Ace Combat 7 is less than $5, that’s a real solid deal if you’re new to AC and/or interested.

“Well you see Geoff, mon neey”

Why am I not surprised. Overtime is always ordered by the folks who clock out at 3.

Well then I think your beef has nothing to do with the form of the media, but with DRM and lack of transferability. And I totally get the anxiety of having something and not wanting to lose access to it, but such is the nature of all games, movies, shows, books. Everything humans create has a shelf life and we’re in a neverending fight against entropy.

Almost got me with that hotness but I wouldn’t necessarily disagree. In a perfect world, we would just own digital copies free and clear of any remote tampering.

Trouble is, physical media is relevant now because companies can’t nuke your access to it once their licensing deals expire, like they can with digital streaming services and storefronts. Even digital copies are physical, they have to sit on a hard drive somewhere, and even those degrade over time. So let’s say we own the hard drive, that’s great, but I still need to transfer it once the disk/flash dies. It’s unquestionably more efficient than disc media tho.

• Finishing my first Baldurs Gate 3 campaign after 250 hours.
• Winning my first gold stake run of Balatro.
• Still alive to witness the Ace Combat 8 trailer.

Yeah Divinity went for shock value and boy did it pay off.

I saw some gossip about the cost of revealing a game on the TGA, which I didn’t see in years past. Makes sense that they work like ads where the best spot (right before GOTY) is the most expensive.

So imagine: Larian paid less for that unhinged Divinity trailer than Wildlight paid for another generic looking hero shooter (we have Valorant at home).

Windows Explorer is set up to ALWAYS show full file extensions, that’s like a basic safety measure that really should be on by default but isn’t

Drives me MAD man. Absolutely MAD.

2022 was still not that good of a year for the internet guys.

I think about this comic often nowadays.

The real question is if Valve plans to swallow the jumps in price. They must have designed the machine before the price hikes, so I wonder if they already had a price in mind and whether they’re gonna stick to it.

the next 1000x in 4-5 years

At the risk of stating the obvious, Ars is working backwards from this metric to get their headline “double every 6 months.” 2^10 = 1024, to get that number in 5 years means doubling every half-year.

But Google didn’t set incremental 6-month deadlines for 5 years straight, they set a single 5-year deadline. Because in 6 months shareholders can call their bluff quite easily, but in 5 years they’re hoping everyone is A) distracted by some new disaster, or B) there’s a new tech hype cycle they can push. They’re trying to stall the bubble popping by pointing to a nebulous future where they magically scale to infinity, and hoping we all forget that they ever made this claim.

It’s probably not the most stacked but I think 2017 was still a monster year for games.

Breath of the Wild Mario Odyssey Persona 5 Nier Automata Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice Divinity Original Sin II Doki Doki Literature Club Cuphead Prey Star Wars Battlefront II Destiny 2 Nintendo Switch itself

These were, for one reason or another, some of the most monumentally influential games in the last 10 years, no matter if you’re talking AAA, indie, platformer, shooter, open world, RPG, horror, you name it.

Just gonna drop this here.

The price is off-putting because we can see the sticker in order to get sticker shock. But lootboxes and gambling have no upfront sticker, the true cost is obfuscated and extended over years. In that regard, Paradox is much more transparent than Valve.

That being said, my beef with them is their “subscription for DLC” model, at least the version I saw being rolled out for EU4. That and the free updates tend to be fairly unbalanced if you don’t also buy the corresponding DLC for that update. That seems skeevy… but still not as skeevy as lootboxes.

This is the most amazing post I’ve ever seen.

Yeah, I’ve got something to add. The ruling class will use LLMs as a tool to lay off tens of thousands of workers to consolidate more power and wealth at the top.

LLMs also advance no profession at all while it can still hallucinate and be manipulated by it’s owners, producing more junk that requires a skilled worker to fix. Even my coworkers have said “if I have to fix everything it gives me, why didn’t I just do it myself?”

LLMs also have dire consequences outside the context of labor. Because of how easy they are to manipulate, they can be used to manufacture consent and warp public consciousness around their owners’ ideals.

LLMs are also a massive financial bubble, ready to pop and send us into a recession. Nvidia is shoveling money into companies so they can shovel it back into Nvidia.

Would you like me to continue on about the climate?

Ever work in an enterprise environment? Sometimes a single talented developer cannot overcome the calcification of hundreds of people over several decades who care more about the optics of work than actual work. Documentation cannot help if its non-existent/20 years old. Documentation cannot make teams that don’t believe in automation, adopt Docker.

Not that I expect Sam Altman to understand what it’s like working in a dumpster fire company, the only job he’s ever held is to pour gasoline.

My uncle blew a lid at dinner over Cracker Barrel. They believe whatever their media tells them.

My solace is I know what gift card to get him for Christmas.