It’s the gall of a dying warrior.

How much do you know about transformers?

Have you ever programmed an interpreter for interactive fiction / MUDs, before all this AI crap? It’s a great example of the power that even super tiny models can accomplish. NLP interfaces are a useful thing for people.

Also consider that Firefox or Electron apps require more RAM and CPU and waste more energy than small language models. A Gemma slm can translate things into English using less energy than it requires to open a modern browser. And I know that because I’m literally watching the resources get used.

But even before recent tariffs, modern console prices weren’t dropping nearly as fast as history suggested they should. In fact, Sony first raised the nominal starting price of the PS5 Digital Edition back in 2023, way before Trump’s current trade war was even on the horizon.

I’m not saying Trump is to blame but this is misleading. Trump hurt our economy with tariffs during his first term nearly 10 years ago. During 2023 he was releasing “Agenda 47” policies, in which he specifically mentioned more tariffs. Here’s Trump threatening tariffs 8 months before Sony raised the price

For regular people, Trump tariffs came out of nowhere in 2024. Corporations and people holding stock have different perspectives.

There’s two types of gamers.

People who like sandboxes with the understanding that there are some toys / structures to play with.

People who just like playing in sand and don’t care if a sandbox is literally just a box of sand.

Are you guys talking about Battlefield? A AAA fps with 128 players? With absolute bangers like 1942, Vietnam, 2142, 2, 4, and 1?

No idea why people like it. Dead franchise imo

No server browser btw

Melinda Tankard Reist.

Michael Miebach.

Ryan McInerney.

Humans > branding and corporation names.

When CVS “used racist AI” I didn’t see a single goddamn peep about the CEOs in charge while they had that policy.

We should name the board and the whole leadership system but at least mentioning CEOs would be a great start.

An article about microtransactions, riddled with distracting, screen-dominating ads. They used a massive interstitial before the article even began!

I assume the article is praising Ubisoft for their scummy practices? “If you don’t like hundreds of ads microtransactions just subscribe buy the premium pass.”

I’d rather have another team try to execute Subnautica. Unforgivable to make a survival game where enemies go through walls, you can fall through your ship, and your save becomes corrupted if you build too much.

It’s a AA game that was rough around the edges. Not much there to make you think “without the original devs the game will be totally wrong.”

I learned to speedrun this but stopped from intense wrist/lower arm pain. I wasn’t great but I could do a sub 20 16 star and pull off breezeless occasionally. Never topless.

It’s still fun to play casually. I have an N64 so I’ll go get all 120 stars every couple years.

I don’t get why they write an article and then play a Mario kart ad over half my screen. I’m not clicking to close their ads I’m clicking back to leave the site.

Just wanted to know if the lead designers, project managers, etc. were being fired or if it’s just the people who carry out their visions being axed. I can guess the answer though.

What is he trying to say? How can something be weird and unique but also consumed by millions of people as a popular product?

If he thinks riding a dragon in modern Tokyo to fight a big naked statue is weird and unique, he’s probably sad that the world has moved on from holding up sporks and going “lol random XD!”

The markets can’t sell Weird™ to the masses. Now there’s no “weird” people making super high budget art. Terrible!

The corporation is refusing to comply with court orders and strongly enforcing their walled garden but the other corporation is shit and apparently you can only ever choose between two sides so I guess it’s fine this time? ???

Does your comment make sense as a response to my comment?

I’m confused why the devs stuck their head in the jaws of a sue happy monster. I ask, “But what was the point? What did they plan to happen?”

And you tell me Nintendo shouldn’t own mechanics? Like… I know that. I am so used to people misunderstanding me, that I specifically go back and add a huge banner saying “I agree with you.” I can call Nintendo assholes, call copyright broken, paint the devs as good but naive, and I still get “listen here, Nintendo is bad. Copyright is broken.”

What the hell is wrong with you? Did I say Nintendo ought to be allowed to drive drunk? Or did I express confusion at why someone stepped in front of the speeding drunk? I’m fucking tired of “oh you defended him? What do you love him?” bullshit.

Sorry I didn’t just shake my magic 8 ball and generate a pithy comment like you (probably) did. Here, I’ll shake my ball and write what comes up.

Nintendo is fucking scum. I want a competitor to Pokemon. Copyright laws are broken. Lawyers! LAWYERS!!

I wonder what their plan was – step on the toes of the biggest franchise while operating in one of the many countries with broken copyright laws and then hope for the best while raking in early access money based on an idea that legally can’t exist? Was it being naive and hoping they could just make a fun and successful game and Pokemon would be a merciful god?

And hire an Outsource Manager so you can farm out most grunt work to underpaid devs in other countries.

Valve will let players (including kids) gamble on skins because it boosts player count. According to them.

Big publishers will still give you rewards for signing up somewhere, entering something, going to an arbitrary website and watching their stream, etc.

But for the small devs: you’re not allowed to even give a player a reward for watching an ad. The choice doesn’t even matter. It just can’t be done.

It’s a private corporation so Valve can do whatever they want though.

Bought 2 copies on console. Game doesn’t actually work on console. Bought 2 on steam. Game doesn’t actually run on steam. (Or Linux?)

Come on, it’s a D&D game with broken AI party members that you need to micromanage every single frame. I just wanted to try it with a friend.

Cool looking scam though.

Wouldn’t it be the opposite if SteamOS is lighter? I’m already running things like i3 but having even more stripped out sounds like it might be something. Maybe I’m misunderstanding

Personally I can’t run steam and a game on a my laptops. They’re good enough to run games like subnautica and stalker on wine but steam requires like 1gb of RAM and runs like shit.

Edit: on older Ubuntu lts versions, not 24

I’ve heard more stories about CSGO over the years compared to other gambling games, but never heard people criticize the game like they do FIFA. It’s just my corner of the world, where Valve is a holy corporation.

Blockland… played a lot, for years. Before Minecraft, before it came to steam. It turned me onto Tribes.

Why don’t people reach out to “Dirk Bosmans, Director General PEGI S.A.”?

PEGI isn’t a living creature. PEGI isn’t giving out biased ratings. It’s the people working there, and the person in charge. Actual people that actually exist here on this planet with us. “Talking” to a company is imaginary bullshit.

I’m surprised to see ED brought up. They gave up console players and won’t even push token updates, like when they balanced engineers for PC players to reduce the grinding. Tried to get back into it but I guess it’s now a legacy game and Frontier straight up bailed.

The game isn’t shut down though. I can still buy their MTX stuff. That’s got to count against them.

The first notes you hear after entering the castle are etched into my memory. Even when running the game later as an adult those notes can still affect me.

Exactly, they know how often their AI fails and they understand the damages you incur from fake phishing accusations. They combined the two, and used exploits to make the registrar panic.

“Why can’t I verbally abuse teammates if weed is in the game?”

They led with the best tweet

Fable

As a kid you get your village burned down but you’re rescued at the last minute by a Hero.

You’re raised in the Heroes Guild and become one yourself. You help people, kick some chickens, and learn magic.

And then you fight a god, twice.

Like Mario and Princess Beach.

I can barely run steam and the games I bought on steam at the same time, which is required for most games. Steam disabled certain features and bloated the software – their launcher takes more resources than actual games. AAA games. (From a decade ago, but still.)

Other launchers might be garbage but the bar seems to be pretty low. Only thing anyone can say is “get a better computer” because in their mind that is a great rebuttal to “why is a game tied to a launcher which takes up 4x as many resources as my entire OS?”

My favorite part of Transformers was when my government had the script changed to include Marines being heroic in a movie about giant alien robots. We really needed good PR after that whole Afghanistan and Iraq thing.

They’re still figuring out the internet

Wow, and I consider steam to be utter trash. It uses more resources than the games I want to play. A web browsing engine, in the software that’s the only way to launch the game you paid for, just to show bargain bin shit. But I’m not interested in that, I just want to have a place to shop, and then the ability to use the things I bought. I don’t want to drive to Walmart to play the music I bought, I don’t want my computer to load Walmart just so I can play a game. It’s crazy how bad Steam has become.

It’s gross to arbitrarily destroy an individual’s life to make an example of them when it’s the state’s failure to effectively stop the problem. They went overboard with their punishment, and nothing will change. A corporation was ‘harmed’ so they harmed an actual person.

Interesting, I thought they were more… disposable? But now that I think about it, in ark, you had your near and dear creatures and then you had the faceless workers.

Yeah I would like a better Pokemon game, not an fps survival with monsters. The idea is that people looking for a Pokemon game probably aren’t simply looking for a collectible monster game, they want the things that are associated with Pokemon games.

I like Pokemon games for the adventure, turn based combat, and polished stable of monsters. Does palworld have those things?

I contributed a viewpoint of someone who has been “replaced” by technology and you are just calling people / comments stupid.

Bet you can’t articulate why