Because ridiculous conspiracy theories are the only way to thread the needle when you absolutely must ignore Occam’s razor.

Yeah but they won’t, because good will access loyalty isn’t worth 10x profits right now, today.

Some would probably even argue that not extracting maximum profits today would leave them at a disadvantage against their competitors who are investing huge profits back into the business.

To be clear I’m not saying I agree with any of this, I’m just saying don’t get your hopes up because at the end of the day they are all businesses.

Not just Clinton, Trump gets a free pass or at best a slap on the wrist for shit that others would go to prison for.

T9 master race checking in!

It’s not worth it to offer it. The steam machine is going to sell out regardless of the price, just like the steam deck did even after the price hikes. Not because there’s going to be such demand, but because supply is still constrained.

A model without RAM is going to cost valve extra to support (troubleshooting and whatnot), so why bother when you can just sell the unit that comes with the RAM.

I know this is a dirty thing to say, but this feels like one of the few actual genuine use cases for AI in games.

Animations are extremely finicky and requires a lot of manual tweaking and adjusting to get right, it doesn’t surprise me that they struggled to make a procedural animation system because if they could solve that, they’d actually solve a well known industry challenge.

If you were building spore today, you could train a little local model that purely creates reasonably good animations for arbitrary creature designs. It wouldn’t be perfect, but for a game like Spore it would be good enough.

These studios have all released at least one game under Microsoft and those games just didn’t perform.

I love double fine, but let’s be realistic, Kiln and Keeper… Just weren’t that great. I wanted to love keeper, but it was a very shallow game in the end.

Game Development is brutal, most studios out there can’t afford a single miss or they are done.

I hope Microsoft does the right thing and lets those studios go independent again. I want a scrappy double fine again.

It can, it really depends.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4053968/

It can help reduce stress levels, helping you to relax and unwind. To be clear, it’s not a long term solution, it’s not a panacea and it has its own drawbacks, but people in this thread keep jumping to excessive drinking as a reason it’s bad and completely ignore that plenty of people are capable of moderating their intake.

It doesn’t have to be alcohol, this applies to damn near everything. We could be talking about burgers or marijuana, anyone ingesting either of those every day is heading for a bad time. But once now and again? It’s not going to do any harm.

I’m literally saying that moderation is crucial. Drug addicts and alcoholics by their very definition are not doing things in moderation.

You can do “healthy” things to excess as well, you can exercise too much, you can literally breathe too much, so don’t go using an extreme as an example as to why something is bad.

More like “our destruction is inevitable, we can have assured destruction or take out chances with the killer AI that at least we control (for now)”.

You take some chance over zero chance.

From a purely physical perspective that is probably true, however it’s worth factoring in the mental aspect as well. With the world going to shit in a big way, having a drink on a Sunday afternoon might help take the edge off for some folks.

Everything is about moderation, don’t take this as me championing binge drinking or anything like that, just that things that are physically bad for you can absolutely be used in moderation for enjoyment and that’s important too.

You don’t understand hyperbole.

Op you have mistaken commentary on social pressure to look beautiful and follow specific fashion trends as some kind of misogyny…

It’s not, these are very real things women feel pressured into doing and it should be called out.

They’re thinking “Russia has far more men than we do so we need to even the odds”.

This comic is an absurdly naive take.

Yeah I’m…not disagreeing with any of that?

The “turning thing on and off Uses more energy than just leaving it on” thing is largely a myth based on a complete misunderstanding of how most electronics work and a lack of understanding of thermodynamics.

Most electronics (even light bulbs) do have an energy spike at power on but the spike is measured in milliseconds (if that).

I gotta be honest, I thought that was a koala this whole time.

I disagree, it’s relevant because it’s more indication that Trump is losing his sway. A year ago half of those names would have attended, by snubbing Trump there’s a message there.

Yes, I too wish that celebrities had nothing to do with politics but given the president himself is a reality TV star, that’s the world we live in.

It was the perfect game for us during the pandemic when we couldn’t easily see each other. I think some of its allure was lost after that.

It’s a misleading headline, should say “Hollywood A-listers and Jared Leto…”