I have peepee doodoo caca brains.
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It’s taking away right of ownership. A direct license of ownership, a copy or copies, defines the parameters of which the user is allowed to operate.
Running locally with access to installer that can be archived allows for more individualistic control. Having access to a Steam library is one thing, but having a local Steam backup is also possible.
However, if a game relies on online functionality it could be frustratingly because it was a “live service”, “online only” or subscription based. In either of these cases, you’re being deprived of value, of control. It vests all the power in the distributor over the contents value at any given point and time, with control over scarcity and accessibility.
As such live services and subscriptions should be disparaged, because it only makes you subservient. Laws should be put in place to guarantee access to games executable and for them to be stored and run locally.
I say this because I think people at large are getting swindled right now and it’s so saddening.
No no. You need at least 8 cocaine addled executives around you at all times, screaming at you, some reciting the company fiscal statement like tounge talkers praying away demons, and some just fucking each other over desks to assert dominance, which might spill over to the employee…
How else are you going to make an AAAA-game? Those micropayments aren’t going to implement themselves. Sheesh.
So they get a pass because it’s a reboot? For me, films and series become services at that point, because it is constantly servicing a fan base.
People could argue that SS is apart of the RockSteady series, because that’s how I interpreted it, that Arkham City didn’t lead to a natural conclusion of that iteration of Batman, which is standard in the comics industry.
Every story has a beginning, middle and end. When failing to come full circle, as just another IP to continuously milk, with no regard for overarching plot or any conclusion to any arc, at that point it’s a service.
I was hopeful for this game, because RockSteady’s Batman games have been some of my favourite story based brawlers. After reading that I won’t be getting any resolution to the plot threads or character arcs, I feel like I’ve sort of wasted my time paying attention.
At that point it’s become like Marvel films, which is technically just a babysitter - and that is a service.
Eh, I don’t think the word loses meaning at all if applied to a franchise, especially since game developers insist games are services nowadays.
Besides, if it just encompasses online services, then it’s a pretty useless word and just a marketing ploy for the blogger who wrote the article about it.
But hey, Lemmy/Reddit/Mastodon/Matrix is full of pedants and contrarians, so life goes on.
…it’s a live service game?
For me, enshitification should also include things like franchises, because we can see an obvious downward spiral of certain franchises, for instance Pokémon. Consumers in the videogame space also qualifies as users, to some extent.
So I think enshitification shouldn’t just be about platforms and services.
Then again, people will stick to definitions like words are warfare. This is what politicians have been doing for quite some time.
But yes, yes. Textbook correct. Have a cookie.
The funny thing is that prompts also have unwanted (or “negative”) parameters, like “weird hands”. You could easily just input “disadvantageous framing for police officers”.
This is why these parameters should be public knowledge, so no exceptions are made that clear cops of wrongdoing if they committed a crime.
And if you don’t want to actually read Twitter, here’s a guy on YouTube who reads some of the contents on YouTube.
Needless to say, there are many, many problems with this game…
And they want $70 for this enhitfified reincarnation of the RockSteady Batman series? Hell no.
I promote running neural networks, LLM’s, SLM’s and stable diffusion locally. Why?
The way I see it, there’s a curve when various forms of AI technology becomes so effective and so powerful that it poses a problem for society. People are afraid AI will take their jobs, and that’s a valid concern.
Why then do I promote the use of local AI? Because I think that human+AI will be what prevents centralisation of data, the centralisation of knowledge, the centralisation of power that big tech firms, venture capitalists and authoritarians would love to have.
It’s an uphill battle though, because much like the other boardroom buzzwords like “cloud”, crypto, blockchain, etc, AI is something that makes billionaires pants wet and something that people despise - which is fully understandable.
But, I also fear it is self-defeatist. If we allow AI technology to be centralised instead of learning to liberate ourselves from the central tech cabals that wish to control it, then we set our selves up for new forms of authoritarianism we never knew before.
If you see the cyberdystopia that is China, or the tech oligarchy of the US, if you are left leaning, socialist, anarchist, etc, then it should be your prerogative to take that power away from central authorities.
Please reply with actual arguments and not cathartic putdowns, because I do want to see another way, but just being a troll on Lemmy will not sway me.
Again, I am open to reproach, just be objective.
Listen, if you use the blockchain in a utilitarian way, say like the Chinese using it to track produce from farm to retail, then I can understand.
A couple of examples that does NOT rely on use of money or "micro transactions:
- Decentealised game server - using blockchain “transactions” to confirm character progression without the need for a central server to
- A save file sharing network - each transaction is a new save state, that is almost archived on a decentral basis
Can’t think of anything else, because mostly, I hate micro transactions in games. It’s made games worse. It’s all just a bunch of exploitation and FOMO.
If that’s how you want to use the block chain, then fuck you.
Sincerely.
There are data companies who will throw away $10k server racks if they believe there is a firmware rootkit on it.
Removing firmware rootkit isn’t as easy as it sounds, because you can’t really be sure the system has been completely flushed after rewriting it all, because you’d need a pretty expensive lab and many man hours to do it properly.
So, if you’re dealing with sensitive data, in the pile it goes, and then you write it off on taxes.
Also known as catching up to Discord, until they reach feature parity and some people actually use it, and then BAM: service discontinued.