That is one of the worst names I’ve seen…

And I say this as someone who played the US version of RollerCoaster Tycoon and saw the localization team at MicroProse renamed the Launched Freefall ride the “Whoa Belly.”

If Cyberleek isn’t shitposting out of his ass and actually has a deadman’s switch which could leak the build in its entirety online, then this could be a very dumb move on Take Two’s end. The authorities would need to go full Ross Ulbricht on his ass and hope they can control the switch.

What’s even sadder is that T2I and Rockstar have been such greedy litigious fucks over the years that I’m genuinely rooting for a crypto scammer who has used this entire leak to promote his shitcoin over them.

Just the fact that the GTA6 Extended Look will be a timed Netflix exclusive gives me the ick. That’s one step removed from releasing game trailers as exclusive PPV events.

If we’re gonna start treating game reveals like UFC and WrestleMania then I’m out.

The only reason I even have EGS installed is for the occasional free game they offer. But also Kingdom Hearts. I bought the trilogy on PC long before a Steam release was even announced, and I thought that if Tim Sweeney managed to convince Disney and Square-Enix to finally give the franchise a PC release then he must have thrown ludicrous amounts of Fortnite money to secure exclusive distribution rights.

Will be great if I can get their launcher and games running far more easily on my Steam Deck…

Meta’s push towards virtual and augmented reality has clearly been a massive failure from the billions they invested into the “metaverse” only to come up with a shitty VRChat clone that lasted mere months. Meanwhile the only reason they’re really in the news lately is because they stole Google’s failed smart glasses concept, paired up with Ray-Ban and made the ultimate tool for creeps to record and harass women without their consent.

Valve are wise to poach their talent who have undoubtedly been throigh wave after wave of mass layoffs. The only other more significant hire they could have made other than Amanda would have been somehow bringing the fourth-dimensional being housed in a meatsuit known as John Carmack on board. But he’s busy with AGI.

Hate to disappoint you, but their EBITDA looks fucking solid.

Unfortunately being an asshole and a Tintin-looking snake has worked wonders for Spez and his bank account.

I got a warning for replying to a comment on the r/WTF subreddit about the legality of using lethal force on a home intruder literally bashing your door down with a rifle, which basically read like “fire a warning shot, if theh dont back down, pew pew pew”

(In retrospect it was bad advice. I’m from a country that heavily restricts guns. Warning shots are a bad idea as many pointed out to me.)

Penalty upheld on appeal. These cucks genuinely believe I’m glorifying violence.

I am very tempted to pull the UK GDPR card on them, which would restrict them from using my data to make fully automated decisions and escalate it to an ICO complaint. AI got an infraction on my account and to know I’m one step away from a suspension or permanent ban is unsettling.

I’d turn that vote tally into a six-seven “joke”, but that would require more critical thought than what every politician put into drafting and/or voting that law through Congress.

Understandable omission. It was only really in use in PAL regions.

The industrial revolution created loads of new jobs in manufacturing, logistics, distribution, procurement and transport.

The digital revolution created loads of IT, cybersecurity and programming jobs.

AI removes most if not all the human labour from the equation if it functions properly. What new jobs has the AI revolution created or will create? Because last I checked, “prompt engineer” is not a job title. I can’t even find any fucking jobs for it anywhere from a LinkedIn search.

(sigh)

I’d prefer tech-bros pushing crypto, Web3 and NFTs to something that can actually cause mass unemployment and societal collapse.

And AI may wipe out a huge number of the rest. I genuinely can’t possibly fathom how it will do anything but exacerbate every single one of society’s problems.

I can see things going one of two ways:

1. Society gets its shit together, uses AI, robotics and sweeping economic reforms to build new infrastructure and create an abundance of resources. Housing shortages, hunger, thirst and famine become a thing of the past, we move towards a post-scarcity utopia.

2. The far more likely scenario. Mass unemployment leads to civil unrest, quelled through violence.

I think it’s only a matter of time.

Waymo already exists in some parts of the US and is being trialled in Atlanta and London. Miso Robotics already can automate manual work in kitchens and have their bots rolled out in fast food chains like White Castle. Claude is miles ahead of competitors in terms of output quality, and there are probably a lot of AI slop content creators making absolute bank from YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

Optimus 3 will be released soon and at a predicted price of $30,000 per robot, it could potentially lead to mass layoffs in warehouses. Because remember, robots don’t get tired, don’t need food, don’t need water, don’t need to piss, don’t need to shit, won’t complain about OSHA violations, and don’t need a paycheck. All that matters is work quality and price

According to some accounts, China are apparently even further ahead than the US in terms of AI and robotics, but they’re deliberately holding back their rollout of humanoid robots and self-driving vehicles because they know a wide rollout will lead to mass unemployment and civil unrest.

A big part of the reason AI spend is so expensive is because there’s this huge arms race to throw gargantuan amounts of computing power in the hopes of achieving AGI that way. While I think AGI may be bullshit and unachievable, I think they’ll eventually turn a profit once they stop focusing on throwing trillions at data centres.

At this point I’d prefer the Chinese routers.

Ummm…

Based China

All the more ironic when you realise that some of the big businessmen and lobbyists pushing for mandatory age verification checks are in the Epstein Files. Basically the kind of people who you don’t want to be thinking of the children…

ABAB includes Taylor Swift.

If that’s a serious question, 34/M/Bristol.

In the context of online dating, I actually agree with implementing the same level of KYC checks that banks and credit card issuers have adopted. I also think the FTC needs to step in and break up the monopoly Match Group has created.

All of these platforms are littered with fake profiles, scammers and foreign women searching for the means to a green card. It’s made them practically unusable.

Google tried to break regional US monopolies with Google Fiber, which to my surprise is still going despite Google’s best efforts to kill off projects that aren’t immediately successful and is active in 19 US states or around 40 different cities.

The only way I can see this catastrophe ending is one of three ways:

1. Satellite internet - Elon Musk would need to massively drop the price of Starlink to encourage others to switch, or a competitor would need to pop up and offer similar service at a lower price point, likely through Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic.
2. The US collectively vote the Republicans out of office by a landslide and bring in a left-wing Democrat leader. Won’t happen for so many reasons.
3. Mesh networks. Something like Freifunk but on a much bigger scale.

Very likely. A lot of US states, Australia and France have introduced such laws.

In just one night, I had lost a lot of the communities I interacted with over the years. Besides, you might hate Reddit (and rightfully so) but atm its too mainstream and widely used, and there sadly isnt a better alternative for a platform where you can access forums for any sort of niche topics, ask questions etc… Many of these are not available elsewhere, not even here.

If it’s any consolation, sites like Geocities, Slashdot, Digg, Tumblr, Twitter and Myspace were once mainstream. Reddit will fall, especially if Spez continues to drive that place down the shitter.