calliope

@calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The Xbox one came after the Xbox 360 and before the current version, the XBox Series X/S.

  They really do have the stupidest names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TheGamer] SAG-AFTRA Issues Do Not Work Order Against Mega Man: Dual Override⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn that original headline is a nightmare to read. There’s new one is better

  The Last Actor To Play Mega Man Will Not Appear In Dual Override As Capcom Goes Non-Union

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes a lot of sense that they would.

  Especially since I believe other major social media companies (Facebook; the service formerly known as Twitter) don’t care at all about bots and seem to want to use them as valid replacements for swathes of users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish there was a name for these kinds of statistics.

  They remind me of baseball. “He averages seventeen strikeouts per game when he plays on Tuesday evenings in mid-September”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming co-op driving and looting horror game The Road looks like a good laugh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hesitate to use the term “friendslop” but

  I honestly laughed out loud when I saw this was the first sentence. The title pretty much defines friendslop: “co-op … game … looks like a good laugh”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ongoing RAM price crisis cited as one of the reasons "game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rock Paper Shotgun is embarrassingly misrepresenting Myrient’s original posting. As is to be expected, I guess, since Rock Paper Shotgun is using Kotaku as a source.

  The reasons in the original posting were in order: Increasing traffic costs, download managers, then increasing hardware upgrade costs on top.

  Here is what the original posting says, in order:

  As traffic continued to increase last year, the amount of funding from donations remained the same. I have been paying more than $6000 out of pocket every month in order to cover the difference which is not sustainable.

  This is obviously the main issue! $6,000 out of pocket is clearly unsustainable.

  The rest pales in comparison:

  Paywalled download managers: In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.

  Then it talks about hardware prices.

  Rising RAM, SSD, and HDD prices: Since last September, RAM, SSD, and HDD prices have surged dramatically and continue to rise due to the ongoing extreme demand for AI datacenters. This has caused Myrient’s hosting expenses to go up as well.

  With a large number of servers and the aforementioned existing monthly deficit in excess of $6000 out of pocket, there is no way to pay for the increased hosting and hardware upgrade costs.

  I added emphasis. Note that it says “aforementioned existing monthly deficit,” $6000 a month.

  Kotaku turned that into “AI-Fueled RAM Crisis Forces Retro Game Preservation Site To Permanently Close”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines celebrates 11 years with lots of new content on the way⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a new Race Day expansion will arrive on March 10th giving you options to transform streets into courses for motor racing, running, and cycling events. On top of that more paid and free content is coming with the Iconic Brutalism and Renewed History content creator packs, a new radio station called 8 Gear Radio, and a free patch adding roadside fences and a new Employment Info View that allows for a closer look at a city’s workforce.

  I’m totally in on building a race track! I also really love brutalism, so both of these sound great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner has been dramatically gazumped by Paramount, to the tune of $111 billion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because “Paramount” in the title translates to “the Ellisons.” I feel like they could have just spelled that out in the title.

  The article later says

  Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison and his dad Larry Ellison - who is funding the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery out of his personal fortune

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "video game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down in March⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Myrient is a popular video game preservation service that has over 390 terabytes of classics

  Increasingly popular, according to the owner, which was part of the problem. Myrient was costing them $6,000 a month to run after donations.

  Which is why people don’t start these things out of pocket. At best it’s questionably legal to distribute ROMs… but it’s really expensive to pay for the traffic.

  They blame rising component prices as well, but the main issue was traffic costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MindsEye studio reportedly installed monitoring software on staff PCs without their knowledge, as execs continue alleging sabotage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, we do have evidence that there has been a coordinated campaign to purposefully and maliciously damage Build A Rocket Boy’s reputation and undermine confidence in MindsEye,” a spokesperson for the studio told GamesIndustry. “We are working with our legal team and taking steps to address this.”

  Maybe your game just sucks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that there’s always a new crop of suckers.

  We look for people who are like Olympian athletes, with characteristics of, you know, obsession, infinite ambition.

  “It’s people who want to do incredible things and have a lot of fun while doing so,” he says.

  They must be building something really important!

  The website belongs to Rilla, a New York-based tech business which sells AI-based systems that allow employers to monitor sales representatives when they are out and about, interacting with clients.

  🤣 so fucking embarrassing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're struggling to play tactics sim Menace, it could be because your antivirus is randomly deleting files⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  created by the piss-swigging misanthropes behind Battle Brothers

  I’m sorry, you’re saying the developers themselves guzzle urine?