Strobelt

I think you may be on to something here...

You're making the wrong questions here.

How can we use AI to stop or improve the stabbings? This is what get you a raise nowadays

Same thing happened with cable decades ago.

The public TV was full of ads and bad programs. Cable offered you pay them for no ads, good series and new movies. Then the prices rose, then the ads started, then the programs turned to shit as much or even more than before.

Streaming just went the same path.

It is made by scientists. The problem is that said scientists are paid by investors mostly, or by grants that come from investors.

The main difference I think has to do with how this is done. Marketing is much more aggressive. Think like Google ads where products appear in unrelated queries. Much more sensationalism and less information. While the article says gamers want to read actual reviews, comment on the game while being developed, etc.

This idea seems to be getting some steam. I'm all aboard it!

They could spinoff to rare metals like gold or silver, or even gemstones like sapphire or ruby. 👀

Aren't we already in a kind of dark age?

People denying science, people scared of diseases and vaccination, people using anything AI or blockchain as if it were magic, people defending power-hungry, all-promising dictators, people divided over and calling the other side barbaric. And of course, wars based on religion.

Seems to me we're already in the dark.

I always remember cartman about pre-orders. All you get is a big dick on your mouth

It's not about being worthy or not. It's about pushing a new status quo of being acceptable to have MTXs on a 70 USD game.

I'll take the obvious bait here. The issue is that paying for a full game should give you a full game. For now the MTXs are like you said, for small items and not game changing. For now.

If the gaming community accepts this, who knows what the next step will be? Maybe they'll be kept small, but maybe they won't.

Remember this is the the same industry selling horse armor, selling over 2k dollars of dlc in the Sims 4, shipping unfinished games after millionaire pre-orders, and selling dlc that fix day one problems that shouldn't even be there. And they do this because the community never questioned when they were small enough problems.

Exactly! Much easier just making something as "evil" than actually solving the issues around.

Children shouldn't be using their cells that much, but this is not solved by restricting access to it. It is solved by making communities and spaces child-safe and interesting for them.