echo64 @ echo64 @lemmy.world

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I'm sure you do not need me to explain to you the cavernous difference between gimp and deepfake. I trust you are capable of that.

It's also not just limited to Taylor swift.

People don't care now because people don't thin famous people should have any right to dignity, but their minds are gonna change really quickly when it's their sister, mother or daughter.

The tools are accessible. I wish this place wasn't full of weirdo ai tech bros sometimes.

It's now massively accessible and realistic. Yes, it's a problem.

Fun fact, the layoffs result in the executives (and in the case of giant companies like Microsoft just higher ups in general) getting massive bonuses.

For what it's worth, yes, you know the premise now. But the second game still has a lot of peeling away the past to discover meaning in the present

there is. this is at a large scale however. and involved cancelling projects. normally this happens because of redundancies in rolls (like QA for example, microsoft already has QA, marketing, stuff like that)

this is still an unusual size.

are you trying to suggest that of the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people laid off in the last year in tech, they all found new jobs super easy?

i'm seeing people be unemployed for 6> months, endlessly interviewing for hundreds of jobs that honestly don't even exist, just listed.

yup, the very popular stuff you can usually (but not always) buy on disk. the less popular stuff you can sometimes (but not often) buy on disk if the creator really pushes for it

in addition to this, turn off the AI upscaling. it adds lag and makes everything look weird. good for video, bad for games. Geforce Now (which honestly, give that a shot too it's pretty good for cloud streaming) automatically disables it but iirc other things don't.

most things. Let me put it this way, if you were literally in-front of a shop. would you prefer to go-inside and look at the and make a decision there? or would you go "no I'll open up amazon on my phone instead"

granted, there's a lot of stuff most people don't care about being in-person for. but a lot of thins you buy online, you would rather purchase in store - if you were just already there instead of on your sofa.

this is why there is no one-reason, and it's more complex than the two second thought answer.

I’ve always enjoyed watching what those laid-off employees end up moving onto.

almost all of the people currently being laid off in tech end up leaving the industry or being unemployed. there are no jobs, and there are massive waves of layoffs everywhere.

Eh no. There are many goods everyone prefers not to shop online, but in-person. The fall of the high street doesn't have one singular reason. Everything from the rise in driving removing foot traffic, to high rents, to 15 years of austerity.

If you don't like metal, that's fine, be yourself. All this weirdo calling people disgusting for wearing jewelry is not a normal "opinion." Not the content of it, which is obviously a result of your internalized problem with metal, but how vehemently you hold it, it's really starting to head into psycho behavior.

These layoffs are always for shareholders as share prices go up when the layoffs happen. It's not about cash flow. It's purely about shareholders.

Share prices go up always affects c suite the most. They get better returns on the shares they own and also get large bonuses. Far from take responsibility, a ceo massively profits from layoffs.

This is incredibly reaching and tantamounts to "retro studios hired someone who has jira skills" and maybe worked with a company that makes trailers. This isn't at all reputable and shouldn't be something we promote here.

There are extremely few games that are not playable or beatable without being patched. You can list the ones you know if you like

Whilst I agree with the other op, this point is just wrong.

Replace "california" in your argument with "European union" and the whole thing just crumbles away. State legislation absolutely has a wider effect than the state it originates in.

. 20 years from now when you dig out your old copy of borderlands 3 and there's no longer a download available, you think you'll get to play through the game?

Yes, games often come with bugs, but a game that comes out unplayable or unbeatable on disk is extremely rare.

This is, of course, discounting the fact that as part of community preservation efforts, updates are preserved along with the games.

They are. The games industry is releasing a lot of hits in recent times, and there's a lot of money flowing in. Just not as much as covid times and interest rates are high.

This has nothing to so with the actual industry and the people making games.