CosmoNova @ CosmoNova @lemmy.world

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but I'd be surprised if gacha even made up half of the spending SMBC is reporting on here.

I wouldn‘t. Gacha is vastly more popular in Japan than PC gaming and it‘s not even close. It would seriously surprise me if mobile Gacha didn‘t make up the majority of spending in microtransactions.

Funny thing is I know more women playing these games than I know dudes. Which of course does not reflect player statistics. I know that. But it‘s probably more popular with women than you would think based on character designs. I think it has a lot to do with cutesy Japanese pop culture that‘s appealing to a lot of people. There‘s a reason many Chinese and Korean games are copying it recently.

There isn‘t much of a contradiction there, I think. People complaining about it are mostly from an entirely different culture than where Gacha slop is developed and most popular. The former being the western world and the latter being South East Asia and players who have a deep fascination for it.

That horror scenario has been floating around since the announcement of the murderous tin can. And let me just tell you despite everything I am glad there hasn‘t been a serious attempt at remaking this classic in this timeline thus far.

Doxxing made easy. Oh isn‘t the internet a wonderful place? I mean who needs 4Chan when we have ChatGPT, Facebook and Xitter…

Xitter. The proper term is Xitter.

Who still thinks the South Chinese Morning Post is a legit source after what happened to Hong Kong needs a reality check.

The world gets to find out. None of this affects only the USA or China. They‘re both freaking out right now.

I downvoted it because I don‘t want to read the same old nows every day here.

You would think that but even here on the Fediverse where many users have an affection for technology and are generally vary of AI, I‘ve seen people gobbling up the Open Source label when the model was open weights at best.

I‘m not entirely sure what I watched (lots of new abilities I guess) but I love these animations! I‘ll miss them.

As Astarion already said it‘s only the final content patch. Bugs will likely still get fixed later on.

„Hey let‘s destroy this thing! It’s in my way and it‘s not perfect anyway!“

Hearing a lot of that rhetoric being thrown around lately. Especially by elites. It‘s like everyone suddenly wants to destroy things left and right, thinking it‘s in the way of something greater. What that something greater is? Not their concern.

I guess when your only tool is a hammer every problem really starts to look like a nail.

That‘s their default, though. It’s not the first time they‘re acting up as an unreliable business partner. I mean they bought all those rare earth mines across the globe for a reason and it‘s not to just stick it to the USA. They‘re both bullies.

He would certainly take credit for it.

Also a shady image to the point some people who have only heard of it think it‘s some deep web voodoo. They have that in common somehow.

The same year Twitter died then.

That seems very counter productive. Isn‘t the entire point if a chatbot to replace and by that destroy social interaction? Of course the whole idea is to collect your data to train AI but that pitch seems insanely unattractive to potential users.

Except China is a full blown dictatorship fully committed to genocide and land grab their way to the top while the USA can still steer away from it even after everything that‘s already happening.

Bolton is an interesting character in that I believe he has the USA‘s best interest in mind but says and probably did a lot of evil things in the eyes of the rest of the world.

With that in mind I think that, yes, he is absolutely right but it doesn‘t and shouldn‘t be that way. The world needs to be less dependent on China or the USA and maybe here is the chance to do so.

Buy made in China and you pay twice. Most people may have forgotten it but I remember the dragged out supply shortages due to their idiotic and inhumane pandemic policies while denying the pandemic started there and claiming they have everything under control (they didn't). They've proven to be unrealiable which has prompted a world wide process of diversifying supply chains. Trump is an angry lunatic but that doesn't mean we have to settle with the next worse thing just because it's quick and easy. There is a whole world out there.