Kickstarter is not a preorder site. The risk of Kickstarter is the same as investing in anything else, that whatever you’re funding goes belly-up and you lose what you invested

Yeah this screams “Let’s use AI for the sake of using AI”. If they wanted simpler summaries on complex topics they could just start an initiative to have them added by editors instead of using a wasteful, inaccurate hype machine

Heh, almost missed that the initials are BFG

Oh it’s undoubtedly going to fail, but it should milk enough money out of their users to keep them going while their investors cash out

I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share

As a Forza Horizon fan my curiosity is piqued. I like being able to shift vibes from an intense race to just cruising around the landscape, and Mario Kart is a very different style of racing so it’d be a very different experience

People are reading the headline and assuming they’re talking about older single-purchase games, but the article is actually referring to mostly MTX-driven games that get continuous updates.

And the data further shows, in Newzoo’s own words, that these 908 million “PC players are heavily skewed towards older, live service games.”

Remember that even things like Rocket League are about a decade old at this point, and games like LoL, Dota 2 and CS:GO are even older

Except they haven’t actually backed that up with a way for you to jump servers. If the central Bsky server goes down, it takes the network with it. Until they actually let other people host, it’s just meaningless posturing. Without a way for people to leave their network you are as captive there as you are on Twitter

It’s literally worse than piracy, since the AI companies are also trying to sell shittier versions of the works they copy from

Like selling camrips except done by multi-billion dollar companies ripping off individuals and stores are trying to put them right next to the original DVDs in the store

So according to Republicans the FCC shouldn’t have the power to regulate net neutrality but it should be able to force streaming companies to carry specific programming.

Time for some Satanists to start some public broadcasting?

1. Bluesky is more easily usable
2. More people they want to follow are on Bluesky

Instead of complaining we need to work on making Masto more welcoming to new users and amplifying the advantages it has over Bluesky

I feel like I didn’t appreciate this movie enough when I first watched it but it only gets better as I get older

Ahh, the working class getting fined for insulting billionaires, communism as Karl Marx intended

Yeah this feels like a statement that they can later point to something like AI upscaling or filters and say “See, we’re technically right!”

Believing in any way that Republicans are helping out the little guy or against big business is so ridiculous I have to believe this is willful ignorance to cover up the fact that a lot more people will need VPNs with all the porn bans and other privacy nightmares the right will pass the next few years.

It’s always the same “free speech” they’re being censored for

I am wondering why they are getting this brazen and in our face about corruption as if they are seeing how far they can push and how much the pedons can take

Because they know they can get away with it. Trump got elected and even won the popular vote despite being the most obviously incompetent and corrupt president we’ve ever had so now they know there are no consequences

Never thought I’d see the day…

The problem isn’t capitalism, but all of the rules both explicit and implicit that benefit large companies over smaller companies.

The fact that the rules benefit those with more capital is a feature, not a bug, of capitalism