LordMayor

Epic about to sue somebody.

Huh. I wasn’t going to buy it at all. Now, I’m not sure. Damn.

Amazing how much they will try to bend reality to their conception rather than the other way around. It’s a mental illness

But, if you’re a CEO, and lawyer tells you, “no, the contract is solid. Honor it,” what are you to do? Why, ask an agreeable LLM for an answer that conforms to your world view because, obviously, you’re right because you’re the CEO.

I loved Subnautica. I’ve replayed it more than any game I own. I got it for free from Epic (the only way I get games from Epic). I bought it for Switch. I bought Below Zero. The franchise was shaping to be a “here, take my money” deal.

I don’t want Subnautica 2. I mean, I want a Subnautica 2 not Krafton Subnautica 2.

I reserve some blame for the original owners/devs. If they hadn’t sold out, if they had followed more of a Hello Games model, they could’ve coasted indefinitely churning out cool games to loyal fans.

I don’t think Epstein is that big a factor in this. Maybe, for Trump personally but there’s bigger ideological motivations. The autocratic/fascist people behind Trump get a lot out of this, at least they think they will. They will attempt to suspend elections and put more power into the presidency. They don’t care who is president because that person will be beholden to oligarchs.

Then, you have the right evangelical end of the world loonies who are also influential in this.

This isn’t going to be like Iraq. Iran probably can’t withstand a full on assault/invasion but they have enough firepower and tech to make it hurt. This is going to be more like Vietnam than Iraq.

Any company with a functional board of directors would have fired the CEO yesterday.

This is not a legitimate business. Institutional investors should be running away from this company.

“I wanna look like the poster boy for alcohol fetal syndrome but for rich people.”

I think that’s what they mean by “on the surface”. If he had just kept the cringe quiet and stayed out of politics, he could have pushed the envelope on electric cars, rockets, robots, etc. and a majority of people would have been happy to see him do it. He had two things going for him: enormous wealth and a desire for cool tech.

He could have had as many stupidly named babies as he wanted, seethed about trans people and have time to actually get good at video games, all from the luxury of his many homes and jets. All he had to do was let his PayPal money get to work in his chosen tech industries and keep his personality out of it.

The world might have progressed a little, even. His companies would be better off. Many of us would have bought Teslas. The Cybertruck would never have happened. Twitter would… well, Twitter would still suck but it would be someone else’s fault.

That’s in rule #1 on this community.

There have several reports recently of Netflix pressuring writers/directors/producers to create shows and movies tailored to distracted consumers. Basically, telling them to repeat plot points in dialog so that people ‘watching’ while doing other things can keep up.

I’d put that in the evil category along with advertising and media company consolidation.

This will be a glorious failure.

Fucking delusional twat. Either he’s on some serious drugs or this is some PR bullshit made to sound like he’s genuinely worried that Nobel laureate-level AI is right around the corner so that people will throw more money into his pocket company. Or both, could be both. But, I think he’s simply an asshole.

It’s simple: anything that Peter Thiel doesn’t like is the Antichrist.

They all look like a bunch of people cosplaying, badly.

The only thing I respect about Tim Sweeney is that he has enough money to buy better looks but still looks like that. I mean, yeah, he looks like an insufferable dork/prick but he could afford to look like an insufferable dork/prick with hair, designer clothes and roided physique.

I wonder if Korean law requires such specificity for other situations.

It’s kind of like saying when a person dies of cardiac arrest in the ER no one can blame the car crash that put them there. Maybe they would have suffered cardiac arrest when they got home. 🤷

Oh, are we doing thin clients, again?

I think once a generation thin clients come up as a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.