“as long as people spend less money on games overall things will be fine!” Easy to say when you’re retired from the industry. I don’t think anyone in the industry would appreciate the implications of that…

That is a fair point! That could be neat. Still not worth the environmental cost of using this technology, but interesting in a vacuum!

don’t worry, the AI can do that badly too!

developers have been working on this, but it doesn’t scale to games in the way you might think. For one, games have to communicate with data centers to process LLMs, so we will still have to deal with the lag of data transmission and processing. The other problem is that, in general, the AI are not very good. ChatGPT has all the hype because it is very convincing, but it does not actually know what it is talking about. Go ask ChatGPT to add up 5 multi-digit numbers and watch it fail at a task that your pocket calculator can complete in seconds. All these LLMs are doing is taking your input and spitting out a response that sounds correct based on how people usually respond to that input. In the context of a game, this means that any dynamic conversation you might have with an NPC would go flying off the rails in ways that would make a game feel broken and/or unfinished. Go watch the video in the linked article and make your own judgment.

Honestly, Jiménez Zorrilla’s article linked at the start of this interview seems way more interesting than the interview itself. Sadly, the evidence seems sufficent to say that shrimp have sentience akin to lobsters, and yet people still feel comfortable boiling lobsters alive. So if one is comfortable eating pig (which is very common), it is hard to imagine that same person ever caring about the well-being of a shrimp in their lifetime. At least vegetarians and vegans avoid shrimp along with everything else, i guess. poor little buddies.

So now the US president is openly threatening US citizens with denied entry at the border? Am I getting that right?

makes sense. Epic immediately started offering in-app store software, so other companies could implement Fortnite-like stores into their own apps in a way that bypasses Apple’s payment system. It’s plain to see that Apple will do everything they can to stop that from happening. Services are about 25% of Apple’s revenue, which means that if they lose most of that revenue stream, their profit margin is almost cut in half. Combine that with how much tariffs are going to cut into iPhone revenue, and now this is more like an existential fight for Apple.

well id is now owned by Microsoft, and Microsoft is a BDS priority target so honestly if you decide to sail the high seas for this one, I won’t tell.

I need to look Ella Purnell up

Yellowjackets is the big one! Sweetpea is a recent one that was pretty solid. She also voices Jinx in Arcane.

tbh i feel like that was less than a year ago, so this turnaround for Season 2 feels fast for me. But maybe because i’ve still been seeing Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell in everything.

interesting to discover that MAGA does have a line for what they are willing to accept. Up until this moment I truly thought he could say or do whatever he wants and MAGA would drink it down like castor oil. Also fascinating that Trump has brushed up against this line already, not even 6 months into this term. We are in for a long 4+ years…

well, that’s a big bummer. AbleGamers has clearly done an outsized amount of advocacy work in the industry, and it’s awesome that we have stuff like the Xbox Adaptive Controller. Way less cool if the entire org was rotten at the top. Some of these incidents make me wonder if Barlet even cared all that much about disabled folks.

The industry still struggles with basic accessibility options in a lot of games - many studios will implement a wide array of accessibility options, but they do the absolute bare minimum for each disability, such that it looks like they are being inclusive to the gamers that don’t actually use those options. Colorblind options are a common culprit. Basic color filters over the entire screen are insufficient for most colorblind gamers.

One wonders if Able Gamers would be tackling issues like this more directly if their founder had his eye on the ball (instead of having his eye on his coworkers’ breasts)

the right detains people for simply holding different political views and talking about them online. Meanwhile, the Biden admin couldn’t even be bothered to file the papers for Trump’s actual treason against the United States.

i think it makes sense to be skeptical. they’ve shown one game for it that seems neat but not revolutionary. I think this is just a case of “the switch 2 has to do something that the switch can’t do, besides running prettier games.”

tbh it seems okay except i’m not sure where the ring and pinky fingers are supposed to rest. The dual-mouse possibilities are very intriguing, but i remain cautiously optimistic. this vid didn’t change my feelings one way or the other.

The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags for drugs over the next month. If deals are not reached, Kennedy will be tasked with developing a new rule that ties the price the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries.

I’m struggling to understand how this would play out. CMS (Medicare/Medicaid) just says “this is what we’re paying now” and the pharmacies just accept that? I can’t help but feel like this will set off a chain reaction that will end in poor people unable to get their needed medications, as drug manufacturers withhold their product or something because this EO doesn’t have strong enough legal footing. Nothing Trump loves more than inflicting suffering on poor people.

transparent window for Qatar to see US government secrets

from the very first line of the linked article:

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will fine them $20 AUD (that’s roughly $13 USD).

exactly what i was gonna post. it’s hidden by default now and you can set a username to further hide that identity

it sucks that half of my favorite studios are now owned by a company that makes it’s money on literally killing people. i want to support the devs for the amazing games that they made but i don’t want my money supporting that heinous shit.