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Microsoft buys Valve to finally make Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, and Team Fortress 3. The studio they put in charge of making those?

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Bonejack said:
You call that weird? There's a trailer for a new Beverly Hills Cop!

Everything comes back.

Just my youth isn't, i stay old.
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Don’t remind me. I don’t think it was BHC but something else I saw recently made me realize they’re still not done scraping the barrel of 80’s pop culture for reboots and decades late sequels or spinoffs. Maybe the Ferris Bueller spin-off that was announced a couple months back?

I’m increasingly starting to wonder if maybe all this nostalgia pandering and endless franchises is a pox. That maybe it’s ok for things to die and be left behind so that new things can take their place.
 
Suswave said:
it's massively, massively inefficient code — for venture capital dickheads to run for nonsense cash in their little fiefdoms, and arrogant dweebs who won't just fucking draw something for once in their damn life to feel good about themselves — that burns through an unbelievable volume of crucial shit, worsens the climate crisis in a three-pronged attack, and literally kills people
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Every day my hate for this AI-generated crap grows larger
 
shoptroll said:
YouTubers today: According to a leak at Famiboards dot com Nintendo is buying checks notes Subway?!
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Hey! I've wrote a that is was a really delicious sandwich, not something Furukawa could get for cheap while on the run between meetings!
/s.... or maybe not
meatbag said:
What have you done?! You sold Steam to Umbrella Corporation!
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So you're telling me the company that makes umbrellas is bad?
 
Green_Meeple said:
Maybe they should've renamed to Umbrellas and death, a lot of death, we're basically only selling death, almost no rain protection Corporation, it would save a lot of people from confusion.
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I mean, technically they do offer rain protection. You don't need that if you're (un)dead.
 
www.gematsu.com

Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi! to end service on July 31

Puzzle game Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi! will end service on July 31 at 15:00 JST after over two-and-a-half years of operation, Square Enix announced.
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www.gematsu.com

Dragon Quest Champions to end service on July 30

“Melee command battle RPG” Dragon Quest Champions will end service on July 30 at 15:00 JST after just over a year of operation, publisher Square Enix announced.
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do you ever think about the sheer amount of time and human effort that is spent on things that are then yeeted into the ether forever never to be experienced by other humans again
 
Suswave said:
I am once again begging everyone to remember that generative AI horseshit burns through real resources on earth

and that the "cloud" was named to imply no physical footprint (for marketing) when it's all massive massive data centers, now turning into even more massive data centers

and that early, kind of conservative estimates are that generative AI right now burns through 33x the electricity of a purpose-built function

reminding you also that electricity is a physical resource and nearly all means of getting it cause a degree of pollution or carbon emissions — and the lower instances demand hazardous materials in high volume

(when I told y'all I loved that the Switch was "underpowered," I wasn't joking! but it sure is manufactured, so the footprint is far from negligible...)

AI also burns through freshwater resources — roughly 16oz per every 5 to 50 ChatGPT requests depending on region — with an estimated ten million ChatGPT requests per day right now in the early stage. that's 50,000 gallons a day.

that's just text requests! I don't have data on images, let alone videos, but you can bet your ass they're MASSIVE burns on electricity and water!

so I want you to look at the extreme rate of AI growth, take what we know about it all right now... and then frame that in our current world and climate

where we've had increasing power grid failures that quite literally kill people

where drought is increasing and shitheads are sticking pipelines through the great lakes, one of our biggest reserves of freshwater — while other shitheads are racing to buy control over water sources in the vile-as-fuck "Blue Gold" strategy

where extreme weather, hot and cold, require electric countermeasures and water supply to keep people alive

when we are practically out of time to stop corporations from pouring out greenhouse gasses if we want a future on earth — the planet is resilient, sure, but humanity is comparatively not

AI will fucking kill people. not in the boring-ass base sci-fi way, nah. this isn't "smart" shit. it's massively, massively inefficient code — for venture capital dickheads to run for nonsense cash in their little fiefdoms, and arrogant dweebs who won't just fucking draw something for once in their damn life to feel good about themselves — that burns through an unbelievable volume of crucial shit, worsens the climate crisis in a three-pronged attack, and literally kills people.

and you bet your ass poorer people who don't give a fuck about AI will be dying from this disproportionately, vs. all the rich assholes and armchair whiteboys who will profit from this bullshit.

so my hatred of AI is not just superficial, or limited to all the artists fucked over. it's well-rounded.
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Shoulda posted this in the hardware thread the other day when people were singing the praises of AI and saying those who are against it are ignorant luddites. 🤣
 
shoptroll said:
I’m increasingly starting to wonder if maybe all this nostalgia pandering and endless franchises is a pox. That maybe it’s ok for things to die and be left behind so that new things can take their place.
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I'm always saying this.

I'd also recommend taking note of when in history nostalgia-bait is always at it's most prolific and profitable (hint: rising fascist tides)
 
Suswave said:
I am once again begging everyone to remember that generative AI horseshit burns through real resources on earth

and that the "cloud" was named to imply no physical footprint (for marketing) when it's all massive massive data centers, now turning into even more massive data centers

and that early, kind of conservative estimates are that generative AI right now burns through 33x the electricity of a purpose-built function

reminding you also that electricity is a physical resource and nearly all means of getting it cause a degree of pollution or carbon emissions — and the lower instances demand hazardous materials in high volume

(when I told y'all I loved that the Switch was "underpowered," I wasn't joking! but it sure is manufactured, so the footprint is far from negligible...)

AI also burns through freshwater resources — roughly 16oz per every 5 to 50 ChatGPT requests depending on region — with an estimated ten million ChatGPT requests per day right now in the early stage. that's 50,000 gallons a day.

that's just text requests! I don't have data on images, let alone videos, but you can bet your ass they're MASSIVE burns on electricity and water!

so I want you to look at the extreme rate of AI growth, take what we know about it all right now... and then frame that in our current world and climate

where we've had increasing power grid failures that quite literally kill people

where drought is increasing and shitheads are sticking pipelines through the great lakes, one of our biggest reserves of freshwater — while other shitheads are racing to buy control over water sources in the vile-as-fuck "Blue Gold" strategy

where extreme weather, hot and cold, require electric countermeasures and water supply to keep people alive

when we are practically out of time to stop corporations from pouring out greenhouse gasses if we want a future on earth — the planet is resilient, sure, but humanity is comparatively not

AI will fucking kill people. not in the boring-ass base sci-fi way, nah. this isn't "smart" shit. it's massively, massively inefficient code — for venture capital dickheads to run for nonsense cash in their little fiefdoms, and arrogant dweebs who won't just fucking draw something for once in their damn life to feel good about themselves — that burns through an unbelievable volume of crucial shit, worsens the climate crisis in a three-pronged attack, and literally kills people.

and you bet your ass poorer people who don't give a fuck about AI will be dying from this disproportionately, vs. all the rich assholes and armchair whiteboys who will profit from this bullshit.

so my hatred of AI is not just superficial, or limited to all the artists fucked over. it's well-rounded.
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lol and right on cue:

kotaku.com

Last Of Us Director Says AI Will 'Push The Boundaries Of Storytelling In Games'

Neil Druckmann says AI can be used to create ‘nuanced dialogues and characters’ as if his team hasn’t already been doing that
kotaku.com kotaku.com
 
chocolate_supra said:
lol and right on cue:

kotaku.com

Last Of Us Director Says AI Will 'Push The Boundaries Of Storytelling In Games'

Neil Druckmann says AI can be used to create ‘nuanced dialogues and characters’ as if his team hasn’t already been doing that
kotaku.com kotaku.com
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What is he on about?

This reminds me: I was playing TLOU Part 2 last night. You know how the characters will shout the names of the people you kill when you discover them to try to beat into your head how senseless the conflict is?

One of the people shouted "DREW" last night and it stopped me right the fuck in my tracks. Absolutely the scariest thing a game has ever done to me.
 
for absolutely no reason, definitely not due to any relevance, I will now post the fourteen properties of fascism from Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" essay

Eco grew up under Mussolini's rule and distilled the properties of fascist regimes into these tools and strategies. Not every regime has every tenet, but if you recognize any of these... you probably live in a fascist state!

1. CULT OF TRADITION. The old ways are best. The New is not worthwhile.

2. REJECT MODERNISM. The development of Western philosophy post-Enlightenment is seen as a descent into depravity. See also : Reject post-modernism, which is seen as an even greater descent into irrationality.

3. ACTION FOR ACTION'S SAKE. Action is to be taken without reflection or introspection - that's for weaklings and degenerates. Often seen in a derision of "intellectual elites".

4. DISAGREEMENT IS TREASON. Analytical criticism cannot be allowed. A pantomime of discourse may be allowed, but only within the accepted framework and only if reaching the foregone conclusion.

5. FEAR OF DIFFERENCE. Outsiders are your enemy. Those who are different are evil and want to corrupt you and destroy all you hold dear.

6. APPEAL TO A FRUSTRATED MIDDLE CLASS
. Capitalizing on genuine frustrations by pointing them toward convenient scapegoats. Real concerns used a recruiting tools.

7. OBSESSION WITH A PLOT. There is a conspiracy run by THEM. You are besieged by THEM. THEY are behind all your ills. THEY are working in the shadows to enslave and destroy you.

8. THE ENEMY IS BOTH STRONG AND WEAK. 
When rhetorically convenient, THEY are all-powerful. When rhetorically convenient, THEY are feeble, stupid, weak. The rhetorical focus shifts regardless of self-contradiction, because all that matters is positioning the enemy where the speaker's goal requires them to be at any given moment.

9. PACIFISM IS THE ENEMY. LIFE IS ETERNAL WAR. There must always be an enemy to fight.
When that enemy is defeated, another must be found. When they cannot be found, they must be created, even from within. There is always the promise of a Final Solution bringing Ultimate Triumph, but it can never be achieved.

10. CONTEMPT FOR THE WEAK. Elitism disguised as populism. Everyone of US is superior to THEM, cockroaches and drains on society that they are.
But people are sheep who require strong leaders, who are by their nature superior to others.

11. EVERYONE IS TAUGHT TO BE THE HERO. A CULT OF DEATH. Where in myth the hero is exceptional, in fascism everyone must be the hero. They crave heroic death, the reward for heroic life. In seeking it, they send others to die.
(See also: Militarism).

12. MACHISMO. Disdain for women and femininity.
 Intolerance of non-standard sexuality and gender expression.

13. SELECTIVE POPULISM. The People are viewed as a monolith with a single will, as interpreted (in reality, determined) by the leaders. Democratic institutions are viewed as illegitimate because they run counter to the narrative of the existence of a single Voice Of The People.

14. NEWSPEAK. Vocabulary cannot expand. If anything, it must shrink. Variation and nuance in dialogue means variation and nuance in thought.
 This cannot be allowed. Therefore categories must be binary. Definitions are simple and limited.
If it cannot be boiled down into snappy catchphrase it does not exist.
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ngpdrew said:
This reminds me: I was playing TLOU Part 2 last night. You know how the characters will shout the names of the people you kill when you discover them to try to beat into your head how senseless the conflict is?

One of the people shouted "DREW" last night and it stopped me right the fuck in my tracks. Absolutely the scariest thing a game has ever done to me.
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But imagine how much more impactful it woulda been if a robot absolutely guzzling natural resources had written that instead of a human person
 
Suswave said:
for absolutely no reason, definitely not due to any relevance, I will now post the fourteen properties of fascism from Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" essay

Eco grew up under Mussolini's rule and distilled the properties of fascist regimes into these tools and strategies. Not every regime has every tenet, but if you recognize any of these... you probably live in a fascist state!
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🇺🇲🦅🏈
 
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all that said, some of these pillars in a vacuum — not born of the will of leadership, but balanced anarchy — are not inherently bad.

for instance, someone who sucks shit could attempt to rhetorically align First Nations peoples rebelling against oil pipelines, desiring returned autonomy over their own land, and fighting to not be slaughtered by white people and the state as "somehow fascist" for perceived "rejection of modernity," etc.

to those people, I say FUCK YOU and EAT SHIT

(yes, I have literally heard someone try to use this list of fascist tenets this way, and yes, I slashed their tires)

so when anyone's discussing this shit, never forget GLOBAL POWER DYNAMICS and who's fucking who over!

otherwise you'll get the worst takes you've ever fucking heard!!

all things need CONTEXT

i.e. a fascist fuck could also take me being heavily against industry — and even AI — and call me a fascist for "rejecting modernity" instead of the much clearer "marginalized people are fucking dying over your profitable hubris and you don't give a shit because it won't kill you first"

always. ALWAYS. operate with context and power dynamics in the realm of "fascism discourse."

otherwise you're fucked
 
The hate that Senua's Saga: Hellblade II is getting is unwarranted.

Edit: The "flaws" honestly seem like nothingburgers to me.
 
OK I just had a massive fuck-up in Pikmin 4.

Was biding my time until the day ended, and at '3' left on the countdown, I decided that I'd break open some pots. It was the only thing I could do in such a short time, and I was close by, so why not?

Well, I break the pots... and those little grub things pop out, instantly dismissing all 50 of my current Pikmin at the exact moment the day ended.

All 50 dead. Including all of my already-dwindled Blue Pikmin population. Pure catastrophe.

I hard-quit the game and reloaded
 
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