ParlimentOfDoom

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. People don’t realize that most professional authors are not earning a living through writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re focusing entirely on appeasing the most expensive to satisfy people, at the expense of actual good gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Greenwashing. You pay someone who wasn’t going to cut their trees to keep not cutting their trees, and you get carbon credits to offset your company’s pollution.

  You change nothing but get to brag about saving the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird you’d let all that talent go, then…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40% of its staff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s been tech hiring for the last 20 years at least

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finns trust the US about as much as they do Russia, China⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Smart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only a "skeletal crew" are left working on Fallout: London, and the massive mod's next DLC will miss a planned April release window⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a mod. I’d honestly be surprised if it was ever more than a couple of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death Stranding 2 looks amazing in the 21:9 ultra-wide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of the “less purchasing power”.

  That’s literally what that means. The currency doesn’t go as far as others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Molyneux’s God Game Masters of Albion Opens Closed Beta Playtest Signups Ahead of April 22 Launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, We’ll see if this one even sells well. His last few haven’t lasted. Sounds like hype-Master Pete breached containment again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Molyneux’s God Game Masters of Albion Opens Closed Beta Playtest Signups Ahead of April 22 Launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is supposedly his last one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Players' of an MMORPG for AI Agents Spontaneously Generated Their Own Religion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No they didn’t. They were given directives to do this spout this shit. Clickbait “research” nonsense, meant to fraudulently advertise LLMs as being more capable than they are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  why not just hope you hoarded enough, and this blows over quickly

  Is not very long term thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Piss in a bucket. There’s your ammonia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But…adding more frames slows the game down. If it could render more frames already…it would be doing that. It didn’t need an extra, very intensive process to analyze, interpret and then recreate the entire rendering from scratch (but not perfectly) completely separately from the actual render engine and then splice it into the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This robotic hand has such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And giving them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Break privacy to make privacy? Age verification isn’t the answer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They track everyone who visits a site that has a “share on Facebook” button, so they want this info for way more people than are visiting their actual sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The UK has issue with everyone turning on their electric kettle during the ad breaks/half time/whatever they have of football games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans aren’t wary of EVs we can’t giyving afford the overpriced shit that’s sold here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, according Nvidia, they’re all wrong, so who are you going to believe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doubt they can read any better there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything less than the whole is a subset, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It must be exhausting having to constantly lie all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Unabomber was identified because his own brother recognized the way he misspoke a common idiom “can’t eat your cake and have it too”. Attributing that to an investigative technique is a bit of a stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TheGamer] Firefly Animated Series Announced With All Surviving Original Cast Members⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not gaming?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in a country that historically goes along with whatever fucking bullshit idea births out of America’s flaccid anus

  And you somehow don’t feel responsible for the actions of your own government but blame Americans for the actions of their government?

  Do you not see the hypocrisy there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except reusing the same model/texture can be very good for performance. It doesn’t matter if there’s 1 instance or 1000 of a model in the game, it takes up the same amount of memory. Even transforming it/scaling it barely changes that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those satellites are designed for a 5 year lifespan before they deorbit and burn up all those metals in our atmosphere… it’s not great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, a crash without getting attacked sounds even more inept to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry guys, my fault. Zuck just thought my beautiful dick pics shouldn’t be hidden from the world any longer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, reddit only got big because Digg made some very stupid moves before, so … pretty on brand