Coming soon: Arch de triomphe.

If my kid was speaking in front of the school board and subjected to that kind of harassment I’d be in jail right now.

One of my favorite games, and Ghost of Yotei is a fantastic sequel.

I’m looking forward to the next one which based on the time jump between Tsushima and Yotei should be about a brave warrior fighting against American occupation of Okinawa in the post WWII era. /s

This isn’t about source code, it’s about using genAI for game assets like textures and character models. Steam’s disclosure policy explicitly states it’s about things a player can see or hear.

4. Indie developers who genuinely don’t use it.

Maybe they should try not writing OS code in react. Perhaps they should consider dedicating as many resources to cleaning up code as they do to adding “features.”

Right, I’ve never once had to fill a cars tank with gas, or change the oil, or pay for any other maintenance on one.

You’re saying “guns don’t kill people, people do,” when we should be thinking in terms of POSIWID: The Purpose of a System Is What It Does.

If chainsaws are cutting off the legs of every logger, maybe they’re shitty chainsaws. Or maybe we shouldn’t use them at all, if they can’t be made not shitty.

I think the “patient gamer” model could be the way through don’t buy new shit and encourage your friends to play older games too. Hardware can be not great and the games are cheap.

My thought was concert tickets. An artist could set an absolute maximum for how much a ticket could be resold for, and the energy costs of maintaining the blockchain would be time-limited to after a show or tour completed.

Of course, Ticketmaster would never allow that because it effectively nukes the scalper market, which they also run through stubhub.

Hardware is Chromebook priced. OS,is (AFAIK) full macOS, AKA a posix compliant Unix machine with a pretty nice GUI. Nice enough that several Linux WMs try to duplicate it.

I guess google included the Buffy episode where a demon “AI” gets its followers to make it a body.

I’d much rather play Fallout: Seattle, or Fallout: Minneapolis, or Fallout: Beijing (or Moscow or Lagos or Paris or Paris, Texas, or…) than a prettier rendition of 3 or New Vegas.

The government may not be able to bail these companies out. The scale is even bigger than the housing crisis of 2008, and trust in the current administration is basically zero. I think the most we can hope for is the LLM companies (think OpenAI and Anthropic), and the companies whose services are effectively wrappers for LLMs, and probably Oracle (with its negative cash flow and astronomical debt) all go away. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google probably survive, with some high profile bloodletting, senior executives being purged by their boards. Apple has been the least bullish on AI, so they’re probably more or less safe and the biggest change will be new OS versions that don’t refer to Apple Intelligence. Facebook is structured in such a way that Zucc can’t be removed by the board, so who knows how that plays out.

Palantir and their ilk will likely get whatever they need to survive unless the midterms bring in a shockingly progressive group that cares about people’s privacy and removes funding for mass surveillance.

“No raises this year, gentlemen. And ladies. But hey, PIZZA PARTY!!”

The appearance of nepotism.

Nicholas Coppola got cast by his uncle, when any random 15 year old aspiring actor would never stand a chance.

He then changes his name so that other people in Hollywood will (hopefully) not say “oh he got that part because he’s Coppola’s nephew,” even if he absolutely got that job because he’s Coppola’s nephew.

Notably there have been almost zero data breaches of large banks, because their requirements for security are significantly higher than most other companies. My original comment was not about banks, they obviously need to retain a lot of customer data, and most of that is not exposed to the internet at all. I was talking about things like a pizza shop or an online retailer. There’s no need for Burger King or a webcomic artist I’m buying a print from to have a login or my email address for longer than it takes me to get my items.

Tax records don’t have to include the customer if it’s retail. If that was a requirement cash businesses would have massive problems, and the rule of keeping those records for seven years significantly predates our current model of credit for everything.

Beyond that, if I go to a restaurant they don’t have my name and address or any other information. Businesses need to keep records like “we bought x from y for $z,” and “we sold x to a for $b.”

And even further, the government could clarify that (if in some countries customer data was part of tax data) that the law was now to protect customer privacy and data.

The EU GDPR doesn’t go nearly far enough.

If I order online, my data only needs to be retained until I get my item. A electronic receipt can be sent via email.

Social networks should have human moderation, and not insist on retaining real-world data about users.

These things could be accomplished through regulation, and if enough countries (or US states) put those regulations in place it will eventually be more cost-effective for companies to implement the changes globally.

The thing they are tracking is primarily money. If people are playing games they already own and spending money on crypto chasing a big win, that speaks more to increased economic desperation than loss of interest in video games.