I am aware attention is the currency of the internet but games do exist outside of it. Unlike crypto. Their target group may overlap to some degree but games and unregulated gambling are still different things. Even when gambling is involved in games those markets are separated from the actual game like in CS2. That’s the extreme case and you can still play that game as normal without ever opening a crate. Games do not compete with crypto unless developers desperately try to.
That’s funny. Because I was assured by this very community that it was when Tencent bought 30% of Larian Studios and they kept lying about having no share holders. They also have money in Fromsoft and Remedy by the way but I‘m eager to hear how Control and Elden Ring are shit because of Tencent alongside Baldur‘s Gate 3. You know’ since it‘s „never a nothingburger“.
You know, dealing in absolutes and all that. To me this is a case of people warping reality to make sense of the world when they lack information. In reality you simply have no answers.
You know there are Nintendo fans and then there are Pokemon fans. They have a reputation of not really being into games but being into everything Pokemon.
I really wish media would differentiate between different TikSlops. It‘s like Americans adopted the metric system but what they call meter is just a foot with a new label.
Crypto? Really? What data have they been looking at? I would say different people engage with these mediums for completely different reasons. Gaming being the more casual activity while crypto is for addicts.
I don‘t really see a future where game consoles die but gaming PCs don‘t because of hardware shortages. It‘s either cloud all the way or this becomes the era of mobile gaming even for core gamers.
Personally I hope we can somewhat return to normal in a few years. That is after the bubble popped and even the last investor realized most data centers won‘t get built anymore.
Tencent invests in everything. This in a nothingburger.
I‘m really not a fan of chinese hardware for several reasons and think their reputation of tech prowess is overblown but they will definitely step up their game out of necessity. The question is if they‘ll just supply their own data centers and let end consumers left in the rain as well. I‘m afraid there simply won‘t be any affordable hardware for us this decade anymore.
And still taking my job because as it turns out our employers actually have very low standards and only kept yelling at us for the fun of the game.
But also you only get to have 4 hours of screen time a day because they can‘t afford or even build enough data centers in a timely manner. You suddenly get to meet up with friends and family much more often and doom scrolling is becoming a rare sight at the dinner table.
I mean I‘m definitely not saying this is a good possible future but nobody can actually build and supply that many data centers within the next 3 years.
I guess we could chalk it up to bad journalism because the example was purely anecdotal. It‘s frustrating for sure.
Luckily Tesla‘s firsts are always fabricated media spectacles so I don‘t expect this unit there to actually be used.
That‘s what annoys me the most about all of this. The reasoning of the LLM doesn‘t matter because that‘s not actually why it happened. Once again bad journalism falls on it‘s face when talking about word salad as if it was a person.
So you want a game where you can go… postal?
More like a plan B but it‘s an inevitable consequence from the AI bubble and the general tech boom. All the money is in companies and companies have all the money so they have to shuffle it around to increase profits. Even if it‘s just on paper.
We, the normal consumers aren‘t interesting to tech giants anymore because we‘ve been utterly wrung out already. The only thing we‘re good for at this point is hustling in a never ending subscription hell in total dependency.
Wouldn‘t be surprised if this was an accident. Wouldn‘t be the first time something gets messed up after a Youtube update where Youtube simply changed how some things work for functionality. These things can make Adblockers act up in a weird way.
I for example noticed last week the first video of a session starts at an automatic resolution of 360p. I have to manually change it to 1080p. Then it remembers this and keeps it for a while. I could blame Youtube for this but I bet it has something to do with the fact I‘m skipping ads and Youtube suddenly doesn‘t know anymore in what resolution the video should be served. Perhaps it‘s getting an error and thinks I have a worse connection than I do and tries it‘s best to load the video anyway.
What I‘m trying to say is: We don‘t know why exactly Youtube acts up. Could just be a bad interaction from an update that is purely unintentional. Either way Adblocker devs will find a fix for it quickly like they always do.
It‘s another mass surveillance bill. Don‘t be fooled.
You want to end it on Fediverse apps too, right? Riiight?
So can we expect ChatGPT to become a shareholder hive mind then?
I remember plenty of GBA titles with language options. I used to buy them on flea markets abroad and didn‘t know a lick of english. I find it absurd that this one wouldn‘t have that option.