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- Comment on Massive Fallout: New Vegas mod Fallout: New California hits GOG, offering another way to get some "proper, story-driven Fallout" in your belly 2 days ago:
It’s weird we never hear about how “the founding fathers” knew best in respect to copyright law…
They set it at 14 years, after that they could apply for a single 14 year extension and that’s it.
With Fallout 1 coming out in 1997, we should be at the point where anyone who wants to make a fallout game, could just make a fallout game.
Imagine how much better gaming would be if billion dollar corporations couldn’t get a monopoly on IP forever.
- Comment on Nexus Mods update their generative AI-made mod tagging policy, dividing one label into three for more specific search filtering 2 days ago:
The first is aimed at mods with “AI-Generated code, user interface elements, voices, dialogue, translations, music, in-game AI-generated assets”. The second’s for mods with AI-generated promo art, thumbnails, videos, mod page descriptions or other media that isn’t part of their in-game makeup. Finally, AI Assisted provides a specific tag for mods which have “developer-led code, content, or mod assets, with limited AI involvement” and/or have used AI for texture upscaling, audio upscaling/cleaning, and concept art that’s not in the final build.
I’d like to see AI voice actors split out.
For an actual game that would be a dealbreaker.
For an unpaid mod? Thats about the only time I’d be ok with it. But I wouldn’t want to install a mod AI coded.
- Comment on STALKER 2's Cost of Hope expansion, and its free but still hopeful 2.0 update, get an August release date 6 days ago:
This is actually kind of crazy…
the big under-the-hood change comes by way of swapping Unreal Engine 5.1 for Unreal Engine 5.5. In theory, this could drastically improve performance, spruce up certain lighting effects, reduce visual noise effects, and help with some of game’s lingering stability issues.
Or, it could break everything again, shattering into a thousand radioactive pieces the technical solidity that a year and a half of patches had successfully built up.
This isn’t just updating the game’s code, it’s updating the entire engine the code runs on…
It’ll 100% introduce new bugs, that require more patches.
I guess the presumed DLC sales justify the cost of continued support, but this introduces a dangerous precedent where if the DLC doesn’t sell, a company may not continue trying to fix it.
DLC “breaking” a game isn’t new, but before the option to just uninstall it was there.
If the engine update breaks the game, no one buys dlc because of it…
We could see future games get put in a broken state due to cashgrab dlcs.
10 years from now it could be a very real problem.
- Comment on ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges 6 days ago:
The lawsuit claims ChatGPT told Winters: “God did not design your body to endlessly fail.” It also said: “God is still holding your body together, every heartbeat, every breath, even when it feels like you are on the brink.”
Winters’ lawyers claim ChatGPT’s “sycophantic nature and authoritative tone, combined with its manipulation of Scott’s religious identity, cultivated in him a dangerous reliance on the tool”.
They say that “subverted Scott’s ability to make sound decisions, isolated him from family members who urged him to seek medical care, and convinced him that seeking medical attention was unnecessary and even potentially lethal”.
Elsewhere the lawsuit describes Winter as a “vulnerable” individual whose reliance on ChatGPT led to him losing his home and career, and left him needing “years of intensive physical and psychological recovery”.
The lawsuit says Winters seeks financial damages and for the court to compel OpenAI to implement “reasonable safeguards that protect other users from harm”.
ChatGPT’s terms of use stipulate that users should not treat the platform as a “sole source of truth”, particularly where it could “have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them”.
Meanwhile…
A shit ton of employers are demanding their workers use AI in the hopes they can find a way to be “productive” enough to justify cutting workers.
But it always ends up that the AI fucks something up and then just says it’s hit a dead end and your fucked.
Over and over we see it
So I just feel like those “terms of use” don’t really fucking count when you’re selling it like they are.
- Comment on Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs are reportedly ready, but stuck in limbo due to excessive GDDR7 pricing — 3GB GDDR7 module costs triple the price of 2GB 1 week ago:
This is the type of scenario we need to hit 4-5 pubs, then confront the aliens in a basement mate…
- Comment on Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'" 2 weeks ago:
Why would they make games that could only be played on Steam machines?
That would be absolutely insane because number of Steam users who have has to be like 0.00001% or something crazy.
- Comment on ‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s insane we can’t stop them from being built, but the next best thing is treating it like full on mob style international crime when we start getting sane governments back.
Charge everyone who voted for this anywhere, and pressure them to plea out to snitch on who bribed them.
At every level of the ring, you only need a small.percent to flip. Everyone else gets max sentences.
A steady unending march up the chain and it won’t take long before people are trying to get a deal before investigators even know their name. They’ll go full on crabs in abu ket and desperate to turn state witness.
Just because Biden sat on his hands doesn’t mean the strategy doesn’t work if someone actually tries
- Comment on Obsidian still have "the same DNA" that went into New Vegas and KOTOR 2, The Outer Worlds 2 director insists, following chatter around layoffs 2 weeks ago:
Darth Vader had “the same DNA” as Anakin Skywalker too…
He was just missing a bunch limbs, internal organs, half his face, his entire personality and motives, just all in became the polar opposite for who he was for most of his life.
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 2 weeks ago:
Quick…
I saw a story a while ago about a tech company renting out airbnbs as training environments for these types of bots
They absolutely destroyed the houses, fine motor skills is insanely difficult, and the robots just kept breaking everything.
The coders don’t understand how the human brain works (no one does really, but they’re especially ignorant). So they’re trying to to make one “thing” that controls everything instead of a bunch of subprocesses acting along guidance
- Comment on Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment 3 weeks ago:
Everyone joked about meth heads, but it was always going to be organized and seni-organized crime.
If a single semi trailer has over 1 million dollars worth of anything in it, people are going to want it.
When it’s materials like cable that can’t be tracked and can be easily sold to corrupt contractors…
A lot of smart people are really going to want it. Those trailers are going to be like tide for organized crime, they won’t even bother converting it into cash, it’ll be used as direct currency.
- Comment on Xbox boss Asha Sharma pins layoffs on Phil Spencer's regime spreading the company "too thin", while claiming a "a healthy Xbox" could weather the RAM storm 3 weeks ago:
None of this is actually my fault…
Every CEO, ever
- Comment on Xbox's layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff 3 weeks ago:
The AI push is going to end being like a writers strike for TV…
We’ll look back and see a blank spot where there was no quality games being made, and what did come out will be seen as low quality abnormalities.
All the CEOs are gambling on it magically working if they sink enough time and money into it, but it’s not. We’re approaching a point where the companies that try to stick with AI will run themselves into the ground because AI coded games just can’t compete with human coded games.
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 3 weeks ago:
Not just incinerated, incinerate red in the upper atmosphere while directly heating it.
They burn up from friction, it’s not just the flames the whole process is heating the planet and who knows how many things it’s fucking up we haven’t noticed before.
But the most important bit is if they don’t know how to get them down, they need to stop sending them up.
- Comment on Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech 4 weeks ago:
Expected better from Ars…
I’m here to watch a performance called “Luddite Recreations,” which is a history of the Luddite movement—a group of artisans and textile workers who resisted the adoption of machines during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England and whose resistance to being displaced from their work was met with violence by the British monarchy.
The Luddites weren’t against tech.
They weren’t against the industrial revolution in general or looms in particular.
They just said that the increase in efficiency from innovations should translate to increased wages for less work hours, they’re the reason the modern world has a five day work week.
When peaceful protest didn’t work, they started destroying the most expensive machinery they could get to. And they kept doing that till the oligarchs caved.
There’s a bunch of revisionism because of that, because it worked. And the oligarchs don’t want us to remember what works
- Comment on WNBA facing major backlash after controversial Caitlin Clark decision 5 weeks ago:
Clark is insanely talented.
She is…
It’s just she’s not the best in the league. She probably will be eventually, but she was treated like she was already as soon as she declared for the draft.
Like, the “W” in WNBA isn’t even relevant here, that kind of dynamic is going to breed jealous thru no fault of her own. Especially considering how much money is in sports and how likely it was that owners just needed any star to generate hype for the league.
If that was the reason, then all the suspect calls and drama makes more sense.
Look at the people who own pro sports teams and the shit they pull off
- Comment on WNBA facing major backlash after controversial Caitlin Clark decision 5 weeks ago:
That’s different stuff…
In fact, the only way they’re connected is they kind of support each other.
The WNBA as an organization is insanely jealous of Clark, because she became a star for no real reason. Shes talented, but she’s not the most talented. And in every other aspect, it’s the same.
She just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and the vast majority resent her for it.
That paints a huge target on her back, even for officials if they’ve been around a decade. However it also makes the league insanely competitive. Even when she’s not on the court, everyone is chasing that level of recognition now that is seems possible.
It’s great for the league, but it’s still crazy it’s happening. It’s not even like in men’s sports where a top athlete is feared or respected like Larry Byrd, they just fucking hate her because she’s successful.
- Comment on Chinese supercomputer displaces US machines as world's fastest 5 weeks ago:
What’s crazy is this is 100% a “fight” everyone else could have just stayed out of.
Supercomputers come and go, microzation is constant.
What takes a building today will always take a room in 20 years, then another 20 to fit under a desk. That’s the easy part.
The smart move would have been to spend 20 years dumping into education and processing mid tier tech while buying the good shit.
Once you have a bunch of smart workers and existing infrastructure, you jump back into bleeding edge tech.
We literally just watched China do the same thing. The problem is if we play leap frog there’s no short term profits for the capitalists. That’s too long of a gap for a greedy individual.
So Americas wealthy bought an election to force AI no one will ever need or pay for. Just to maintain their stock prices.
- Comment on PUBG has genAI team mates now capable of "intelligent decision-making", and I must remind you that Krafton are working on bots for the military 1 month ago:
I did go to the range this morning, so just a healthy dose of lead and micro-concussions…
Normal American shit.
- Comment on PUBG has genAI team mates now capable of "intelligent decision-making", and I must remind you that Krafton are working on bots for the military 1 month ago:
Someone is 100% going to try and use videogames to train AI to fight in real life.
There’s now way they won’t.
We’ll know it’s really here when a new game advertises that it’s bots use “intelligent movement and reactions” instead of copying scripted movement like a player’s button presses.
They’ll stress the realism that the bots even use cover and aim weapons realistically.
Because they won’t be running the same thing as players. The bots will be some matrix type inputs like QWOP so it can learn to control a real life bot body with the same inputs as the game.
That’s 100% some shit microslop will put in COD
- Comment on Wembanyama, Spurs stun Knicks at MSG to revive Finals hopes 1 month ago:
Yep, all that shit is part of home court advantage.
Everything is pretty much the same. trump basically took away home court advantage. For the Spurs it was already going to be weird
- Comment on Wembanyama, Spurs stun Knicks at MSG to revive Finals hopes 1 month ago:
I think
NYC is undefeated
Is nowhere as near a compelling story for a champion team than:
NYC is undefeated (unless trump is there, because he always fucks it up)
Just put 100% of the blame on him, and everytime a Knicks fan brings it up, everyone can shit talk trump.
Like that university that made everyone swear not to forgive a guy for centuries until everyone forgot the reason and kept doing it anyways. Or when a manager trades a major talent and fans curse their name for decades.
It would be funny, but it would piss him off so fucking much for something he wants wrapped up in is associated with the single loss. He didn’t go because he liked the Knicks, he went to be associated with winners.
But even winners lose when trump supports them
- Comment on Is Microsoft's $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal paying off? Xbox boss Asha Sharma says it's "hard to say how to think about those decisions" 1 month ago:
I had to do something big. Because I could take all the credit if it worked, and none of the blame if not!
-American CEO culture
- Comment on God of War Laufey and Wolverine are snubbing PC, as rumoured, but I bet they come crawling back sometime after the launch of PS6 1 month ago:
No, I just acknowledge reality
- Comment on God of War Laufey and Wolverine are snubbing PC, as rumoured, but I bet they come crawling back sometime after the launch of PS6 1 month ago:
Obviously.
But the point isn’t the exclusives and their sales.
The point of exclusives is to get people who can only afford one platform to buy yours and be forced to buy every game from your online store.
If it didn’t make sense the first time, ask what you’re missing.
- Comment on God of War Laufey and Wolverine are snubbing PC, as rumoured, but I bet they come crawling back sometime after the launch of PS6 1 month ago:
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Does someone in 2026 really not know what the fuck “capitalism” is?
We can’t even get healthcare and you think video game consoles should be a nonprofit endeavor?
- Comment on God of War Laufey and Wolverine are snubbing PC, as rumoured, but I bet they come crawling back sometime after the launch of PS6 1 month ago:
It’s wild how the people running these giant corporations have no idea how their business works…
The point of modern consoles is locking someone to your store. They saw PC sales they were missing and wanted, so they ended exclusives.
Then were shocked that if people didn’t have to buy a PlayStation, they didn’t overspend in the PS store. They’d just buy the PlayStation games on PC and Sony loses their cut on all the other games.
Incredibly obvious, but only if you think more than one financial quarter at a time.
Just like this article is an example of, people will be slow to re-enter that ecosystem because exclusivity is no longer guaranteed. Why buy a console for exclusives if a year from now they won’t be exclusive again?
It would be hard to quantify, but Sony just set fire to millions and millions of dollars in profit with all this snip-snap shit.
- Comment on "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" Gabe Newell reportedly once shouted at one of Valve's Lionel Hutzes during Steam porn debate 1 month ago:
Right on, I’ll try to remember to mess with that later.
- Comment on "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" Gabe Newell reportedly once shouted at one of Valve's Lionel Hutzes during Steam porn debate 1 month ago:
If I ever click on “new and trending” that’s almost all the games.
It’s possible we’re seeing the same thing, and our lines are just different, they may be normal games to you
- Comment on "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" Gabe Newell reportedly once shouted at one of Valve's Lionel Hutzes during Steam porn debate 1 month ago:
Bruh, have you seen the Steam store?
Borderline porn horny games flood the store in a lot of categories.
Filtering nudity filters porn, but also RPGs with customizable dongs like BG3.
- Comment on Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp 2 months ago:
That’s a pretty big change…
NSFW is useless for video games anyways.
But when it was tied to “gore”, if you tried to hide shitty horny games, you ended up hiding the vast majority of games too.
“Sexual content” still isn’t perfect tho, one “hot coffee” scene would likely trigger it like a game whose entire point is sus looking anime characters.
It wouldn’t be bad if there wasn’t so many, but it just clogs up the store with slop because dumb kids pay the $5-20 so the store pushes them. If someone breaks down and buys one, they’re prob very likely to keep buying them. So the algo (blindly) pushes them on everyone.
They need to just admit that a significant number of games on steam only exist as porn. And then they’d be able to actually separate them. But that’s a can of worms they’ll want to ignore as long as possible.