PlayStation is not a platform that you build on top of it’s the operating system runs the game it’s a totally different concept.

You don’t modify the operating system to make the game you make the game in such a way that the operating system can understand but you create your own code. Modine is literally modifying somebody else’s code.

Bit petty to point that out since it’s entirely irrelevant to the discussion.

In a considerably more ideal world than the one we live in, all games, not just mods, would be free and everyone could just donate to developers of games they found worth the money.

Great idea so now corporations are going to think they can get away with not paying me as well because I should just donate my labour. It’s a nice idea but it doesn’t work unless we have robots to do all the work, and then of course I still wouldn’t have any money in that scenario so the government would have to give me some. And I just know people would start complaining about freeloaders.

No one’s saying they’re entitled to free labour. But you can’t make money off somebody else’s work, that’s not fair to them, not if they haven’t already given agreement.

If I have the money I would definitely get it just to try it out. I am going to get the keyboard though.

You’re just making numbers up now there’s no way that a $200 phone is going to be any good. Especially if it’s a niche product like a Linux phone.

Come on you got to be even moderately reasonable

Just out of interest how long do you keep a phone because I feel like 5 years is pretty much around the time everyone’s looking to get a new phone.

I’m now older than both my parents were when I was born. The complaining about the lack of grandchildren has already started.

Is not in is it? Society won’t let me stay up and play Xbox until midnight anymore, I’m expected to go to work in the morning.

Obviously I can’t really answer that question. It’s nuanced I can’t give a black and white answer.

Notice I said chords, music isn’t just chords though. I mentioned it because they have been copyright cases where people have tried to claim that they can own certain chords or certain chord progression, the courts have decided that isn’t the case. You can own the composition but not the progression.

AI music is an entire piece, theoretically an original piece, you could of course make the arguement that it’s just cutting it up bits of pre-existing work and sticking them back together but you could also make that arguement of a human as well. Copyright law isn’t really fit for the 21st century and it certainly isn’t fit to deal with the existence of AI, but that’s nothing new. I can go online right now and find music that sounds like the Imperial March, is that copyright violation? The courts don’t think so.

I found the concept of stolen code to be a bit weird. Code isn’t poetry, there is a correct way of doing things and then there is incorrect ways of doing things.

If everybody does things the correct way then the code will be the same for any given problem. So is it stolen?

It’s rather like how it’s almost impossible to play any set of chords and them not be from some prior work. It doesn’t mean that the music was stolen it just means that there is a limited number of ways you can combine notes and if you further limit it to combinations that sound good the set is even smaller.

Do you even know what we’re talking about? Have you ever played any of those games, they are very much in the style of what meta where trying to do.

If you took Meta’s description of what the “Metaverse” is and then looked at chatVR it’s basically the same product.

ChatVR, RecRoom, Roblox, BattleBit, Project Loom (Which Google killed for no reason, but it wasn’t because of lack of success), and of course the OG, Second Life.

Hell you could even make the arguement for Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen if they ever finish it.

Some of those projects haven’t just been successful they’re so successful that they are starting to affect government policy.

My man what are you on they sold out to Meta, they 100% knew what they were getting into, and have been well compensated for it.

Clearly the idea isn’t done because there are other versions of the metaverse that work very well and are making money.

I mean there’s always be vrchat, Which is basically what meta was trained to do but actually works.

Well they gave it their best shot. It was literally impossible for them to have produced a more compelling product. That would have required skill and talent

Assuming we ever actually get a price. Still no word on that.

Closing twitter down would not stop people who want it from using GenAI to make images.

I feel like you didn’t read my previous comment. That is not an excuse. The problem is that they are hosting the content quite happily without doing anything about it.

That’s a lot of interaction for a boycott, and I’m sure they would just ban your IP at some point. Of course there’s always ways around that, but how much effort do you want to put into this boycott?

The biggest impact you could have on them would be for everyone to go over to Steam OS which I don’t believe they support. It would be hilarious if they were forced to add support in order to stay relevant.

I don’t think anything else would have much of an affect, because like I said their target demographic are kids, who don’t really pay attention to this stuff.

The difference here is that the content is explicitly illegal in almost every jurisdiction in the world. And it’s not as if Twitter (I’m not calling it x) is a niche platform that regulators may not have yet noticed.

It’s a huge company that’s doing very illegal things very much out in the open. That might fly in fascist land USA but I don’t see why the rest of the world should put up with it.

Not that there’s an awful lot to boycott.

I’m trying to think what the last majorly popular title they released was that wasn’t aimed at kids. Possibly gears of War about a decade ago.

At this point I don’t think I’m boycotting them as much as forgetting they exist.

For some reason Epic studios just let Tim Sweeney say the most insane things. If I was a shareholder I’d want someone to take his phone off him.

Inflation is the measure of how much buying power your money is worth. Wage stagnation is wages not keeping up with inflation. They are not the same thing.

Wage stagnation isn’t a result of inflation because inflation happens first. So yeah when working out the equivalent price of a product inflation needs to be taken into account but so does how much money everybody has.

If $1 in 2005 is worth $15 today, but I still only get $6 an hour then it isn’t correct to say that a product that cost $15 today is effectively the same as a product costing $1 in 2005 because it’s not taken into the fact that I don’t get more money.

Also even for people who want they can just get a gaming handheld and then gain access to a bunch of games which rarely cost $80 even when they’re brand new. Buying a Switch 2 just isn’t a financially sensible decision for anyone regardless of how much money you have in your bank account

Yeah that’s the problem there’s nothing really compelling for it. Plus they’ve done their classic Nintendo thing of take a great product and then just add a bunch of gimmicks and claim innovation e.g the mouse mode thing nobody cares about. Also them being tight about the controllers and not putting decent hall effect even though they know they have a problem. It just proves that they don’t actually care about their customer base.

Gee could it possibly be because there’s absolutely nothing compelling about the product? Everything about it is just crap.

It’s overpriced for what it is, pretty much all of its features are gimmicks and do not demonstrably improve on the original, everyone knows their games are overpriced and never reduce in price, and if you breathe on it in the wrong way Nintendo will sue you for 1100 quadrillion dollars. What’s not to love?

Yeah my company is going through this at the moment. I’m super duper hoping I get fired because I’ve worked for the company long enough that I’ll get an a bit over a year worth of severance. That’s just about long enough for them to realise that they actually need us and then they can rehire us back at a higher rate. As per established process.

It’s going to be excellent.

No I don’t. I’m sure C suite executive think that’s the case, but every time they’ve tried it they’ve always had to back pedal and hire the human staff back.

Could be worse.

Could have been “gamers dessert Intel in droves”

I’ve always thought it’s a super weird place for them to have a fab just in general. It’s never been the most politically stable part of the world and surely you don’t want your several billion dollar infrastructure getting blown up, so why would you put it somewhere where that’s more likely?

Don’t worry you won’t be able to it’s never getting released.

I’m guessing you haven’t actually seen the output from AI because you absolutely cannot replace humans with yet

I haven’t heard of anything on the list until we get to 8, and I only recognise the name I have no idea what the gameplay is like.

I’ve heard of four of the games on the list and it’s the four you would think.

I stopped after No Man’s Sky.

The problem with using AI textures is that at a glance they look like the real thing. So it’s not always easy for QA to spot that a texture hasn’t been swapped out. The thing is it’s also super easy to deal with that, you just put all the AI textures in a temporary folder and then when you think you already to ship the game, delete that folder and see if you get any bright purple broken textures showing up.

Most game engines will let you set the missing texture to be something truly awful and very obvious.

Do your evidence that this was a murder is limited only to something that even crystal healers would consider crack pot?

Why even have a QA department if they just release the game anyway?

The problem with that is what do you do if a game doesn’t match all of the tags, do you hide it or do you show it. How many of the tags does it have to match in order to be shown?

For example Teardown is a story rich, FPS with destruction mechanics. But it don’t have much in the way of weapons customisation, so do you want it, or not?

I watched the gameplay trailer when it came out and I can’t say it was particularly invigorating. It was mostly endlessly slash at zombies then endlessly slash skeletons.

Doesn’t exactly scream deep combat mechanics.