etherphon
@etherphon@lemmy.world
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 week ago:
Yeah I gotcha, I suppose there’s two types of people in those situations: those who will put down the games and see them as a distraction or waste of time in the face of all the other things they have to do and all the serious/bad things going on in the world, or those who dive full on in and escape the world through gaming. Another perspective, games used to be light and fun, hella challenging, but still fun, you could pick them up and put them down. Nowadays if you stop playing a game for a week or two you almost have to start over, at least that’s how it is for me with my sieve brain. I’m also in the US.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 week ago:
I’d definitely agree with that, I was a much bigger gamer when I was a kid/teen/YA, the only real franchises were Pac Man, Mario and Donkey Kong, so the field was wide open with all sorts of new and innovative games, the sorts of games that are still coming out but just harder to find. I feel like there’s a lot of people just looking a the AAA titles being announced in the presses and then just being underwhelmed when there’s a lot more going on, but as you said there’s a lot more to life as an adult so that can be too much time. On the upside, a lot of those indie games are much shorter so you can find time to play them.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 week ago:
There is just so much choice it’s insane, every day there’s dozens of new games out. There’s some real gems in the indie game space, I feel like gaming is kinda following how music went now. All the major labels are putting out crap, you have to look at the indie labels for good stuff.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 week ago:
“Graphics are good enough now that literally anything in your imagination can be brought to life”
“Ok, lets make everything look as close to reality as possible :D”That reminds me, I saw some Pac Man collection the other day, the old 2600/7800/arcade games, it was a few games and some history stuff, it was 17 GIGABYTES, FOR PACMAN.
- Comment on In reversal, Trump supports House vote to release Epstein files 1 week ago:
Sorry for my poor wording lol.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 week ago:
Maybe you could try putting some more money into great writers and storytellers instead of GRAPHICS GRAPHICS GRAPHICS, but no.
- Comment on In reversal, Trump supports House vote to release Epstein files 1 week ago:
Still can’t believe we lost Al Franken meanwhile shit like this was going on. Are you fucking kidding.
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 1 week ago:
Inifnite potential? Like NFTs? Subscriptions? I suppose… I’m beyond not interested in buying digital things I don’t even have the rights to, but I seem to be in the minority.
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 1 week ago:
Sure, but it will have to change eventually, we can’t keep pumping out more and more throwaway shit year after year, there will be a critical mass, or maybe we just die buried in our own garbage.
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 1 week ago:
Can we switch back to the need based economy instead of the greed based economy?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Idk how anyone handles anything, we’ve somehow turned this beautiful world into an absolute nightmare.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 2 weeks ago:
Elias Marrow
Prompt jockey not artist.
- Comment on I miss him 2 weeks ago:
Make. More. Surrealist. Media.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 2 weeks ago:
Sure sure, there’s already an animated show on Fox (regular network, not news) called Universal Basic Guys making fun of the idea when it’s not even being seriously considered yet. Here’s maybe a news flash for some rich folks: MOST people don’t mind working as long as they are PROPERLY COMPENSATED.
- Comment on Interview With the Sandwich 3 weeks ago:
He’s just a po’boy from a po’family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity - Comment on White House launches official TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice' 3 months ago:
This corny old dude is just recycling old commercials. Pepsi, the voice of a new generation.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 3 months ago:
I’m not sure it’s the best time for an autism diagnosis when there’s someone in the White House thinking that people like us are broken somehow. I guess I was alluding to earlier when there was talk about RFK making this autism registry. I don’t want to be on any sort of list.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 3 months ago:
If you do have a disability/special needs you need to get that documented
I wouldn’t be in too much of a hurry with that if you live in the US.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 months ago:
Oh I’m quite aware of that I just bought some time, my other hobbies being music, video art and graphics design all of which AI has already taken a giant shit all over.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 months ago:
So glad I’m a giant fuck up and went to school for coding but never did anything with it, at least I don’t have to deal with finding a new job now because fuck all this AI shit.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 3 months ago:
These people are fucking insane and it’s about time we do something, Greed is a sickness and with Trump in the white house the disease is absolutely flourishing.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out new profanity guidelines for creators, utilizes AI to identify teens 3 months ago:
It seems like they loosened the guidelines to allow swearing within the first 20 seconds of the video… Anyways, it’s all completely asinine, there is so much violence on TV/streaming what’s a few fucking swear words?
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 3 months ago:
And make sure to turn off all the lights and appliances you’re not using to save power for the AI. This future is trash.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 3 months ago:
Never used it because of the stupid name, which happens a lot, figures though. I’ll stick with Bandcamp.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 3 months ago:
Sounds pretty human to me. /s
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 3 months ago:
Way overpriced and under performing consumer cards, shitty bloated drivers and now this? Matrox or Diamond come back plz.
- Comment on 'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future 4 months ago:
I guess someone just watched the movie A.I.? Fucking please lol.
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 4 months ago:
One final nail in the open web coffin, just hammer it in there real good. RIP.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 4 months ago:
Sometimes I wonder if I am, in fact, a man, because every time an article like this rolls around I’m like the fuck I do.
- Comment on Commodore has officially been purchased by Peri Fractic (of Retro Recipes) 4 months ago:
Grew up with a C64, I remember Zork and so many text adventures and some very unforgiving dungeon crawlers but also a cool music keyboard overlay and a program called Kawasaki Synthesizer that let you program and use the awesome SID synthesizer chip that the C64 came with. Later my brother and then a friend I met on a local BBS had Amigas (500 and 1200). Spent a lot of time watching demos and getting into tracker music. Definitely had a major impression on me growing up as I’m a big synth nut now. Hope he does something decent with it, certainly the brand deserves some love.