People keep asking me, and I haven’t really had an answer, but now yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.
That’s exactly the kind of libertarian “personal responsibility” philosophy that Valve would use as an excuse to justify themselves. You don’t need to be carrying water for a multi billion dollar company, they can take care of that themselves. Unless you work for Valve. I don’t know, I’m sure it pays well.
Unfortunately we don’t need to wait. We have every reason to be skeptical and critical of the way Valve is run now, specifically how they promote underage gambling via Counterstrike.
Whether Gaben personally agrees with that assessment, or whether he’s wiped his hands clean of the damage his company has done, the fact is that someone at Valve created this system, and they will still be there.
if Nintendo or Sony were doing the same levels of layoffs
But they’re not. Well, Sony did layoff 900 people last year and took deserved flak for it. But you’re right, it’s not even close to the level of Microsoft the last 2 years.
As for Nintendo,
“If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease. I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world.”
Call it bad faith, but I literally don’t believe them. They can say it but that doesn’t make it true. Why would anyone trust these companies? Their goal is to get you physically addicted to gambling. It is every company’s wet dream to get kids addicted to their product and leeh off their income for the rest of their lives.
I bet we’ll see all of those things - the ads, the sponsors, the jerseys, all of it - within a year of this program going live.
Yeah once you explore the whole map, it becomes a typical looter shooter where you’re just grinding for 6 crown weapons. I will say though, having only played for a couple years, the dev team did a remarkable job adding new content over time, and not all of it locked behind DLC. Picking this game up on sale for $5 felt like I won the lottery. It might be “just ok” but I did have dozens of hours of fun in the game with my brother and friends.
GOG’s move into mod support seems pretty prescient now.
Generation Zero. Primo aesthetic, sometimes well balanced, good with friends but not so much solo.
Why would I bother?
It’s not for the sake of right wing media, it’s for the sake of the normal people who call Los Angeles home.
I get your point, but calling it a war zone is exactly what right wing media wants everyone to hear. It’s a protest, we’ve had one every single weekend since 1/20, in nearly every state, and nobody needed to call the NG.
Let it not go unsaid: fuck waymo, I’m happy to see those death traps burn.
My brain is cooked… I didn’t understand you meant “they” to be part of the meme. XD
I want GOG to getback to what it was before CDPR.
CD Projekt saw potential to look back at their distribution days to offer DRM-free versions of classic games through digital distribution, … They founded a new subsidiary, Good Old Games, to serve this purpose in early 2008.
the potential of accumulating society’s knowledge and being able to present that to people in an understandable way.
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energy/efficiency advances
I thought it would be Swen making the comment, happily surprised to see it’s someone else at Larian.
(and sometimes newer)
My God man, say it louder for the folks in the back. A 21 year old answer, heck even an 8 year old answer like OP said, might not STILL be the best answer in the current age. Technology evolves, new languages get invented, old languages gain some new features, and all of that happens at a rapid pace.
I get super dismayed using SO and seeing the top answer predates Rust. (Note I don’t mean to say Rust is always the answer, but that Rust is already 13 years old. Things change.)
which kinda sucks
That sounds like treating the symptom rather than the disease. Why automate the toil, when we could remove it instead? The other commenters brought up examples:
generating (the boring) parts of work documents
when I notice auto-generated parts, which triggers that I use AI in turn, and I ask it to summarise all that verbose AI generated content.
The AI wrote a document a human didn’t want to read, so AI then read the document AI wrote. The incentive thereafter is to save, and use, the shorter AI doc over the longer one.
Was any value created by this cycle? We just watered down the information with more automation. In the process, we probably lost nuance, detail. Alternatively, if we all agreed the document wasn’t worth a human’s eyes or keystrokes in the first place… why have the AI do anything? Sounds like we would all be happier to not have the document in the first place.
Sorry, the sarcasm didn’t come through. My joke was that no software is perfect because software is constantly evolving as people’s needs and desires change.
Stripping the copper wiring from the walls.