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- 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 week 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 week 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" 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
…
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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Imagine being a franchise owner and thinking corporate has your best interest at heart…
After AI replaces workers, why would corporate bother with franchises instead of running them their selves?
The goal is always concentration of wealth, and “the line” isn’t where people expect it will be. Franchise owners are big fish in small ponds a lot of the time, they don’t understand they’re on the chopping block after workers.,
Uber capitalism will “streamline” everything so only a very small amount of people are able to make money
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It was just random nonsense till the paywall…
- Comment on Over 92,000 tech layoffs in just 5 months of 2026: AI replacing jobs faster than expected as Meta, Microsoft, Amazon job cuts trigger fear in US 1 month ago:
It’s not replacing shit…
It’s being used as an excuse for layoffs.
Later when it doesn’t work, they’ll bring on more techs that weren’t hired at exorbitant wages when worker supply was low.
They’ll end up with the same amount of workers, but 50-70% of the salary costs.
Then in a couple years, they’ll realize AI still sucks and they can’t promote their own junior employees because they don’t know anything and just rely on AI
- Comment on A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure 1 month ago:
The thing is, we could harvest the heat and use it to generate energy instead of burning thru a natural resource were short of.
It would just be expensive, and capitalism always takes the cheapest route regardless of anything else.
Obviously it’s not going to be much energy generation, but “waste heat” is only a thing if you’re wasting it. And at this scale it’s not insignificant, we shouldn’t be wasting it.
- Comment on [Controller] Think these people will be disappointed 1 month ago:
I legitimately don’t know what the big deal is, Ive had a Steam Controller for years…
But yeah, I thought dualsense/dualshock was bad, but steam controller/steam controller is goddamn ridiculous
- Comment on A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began 1 month ago:
What would the Luddites do?
Smash the machines, and keep smashing them till oligarchs share the rewards of automation with the working class…
If it wasn’t for the luddites, we’d still have six day work weeks. There’s a reason there’s always so much propaganda around successful strategies like this.
- Comment on "Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in 1 month ago:
It would be insanely easy since they’re sold thru the steam store.
Like, I don’t know if there’s a limit, but if someone ordered a huge amount it would hopefully flag it.
For stuff like this, I’d support one per account with recent activity. Then once supply catches up, open it up to whatever
- Comment on A Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming 1 month ago:
The app also injects JavaScript and CSS into every page you visit in the in-app browser. This strips away cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login walls, and paywalls. There’s also leftover dev artifacts in the production build, including a localhost URL to the Metro bundler.
Weirdly, that’s probably what will take it down, avoiding paywalls
They want to be able to serve up pre-selcted articles that push their narrative, but they’re gonna piss off all the places they link to, because the app is also injecting its own ads at that point.
- Comment on Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender 1 month ago:
If you think Google’s is bad, wait till you hear about the one the dbzer0 instance admins and mods are running on random people on the fediverse…
- Comment on I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their stresser honeypot 1 month ago:
I tried to load the page again, and I got hit with a 401 Unauthorized prompt. The website was locked down
Gotta admit, it was a decent read till it became clear the author knows nothing about computers…
- Comment on KAZ is a dopamine-fuelled action roguelike that's a full workout for your fingers 1 month ago:
Whoever wrote that headline doesn’t know what they’re saying if they think that’s a good thing…
- Comment on Call of Duty won't hit Xbox Game Pass at launch going forwards, as Microsoft's subscription service gets a price cut 1 month ago:
Adding COD made it worth it at the existing price…
But adding COD made everyone that would buy it every year, just buy game pass and not COD…
This was obviously what was gonna happen when Microsoft bought it.
- Comment on US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties 2 months ago:
They can’t just verify age, they have to verify identity to verify age…
- Comment on Battlefield 6 will have big maps up the wazoo by the time 2026 is done, including ones aimed at naval fights between folks in camo trunks 2 months ago:
including ones aimed at naval fights between folks in camo trunks
Never forget the US navy once thought it was a good idea to cover sailors in camo designed to blend in with open ocean…
- Comment on Cyber Knights: Flashpoint's latest update lets you two-time a pair of warring factions or ignore them completely 2 months ago:
Lot of fun as a Shadow Runs/Xcom type game.
Pretty sure it’s alpha/beta still, but there’s a crazy amount of updates. Like multiple a week, and none of them make saves.
You’ll get burnt playing pretty quickly, but wait a month or two and there’s a bunch of new content again.
By the time it finally makes it to release it will be an amazing game.
But it’s hard to recommend it over Xenonauts 2 since it just released
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 2 months ago:
Tldr:
Console players are disproportionately more likely to be whales:
GTA Online made $9,592,109 a week across September 2025 to April 2026. Nine million dollars a week! Why, you could buy almost all the DLC for a Paradox grand strategy game with that!
Of the total, $8,245,974 was from console,
Which makes sense, PC players are able to do free mods and more shit, even if not in GTA
Console games are more lockdown by nature so it makes sense they pay more for micro transactions.
- Comment on Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators 2 months ago:
Name Tag, as revealed in February by The New York Times, would work through the artificial intelligence assistant built into Meta’s smart glasses, allowing wearers to pull up information about people in their field of view. Engineers have reportedly been weighing two versions of the feature: one that would only identify people the wearer is already connected to on a Meta platform, and a broader version that could recognize anyone with a public account on a Meta service such as Instagram.
Creeps will instantly use it to go to where women are and find their accounts.
Not to mention any woman that has to work a customer facing job.
This would suck for men too tho, it would suck for everyone.
But it might be what it finally takes to get the dumb masses off Meta platforms. There’s so many other reasons anyways, but idiots just can’t delete their Instas