CosmoNova
@CosmoNova@lemmy.world
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 2 days ago:
Give it time. Time is ticking for the big Bs.
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 2 days ago:
Going by MS‘s track record the last couple decades, it‘s all business as usual. It‘s expected from them to eventually close everything down they incorporate into their ecosystem. Sometimes after draining it or letting it rot away, and sometimes sooner than later.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 2 days ago:
You forgot to mention they sold 30% stake of the company to the world‘s largest game conglomerate Tencent. They‘re also working on a supposedly much larger game than BG3 now and plan to release it within the next 4 years which means they will have to at least double their staff. Honestly, judging a developer entirely by a recent success isn‘t a good practice even when it‘s as massive as BG3. Most people who talk about Larian have a very warped impression, even when their games are great so far.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 6 days ago:
That makes much more sense now. I was also wondering why people didn‘t pick up on it earlier given the incredible popularity of this game. So of course people noticed it, but it just didn‘t make much sense. I can see why someone would shrug it off a messy bit of text that probably wasn‘t supposed to be there and will be removed or edited or something. Well edited it was… just not as expected I guess.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
American software is terrible at handling multi lingual users, aka people outside the US. Web browsers and Google services suffer from similar problems, but the random quotes in the lock screen are certainly something new to me.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 1 week ago:
To even suggest China was united let alone centralized for that long is so blatantly ignorant I‘m not even going to talk about the lack of micromanaging capabilities of ancient governments. Old China was overthrown and China‘s government today has no resemblance whatsoever to old dynasties so it doesn‘t even make sense to bring them up as an example for Chinese ingenuity. Besides, the speed and process of how inventions were made thousands of years ago compared to today are on entirely different planes of existence.
The argument is not that autocratic states cannot be innovative under any circumstances, but historically, self proclaimed communist states had have their fair share of troubles with it because of stagnant hierarchies. Communist China is a very good example of a bad environment for innovation for reasons mentioned above.
The only Chinese innovation I can think of is the introduction of gamified hyper fast consumerism via Temu, Shein and TikTok. That‘s the spearhead of their innovation.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 1 week ago:
NASA hasn‘t used a space shuttle in how many years? They just used assets to make a quick render of something that will never be. It‘s a poor PR stunt. Don‘t read too much into it.
- Comment on The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series 1 week ago:
I‘m starting to get the impression people build them up precisely to watch them fall and kick them down. It‘s in our DNA, I‘m afraid. I mean the praise they get for the most mundane claims (and often they are just that) is ridiculous to the point they‘re becoming the developer version of the life of Brian. And deep down we‘re already anticipating to watch them bleed out at a cross.
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 1 week ago:
I remember a statistic claiming that at the peak of the Iraq war, the annually power consumption of US military ACs alone exceeded that of the African continent.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 week ago:
People are hostile towards it because Youtube generates enough revenue as is and becomes greedier by the day. People paying for it on top is only making things progressively worse. Free users will only get more and more ads shoved down their throat while premium users experience more and more price hikes. I‘m gonna keep blocking ads the traditional way for as long as I can because I do not see a fair alternative in the long run.
My comment wasn‘t about defending Youtube or anything. The truth is the service can become much worse and still be more profitable so that’s what Youtube is working towards like every other service. Enshittification is at full swing. Google makes more money while creators continue to lose revenue. Things are becoming worse. Just not exactly the way it was described in the previous comment.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 week ago:
Neither do I, but that’s hardly the point. The house of cards you’re describing is reinforced with concrete steel. Unless you’re a creator with a massive audience, Youtube does not need you.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 week ago:
While I share your sentiment, they’ve got a backdoor for exactly that scenario: Youtube Premium. We are addicted to the algorithm and a lot of us are willing to pay good money for their stream of dopamine. Of course Google will eventually mess up there too, but it could easily give them another decade of intense money milking.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 week ago:
They’ve already been doing very similar stuff on iOS for years. Like when I adjust the audio in the middle of a video, pause briefly and want to continue or literally just pick up my phone from the table, an ad break starts. Just when the app knows your attention is on the phone, they shove it into your face. Now they will just play ads before you tap continue, not after.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 3 weeks ago:
I’m not hopeful at all. If Bethesda or Blizzard are anything to go by, they can keep messing up big time for years, maybe decades to come and consumers will keep coming back, begging to be disappointed once more. You’ll have more luck looking for alternatives out there in the ocean of indie games.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I noticed.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.
- Comment on Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity 3 weeks ago:
Your argument has nothing to do with UE5‘s or Godot‘s strengths and weaknesses. You could literally flip it and it would make just as much (or little) sense: Give me one good asset library game in UE5, rather than 100 custom asset containing $80 micro-transaction infested always online Godot games. See? The argument doesn‘t actually say much about the engines, just about monetization which you can handle completely independently from the software. If your project makes a million or less, UE5 is free to use for anyone. That makes it pretty good for tiny indie devs and hobbyists actually.
- Comment on Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images 3 weeks ago:
I said it around 2 years ago when the term “ethical” was first coined by media when talking about AI. Ehtical in this context just means those who own data centers and made a huge efford to extract and process user data (Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc.) have all the cards. Nevermind the technology being so new users couldn’t possibly consent to it years ago. They just update their TOS and get that consent retroactively while law makers are absent as they happily watch their strocks go up.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 3 weeks ago:
On one hand even the Nintendo Switch is just a modified Nvidia shield so this task should be rather simple. On the other hand: Sanctions and insane corruption. I‘d be surprised if they manage to release anything that could keep up with Console from 2 generations ago.
- Comment on Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first 5 weeks ago:
Soon AI will make AI content for other AI products to interact with, cutting humans off the production and consumer side entirely. Then tech giants will just pay and charge each other infinitely and we‘re rid of their nonsense because we simply stop looking at screens that have nothing worth watching to offer anymore.
- Comment on Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit. 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy.world’s Tl;Dr bot is the worst I’ve ever seen on the internet. Wouldn‘t be surprised if it was made by Intel.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
I almost want to believe they legitimately do not care they‘re doing a gigantic data and labour heist but the truth is they know exactly what they‘re doing.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
I remember it already being a thing 5 years ago with upvote/downvote buttons, karma and everything. I guess they just removed the abyssmally small grey text that sad ad in a corner or something?
- Comment on YouTube is revamping its TV app to make videos feel way more interactive 1 month ago:
Because interacting is exactly what you want when you watch TV in the couch
- Comment on Stuck 1 month ago:
A tragedy of the greatest magnitude. How many of them have to be washed ashore until we do something?
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 1 month ago:
Funny you mention the smart couch because that’s the type of furniture that seems to come with USB charging stations a lot nowadays. But I hope most smart home devices remain a niche for a while. The open source and crafting community around them is pretty amazing and I’d hate to see it getting literally sideshelved for smart home prefabs.
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 1 month ago:
We just have to look at how much the CEO and COO paid themselves last year to know the whole thing is just a huge grift.
- Comment on Vanillaware ran out of money for Unicorn Overlord’s development (as they did for 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim) 1 month ago:
Just read an article about how their publisher offered to take care of a PC port only to be turned down. The stigma against PC games in Japan still prevails in some parts despite their steady rise and Sony‘s and Capcom‘s massive success on the PC lately. These people will likely go bankrupt before making financially wise decisions at this point.
- Comment on Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have "about 40" video game projects in the works 1 month ago:
Worth noting that BG3 was Larian‘s effort through and through. They took the initiative and asked for permission from Bioware to make another Baldur‘s Gate game and as far as I know that wasn‘t even the first time they asked. So finally after they got permission, they also had to compensate Bioware and WotC generously for the use of their IPs. It‘s kind of a rights nightmare where Larian took several big risks while WotC could just lean back and watch. And of course after BG3’s massive success, Hasbro think they struck gold when their own official DnD game is the complete opposite of BG3 in terms of monetization, popularity and critical acclaim.
So, everything considered we shouldn‘t expect greatness from this. Honestly I would be surprised if we ever actually get official announcements with working titles from half of these games before they get shut down early in production and I would be more surprised to see even a quarter of them come to life.
- Comment on Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal 2 months ago:
Honestly, I can see the appeal of a model going “fuck spez” unprompted once in a while.