Yep. I buy every game I can on GOG.

SK Hynix has strong incentives to say this. It’s an unremarkable statement.

Nothing new. This is the same bullshit legal framework that underpins the entire software industry and extends back to the mid 90s. It’s just front-and-center in games now because the industry has transitioned from a growth industry to a mature one wherein producers need to extract more revenue per user and predictably enshittify their platforms to do so.

I’ve basically decided that I will not buy any game that I cannot play offline. If I do a buy game, I will also pirate it to ensure continued access. If I can’t pirate it, I won’t buy it.

Fuck em.

Fuck

I look forward to my private sector job being pretty much directly eliminated by stupid executive policy.

I’ll be more specific. The PRC (government) is an enemy to humanity in my view.

Good.

Americans are left with such a terrible, enshittified digital information economy that we must entertain even our enemies for alternatives.

Even if I agreed that such export controls were of significant strategic importance, I don’t think it’s worth applying extreme pressure to our allies to accomplish it. The notion that China can’t innovate becomes less true by the year.

The AI build out is an engineering disaster. China will catch up irrespective of what controls we apply to inhibit them. If we can’t out-compete them, then we lose.

It would probably be much easier to out-compete them if we weren’t actively destroying the greatest network of alliances in human history. We’re fucking morons.

Just don’t reply. Been doing it for years in both personal and work contexts.

I just don’t use AI at all for this. I only use it for formatting my code, auditing my code, and research (that I verify). I would never use it for communication.

I agree entirely.

https://vger.to/lemmy.zip/comment/28113454

Don’t get me wrong. We do indeed live in a dystopia. But Mv3 ad blockers seem to be effective–for now at least.

That’s nice. I look forward to never using it.

Reddit is unusable without old reddit. Reddit.com is a horrible user experience.

I won’t.

EA and Ubisoft are on my blacklist. I will never purchase another game published by them ever again. And haven’t for years.

Nothing of value lost.

True. I don’t think that gives Mamdani license to do the same.

As much as I’d like to see it, it’s just posturing. Congress has explicitly stated that state and local LEOs cannot recognize or enforce ICC warrants.

Pathetic. And the fact judges are doing it does not bode well for the future of our judiciary.

Yea, it’s been pretty severely mishandled. Star Wars is oft-described as an evergreen setting. Halo is certainly not Star Wars. But it has a pretty vast, expansive setting that could be evergreen. There’s a lot of great stories you could tell and plenty of space to build characters we care about. But the IP has been completely rudderless since Halo 4.

I’m becoming rather convinced that the bespoke studio model wherein a single studio does nothing but make Halo games is a bad idea. I think it leads to a lot of turnover and creative burnout. Instead, I think they should license the IP to studios that make a good pitch. It took them over a decade. But Disney finally figured that out with Marvel. Now we’re getting great Marvel games from multiple studios and publishers.

Turn Halo Studios into a Lucasfilm-like org that partners with other studios (internal or external) and sets the guardrails. It could be great.