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- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 15 hours 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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" 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.