I mean it sounds like we are in agreement then, that this works better for companies than it does for individual/retail investors.

…j-just… just gimme s-s-some gains bro, I need more GAINS!

I NEEED LINE GO UP!

I NEED IT BAD, MAN!

… you g-got any gains bro? P-please!

Try to apply that logic to any of Elon’s stocks.

Like, I generally agree with you, but… no one can possibly do any kind of analysis on TSLA, and Elon, and conclude anything other than:

Everything about this is completely insane and makes no sense.

Oh hi I’m Elon Musk, my car company only exists because of tax credits for EVs, and I just spent a squagillion dollars to elect a guy who will cancel those.

Oh, also, we build C3POs now, not cars.

Even though they’re decades behind already existing humanoid robots, being built by another car company (Hyundai), who acquired an actually ground breaking an revolutionary robotics firm (Boston Dynamics).

Also, please given Elon a squagillion dollars, to incentivize him to keep performing his super duper CEO magic.

… fucking what? He’s an actual madman, not a suave and calculating Bond villain, he’s a fucking lunatic!

… Does any of this not qualify as ‘management is going to do dumb shit?’

(also i am not sure if ‘manglement’ was an intentional joke or unintentional misspelling, but that will now be the word I am using in place of ‘mismanagement’, hahah!)

… Yeah… yeah.

Yeah that pretty much is the actual answer.

… That kinda sorta works for companies, not so much for people looking to make some kind of probably leveraged bet.

… I didn’t downvote you, but uh, no, I really don’t think they can.

I think you are confusing an semi-automable asset pipeline that adheres to various kinds of standards for… a whole lot more than that.

I’d really like to see any evidence that what you seem to be describing actually exists.

Because if it does, and is or has been in widespread use for any amount of time prior to now… well very broadly, it would seem to be hurting more than helping things.

… stool samples?

… kinda difficult to ship physically, but we could all just literally provide a daily shit post, just so you know how regular we all are, potentially screen for internal bleeding or a few conditions.

If you like holding an empty bag, this is a great strategy.

Any body else a fan of pinot grigio?

Roughly an average 10% drop in major gaming stocks, because a plagiarism machine can produce one minute of 720p, 24fps ‘gameplay’ at an absolutely astounding compute cost.

These people are all fucking idiots.

Therr is no universe where this even makes sense under a ‘a games are streamed’ paradigm.

This is like 100x to 100,000x the cost in hardware and energy, to produce a minute.

Do these fucking idiots think a game can just be wholly reinstantiated every single minute?

It actually would have made more sense to fine tune an LLM to interface with an API layer for Unity or something, to just… you know, produce an actual game?

Call that the uh, the processed training data/output condensed into a distilled an efficient piece of software, the ‘local’ model, if these clowns understand nothing but jargon.

I truly cannot comprehend the mind numbing level of stupidity on display here.

If that much investor money can be swayed by this utterly pitiful demonstration, then all these game stocks deserve to go to near 0, because clearly the people in charge (the investors) understand literally nothing about video games.

This is utterly asinine.

What happens if/when all of the plagiarised games start suing Google for IP infringement?

How is everyone involved at every step of this so utterly mentally impaired?

I mean, alternatively, you could hook yourself up to saline bag, a catheter, and then have some kind of extremely serious filtration system that recycles the same water.

I guess at least you would potentially have to change the filters less often than you’d have to empty the piss bottles and shove water in your face hole.

(Please for the love of god do not attempt this, there are so many potential infections and ways you could posion yourself)

People need to go watch or rewatch “The Second Renaissance” from the Animatrix.

(Uh, NSFW gore warning)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sU8RunvBRZ8

Well best of luck with a refund attempt, I guess?

I was once hopeful for it too, but I never actually played or spent money on it.

When they switched to the kind of ongoing, pay a stupid amount of money for the privilege of being an alpha tester thing, because you’ll get exclusive stuff that’ll be either impossible or very difficult to get in the early game… that kind of StarCitizen-like funding…

…at that point I wrote it off as “best case: development hell forever, worst case: eventual total implosion.”

It still is sad to see though, it really does seem like there will never be another major MMO that is any kind of compelling or novel, that isn’t monetized p2w … it apparently just costs too much money to develop one.

On that note: I wonder if the MxO emulator is still being developed…

EDIT: Apparently no, not really.

… major Cave Johnson vibes from this one.

Maybe you’ll get superpowers, maybe your blood will turn into gasoline. Not sure. Science!

It does very much annoy me that, yeah, its always been possible to do this.

I believe Claim A! Claim A deniers are bad, smell bad, and are probably also demons!

EDIT: Welp, looks like Claim A is dubious, thanks to user so and so for setting me straight, see their explanation below.

Yeah you have always been able to do that or something very close to it on basically every forum or social media type thing ever.

But… you are probably right that if you give people a mea culpa flag as a built in part of the UI/UX, that would almost certainly spur more people to do it.

… Its still terrifying to me that a large segment of people would need such a button to exist before they would be ok doing it.

I guess this isn’t a case where the sort of ‘desire path’ solution manifests and is then maybe formally adopted, seems like you’d have to basically social engineer humility into people.

I hate that this would probably work, in the sense that it isn’t just DUH obvious to everyone already that they don’t need a button specifically for this, but I also love that this would probably work.

I can imagine a ‘year end wrap up’ where you get to see all the stuff you said that you decided was stupid.

Then I guess just pair it with some kind of affirmative message of ‘hey, you’re trying to admit your mistakes, and that’s probably good’.

Its less deceptive than trying to delete shit dumb stuff, as… everyone can still see you did say it, but realized it was bad.

I’m not yet aware of any specific, unimpeachable evidence of that yet,… but this would also be entirely unsurprising at this point.

Another thing there isn’t any specific unimpeachable evidence for, but that I am strongly inclined toward believing:

Trump was the one who ordered Epstein killed.

Yeah people consistently forget this, and will say things like ‘Valve isn’t even doing any marketing for me!’

No, they are.

Its just that its on their platform.

Via their categorization and recommendation snd review systems.

As opposed to… other pay to win ad platforms that shove ads in peoples faces depending on how much money you throw at them.

Also, while this is more of a minor point, Valve’s cut drops to 25% for games sales past $10 million, 20% for game sales past $50 million.

Been that way for 7 or 8 years.

I’ve now lost multiple entire weekends to trying to figure out how to just download assets from FAB, on linux.

Finally, they just made a direct option on the website to just download files, you know, like a normal download.

Prior to that, you basically had to install or compile and install UE5, to be able to download some asset.

… This doesn’t work well, because as you say, UE 5 is horrifically borked and improperly documented on linux, they can’t even figure out how to list all the dependencies you actually need, and thats on the linux versions they claim to support.

TIL that Tim Fortnite does not consider Sony or Nintendo to be ‘major stores’.

TIL that the video game industry has never had nor currently has titles that are priced exclusively on certain platforms.

(Where ‘its only available for purchase on one platform’ is an effective price of infinity on other platforms)

Just… from the article:

“Steam’s rules do explicitly prohibit games from steering players to competing purchase methods, forcing everyone to pay 30% to Valve,” he [Sweeney] recently tweeted. “Apple and Google did the same until the court explicitly found this practice to be unlawful. Now they don’t!”

It’s not clear exactly what rule Sweeney’s referring to here, but Steam’s own guidelines state that “it’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.” Though Valve would also prefer that developers “don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam key purchasers.”

It’s almost like this guy is malding, crashing out even, and has just… departed from the realm of even trying to make sense.

What is happening here is that Tim is losing his mind because Unreal Engine 5 only runs on GPUs (mostly from Nvidia) that cost as much as an entire PC did 2 or 3 years ago, and so many AAA studios that used UE 5 to make a pretty but hollow and buggy game are now collapsing or seeing a dramatic consumer pullback.

See how this is all connected, and these idiots did this to themselves?

Nvidia decides that Real Time Ray Tracing is the new paradigm for gaming graphics, and Unreal is the primary way people will experience this, by having all the lighting be done ‘auto-magically’ by UE 5, from the perspective of game devs.

Fastforward 5 or so years, half of everything computer hardware is too expensive now, hugely funded AAA games are routinely failing and causing financial disasters for publishers, Unreal Engine 5 is a hugely stigmatized joke because its not any kind of optimized for hardware people actually have, and outside of AAA games, is notorious for low quality UE asset store flips and actual scam games…

…this paradigm doesn’t work.

Compare that to Valve pretty close to singlehandedly developing its own VR hardware, and showcase AAA tier game for it… and well hey shucks, yeah, its too expensive for wide adoption, but that didn’t ruin their entire business’s financials.

They just actually properly accounted for the costs of trying that paradigm shift, and are today still iterating on and improving it, ala the upcoming SteamFrame and new software layer for translating ARM to x86 calls.