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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As UK game development suffers its ‘sharpest recorded decline’, trade association calls on UK Government to act | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  However, after 14 years of uninterrupted growth, we are now seeing a decline of unprecedented scale and speed.

  So basically, we made a lot of money over a period of 14 years but we don’t have any left to sustain our business model. I wonder where the money went? Business planning? What’s what?!?🤔

  Can’t blame TIGA, they’re doing their job as a trade body.

  If the government were going to intervene, I’d prefer to see it support indie devs and make that sustainable option for people to try new and interesting things and hone their craft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside China’s robotics revolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I pressed him to consider the social consequences of his work, he acknowledged that he and his business partners had discussed contingency plans for laid-off workers. Those who are higher-skilled could be used to train the next generation of robots, he said. He did not say how he would deal with lower-skilled workers.

  As government subsidies flood the robotics sector, Chen and his peers are bracing for the usual pattern: price wars and cost cutting manoeuvres that leave companies barely able to turn a profit.

  I’m curious as to what’s at the end of this race to the bottom. If workers are steadily being excluded from the job market, and even those running the companies are being forced to narrow their profit margins, the implied goal is to make a lot of stuff that nobody has time or money to use. If guess there’s some competitive advantage of economic dominance on the world stage, but it feels like even that is on shaky ground for one reason or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or to put it another way, AI is making it faster and easier to do the wrong thing in the wrong way at scale.

  I also wonder what the plan is when the token cost starts going upward. The bill for all this venture capital will come due eventually and someone has to pay for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm this works with Navidrome. I also have Navidrome updating last.fm as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is good news! I quite like the Quest 3 hardware, but I hated having Horizon rammed down my throat through the UI. I guess that’s because they were desperate to drive engagement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other thing the helps people get unstuck in games is good game design. 🙃

  <sigh> I suppose this is just the equivalent of reading a game guide that someone has written, but this feels like it could remove too much friction. Are you playing the game if everything just becomes a tutorial?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star rupture on sale. It's only $20 to begin with, heh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like my thing! Thanks! Added to my ever growing backlog. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much of this is the big bet that they placed on buying up Activision Blizzard (plus other studios) and not being able to show enough growth on Gamepass?

  And now of course, with skyrocketing hardware costs, and the ripple effects of tariffs before that, even putting MS’s preoccupation with cloud services and AI to one side, the console business probably isn’t the money spinner it once was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People used to rent their televisions because the technology was too expensive to own outright. It’s weird that this business model is becoming viable again, and specifically for hardware that’s been in circulation for a while. I appreciate that Sony are just looking at ways to expand their player base, and i’d presume some of the economic drivers are out of their control, but I don’t think this should be encouraged or tolerated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears to demonstrate that it’s very much profit over principles and values.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha! Bad consultancy is bad consultancy, regardless of whether it’s delivered by a person or AI. I’ve worked with some great consultants, but it’s very much the minority. So this feels like a natural commoditisation of the shitty consultancy model.

  Perhaps the more worrying aspect, is at least there’s a finite number of shitty human consultants at any one time. AI would remove that constraint.