Haha, there’s not much I wouldn’t buy at a 95% discount.

Playstation is next; Nintendo has the securist market with its portable console.

I would think hand helds like the steam deck would be slowly strangling it but the switch 2 sold like hotcakes.

Indeed. Death to consoles. A piece of hardware/software creating a gated community where you’re charged twice to use the entrance and then gaslit into thinking that it’s a necessary fee.

Uh, can we do this experiment on someone else’s balls? Asking for a friend.

That is was too much for out. Lol

I just hated how it felt, if felt unresponsive and clunky. Like someone spent about 5 minutes in their engine creating the movement system.

I’m sure it was fun, otherwise no one would have played it. I’m probably in the minority on this opinion. I feel the same way about DayZ

I really never understood why PUBG was ever popular. It already played like a pile of slop without the use of AI.

What kind of organism do you think the government is made of? That’s right - People.

Yeah people who hold a ton of power that can compel you to do something. The difference is a tech billionaire or your next door neighbor can’t approach the level.

People being in charge is irrelevant. If you’re argument is that human beings are imperfect and corruptable than every form of deterring racism cannot work; so I reject your idea.

Love how you called out the OC for “writing a book” but then go off like this.

I love how you loved the joke, and didn’t get it at the same time.

Makes me wonder what you see.

No I don’t see dystopia at all; dystopia is what leads to destabilization and revolution; neither of those are good for profits.

Certainly it’s possible, but Im not going to pretend like I can accurately predict what the future holds.

What I’m not going to do is make up my mind that in the future this trend is incapable of producing new, fun, well made games. It just baffles me when I hear people say that they’ll never touch a game that used AI; like a developer can generate placeholder art and that kills the game for them? What? I just don’t understand this moral road block some people have.

Certainly right now the human mind and our creativity is miles beyond AI, but I don’t think it’s impossible for AI to reach an equal level; and you better believe if it does it’s going to rocket passed us.

I would love to live in a world where I can just click a button and AI generates a new Skyrim, or a Witcher; although that’s probably very far out, if at all.

And I don’t see job loss from AI as an exetential threat. I think the current lay offs in MOST fields are a mistake and they’ll be rehired. Like everyone is already saying, currently AI is just another tool that can accelerate the game development process; and anything that accelerates that processes decreases the cost of production which in turn increased competition. And I think that’s always a good thing.

The entire energy and water issue you’re raising is absolutely a non-issue for me. The model T got 13 miles to the gallon when it released; had no catalitic converter and basically zero safety features. Yet it was still a net benefit to humanity and was just a stepping stone towards the growth of humanity.

Energy use is the hallmark of a modern society; there is absolutely no path towards advancing humanity without forever increases energy use. AI can use energy from renewable sources. Data centers need exactly zero water input if designed that way; and if their current water use is actually an issue then I’m fine with government regulating its consumption.

That’s my book I guess. Please don’t quote every line I wrote and respect and to each individually; such an unatural way to have a conversation and I hate the internet for it.

Hey everybody, new LostWanderer book just dropped.

No but really interesting take, rather dystopian, but interesting.

Interesting, but there’s a lot of presumptions in your post.

Do you feel you stand a chance in that fight?

Once the technology is there, and competition embrasses it, very few companies will actually have the capability of resisting.

In about 5 years I feel you’re literally just not going to be able to buy new games, or you’re going to abandon the idea of such boycotts.

But im curious. Are you concerned about the loss of human jobs from a game quality perspective or a human well being perspective?

That is legitimately one of the single dumbest statements I’ve ever read in my entire life.

First day on the internets?

How the fuck do you mega brained genius think racist and bigoted ideas get spread and propagated ?

It’s a residual product of almost 200 years of government sanctioned racism. I’d explain more but if you were interested you wouldn’t have came out so hot.

The reboot just shat the bed.

Get woke go broke, rite.

Some would say that, yes.

Racism and bigotry outside government institution doesnt really do much, it’s kind of self defeating in most situations that actually mean anything.

If everyone in the world suddenly created a video game and 99.999% of them are garbage, but 0.001% of them were good, that’s still 8,000,000 good games.

Vastly increasing the number of video games released undoubtedly leads to more good games. The problem at that point is more finding them rather than questioning whether or not they exist.

I agree, and lowering the cost of entry to the game development market means more games and better games for all of us.