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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.

None of this is actually my fault…

Every CEO, ever

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.

I mean…

They’re more likely to be hybrids instead of a real species. They have dental traces of both near sapian cousins and only found in waaaaaay more ancestral cousins.

With hybrids it’s actually kind of common for males to abort before birth. Something about the mothers immune reaction to the y chromosome or something, I’m going off memory.

But it could also explain why that group of hybrids lived alone.

A hypothetical reason for why human/neanderthal hybrids tended to be born to human mothers, was neanderthals developed faster. So to a neanderthal mother, a hybrid appeared to have developmental delays mentally while also being a weakling and never lived to reach its intellectual peak.

Meanwhile a hybrid raised among humans would develop physically faster and always be stronger, but also develop mentally faster, even if not peaking as high.

It’s possible that Naledi may have only been capable of reproducing females from one or both origin species. Or even been a neutral (possibly sterile) group between the two origin species where hybrids (always female) were abandoned to be raised but what may have been outcasts.

Like, we honestly can’t even say they’re a unique species and we’ve been off by a lot more before.

Scientifically its important to analyse it, but I understand that at a certain point it becomes grave robbery.

I feel like 10,000 years is a pretty safe line…

I did go to the range this morning, so just a healthy dose of lead and micro-concussions…

Normal American shit.

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

the cheapest Lidl honey

Yeah, that was probably high fructose corn syrup…

People don’t understand that the nozzle needs to be calibrated…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSX0sZcp0w

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

No, I just acknowledge reality

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.

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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?

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.

Right on, I’ll try to remember to mess with that later.

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

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.

This sounds like you go to ticketing kiosks (where you go to buy a ticket) and want to try and browse ticket prices…

That’s not how it works

You should be looking up ticket prices online and know what you want to buy before you get to the kiosk.

Like, you want to go up to a kiosk with a fucking giant machine and make everyone wait why it punches in ever option?

How the absolute fuck haven’t you been banned from every public place or not constantly chased off by angry mobs?

Do you ever think about how you affect others? Like, ever?

Did you say F or S?

-Pierce Hawthorne, who’s basically trump

And I said to tell the difference between slop and human indie devs…

They’d have to start vetting games to tell.

You said they don’t have to do that, you just think there’s a magical way to tell?

What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like you didn’t even read the comment chain you replied to. I’m just reiterating what I’ve already said, and it’s probably going to help you understand just as much as the first time…

I know I’m going to regret asking, but how exactly do you logic out that stopping low quality slop games?

It would literally do the opposite because the goal for each slop game would be $49,999.

Your idea would make everything worse, and I’m just curious why you don’t see that.

Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.

It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.

But no one wants to pay for that human level review.

And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.

So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.

They’d have to start doing vetting for that…

All the slop games are “indie” or at least would start to be structured that way to lower their barrier of entry.

I mean, it doesn’t exactly take much to run Steam…

They make a few games, but it’s less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.

The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn’t insanely greedy. He has more than he’ll ever spend, and I’d love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.

But it’s not like he’s fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!

I’d hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam

So does most of Trump’s ideas…

What different here, is it’s going to cost billion dollar tech industries a shit ton of money.

They’re gonna end up just building satellite offices in those countries to avoid the 100k up front, pay them even less, and avoid what little US working laws are left.

There was like 110k h1bs in 2024, that’s about 10 billion dollars.

Preemptive edit:

I saw something that trump can just waive this for whoever he wants, so it’s 100% going to be used as a club to try and keep big tech on his side.

Piss him off, and he’ll demand you fire every h1b he waived, or give him a giant check.

What’s actually bad about it?

Like, this is something you opt into and is only relevant if you’re watching their ad supported stuff, which I don’t know anyone who watches that over their own media on Plex.

And honestly, every “bad” thing I’ve ever heard about Plex has been the same thing, something that sounds horrible until you understand it

If you’re watching their “free” content and agree to that box…

The title made it seem waaaaay worse than what the screenshot actually says

Corporations blurred the line between “actually made in America” and “the last doohickey is attached in America” for so long that they actually forgot there’s a difference…