun to a mass market of consumers, even if it shows the rough parts players aren’t actually dealing with everything back then

I’m just saying there’s a difference between playing a game designed to provide a fun and rewarding experience and actually going through those harsh realities in real life

RDR2 does a good job of putting you in the shoes of someone 125y ago

Does it? I wasn’t alive then, and I doubt any of the devs were either. Even if you’re going off first hand sources it can still be hard to know if the perception we have today is actually accurate to how it was back then

I understand that it can feel that way, but remember that video games are romanticized interpretations that make things way easier than they are in real life. Life back then wasn’t RDR2 and there’s no guarantee that you’d find the community you’re imagining, and a much higher chance you’d have to deal with the harsh realities of those times

Switched to Octopi as well and had to configure it a little to get it setup but now I almost forget that I even switched

They’re probably angling for more restrictions on Chinese cars in the US/Japan. Then they can enjoy their monopoly over the domestic market without having to actually invest anything to actually compete with Chinese auto companies

Feeling like you’re faster just because you can generate easy, boilerplate code doesn’t actually mean you’re faster if it spits out junk or takes longer to debug/integrate that code, or if tasks require more complex work that LLMs are bad at.

I just wanted to see some concrete stats given how much everyone is implementing it and hyping it up, as anecdotal evidence is easily biased by shiny new toy syndrome.

Elon Musk? The guy who was begging to go to Epstein’s parties?

Sayonara Wild Hearts if you want a short but very cool musical game

the potential pace improvement through LLM assisted coding

Have we actually seen any evidence that LLM’s increase the pace of coding? Because in most of the reports I’ve seen there is no measurable difference even when users feel like they’re faster

I disabled updates on Nova for the time being but I really need to setup and install a new launcher

1. This is way too brief and lacks any actual evidence for its argument
2. It doesn’t touch on the main argument of AI bubble forecasters: that AI costs a massive amount of money to develop and run but does not make nearly enough money to recoup that investment. And people don’t seem to be interested enough in AI to actually pay for it, especially given that the actual price will be very high

Regardless of everything else, this animation was still the coolest thing ever

Wow yet another example of forcing AI into something that the AI just makes worse. Must be a day that ends in Y

1. This article likes to repeat itself a lot
2. Is this article actually about how the author didn’t like The Gilded Age?
3. Only showing critic reviews and not showing user reviews seems like less of an issue than the article presents, given that a quick glance at Rotten Tomatoes shows that critic and user scores tend to be pretty similar but critic scores are lower 9 times out of 10

Nice! Yeah I don’t mind a modest difficulty increase but some of the romhacks really don’t play well without super optimized teams of competitive mons