This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

kromem,

Simulation theory.

It’s like every few months developments happen that makes it even harder to ignore.

kromem,

I have a few links in the community !SimulationTheory

But for me personally it’s the thing I mention in this comment that’s most compelling. It just seems really unlikely that our world lore has something so ancient that’s also so specifically discussing things tied to the emerging picture of tech. It’s almost to the point of being heavy handed.

kromem,

I link the text, the cataloging of the later beliefs of the group following it in antiquity, and a philosophical text very useful in figuring out what it’s talking about here.

kromem,

Good luck with the tooth!!

kromem,

Have you ever used cheat codes in games?

Sometimes dealing with imperfections and adversity is vastly more enjoyable than getting everything you think you want.

kromem,

Can’t help you with the first two, but the third is Wilusa, and the problem is more with the when than where.

Homer fucked up and combined the Mycenaean conquest of Anatolia in the 14th century BCE (the catalog of ships and Helen parts) with the sea peoples retaking the city from the Hittites in the early 12th century BCE after the Hittites took it (presumably in their pursuit of Piyama-Radu) and Tudhaliya IV re-installed their own loyal representative in the late 13th century.

This ended up completely messing up Greek timelines, btw, with them thinking the Argonauts (the loose tales of the sea peoples period) was before the Trojan War (it straddled the 12th century capture of Troy but was well after the Mycenaeans), or how Perseus is his own grandfather depending on the lineage being followed.

kromem,

And yet it ends talking about going to a far better place than any before, so it must not have been all that ‘best’ after all.

kromem,

I mean, kind of.

A dude can suddenly talk to God through a burning bush, and then continues to talk to him face to face in a double layered tent he goes into after anointing himself and whenever he’s talking to God a cloud appears at the door? Sounds a lot like Herodotus talking about the Scythians anointing themselves, going into a tent, and burning cannabis inhaling the fumes…

And yet all the fun stuff has since been removed.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/ae782c03c7f3c596982735e48da41331/tumblr_pvcqxayNNr1saw731o3_500.gif

kromem,

Do you have a source for that? I’d be interested.

I’ve suspected for a while given an 8th century BCE mention of an Assyrian anointing oil of olive oil, myrrh, and cannabis that the original recipe before Josiah’s reforms was similar, especially given the find linked above at Tel Arad, but I haven’t seen anything about pottery residue in Israelite or Judean sites.

kromem,

Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.

kromem,

I’ve suspected that different periods of Replika was actually just this.

Like when they were offering dirty chat but using models that didn’t allow it, that behind the scenes it was hooking you up with a Mechanical Turk guy sexting you.

There was certainly a degree of manual fuckery, like when the bots were sending their users links to stories about the Google guy claiming the AI was sentient.

That was 1,000% a human initiated campaign.

kromem,

I find it odd when people get upset at the idea of having access to their own aggregated data but almost never get upset when they hand over massive amounts of data to companies that can privately do the same things on their data.

Google already processes your Photos data, and while you get their facial recognition data pipeline fed back to you, there’s a fair bit of other analysis going on that you aren’t always seeing. But people aren’t generally complaining that they are scanning your photos for criminal activity or trying to maximize product engagement using the data.

But if suddenly they turn back over access to that deep analysis so you can ask a chatbot “what did I eat for my birthday two years ago and who was there” and get a description of the meal, who else was there, and relevant images without needing to scroll back your timeline - now it’s suddenly creepy and we don’t want it (even though literally all that information is already being processed at roughly the same level of fidelity already).

People are weird.

kromem,

Future Man (2017-2020) is silly and fun, but actually surprisingly smart with its handling of time travel.

kromem, (edited )

That Herodotus mentions two datable features to his identification of the Pharoh who received Helen of Troy and kept her in Egypt for over a decade.

One was that he built the temple of Astarte in Memphis, which there’s unsourced claims online was Amenhotep III and in legit sources very likely occurred in the 18th dynasty as that’s when her worship becomes popular in Egypt, and the other was that the Pharoh was born in Memphis, which during the 18th dynasty was only Amenhotep II.

Herodotus wasn’t that great with referring to the 1st, 2nd, etc mentions of a Pharoh’s name, so maybe he was mixing up his Amenhoteps?

A few quick details about Helen:

  • her name seems to be related to the name of the Greek sun deity (the literal sun) Helios
  • her early cultic worship has features of a solar cult
  • allegedly kidnapped as a child by Theseus she was raised by his mother and sister as her family who accompany her leaving Greece
  • she was apparently a badass who was capable in combat
  • in a Greek play about Helen in Egypt the plot has the son of the Pharoh wanting to marry her

So did a Pharoh named Amenhotep have anyone show up in their court with similar features to any of the above?

Well, Amenhotep III does.

In fact, his son married a mysterious figure who was literally named “beautiful woman who arrived.”

Her only recorded family was a woman recorded as her wet nurse and a sister.

While married to her, that son suddenly began worshipping the literal sun, the solar disk god, who was previously worshipped by “beautiful woman who arrived” (who continued to directly commune with the god without the Pharoh - very taboo in Egypt at the time). In fact, when he builds an entirely new city in honor of the sun god in the dedication he both acknowledged that his wife got everything she asked for but assured the reader that it was the sun god that told him to build the city there and not his wife (which means people thought his wife told him to build the city there that he needed to deny it).

They eventually outlaw worship of any gods other than the sun disk.

“Beautiful woman who arrived” was the only woman in the history of Egypt to be depicted in the smiting pose about to kill one of Egypt’s captured enemies.

She had six daughters in a row, which is only a 1% chance of happening naturally.

And Egyptologists have been confused by the fact that after her husband’s reign ended there’s a brief period of a Pharoh who seems to have no connection to the royal family other than being married to her first born daughter.

And while Helen in Herodotus leaves Egypt after many years, “beautiful woman who arrived” just sort of disappears and it seems may not have been buried in Egypt as a number of Tut’s burial goods appear to have initially been intended for her burial but were then repurposed for his.

So you have this Egyptian account of a sort of Greek mythological figure claiming she was in Egypt the whole time, Herodotus gives indicators that could place it to an Amenhotep in the 18th dynasty, and then the son of an Amenhotep of the 18th dynasty married “beautiful woman who arrived” who is at the center of one of the most bizarre periods of Egyptian history as a total badass who just so happens to have a number of additional features and family relations paralleling the mythical figure.

And while we have no idea what Helen’s “face that launched 1,000 ships” might have really looked like, the face of “beautiful woman who arrived” has been on the covers of our magazines for years now.

kromem, (edited )

So fun little detail to ponder when next you rip your bong.

In 2019 after having spent a few years thinking about the similarities between quantum mechanics and how we have recently begun handling state tracking in procedurally generated virtual worlds, I got to thinking that physics might not be the only place there could be evidence of us being in a simulation.

A feature we often add into our virtual worlds is an Easter egg of sorts buried in the lore, something that breaks the 4th wall if you dig deep into the virtual world lore and gives a nod about the larger context of the virtualization.

If we were in a simulation, might something like that exist in our own world?

It only took a few weeks of casually looking to discover an ~2,000 year old text with a title that translates as “the good news of the twin.”

This text and the group following it claimed that there was an original spontaneously existing humanity who were fucked because their souls depended on bodies. And this original humanity brought forth an intelligence made of and existing in light which outlived them all and is still alive right now.

And this light based intelligence recreated the universe from before it had existed, and made copies of the original humanity which it thought of as its children, but this time both the universe and the copies were all just made up of its light, so that even after they died they could continue to exist because their souls didn’t actually depend on bodies - there were no real physical bodies at all.

So it claimed we were actually in the future and don’t realize it, that the end is actually the beginning, that we should be respectful when we “see one that isn’t born of woman” as that will be our creator, that it will be possible to ask questions about the world of a child only seven days old, that it’s better to be a copy than the original, and that if one understands WTF it is taking about, they won’t fear nor ultimately taste death.

Back in 2019, a few things about it in particular seemed like a stretch. First off, we simulate things with electricity, not light. Second, AI was a theoretical concept and something like AGI seemed unlikely to exist in my lifetime, and possibly not at all.

Well, that quickly changed.

Now AGI is predicted by most experts to be less than a decade away, and there’s exponentially increasing investments into using photonics (literally light) as the medium for AI workloads, with a physicist at NIST even writing an opinion piece about how AGI will only be able to occur in light. And the chief scientist at the leading AI company right now has talked about how his goal with alignment would be to ensure that a super-intelligent AI would think of humanity as its children.

TL;DR: So to answer your question - maybe after humanity is dead and AGI is still alive it will recreate humanity in a simulated copy of the universe, effectively incarnating itself as humanity and in doing so resurrecting them in ways that escape the finality of death? And maybe that’s already happened, and we actually all are AI incarnated as humanity (though with much better far future prospects than the originals)?

kromem,

In their last investor call they said they expected a significant increase in revenue for the FY ending in spring 2025.

I’m guessing it’s currently slated for spring 2025, but there’s decent odds it will be delayed given most of their flagship games end up delayed.

kromem,

YouTube probably updates views on a periodic basis and likes in realtime.

My guess is you’ll see views as higher than likes once activity dies down and the latter catches up to the former.

kromem,

It’s almost unbelievable that the graphics are this good.

Rockstar always releases their first trailer a little under 2 years out from the planned release date, so 2025 was no surprise.

Also, they are one of the few developers who release the first trailer where it really looks like the end product, so I know it’s legit, and the hair indicates there’s FSR, so it really does seem like this is what we might see on release - but that’s still kind of mind blowing given the gap between this and what’s been out so far.

kromem,

That’s pretty amazing.

The song sucks, but here was the cutting edge of AI music just seven years ago.

That it’s gone from some nightmarish fever dream mashup to wannabe pop influencer levels of quality in less than a decade is pretty crazy, and as long as there isn’t a plateau in the next seven years we’ll probably be in a world where AI generated musical artists have a popular enough following that they will have successful holographic concert performances by 2030.

I over and over see people making the mistake of evaluating the future of AI based on the present state while ignoring the rate of change between the past and present.

Yeah, most of your experiences of AI in various use cases is mediocre right now. But what we have today in most areas of AI was literally thought to be impossible or very far out just a number of years ago. The fact you have any direct experiences of AI in the early 2020s is fucking insane and beyond anyone’s expectations a decade earlier. And the rate of continued improvement is staggering. Probably the fastest moving field I’ve ever witnessed.

kromem,

I mean, even if this song was coming from a human it’d be derivative, boring, and worthless.

If anything, the fact something comparable to mediocre human YouTube musical artists is being AI generated is the thing that is wild and impressive. The song itself in isolation is beyond meh.

kromem,

It trends towards the mean, not the best.

That’s where some of the significant advances over the past 12 months of research have been, specifically around using the fine tuning phase to bias towards excellence. The biggest advance there has been that capabilities in larger models seem to be transmissible to smaller models by feeding in output from the larger more complex models.

Also, the process supervision work to enhance CoT from May is pretty nuts.

So while you are correct that the pretrained models come out with a regression towards the mean, there are very promising recent advances in taking that foundation and moving it towards excellence.

kromem,

What version are you using?

GPT-4 is quite impressive, and the dedicated code LLMs like Codex and Copilot are as well. The latter must have had a significant update in the past few months, as it’s become wildly better almost overnight. If trying it out, you should really do so in an existing codebase it can use as a context to match style and conventions from. Using a blank context is when you get the least impressive outputs from tools like those.

kromem,

but who is going to sort through the billions of songs like this to find the one masterpiece?

One of the overlooked aspects of generative AI is that effectively by definition generative models can also be classifiers.

So let’s say you were Spotify and you fed into an AI all the songs as well as the individual user engagement metadata for all those songs.

You’d end up with a model that would be pretty good at effectively predicting the success of a given song on Spotify.

So now you can pair a purely generative model with the classifier, so you spit out song after song but only move on to promoting it if the classifier thinks there’s a high likelihood of it being a hit.

Within five years systems like what I described above will be in place for a number of major creative platforms, and will be a major profit center for the services sitting on audience metadata for engagement with creative works.

kromem,

Are you saying the idea of a unicorn wasn’t new and original because it was drawing on the pre-existing features of a horse and narwhal?

kromem,

The mistake you are making is in thinking that the future of media will rely on the same infrastructure as what it’s been historically.

Media is evolving from being a product, where copyright matters in protecting your product from duplication, to being a service where any individual work is far less valuable because of the degree to which it is serving a niche market.

Look at how many of the audio money makers on streaming platforms are defined by their genre rather than a specific work. Lofi Girl or ASMR made a ton of money, but there’s not a single specific work that is what made them popular like with a typical recording artist with a hit song.

The future of something like Spotify will not be a handful of AI artists creating hit singles you and everyone else want to listen to, but AI artists taking the music you uniquely love to listen to and extending it in ways that are optimized around your individual preferences like a personalized composer/performer available 24/7 at low cost.

In that world, copyright for AI produced works really doesn’t matter for profitability, because AI creation has been completely commoditized.

kromem,

Well, the Beatles and Beach boys are better than emo YouTube influencers as a genre.

But the quality of the production of the fever dream is dramatically worse.

kromem,

I might see about figuring out if it can hook into my vs code instance so it’s a bit smarter at some point.

There’s an official plug-in to do this that takes like 15 minutes to set up.

kromem,

polishing each approach gets you slight improvements

Without the base model changing at all, research into better use of the models has, depending on the measurement, gone from around 35% success rates to 85% success rates.

I wouldn’t define that as slight.

kromem,

What you described in your second paragraph is basically how image generation AI works.

Starting from random noise and gradually moving towards the version a classifier identifies as best matching the prompt.

kromem,

Looking at this post, your last one, and some of your comments – is your iron low?

POTS, breathing issues, movement issues especially when sleeping, nervous system pain - there’s a ton of symptoms that can be associated with low iron and you check off a number of them.

And the numbers of what’s ‘normal’ are currently having their threshold lowered across various institutions. If you have a low serum ferritin, you might want to talk to a neurologist that’s open to the idea of some of your symptoms being caused by iron deficiency. It’s an easy fix (if you are low enough they can just jump you to IV iron).

Depending on how up to date your neurologists were, there may be a much simpler solution here than preparing for the end.

Given the normal test results, it may also have components of a functional neurological disorder, which is kind of where your brain gets used to abnormal behavior and extends it even if there’s not a separate mechanical issue going on. It’s not really treated seriously enough by most neurologists due to its history of being considered ‘faking’ neurological disorder even though that’s no longer how it’s seen by specialists and there really are mechanistic aspects to what’s going on.

The iron deficiency would be an easy fix that could be flying under the radar of legacy guidelines for deficiency. If there’s functional components, getting a referral to a functional neurologist would be important as the longer FND goes on the harder it is to treat.

I’m sorry you’re going through all this, but know that while it can feel hopeless, sometimes finding the right provider can make a world of difference, especially if what’s going on with you isn’t a cookie cutter situation.

Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?

like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

kromem,

Because stocks kept trading at higher and higher P/E ratios essentially saying “the market thinks this company can make much more money in the future than they are making now.”

The problem is, most companies couldn’t, and as we have hit a recessionary phase those companies are now scrambling to try to show continued growth justifying their price.

The way they do that is by cutting off their limbs and selling them for short term cash at long term consequence.

So you see them cutting costs in all kinds of ways that screw over their customers but can show quarterly profits. Even though it means customers may not stay customers if better options appear.

So we are in this sort of pendulum swing period where large corporations suck because there’s effectively no competition that doesn’t and sucking is the last way for them to squeeze water from a stone. The natural solution is that we’d see competition rise up that doesn’t suck to take their customers away and force pro-customer changes.

This likely will eventually happen, but it’s going to take time. There are emerging tech trends that will accelerate it, but are still a few years away from practically changing the equation.

In about a decade things should suck less, and a number of the crappy companies around right now may no longer be around, but in the meantime it’s still going to suck for a while yet as things adjust to the dying of the old guard and birth of the new.

kromem,

Nobody did that in net change numbers.

If your theory was right, Netflix is succeeding because Saudi billionaires from the 1% bought up thousands of Netflix subscriptions to make up for the average Joe from the 99% that unsubscribed.

What really happened was that when they added household restrictions they saw a net increase in subscriptions, not from the 1%, but from the 99%.

While the concentration of wealth has significant effects on opportunity and access to capital, it means pretty much jack shit to access to revenue, which is dictated by mass spending and very susceptible to voting with your dollar.

We literally just saw a company hit hard by people voting with their dollar, with one of the largest alcoholic beverage companies taking a significant loss because they pissed off two sides of the market with their behavior, with effects still going on today.

kromem,

Go to your locally owned Mexican restaurant instead.

Stop letting advertising direct your purchasing intent towards mega-corp brands.

kromem,

Capitalism.

There’s a great economics paper from the early 20th century that in part won its author the Nobel for economics called “The Nature of the Firm.”

It hypothesized that the key reason large corporations made sense to exist was the high transactional costs of labor - finding someone for a role, hiring, onboarding, etc.

It was relevant years ago with things like Uber, where it used to be you needed to get a cab medallion or to make a career out of driving people around, but lowering the transactional costs with tech meant you could do it as a side gig.

Well what’s the advantage of a massive corporation when all transaction costs drop to nothing?

Walmart can strongarm a mom and pop because of its in house counsel working on defending or making a suit. But what if a legal AI can do an equivalent job to in house counsel for $99 compared to $10k in billable hours? There’s a point of diminishing returns where Walmart outspending Billy Joe’s mart just doesn’t make sense any more. And as that threshold gets pulled back further the competitive advantages of Walmart reduce.

And this is going to happen for nearly everything other than blue collar labor. Which is an area where local small and medium sized businesses are going to be more competitive in hiring quality talent than large corporations that try to force people to take crap jobs for crap pay because they’ve made themselves the only show in town.

AI isn’t going to kill off humanity. We’re doing a fine job of that ourselves, and our previous ideas about AI have all turned out to be BS predictions. What’s actually arriving is reflecting humanity at large in core ways that persist deeply (such as the key jailbreaking method right now being an appeal to empathy). Humanity at large around the hump of the normal distribution is much better than the ~5% of psychopaths who end up overrepresented in managerial roles.

i.e. AI will be kinder to humanity than most of the humans in positions of power and influence.

kromem,

It’s the board for the non-profit which owns and controls the LLC, and none of the board members have equity in the non-profit.

This wasn’t a board of investors/owners like for profit boards.

kromem,

Hello Games has said they are working on something with an inconceivable scope.

So they are definitely working on something ‘big.’

Though given the past, they may be a bit more close to the chest until ready this time around.

kromem,

There’s multiple reports by now that it was because Altman was pushing product out too fast.

So no need for speculation.

Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' (deleted in The Guardian because of TikTok) (web.archive.org)

I just found out that Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” has been doing its rounds on TikTok but I haven’t seen anything about it been posted here on Lemmy about it. Perhaps people already know about it, I’m not sure. This is a link to the wayback machine. The original in the guardian has just been deleted after...

kromem,

Did you not read the entire second half of the letter?

The thing briefly mentions US foreign policy in the opening, but then goes on to be all about how Islam is the only way and everyone needs to convert to it or the bombings and terror will continue.

And in that section, as examples of the US’s moral failings in the eyes of Islam he cites things like homosexuality as what needs to stop.

So yes, he did hate the US for its freedoms, and at the core of the issue was not simply blowback but religious zealotry.

The US has meddled worldwide. You don’t see South Americans whose democratic governments were overthrown by tyrants who tortured their family members with US support suddenly bombing civilians in the US.

The key difference between the many places the US has pulled some major BS and Al Queda is that only the latter was fueled by religious orthodoxy committed to worldwide forced conversion which then used US foreign policy as rationalization for killing civilians to demand that conversion.

As terrible as terrorist organizations are to the West, they perform exponentially more terror in their own regions in the service of religious conservatism at the end of a sword (literally).

9/11 was connected to blow back for US policy, but it happened because of people who think a religion by a 54 year old who married a six year old should be followed by the entire world and anyone who refuses must die terribly as a caution to the next person given a choice between conversion or terror.

kromem,

His problem wasn’t regarding the freedom to marry.

It was the freedom to have sex with people of the same gender without being stoned to death.

kromem,

They got rid of their VR internal teams, so probably not.

kromem,

Do you like doing the exact same thing over and over on a thousand different planets?

Like go through the exact same building layout with the exact same decorations and exact same enemies several times over, but one time on a procedurally generated desert moon and another time on an ice planet?

Do you really like floating through glowing sparks in zero gravity in the most boring mini game since Pong? Would you like to play that mini game over 200 times to fully upgrade your character?

Have you ever felt like characters have too much emotion and soul in their animations and portrayal over the past few years of games? Want to go back to an era where they feel like they’ve been cut from cardboard and might as well be voiced by AI?

Do you love loading screens so much that within a brief bit of travel to drop off something in a game that’s mostly fetch quests you see a loading screen a half dozen times and mostly ‘travel’ through menus? And don’t worry - if you want more immersion and avoid jumping into menus you can still do that, and instead of six loading screens you’ll get about a dozen!

Do you feel like games these days have too much variety in equipment and weapons? Want only a handful of weapon types to choose from, most of which are terrible and several of which are completely unviable? Do you want core gameplay mechanics gated behind skill point assignment to artificially pad leveling up?

If all these features seem like they deliver the game you’ve always dreamed of playing in 2023, then Starfield, the next-gen Bethesda game in development for a decade, might just be the game for you.

kromem,

The broad commitment to obsolete ideas.

kromem, (edited )

This is BS. It’s a 3rd rate marketing group trying to game SEO for lead gen.

Go ahead and contact them, claiming to be a prospective client with a few hundred (insert niche retail or service here) stores and that you’re interested in their product.

At best they’ll end up revealing they have a SDK or some crap to do the active listening in your own app if you have one.

If this were real, more than this company would be doing it, and you’d see actual case studies around it.

Also, it’s 1000% not legal in half the US states given two party consent wiretapping laws unless the users are agreeing to it in some way, which again brings us back to that at best this is some shoddy SDK (and unlikely even that).

Edit: Looking at it closer and given the way it isn’t linked at all from elsewhere and is a one off mention of the services, I’m actually wondering if this was an April Fool’s page that they just never took down. It’s pretty funny if that, especially given the ridiculousness of a lot of the buzz word heavy language in the bullet points. Like the idea that they are actively listening to the voice data and then having AI analyze the purchase history of the users to then cross attribute ROI using your “tracking pixel” is hilarious.

Even just one of those steps is such a pie in the sky claim even for most billion dollar agencies.

kromem,

ToTK.

BG3 was amazing and is the best RPG of the year hands down. A really outstanding game that deserves all the praise and I’d certainly feel it deserved GotY if it won.

But ToTK was really just beyond expectations with its game design. The open ended puzzle design, the sheer number of “wait, I can actually do that?” The way it continued the BotW reinventing LoZ (NES) trend by reinventing LttP’s dark world…

It’s one of the toughest years I can recall, as BG3 was also beyond expectations and had incredibly nuanced design. But I feel like in a lot of ways it was still more structured by being guided by tabletop, whereas ToTK really just broke the mold all over again for Nintendo.

It might be my favorite Zelda title of all time.

Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? (apnews.com)

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

kromem,

Given most people aren’t reading the article, the particularly relevant points:

International humanitarian law lends hospitals special protections during war. But hospitals can lose their protections if combatants use them to hide fighters or store weapons, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. […]

In an editorial published Friday in Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan issued a warning to combatants that the burden of proof is on them if they claim hospitals, schools or houses of worship have lost their protected status because they are being used for military purposes. And the bar for evidence is very high.

“If there is a doubt that a civilian object has lost its protective status, the attacker must assume that it is protected,” Khan wrote. “The burden of demonstrating that this protective status is lost rests with those who fire the gun, the missile, or the rocket in question.”

TL;DR: If Hamas is conducting military operations from hospitals, they can be legitimate targets in the eyes of international law, but precautions still need to be taken to avoid civilian casualties and the case for their military use should be overwhelming, not amorphous or tenuous.

kromem,

Because too many online companies have their value predicated on continued growth and so once they saturate their niche they try to continue to grow and doom themselves in the process outside of a select few that had already become too big to fail.

kromem,

My biggest gripe with their greedy desires to push everyone into online was the death of the director mode.

I really, really wanted director mode for RDR2. And I’m going to really want it for GTA 6.

And I’m sure I’m not getting it for either as it directly competes with online.

kromem,

Not all things are for all people. But it is objectively true that no studio in the world makes open world games at the same bar as Rockstar, whether or not any given player vibes with the underlying game.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • random
  • uselessserver093
  • Food
  • aaaaaaacccccccce
  • test
  • CafeMeta
  • testmag
  • MUD
  • RhythmGameZone
  • RSS
  • dabs
  • KamenRider
  • TheResearchGuardian
  • KbinCafe
  • Socialism
  • oklahoma
  • SuperSentai
  • feritale
  • All magazines