ParlimentOfDoom
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- Comment on Valve look like they might be rolling out 30-day Steam price tracking for everyone, making it easier to spot when game discounts are at their discountiest 6 days ago:
So a less useful IsThereAnyDeal
- Comment on "I couldn't protect it" Pete Hines says he left Microsoft-owned Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it be "damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused" 1 week ago:
You do realize that they significantly modified that engine between each title. It’s not literally the same version as 30 years ago…
- Comment on What leaked “SteamGPT” files could mean for the PC gaming platform’s use of AI 1 week ago:
Bet they still won’t reimburse the victims of hacks “because it would be too confusing to the people who stole your shit if the items disappeared”.
- Comment on "There is a new narrative from haters," Off the Grid studio boss says of accusations Gunzilla haven't paid workers on time, claims full-timers' salaries "have never been delayed by more than a week" 1 week ago:
And yes, to not disrupt company operations, some payments may be scheduled in a way that works for the company’s cash flow — not always for everyone individually. That’s the reality of the world we live in.
So they have zero moat, and are one incident away from being unable to pay their staff at all. Sounds like the devs need to be sending out resumes pronto. That is not a stable employer.
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 2 weeks ago:
No? He was arrested for securities fraud, not for increasing the price of medication.
That’s why you’re not seeing anyone bat an eye now they didn’t then either.
- Comment on Visualizing Game Genre Differences 3 weeks ago:
What is “girls’ video games”? As if that’s somehow a genre?
- Comment on Only a "skeletal crew" are left working on Fallout: London, and the massive mod's next DLC will miss a planned April release window 4 weeks ago:
It’s a mod. I’d honestly be surprised if it was ever more than a couple of people.
- Comment on 'Players' of an MMORPG for AI Agents Spontaneously Generated Their Own Religion 4 weeks ago:
No they didn’t. They were given directives to do this spout this shit. Clickbait “research” nonsense, meant to fraudulently advertise LLMs as being more capable than they are
- Comment on Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames 4 weeks ago:
But…adding more frames slows the game down. If it could render more frames already…it would be doing that. It didn’t need an extra, very intensive process to analyze, interpret and then recreate the entire rendering from scratch (but not perfectly) completely separately from the actual render engine and then splice it into the game.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 5 weeks ago:
The Unabomber was identified because his own brother recognized the way he misspoke a common idiom “can’t eat your cake and have it too”. Attributing that to an investigative technique is a bit of a stretch.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Firefly Animated Series Announced With All Surviving Original Cast Members 5 weeks ago:
Not gaming?
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
…you said a debit card is required. It’s not. My point: your wrong
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
Your credit card is already tracking and selling all the purchasing data you use it for on steam. Your identity is attached to that account
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
Steam gift cards are a thing.
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
Is it legal for children to be gambling in those places?
I bet they’re not paying the same taxes that those casinos are.
Regardless, this is a story about an American company bring
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
Probably, sorry if that hurts your nostalgia.
The one possible redeeming difference is that those cards are an integral part of playing the game.
A lot of these loot boxes are for worthless cosmetics that can then be sold for real money using the same company that sold the loot box as an intermediary.
Japan deals with the same issue with pachinko parlors. Gambling is illegal there, so they give out useless trinkets as prizes. And they all just happen to be located next to a shop (owned by the same company but legally distinct) which will buy those useless trinkets for a set amounts of money. A casino with extra steps. Sounds familiar?
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
No. Defending someone doing something illegal and profiting off of it because you hate someone else more is not how you get good results. All you’ve done is keep corporation in the system.
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
You ARE the gambling site. That’s the issue.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 1 month ago:
They only have those weapons if you make them for them.
- Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive 1 month ago:
you weren’t home, so I gave the files to your mom
- Comment on New lawsuit wants Valve to repay "billions" earned from "illegal gambling" lootboxes in Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 1 month ago:
gestures furiously at the mountain of gacha games built around this exact mechanic on mobile
- Comment on Marathon's credits include the artist whose work Bungie used without permission 1 month ago:
…it was publicly announced they had come to an agreement.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever 1 month ago:
So many qualifiers to get to a headline…
- Comment on [Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent? 1 month ago:
Depends, Is your campfire a sapient demonic entity from another plane of existence?
- Comment on Well, that looks like it could be a Fallout: New Vegas remaster tease from a Fallout 76 support studio 1 month ago:
How about they try releasing a new game?
No more remake/master/releases, holy shit…
- Comment on Upcoming California law to require operating systems to check your age 1 month ago:
Wow, another fail for California. What is their legislature doing? First the 3d printer monitoring bullshit, now this
- Comment on Valve accused of "letting children and adults alike illegally gamble" via loot boxes in New York state lawsuit 1 month ago:
I think technically, yes. However, the one potentially redeeming point those have that these skins do not are that they’re actually a functional part of the game.
These skins serve no purpose, and have turned into the same loophole that those Japanese pachinko bars use to get around the gambling laws there - give a useless trinket as a prize and just coincidentally be located next door to a place that will buy certain useless trinkets for absurd amounts of money.
- Comment on Valve accused of "letting children and adults alike illegally gamble" via loot boxes in New York state lawsuit 1 month ago:
These are state laws, not federal.
On top of that, casinos and betting apps and race tracks tend to have their own extra tax rate to pay, which valve is assuredly not currently paying on their illegal gambling revenue.
- Comment on A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet 2 months ago:
That’s…just the premise of satisfactory.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing 2 months ago:
Didn’t AMD just say they were on track…like yesterday?