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- Comment on I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce] 19 hours ago:
I think the movement stumbled into two potholes almost simultaneously and everyone bashing on him got it out of both of them. His discrediting and rejection of the movement didn’t help but in my opinion the far bigger problem was just the lack of advertising.
Until all of the controversy I’d literally never heard about the petitions, nor had I ever heard of anyone involved with it. I was aware of the lawsuit around the shutting down of the crew but I believe that was the extent of it. Even the likes of Lewis Rothman weren’t talking about it until about 2 months ago, so how’s a random person on the street going to know about it?
- Comment on I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce] 19 hours ago:
Oh God the thing he does where he just draws random circles in ms paint drives me mental. I was trying to watch some of his videos in order to be able to form my own opinion of him, and that tendency drove me mad there’s literally no point to it.
The problem I have with him is that he just announces things, like with the stop killing games movement, he just said the movement is bad and he doesn’t support it but he never explained himself. Even to this day I don’t actually understand what his problem with the movement is. He isn’t a publisher, so I don’t understand why he cares.
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 19 hours ago:
The company I work for has replaced a lot of its employees with AI. It’s absolutely useless and we have to cover the loss but the fact it doesn’t work very well doesn’t help the fired employees.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 day ago:
Except typographers still exist, we need them to create fonts that aren’t comic sans.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 day ago:
That’s like saying that colonies on Mars are the future. In the future colonies on Mars will be the direction things are going, (assuming we don’t global warm ourselves to death first) but we’re not there yet. AI have yet to prove themselves.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 day ago:
Personally I agree. The problem is then you have to declare it and the way that steam currently handles that declaration is literally the worst possible implementation of the idea all games just get dumped into the same category of “uses AI”. I would actually prefer them to just take the tag away, then keep it in its current dysfunctional state.
It’s just a tag that says that AI was used in some aspect of making the game, but there’s no breakdown of how the AI was used, did it author code or did it design background elements that no one will really see, because there’s a huge difference there, and the distinction is important.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 day ago:
Yeah I hate this trend of you have to subscribe in order to not be tracked. I just agree to the cookies and then block them at the OS level. Get to have my cake and eat it too.
- Comment on China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build 2 days ago:
Isn’t giant neutrinos the thing that destroyed earth in 2012?
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 2 days ago:
Yes because that’s the biggest problem with Microsoft right there, their Chinese engineers.
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 3 days ago:
PS Committees archive nothing is actually false statement.
I didn’t say that. We’re not talking about committees of elected individuals we’re talking about committees random people.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 3 days ago:
Yeah bikes were really useless in GTA V because even the narrowest alleyway could be driven down. Hopefully they have some narrow alleyways that you might be able to skip down to avoid the police.
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 3 days ago:
Just combine the two.
How to build a really awesome powerful pop rocks.
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 3 days ago:
Just to be clear, if you know where to look these recipes are available online. So all the AI is doing is making it easier for the average idiot to access this information, but people who are stopped from accessing the information simply by it not being super easily available, are probably not going to be building bombs in the first place, at least not to completion.
It’s not even that hard, at least conceptually, to build a dirty bomb. The difficult part would be getting hold of the radioactive material.
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 3 days ago:
As reform has demonstrated membership doesn’t equal votes. A lot of votes will simply be to try and get labour to wake up and realise people unhappy with them.
I really hope the name your party doesn’t stick because it’s terrible. I get what they’re going for with the name but it just doesn’t track.
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 4 days ago:
We don’t need that level of micromanagement nobody wants that. Committees are truly excellent way of never achieving anything.
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 4 days ago:
This what I mean about Corbyn is not a good politician. He’s bad at his actual job.
To be good in politics you have to be good at sales, and rule one of sales is make it possible for people to Google your product. Give it a name that is easy to remember and easy to spell. I’ve seen lots of bad product names, this is the first time I’ve ever seen someone trying to launch a product, (because that is essentially what a political party is) without a name at all.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 days ago:
That article does not contain any actual evidence of any wrongdoing by Facebook. The reason I don’t think that they are listening is that would be an utterly insane amount of data and 99% of it would be worthless.
The clinch would be someone pointing to some actual data, which is why I keep asking for the packets, and yet years later no one has ever produced them. No cybersecurity expert has ever been able to show me a packet, it’s the simplest thing in the world and, they can’t find them. If you’re into a conspiracy theories explain how that works. They are allegedly listening to you except there was no evidence of any data is going to the Facebook servers. So how are they getting it?
Facebook have a lot of data and people really aren’t as random as they think they are I’m sure they can algorithmically get this data without having to resort to to listening on the microphone.
- Comment on PS5 may get more price increases in the US, analyst warns 4 days ago:
He’s not a dictator (yet), if the republicans face a lot of backlash for this they might feel the need to ra him in a bit, give him some Xanax and a fidget spinner or something.
- Comment on PS5 may get more price increases in the US, analyst warns 4 days ago:
Well there hasn’t really been any good games for it. I suspect it’ll be like that until GTA comes out next year. Everyone was holding off in releasing until after that as they think I’ll cost $90 and that’ll open the flood gates
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 days ago:
The actual packets would be nice. Since you obviously have that evidence because you’re saying they “literally” do it would you mind providing it?
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 days ago:
Right but has anybody actually run a packet inspector on the data, or even confirm that it is sending packets back and by what method?
Because everybody “knows” China does this but everybody also “knows” that the Facebook app listens to you. As far as I know no evidence has ever been provided of either claim. The evidence is always ooh well I spoke about yoghurts and then 3 days later I had an advert for a yoghurt, which is a modern convincing as conclusive proof.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: I’d go further than Farage and deport women and children 4 days ago:
Vote for me I’m the better psychopath
That is certainly a tactic, it’s not a sain one of course
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 days ago:
Well it turns out that ketamine isn’t the elixir of life.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 days ago:
Is it. I know it’s a Chinese company but is there any evidence that there is anything going on?
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 6 days ago:
Except if the product was available commercially in the United States they wouldn’t have been importing it in the first place, and they’re not going to step up factories in, how long has he been in power, 6 months, it only feels like forever.
If tariffs worked a senior president would have implemented the more subtly.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Unemployee in a local second-hand shop that was telling another customer the reason they have loads of switch 2s in is because there is basically nothing to play on them. You get it play the limited number of games that Nintendo have made and then does nothing else to do. So people sell them.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 6 days ago:
He’s pointing it down his own throat though.
Do what I want or I will crush my own economy is not much of a threat.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 6 days ago:
European markets don’t tend to send the US products it tends to be services. There isn’t anyone else at least there isn’t anyone else who doesn’t already also have tariffs on them.
He went to town with married a little while ago and decided to put tariffs on everyone including nations who’ve never traded with you United States because they have a population of six people and 3,000 koalas.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 6 days ago:
Oh no not tariffs, we won’t be able to afford… wait, hang on, we don’t pay them do we? Carry on.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 week ago:
So nothing’s changed then.