They came out in the last few months, starting right after the unity scandal

Its stack, it doesn’t matter what the question is, the answer is “fuck you for asking”

I’m no history buff but iirc wasn’t FDR doing an absolute fuckton to help the people, too?

In a perfect world, AI would be a supplementary tool that allows small-time players to participate in their field at similar levels to the corporations.

In the current world, AI is coming for EVERY job, eventually. You would think that means nobody has to work, but it will most likely mean nobody is ALLOWED to work.

Gamers demanding changes saying “it’s literally one line of code”

Any time I look at Facebook or X(formerly twitter), I see two sides of the same shit-smeared coin.

On Facebook, feels like a majority of the random comments I see are all scum of the earth, racist, sexist, fascist etc. Every post about a new marvel movie is filled with comments about how the movie is going to be ahit because of “forced diversity” and “wokeness” - any political post is all about how dems should die, or aoc needs to be murdered, etc. And it’s never just a few people, its dozens, with hundreds of likes and supporting comments.

On the other site, it’s mostly blue-haired “bleeding heart liberals” who are so liberal they’ve come full circle back to fascism. Trying to restrict people’s rights because they have some shitty ideas, or completely ruining people’s careers over a rumor.

Before social media, you would be forced into public places to have these conversations, and you’d be forced to interact and learn what people who don’t agree with you have to say and think, and that broadened your worldview. Now facebook and xitter just feed you into an algorithm and spit you out in a bubble with other people with the same ideas, because you’ll all agree and converse and engage more, because there’s positive reinforcement there, and from that point its a feedback loop slowly making you more liberal or conservative, when typically most people would fall pretty close to center, give or take some hot button issues like guns and babies.

They don’t care that you have a family. Executives commonly say things in their shareholder calls about “extracting more value” from people or something along those lines.

They don’t care if it’s one person or twelve, they just care that people are still buying their products, and that the revenue they gain with price gouging is higher than the revenue lost by people fucking starving and not being able to buy anymore.

One of the biggest things stopping me is that my partner loves to play fortnite so i play it with them a lot, is there anything to allow you to play EAC games? Iirc epic said they don’t want to account for security across every Linux distro

It’s not even about money anymore.

I’m not positive that the world is going to be a comfortable place to live in at all in the next 40-80 years. I can’t be sure it’s morally acceptable to bring a new life into the world just to struggle until death. I know if I were given the choice I would have rather just not have been, it’s not worth struggling forever just to barely get by until the game changes yet again and you get knocked back down to the peg you started on.

Tech forums in any sense.

If you’re tired of seeing the same questions, why are you here? You can just ignore them. But treating a newbie like an idiot for not knowing better just discourages people from getting into your thing and keeps you from meeting cool new people.

ESPECIALLY because a lot of these questions come from kids that literally haven’t had the chance to learn better yet. Just kindly point them where they need to go. It takes just as much time as telling them off.

Yeah I would need to see the “read more” here, all of these look fine but I’d never be surprised to see shit like cruise control or heated seats pop up on a paywall.

Advertising in general is a way for a person to show people they have a product worth buying, so the producer is able to make a living on it.

This argument isn’t even about consumer protections anymore, it’s just anti-business. I’d be completely with you if there were only giant FAANGS corps in gaming, but there are also small developers trying to make a living.

Also, the same example I’ve been using, I just now opened league, the homepage is defaulted to the latest patch overview. If you hit the play button you go straight to the lobby and from there into a match, all without seeing an advertisement. You’re making broad generalizations that only accurately describe some of the worst store models, and you’re generally acting like it’s a horrible thing for a business to pursue profits

By your logic, going to a store and looking at clothes is predatory and manipulative.

Subscription services rely on the customer forgetting and paying for something they don’t necessarily actively want, especially in gaming, not sure how thats such a better alternative than a cosmetic you can simply not purchase.

There is no psychological manipulation for a straightforward cosmetic purchase lol

Going into a cosmetic shop and purchasing the exact cosmetic that you saw and wanted is not gambling.

People complain even MORE about subscriptions. There is a very good reason that wow and ffxiv are some of the only games around that can make it work, or you can do it like fortnite crew but people will complain again if you don’t have enough content to create value on it.

Nothing wrong with a simple cosmetic store. They also allow other people to play without paying whatsoever.

And if it wasn’t clear, I’m not talking about loot boxes or gacha, at all. Those are gambling and predatory, and exactly why I said it’s disingenuous to lump every f2p game together for discussions like this.

Pretty disingenuous to attribute this to every f2p game.

Some developers don’t have money and wouldn’t be able to convince people to pay for their game right away.

People buying those skins are also exactly whats funding those games to keep going and developing, league of legends would have run out of money YEARS ago if it dropped on a standard $60 model.

Idc if it’s an unpopular opinion, complaining about ai voices in games is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever in my life heard people get upset about.

You DONT want game characters to be able to intelligently respond to events in game and the things you do? What??

This conversation should be purely concentrated around how they compensate the actors for using their voice as an AI training tool.

I don’t disagree with anything but I feel like GabeN said that before streaming and subscriptions took over.

Photoshop is an incredibly easy to use and powerful tool for creators - I’d be happy to drop like $200 on, for example, the 2024 version. I’m not happy to spend $10 or $30+ a month for life to use it, especially when they lock you in to a year subscription and charge you a fee if you cancel early so you literally can’t just sub only the month when you need it, it’s the whole year, period. I’ll just pirate or use photopea or whatever.

Similar for streaming. Netflix gave us the option to pay for more screens to watch on. Now suddenly it matters whose house it’s in?? All while you’re constantly removing value from the platform and you cancel anything decent if the production value is too high? Fuck you man I’m not paying like $30 monthly for that.