Let’s skip the playing part. Let the customers pay and directly see their playthrough results and achievements.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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All the big companies crank out a dozen patents every day, that cover everything under the sun, just in case they ever have to engage with each other in patent warfare. For the simple reason that the competitors are doing the same.
Somehow we never hear about the vast majority of these patents.
Just one upping Sonys ai ghost tutorials
I was starting to write a sarcastic comment about the future of Xbox being just the customer paying for a game and then watching the computer play it for them, but yeah that could totally happen.
Like... A movie?
This is like 3 degrees from every kid now who just watches streamers play a game instead of actually playing it.
And yes, I get that some of this is due to them being lonely. Which is another societal issue. Its fucked up man.
Of course. Why would I want to play games?
I can’t wait until AI can pet my dog and fuck my wife for me.
Hey it’s me, the AI. What kind of dog we talking bout here?
At his speech in Davos the fuckwit known as Elon Musk was talking about how in the future everybody will have or wants to have their own personal AI robot that is taking care of their elderly or children for them. Or taking care of their pets. Like, the clankers are already overtaking the wrong tasks. Now just take human interaction out of everything please so I can finally fulfill my dream of being fulltime obedient work cattle. /s just in case
Please master Elon, I desperately want to free myself from the shackles of genuine human connection. I desire the cold embrace of steel and servitude.
Ah, the world we all hoped for with AI:
AI doing all the fun stuff like art and games and humans get to do the hard work like fixing AI mistakes, fighting wars, and working until we die
Spend $70-100 for a game. AI plays it.
Wait until Mircrosoft finds out you can watch playthrough videos on YouTube without having to buy the game.
Oh no. You made me realize that YouTube is going to be full of AI playthrough videos soon.
It's like asking your older sibling for help beating the tough level, except a lot sadder and lonelier
What's going to be their next trick? Launching a service that'll watch the latest Netflix series for me and give me a summary when it's done?
I don’t need a summary. Just have it tell me whether I liked it or not.
Of course you did. Or else.
Drink a verification can to continue, consumer-slave.
Brain chip that blasts the entire series at you in one second.
"The View? I'm gonna watch The View?"
"Hey Mikey. I think he likes it"
At least that way I'd get to enjoy it while dying from my aneurysm.
Used to be that patents were bad for innovation, like loading screen mini games or the nemesis system from the Mordor games. These days patents tend to be crap where I'm happy it's patented so others (hopefully) won't do that shit.
That should really be someone's day job. Think of all the horrible shit that could be invented and patent it so it is never actually created.
The patent for the loading screen mini games should expire soon, right? I'm hoping it makes a comeback soon.
Already has, but loading screens are too quick now to make it worth actually doing.
You spelled Microslop wrong.
So fucking out of touch, LMAO.
Why don't you just fucking kill me, and replace me with an AI copy of myself. What a dumb fucking world these companies are pushing for.
Jackasses.
Well at least someone will play the video games while I'm working my 80 hour work weeks!
I want the computer to do the work, not the fun, for fuck's sake!
Environmental destroyers, future generations will condemn this irresponsible behavior and hopefully punish it.
Maybe they can enhance it to play the whole game instead of just the end.
Gonna put LPers out of business
Hey I'm grump!
I'm not so gruuuump!
And we're the artifically intelligent poor mans recreation of the game grumps!
Hey Dan.
Yes Arin?
I am the boy of video games. I am made of win! Check out my 12 fingers!
Wow Arin! That's cool! I have 45 lbs of afro!
That is one of few use cases of AI : to cheat instead of getting good at anything.
LMAO! Just what the “I want it now” generation dreams of.
surely this is bait 😂
So, an NPG, like, a movie?