Plebcouncilman

@Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if they are willingly bringing this inside their homes. I think it’s very different from substances that you might not be aware are there and are highly toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, people are not being forced to buy this shit. So it’s on the idiots who think they have nothing to hide. Just Google something like “why are people ok with cameras inside their house “ and you’ll see many many people basically saying “don’t care, I have nothing to hide, everyone has a pussy/dick”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I only played the first one, but I do know that Black Flag is the most loved one. However when I say what I say it is not just about assassins creed, the observation which at that point was rather obvious for me was that ever Ubisoft franchise was more or less following the same template and it has only gotten worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how it has taken people so long to realize something I realized around AssCreed3, that all Ubisoft does is release the same game with a different skin over and over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s Waymo (which by the way is owned by Alphabet aka Google) and Uber is now entering the market by partnering with Lucid. All that to say is that Teslas valuation is still nonsense even if they do manage to rollout 10 gazillion robotaxis in the next 6 months because they are not the only players in the market. Or in any market that they are in for that matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just a windows PC in handheld format that has a new Xbox app that turns off a bunch of windows functions that use up perform despite having no benefit for gaming. But it is a windows pc, you can hook it up with a dock, and use it as your daily PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My comment was in favor of this because of that and gaming laptops are generally more expensive than this despite being less convenient for the primary purpose. A lot of people forget these things are actually quite capable desktop PCs when paired with a dock + monitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How much does a gaming laptop cost again? Because this is that essentially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever we gained by losing these, it was not worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Existence is entropy. Everything you love will be dust one day. That is natural and good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know people are morons and I’m a contrarian so I will almost always assume the least popular thing is better, but less convenient somehow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The founders sold it, it’s not like they were put a gun to their heads to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indeed, Glassdoor to cut 1,300 jobs amid AI integration, memo shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean. Why exactly does this website need so many employees? You could probably run the website with less than a 100

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Switch 2 seems doomed to fail. “Fastest selling console yet” isn’t much to say when your loyal base is huge. But as in most things the Pareto principle applies to sales, and most sales of any product comes from casual buyers. I don’t see casual buyers putting up with this. Parents might just buy mobile games for their kids, and teenagers and adults might as well just buy a PC handheld.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Update 1.2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the difficulty setting problem almost entirely disappears once you get to like level 10 or so and then at some point, like around level 25, mobs can fuck you up if you’re not paying attention in the adept setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(LLM) A language model built for the public good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you’re saying is that it’s good for research, because you can’t research what you don’t know about.

  It’s good for giving starting points which is exactly what I meant.

  Next time I’ll write a dissertation with hyper specifics because it seems it’s necessary every time LLMs are involved as there’s always someone looking to nitpick the statements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(LLM) A language model built for the public good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly they are pretty good for research too. You can’t imagine the amount of obscure shit that my ChatGPT has surfaced when I bounce ideas on it. But yea it’s terrible in finished products, I think everyone knows that and in a year or two if they don’t improve I expect we will be back to shoving it behind the scenes as had been done before ChatGPT. It’s for the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(LLM) A language model built for the public good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most rational AI hater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are literally a nazi /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you go back 20, 30 years ago you would never be able to make a living as a musician in an indie project. Nowadays you have an amazing and frankly mind blowing amount of very talented artists making wonderful and unique music that also affords them a living. I love music man, so I know that it’s never been a better time to be a fan of music especially if you like stuff that breaks boundaries. There is more difficulty becoming huge, but again that’s how it works now. huge artists like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé etc are basically a dying breed. The AI slop thing is more about chillhop artists etc having difficulty because their music is not differentiated in any way and the people who listen to it are not actually looking at who the artists is 99% of the time. Artists will have to adapt and make music that is more unique now instead of hoping that they get on the queue of people who are not paying attention to what they are listening to.

  The layoffs are proof of what I’m saying. Huge studios with thousands of employees are no longer sustainable, therefore they need to shed weight. The era of AAA 500million+ budget video games is coming to a close. More studios will close, more people will lose their jobs. From there a lot of smaller companies will spring up and that will be the gaming environment for the next 10 years or so.

  I’ve been gaming all my life, I turned 30 recently. And I think the last 5 years have been some of the best the industry has ever had, and it was all thanks to the indie scene and the AA scene. There has never been more variety at this level of quality ever before, that’s for sure. The only thing that may come close was the 90s when you basically had a similar scene to what we have now.

  All of this to say that from the perspective of the consumer, gaming/music/movies and tv are fantastic right now. But it’s become much more atomized, you have lots of niche shows, music acts and videogames as opposed to what we had before were there were a lot of larger properties but they all were a little dumbed down because they had to appeal to a large demographic within its niche.

  Does it suck for the developers, yes, I feel for them. But this is the market shifting to reflect consumer behavior and preference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you implying that the indie game industry is in any risk at all! Because that’s frankly hilarious. If anything like in music and movies (which is now also tv in a way), what’s more at risk are the big franchises. They’ve become unsustainable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But Gamepass is not even close to being a tentpole. Halo and Call of Duty being in Gamepass has not limited the ability of games like BG3 being huge successes. If anything it frees up people to buy these type of games because their yearly COD is included in their monthly fee and now they can budget to buy other types of games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, because fundamentally Gamepass is a great deal for consumers. And it’s also a good deal for developers if they know how to use it strategically. Like if your game came out a year ago, and its sales are stalking you can go to Microsoft and ask for a big lump sum, put your game there and stop worrying about month to month sales while you develop the next thing. People like me get to play a game they wouldn’t have never bought otherwise and they get the money to develop the next thing.

  It’s not the best deals for all consumers, but it is for many. For example I don’t give a rats ass about owning a “library” because I very very rarely replay games, I have very little time for gaming and the type of game I prefer tend to be on the longer side. Gamepass is great because in between those 50+ hour games I have a large selection of games to choose from and I get to play a bunch of games that I wouldn’t have played otherwise because I wasn’t willing to pay $50 or more for them, like for example Lies of P. Then there’s the exclusive AAA from Microsoft which I happen to enjoy like Doom, Halo, and Gears of War. It saves me a lot of money.

  Will Gamepass die at some point? Maybe. Probably. Nothing lasts forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It describes the budget of the game. It’s always relative to the average budget in the industry but it is a business term.

  I still don’t know why you keep bringing the consumer into this. The consumer doesn’t and should not care whether Gamepass hurts sales, only that it is a good deal for them. And it is. Whether sales are affected (obviously they are) is an industry conversation, but the real question is whether it boosts profitability or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A) it’s already profitable B) they would never be able to buy enough studios to create industry pressure to be on GP, it’s just not possible and the service would crumble under its own weight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean from a consumer perspective no, but this isn’t something the consumer would even need to be concerned with. The conversation is from a business point of view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The number may be high but it’s an almost insignificant proportion of the industry. There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The premise itself is flawed, of course Gamepass impact sales, that’s the whole point. The question is does it negatively affect profit? Well for AAA games it might, for AA and indies it might affect positively and those make up the bulk of the gamepass library. Matter of fact there’s barely any AAA games released day one on GP that isn’t Microsoft’s own games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about paying more. It’s that Amazon has products that local retailers simply do not stock and will never stock because the demand just isn’t there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I lived in a city where there are lots of different retailers that carry varieties of products then maybe I wouldn’t use Amazon. But when you live in a more rural area where the selection is limited and you like better stuff, there’s really not many other options.

  It also seems like a very one sided criticism of Amazon. No corporation is good, and Amazon might very well be evil™️ but not everything about it is negative. It has also brought thousands of jobs to rural or semi rural areas that pay better than anything else in the area. They increase access to products that people like me wouldn’t be able to access otherwise. And they are actively trying to disrupt the healthcare industry by lowering prices and giving greater access to healthcare to people who are far from cities.

  I also suspect that these descriptions of working conditions at Amazon centers seem to be cherry picked and might be attributed more to bad managers than company policy, because I’ve met people who work at Amazon warehouses and they don’t complain about this kind of stuff at all. In fact they seem to generally like their jobs.