Don’t. I think it honestly has a place. Now that place is vastly different from what business bros think it is, but it does have a place. I think writing tests is a great reason, and it’s a good double check. Writing documentation is good, and even writing some boilerplate code and models. The kicker is that you need to already be an engineer to use it, and to understand what it’s doing. I would not trust it blindly, and I feel confident enough to catch it.

It’s another tool in our belt, it’s fine to use it that way. Management is insane though if they think you’ll 10x. Maybe 2x.

It’s more that it’s indicative of the engineering culture at Logitech. Business bros cry for more useless features and don’t allow any time for infrastructure or technical debt. An unautomated cert like this (or no teams who monitor it) just screams process failure and lack of business allocation of engineering resources.

Guy whose job depends on slop wants you to stop seeing slop as slop

God I’ve tried three times to enjoy no man’s sky and I just can’t. It’s just endless grinding, no real reward for it, and no way to automate any of the tasks so you can move onto more fun things

Surprise! You get your surprise spoiled by some rag article site. Aren’t you surprised?!

Remember, you’re borrowing their hours from AI data centers, and AI takes precedence. Don’t use this service

I picked up a few today from smaller online stores before they realized. Will have to keep the servers running somehow

Okay that changes things. If they turned off these guardrails than that was on them, never blindly trust an LLM like that

Oh my god really? Cursor explicitly asks you each command and could only do this in “yolo” mode. Not having these guardrails is insane

Mass Effect 1? Trash, not enough weapons

Some would say weapons aren’t the only thing that makes a game good

It works surprisingly well on Linux

It’s been 12 years. There is no “this series” right now. There’s absolutely no way to predict it.

You mean the union busting didn’t help?

But seriously, good, better to delay then force the engineers to crunch on a subpar product.

Not related at all to the arguments above.

Uh, no. You want to be mad at something like that look into how they’re training models without a care for bias (or adding in their own biases).

Hallucination is a completely different thing that is mathematically proven to happen regardless of who or what made it. Even if the model only knows about fluffy puppies and kitties it will still always hallucinate to some extent, just in that case it will be hallucinating fluffy puppies and kitties. It’s just random data at the end.

That isn’t some conspiracy. Now if you expected a model that’s fluffy kitties and puppies and you’re mad because it starts spewing out hate speech - that’s not hallucination. That’s the training data.

If you’re going to rage about something like that, you might as well rage about the correct thing.

I’m getting real tired here of the “AI is the boogieman”. AI isn’t bad. We’ve had AI and Models for over 20 years now. They can be really helpful. The bias that is baked into them and how they’re implemented and trained has always been and will continue to be the problem.

I legit laughed out loud at that. That is hilarious. Of course it’ll bite them in the ass, but in the short term it’s literally more important that AI look like it’s cutting job than actually cutting jobs

It’s not that. As far as the stock market is concerned Microsoft has succeeded and plateaued. There is no where else for them to grow in the first world.

So they are not giving up on consoles. No, this marketing campaign wasn’t for us, not by a long shot. They’re going to Africa, to South America, Asia, they’re trying to lower the bar for entry so they are the first ones in everyone’s minds over there.

Don’t have an Xbox? Here’s a handheld. Can’t afford that? Game streaming from the cloud. This is infinite growth capitalism and there simply aren’t enough people to sustain that, so they need more people.

Not surprised, but they’ve been trying to do this for a decade. While AI is creating AI slop all over the internet they’ve been all too distracted to build anything meaningful and real robotics for a while. I’m sure they’re getting really close at doing a few things, but humans are complex things. I’ll believe they’re close to doing this when they release self driving cars out of beta.

Legit what changed? It looks exactly the same. FO4’s issues weren’t because it looked bad. I mean, it seems like I might as well just pick up my existing copy of FO4 and play that again.

I agree with this. I also agree that exclusives need to go, but it is very interesting that team “We tried buying our way into exclusives and then made them shittier at every step” is now crying that “it’s because people don’t want exclusives anymore”

Which, yeah, but also your exclusives you made absolute shite. Look what you did to my poor Halo. A near perfect gaming experience 15 years ago with one of the most epic sci-fi stories I’ve played, now to a boring bland corporate ripoff with absolutely no heart. Gears of war the same, a gritty action game based on the survival of humanity to… I don’t even remember the last two installments. Them exiting exclusives isn’t because they (rightfully) think we’re done with exclusives, it’s because they trashed their own IP.

I’m taking it as it was mostly completed by the time Microsoft bought them, the story and everything had already been decided, so hopefully an easy win for Obsidian. Future titles started under Microsoft though… idk

Honestly I’m surprised they’re still thinking about that. The last major release they had was RDR2 in 2018. That was 7 years ago now. In that time not only have handhelds and more PC devices exploded but also PCs as a whole thanks to COVID. It’s just more popular than it ever was. If they go forward with console only they better have a massive kickback from Sony now that Xbox isn’t playing as much, otherwise they’re missing out on tons of sales.

Edit: Actually writing that out, I bet the PC port is planned a year behind and always was, but GTA 6 was planned years ago before the boom. I wonder if we’ll see RDR3’s PC come at the same time.

Problem isn’t that, since the handheld is just running windows it can only run games with a PC release. If the game was never ported to PC they currently have no way to play it. They really thought through the whole release real well.

I can kind of see this as a positive, where tracking health is useful…

But I’d have to let go of literally every corporation who has tried to be altruistic and then burned me later. 150 a year (let’s be real too, per user probably), is too much for a monitoring service like this. Not to mention, you notice blood in your stools. Unless you just ignore weird feelings and just never turn around when flushing you’re gonna notice. You don’t need a service for that, just go to the doc immediately.

Oh man we’re getting… A Minecraft generator or something equally lame.

It’s why Indie games are doing so well, people are obviously tired of bland corporate slop over and over again.

I’ll agree RDR1 didn’t do much (except the Mexico plight). RDR2 was much better. I can honestly say that I’ve never felt as much joy than punching klansman and just absolutely destroying racists

I assume the idea came from Red Dead Redemption, where it does done very well. Of course, you have to have the courage to make a game like that, and I doubt Ubisoft/new ownership will ever be on board with anything that takes courage. Better to make another bland boring empty world.

The investors are betting that AI-based cost cuts will significantly boost EA’s profits in the coming years, people involved in the transition told the Financial Times

As an engineer who uses AI regularly, have built models, and knows the subject deeply - LOL. This is huge Bro energy with little understanding of AI and they are fully on the hype train.

I did a long comment on my experience working for private equity, and just love how it’s going to destroy EA: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/comment/5086464

Have fun! It’s a learning curve, but a very accomplishable learning curve, and at the end you get to say that you don’t use microsoft

PopOS vote from me. Very easy to get set up, especially if you have an Nvidia card. Flatpak is integrated to their store, it just works out of the box.

Ah the “wait don’t cancel yet” gimmick here. Don’t worry, you’re grandfathered in, you’ll get to keep your price.

They said the same with Xbox Live Gold plans, and office subscriptions. They just wait a few months to a year until anger has died down and then they say you’re paying the same as everyone else .

Microsoft is patient. They’ll get your money. They want you thinking that you got a deal so you’ll stay within their ecosystem, and the longer you stay the less likely you are to leave. The only exit is to cancel, sooner than later.

Even though I personally never used it I was astonished at how quickly so many people blindly trusted it. What I’m more astonished with is how quickly Microsoft has managed to destroy that brand trust.

It’s something we don’t take lightly, and we’re listening to the feedback of players and the community to try to provide them with more of what they’re asking for.

God they will never understand that we see right through their bullshit corpo-speak answers will they. Everything they just said is nothing. They don’t take it lightly. They are listening. They will try. There is nothing concrete in that wet paper towel of an answer.

Thanks for letting me know, I’ve been paying just for some spare OneDrive space but I think I’ll cut it if they’re raising the price

You got a love how out of touch these marketers are. They really do think that they understand gamers while sitting in meetings at the Redmond campus.

Oh we had mass cancellations yesterday! War room, what do we do?

Full page ad?

Brilliant! Gamers will obviously see the value and be grateful for it. Maybe now we won’t all be laid off by papa Satya

Yeah breaking down $360/year, that’s 6 $60 dollar games per year. So it only makes sense if you would spend more than that on games (all included in gamepass, remember no outsider games) in that time. That comparison also treats it like you’ll never ever play that game again, which the 6 $60 dollar games you still get to play the next year*.

The only people who “should” be subscribing now are parents who are too financially illiterate to see what a scam it is, or who are such inattentive parents that they don’t care.

Here’s how Microsoft’s Co-pilot worded it:

This Game Pass overhaul is a masterclass in anti-consumer design. First, they removed the $1 trial and now they’re pushing a $29.99/month Ultimate tier that bundles third-party services like Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+—whether you want them or not. You’re paying for extras you might never use. Second, cloud gaming is now locked behind Premium and Ultimate, meaning if you’re on the cheaper Essential tier, you lose one of the core features that made Game Pass revolutionary. Third, the loyalty rewards system is just gamified spending—play more, spend more, get points to spend more. It’s behavioral manipulation dressed up as perks. And let’s not forget: none of this gives you ownership. You’re renting access to games that can disappear at any time. Microsoft is turning Game Pass into a monetization funnel, not a player-first service.

It’s such a well known play now, I keep wondering who would possibly think buying from private equity is a good thing