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.
You're really trying yourself in knots to try and blame the big bad corpos and no one else.
Yes they are shoving it in people's faces, and when the average person uses their default browser with a default search engine and searches on Bing and it uses AI in addition to a search index they are to blame, but every single user who intentionally seeks out ChatGPT or Copilot is also to blame.
It's a new technology, people are going to use it and burn energy with it and then eventually we will make a more efficient version of it as it matures, similar to everything else, including traditional search.
That's cool, free will doesn't exist, whats going to happen is going to happen. I've accepted that, so I might die poor, but you're the only one here with a chance of dying truly unhappy.
You know what's funny? What negative prompts you'd have to give an LLM to get it to respond the way you do.
So then you realize that it's not Microsoft burning that electricity, but individual consumers?
Oh do tell us again how you haven't used copilot without saying the words 'i haven't used copilot'. Stackoverflow's professional developer survey found that 70% of devs are using AI assistants, you think none of them have heard of an IDE or Intellisense before?
I'm just saying that at that point, when we're talking maybe 1% of 700,000 litres across an entire industry, then we have a lot of lower hanging fruit to save water. That amount of water is just flat out wasted at like a single industrial plant on a Tuesday.
Its utility to society is more than counterbalanced by the dangers that it and its unregulated expansion poses to that same society
People said the same things about computers for the same reasons. I'm glad we didn't listen to them.
If capitalism is a forest fire, than the industrial revolution was like hitting a cache of kerosene, computers were like hitting a cache of gasoline, and AI is like hitting a smaller pile of gasoline. Yes it will accelerate things, but that's it. It's not causing any new effects we haven't already seen.
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.