Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: Strapinski

Quoting: JarmerNobody from the Bungie glory days are still around. The suits are running the show, and when this doesn't get instahit status, which it won't, they'll shut it down.

Nothing to see here, just a shambling corpse. Safe to move on.

Do you know where they went? I really played the game a lot and I still like many aspects of it. But over the last few years, you could just tell how little art, story, etc., mattered anymore. It became all about grabbing cash. But I’d at least be interested in seeing what the talented people who used to be at Bungie have put together now.

If we're talking the og Marathon, Myth, Halo, Oni ... the vast majority of those hyper talented people are either retired or dead. There are still a few I think related to some modern companies but not a lot. I don't even know if any originals are at 343 anymore.

The Microsoft acquisition (and then after that all the other garbage stuff with netease and sony etc) pretty much destroyed the company. There was no going back after the mass exodus from that era / layoffs.

Makes me feel old to realize that game developers from when I was young are probably mostly retired. Actually, it doesn't just make me feel old, it impresses on me how old the idea of personal computers is now.

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Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleCopyright law is very outdated for current technology.

So is capitalism. But if we're going to insist on capitalism, then within that framework I'm not sure what's going to stop anyone who creates anything from starving without copyright. We can fix copyright if we fix the overall system it's in.

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Somnia? Bet I could master this game in my sleep!

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Weird and interesting, but I feel like no matter what genre you're really not into, this game will have enough of it to stop you playing.

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On the copyright front, apparently researchers at Stanford tested the AIs from the main companies by prompting them with the first line of various books and asking them to continue the story verbatim. There were variants between engines on how sneaky they had to be with the query (Grok: not sneaky at all), but they pulled out 95% of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", "The Hobbit" and so on. All those engines would just give you chapter after chapter. This matters because the AI companies had repeatedly claimed that they don't actually store the texts they train on in any way (originally they also claimed they didn't pirate actual copyrighted books, either, but that got found out so the fall back was that they sort of didn't keep them). There's copyright lawsuits going on, so it may matter that it turns out they totally do store those texts they stole.

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I dunno. It says it's shipping with Calamares, but I don't see any Tsatziki.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksFuck Amazon. Their slogan may as well be "At least we're not Walmart!"

. . . And Walmart's slogan might as well be "At least we're not Amazon!" Twins, separated at birth, one screws you in meatspace, the other online.

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Quoting: ArehandoroUnfortunately the teaser doesn't say anything to me 😢

What a tease.

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Quoting: foobrewThe comment about Windows was far more shocking to me. I'd like to believe that after 30+ years the tide might be turning...but I'm not holding my breath. Seriously though, how is it possible that young people don't even question that they're running the same OS, just a newer version of course, that their GRANDPARENTS ran? Youth don't do this with any other product that I can think of. The unquestioning fealty to Microsoft is something I suppose I'll never understand.

Well, up until recently they might have not questioned it because they just didn't notice it. I mean, your OS (and where there's a distinction, your desktop environment) are kind of just a substrate you run your software on. And at this point the desktop environment is . . . sure, people innovate, but if you're not getting cute it's a pretty mature thing, so if it's done decently people are barely aware it's there. It's like how people don't rebel against how their grandparents used refrigerators.

On Windows, though, people are no longer barely aware it's there, because MS insists on making it get in the way. Lately it seems there are a ton of "I switched to Linux cuz Win 11 sucks so hard, so should you" videos on the internet. It feels like there's a shift happening.

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(Hugh Laurie as Prince Regent voice)
Well, hurrah!

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