The only winning move is to stop using AI.

A slot machine literally just takes your money and you are left with nothing but having pushed a button for the pretty lights and fun noises.

What do you think video game cosmetics are if not pretty lights and fun noises?

This idea is either the best ever or the worst ever… Either humanity is saved or we are annihilated 2 seconds after giving every individual nukes.

Honestly, it’s a coin toss.

GDP is also kind of a scam.

“Alexa, play Suicidal Dream by Silverchair.”

“Contacting the Suicide Prevention Hotline…”

They are a natural monopoly. They didn’t use anti-competitive tactics to get to where they are. They simply had no competition for a very long time and now that they do, the competition fucking sucks and does not even try to be a better service, instead they all pull anti-competitive BS.

Lootboxes are pretty fucking awful tho, and this is one lawsuit they definitely deserve since they are the ones that pretty much invented and popularized the idea in the West (technically a Chinese/Japanese only game that never left the Asian market did lootboxes first).

They aren’t different. Both are a form of gambling. Same with blind boxes.

It’s not just the random chance; it’s the fact you need to pay every time you pull the handle like a slot machine.

Cosmetic or not, they are still mechanically the same as a slot machine.

It’s basically impossible to create conciousness when we don’t even fully understand what conciousness is or how it works.

I see tons of instances of you being an asshole, told to not be an asshole, and continuing to be an asshole leading to MANY bans across the whole of Lemmy. But there’s also a ton of removed comments baselessly shitting on Muslim people.

Warranted bans. The only unwarranted ones are getting banned from the pro-GenAI comms for being anti-AI and not even using those communities to begin with.

Umbrella Noodles turned my wife and children into flesh eating monsters. Nissin Cup’o’Noodle never did that. I am suing Umbrella Corp. for damages.

But… those other storage mediums can also get damaged, burn, rot, etc and are also less portable (excluding the SD cards anyway).

Except that one cool thing with AR is being able to have it tell what you’re looking at is. Not just positioning things in space. A lot of cool shit that could be done with AR, like real time text translation, object identification, etc needs some kind of camera, even if it just sees IR light. Lotta cool shit needs a microphone, too.

I had ro RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb

So like… Fast, but not super fast because you’re afraid of blowing up? 🤔

Was thinking the same, but more in that consoles are basically low-mid level PCs and the games have to be built using PCs to begin with so it might just seem redundant specifying the work on games that would also release for PC even tho the target hardware is gonna be the console market.

They were hacking cars with any kind of computer in them and even able to remotely control some newer models at the time when I was in high school. 20 years down the road, car makers have not done anything to improve security against such hacks, and also have added more computerization.

Hothead Games was a Vancouver-based studio which developed such titles as Penny Arcade Adventures and DeathSpank, before moving onto mobile games. It went bankrupt in late 2024.

Shouldn’t have moved to mobile. 🤷‍♂️

The site says the studio is open for work for hire full game development, on mobile or console games.

Uh oh…

Wheb you say offline, do you mean literally or just not multiplayer?

Because a ton of F2P games are basicslly that these days. Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero, Arknight: Endfield, etc. They are essentially single player MMORPGs. But they DO need to be connected to the internet despite that so…

What do you do if they drop trou?