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In that I can take a picture of them and you wouldn't notice or be impacted by it?

Man this is fucking asinine. No one hates you. Certainly not the actual researchers and engineers building these products.

Capitalism fucks over everyone who's not immediately useful. AI is just modelling algorithms after neurons and discovering that that lets us solve a whole new class of fuzzy pattern matching problems.

The two of them together promises to fuck us over even more because that was one of the main things that we used to be better than computers at, but the solution is not remove the new technology from the equation, it's to remove the old and broken system of resource allocation that has and continues to fuck us no matter what.

You're describing how human beings learn and create.

No. It's only illegal if you republish what you scrape. Absolutely nothing prevents any company from scraping the web and using that information internally.

Really excited. Obsidian is one of the best studios around.

Even Grounded, a silly, b-team, honey-I-shrunk-the-kids game, had a surprisingly well written and compelling story that had me tear up at one point.

Imagine if they pitch it as Cyberpunk 2, complete with huge tech trees and stuff, so you start homeless thinking that you'll grind your way up to a body modded god like the first one, but the actual realities and difficulties of being homeless mean that it's impossible to ever crawl your way out, and at the end you realize that the only win condition you can hope for isn't progression, but just survival. Now there would be a bleak artistic statement on capitalism, that would be hated by every player and make none of its money back.

But you don't have to do those. I basically only ever do them by accident.

Yeah, I'm mid way through my first play through and the lack of birds and animals just feels lazy / a tech limitation covered up by lazy writing, not a real thing to care about that corpos did.

Otherwise the corpos in the story so far don't seem that crazy bad or evil. Most of the time they enter the story it's just you stealing something from them and then trying to get it back.

Honestly, GTA V had far more pointed social / political commentary thus far, even if this is a much better overall story.

No, this is just cynical and mean-spirited.

It was an individual developer talking on the podcast about what he wants the game to be, there's no reason to think he doesn't feel exactly the same way you do.

If you're going to be cynical, be cynical about whether or not that messaging would make it through the layers of corporate beurocracy until it's published, not whether the individual wants to do something meaningful, most do.

No, in this case it's the same problem.

We're talking about banning DJI because the Chinese government subsidizes manufacturing useful things, whereas the US' approach to corporate policy is to ban anything that prevents a billionaire from getting richer, and now the US is mad that China mysteriously got a better drone industry.

Either the US should reform itself until it prioritizes building useful shit cheaply instead of enriching finance industry assholes or it should shut. the. fuck. up.

Always weird to see "Microsoft in damage control mode, when like 98% of Microsoft employees see literally no difference from the day before.

I heard the latest preview was on Tatooine and immediately soured to the point of curdling.

I cannot express this clearly enough: Fuck Tattooine.

We've seen it. It has been done. Its a desert planet with less character than Dune. We get it. Enough. Stop with the Tatooine already, we don't need anymore tattooine. I hate Tatooine so fucking much, I don't care how easy sandy rock is to render, tattooine can burn in a pit until you're ready to make another pod racing game.