I was fairly young at the time and wondered how they would try to pull this off. To the surprise of no one who was a little older than me they simply didn‘t. The only thing that was pulled was the project itself.

This is the new gilded age with the difference every halfway sane person already knows it‘s not pure gold but shit covered in gold spray paint.

Ah Palantir. Named after the magic crystal orbs in Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings. They always show you the truth but encourage you to draw the wrong conclusions. I can‘t wait to see the Sarumans and Denethors the real life version will create…

Wow! Over 200.000 words spoken by over 130 actors does sound very ambitious. No wonder it takes that long.

I can see your point, though I belief it would probably be as superficial and soulless as an idol game as it is now. But I completely agree it‘s not a hill worth dying on. Inzoi in it‘s current form is a bit of a disaster and it will probably stay that way.

Someone introduce this person to indie games. It will shatter their world.

It‘s phrased „warns“ because it is just assumed that no one will eat. Because apparently that‘s a normal thing to assume in our society. That we‘ll all just starve to death soon.

I don‘t think we will but it‘s telling that a lot of rich and influential people do and are not only letting it happen but actively supporting it.

I don‘t think a K-Pop simulator would‘ve sold very well. Especially not in the west because a lot of it seemingly revolved around romantic relationships and keeping them secret at all cost. Even as little as being seen with the opposite sex in public is career suicide for an idol. That seems like a tough pitch for a game tbh.

Control is the most important thing to the CCP so it makes complete sense from their perspective. We would be free to buy into it but they would definitely force it on devices within China.

It would never occur to me to install CoD or Battlefield in the year 2025. So yeah, Guess I am lucky for having standards. Hopefully more people will realize there are other fantastic multiplayer games out there that run on a Steamdeck for example.

Capitalism is about juggling numbers, empty promises, exploitation, pump & dump and „HODL🚀🚀🚀“

They are a company run by individuals who haven‘t booted a game in this millennia and are only in it for the money.

And I will continue to not play their games.

Inzoi was dead on arrival in terms of quality already. It’s so half baked and barebones the AI crap only served as the moldy cherry on top. Some players have pointed out it was obviously a K-Pop idol simulator before they marketed it as a Sims game. There are still a number of interactions in that AI slop for an excuse of a game that only make sense in this context. Oh well, luckily we live in the golden age of Indie games and don‘t have to put up with this.

Some of them must have. Others are too detached from reality and busy telling their subordinates to put AI into smart beds to notice.

Probably not. At least not right now. But China needs one apparently.

I haven‘t encountered a Steam game that doesn‘t run on Linux so far. They very likely exist but anti cheat, third party account requirements, or an online connection while playing don‘t have anything to do with it as far as my games go. Same goes for GOG, Amazon Games and Epic Games on Heroic launcher. It just works as far as I can tell.

Which is why the free democratic world has to keep subsiding quality journalism that sticks to the facts. Sadly that‘s dying along with private newspapers because governments believe people just don‘t want it and it‘s not worth keeping. They treat it as entertainment and that‘s a huge problem because it‘s a pillar of democracy. Defunding it is dangerous.

As for games… well, there‘s plenty of ways and different mediums to consume games nowadays so it makes sense magazines are vanishing along with game events despite the medium being bigger than ever. Most of the older game news outlets have overstayed their welcome.

Tiny11 is how I did it on my dial boot system. Cleanest Windows Install I’ve had since Windows XP. But who knows if an update doesn‘t just install all the crap somehow still? I‘m mainly using Linux now because it just works.

If you chat on Xitter you‘re chatting with mecha Hitler.