MysticKetchup @ MysticKetchup @lemmy.world

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If anything this is great news for actual collectors, since they can probably find what they want for much cheaper now

Incredibly sad, Scott has always been such a positive icon and influence in the industry. Hope he manages through this.

Well good thing we can trust Microsoft, it's not like they've ever done anything evil before

Feels very much like they're just following the trend of a bunch of streaming services that just add a + to the end. As long as it's good though I don't think it matters much

Something so beautiful about a perfectly toasted sandwich... This is art

Depending on how you feel about Minecraft, Vintage Story might be something like what you're looking for

IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.

So it's less effective than a regular phishing email?

Yeah this is the issue. I've been trying DDG and while it's got less bloat it's either the same as Google or less accurate 99% of the time. There are times I was searching for something I had found before and had to switch back to Google because it wasn't coming up in DDG

I'm convinced that tech reviewers live on a different planet than us. They're always fretting over trivial things that would be nice to have but far from dealbreakers for the average person and then ignore or barely mention the stuff a regular user would need

Give them a break guys, they're just a small indie company that doesn't have the money to pay animators to do an actually good job /s

Aside from how awful the animations are, I'm wondering why they felt they needed them at all. The little chibi portraits would have looked fine as static images

This trailer looks so good, I remember seeing the game earlier and it looked cool, looks like it's time to set what it's about

It doesn't matter how good the new platforms are if the people you follow aren't there. I do all my posting on Mastodon now but when it comes to people I follow on Twitter virtually none of them have moved their stuff over so I run out of interesting things to check out quickly

I mean it's hard to tell because he is very, very stupid, but he's also just such a convenient idiot that I have to wonder at this point

Okay this is the point where I start to buy the theory that he's purposely tanking the site

A lot of people are unimaginably rich, but that doesn't stop them from coveting more wealth. Gaben seems to be happy where he is, thus why I think it's less likely he sells out than a successor takes over and sells out instead

Not everyone is interested in total control. If Gaben decides he wants to retire on an even bigger pile of money or if his successor wants to cash in quick they could easily go public and reap a massive amount since Valve shares are sure to be high. I think the former is less likely than the latter, but Gabe is getting to retirement age, I expect to hear about a successor in the next 10-20 years

I don't see the point, I've never seen an AI that can translate better than a human

Like it or not, Pokemon is far and away the biggest influence on monster tamer games so most games are gonna look similar to it. I'm assuming you've probably heard of Shin Megami Tensei (though the gameplay is very un-Pokemonlike) but you might already look into Siralim or Monster Crown

This is also just a bad article. No real justification for why they listed one over another, just a listicle that mentions a couple of the greatest hits

Basically every tech company "operates at a loss" because of overzealous growth and money going to their investors/parent company/shareholders. I've never seen a detailed breakdown of any tech company's financials released publicly, so I doubt there's any way to prove this one way or another.

They make less money off of you when they can't serve you ads

Genuinely I'd be interested in seeing a source for this since every metric I've seen from third parties is that ad free purchases gives them waaaaaay more money per user compared to the tiny RPU from ads. But maybe Google being its own ad provider changes that

But practically, I don't really agree/expect that YouTube should serve you content (or even more so, people with aggressive adblockers) without you giving something in return.

Never said I was owed anything by them, just that I have no moral or ethical qualms continuing to use adblock on a giant corporation