YouTube continuing to advertise to children while claiming otherwise

It’s the Emperor’s New Clothes. Their perceptions of reality are so warped, that they think they look great

As long as the Clown episode doesn’t come on 😨

The other people interviewed answer those questions if you keep reading

“It really weighed on the creativity of my role, and again, spat in the face of my expertise”, [Ricky says]. “It wasn’t just this though; the tool itself lacks the intent, context, and limitations of what we’re doing. It doesn’t have other aspects of the project, influences, references, or personal experiences in the back of its mind, because it doesn’t have a mind. Whenever we design something for a game, it’s drawn from somewhere, influenced by other things, and filtered through our own experiences as a human. These AI ideas lose ALL of that…"

“What follows from these discussions is me explaining why, usually over hours rather than minutes, that these tools have no place in a professional game development pipeline or production and actually hinder the development of visuals”, Francis says. “I also find myself explaining to them how the iteration and ‘idea’ phase of a project is where the best stuff happens, how exploring things through artistic labor is where your best ideas come to fruition, and why would we want an AI (that we don’t even own) to do that for us with art that isn’t ours to use?”

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Per to the report, three games led the way for the growth of microtransaction revenue: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Roblox, and Fortnite.

The 58%, or $24.4 billion, represented a slight 1.4% year-over-year (YoY) growth in that area.

So, nothing new. Fortnite continues to make bank. Not a surprise.

I’d be interested to see what kinds of other games the people making the majority of these purchases play

Don’t forget formaldehyde and calf’s brains in milk!

If he’s not arguing to improve it, he’s arguing that it shouldn’t exist at all, which is worse.

We must move away from binary tales of catastrophe, not towards naive utopianism that ignores problems and risks that comes with change, but hopeful solutionism that reminds us we can solve and mitigate them…

I don’t like Black Mirror, but I would never say that there’s no place for it. It obviously resonated with a lot of people, and it was probably an entry into the genre for a lot of new sci-fi fans. Very ‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’

It definitely reads like a criticism of Black Mirror to me

Black Mirror fails to consistently explore the duality of technology and our reactions to it.

Absent is the plot twist of Pandora’s box that made it philosophically useful: the box also contained hope and opportunity that new knowledge brings.

Black Mirror didn’t fail to do those things, it wasn’t interested in them

I don’t like Black Mirror. I think it’s generally lazy and sensational. But what this person is saying is not a valid criticism, it’s like saying the Bee Movie would have been better if there had been an extended car chase. Louis doesn’t want to improve the show, they want something else entirely.

If you want a contemporary forward-thinking scifi, check out author Becky Chambers!

I work for an ISP, and this is a common practice among my peers

People read the subject line, assuming it’s not longer than about seven words, and then the first 30%, and last 15% of your email, in my experience. You can increase this by adding line breaks and bullets. In my experience, the best responses come from a short paragraph, followed by a couple bullet points, then a couple sentences, then your salutation/signature. I try not to write anything longer than that.

Top - Past 6 Hours is what I prefer. Keeps it fresh, but filters out a little of the spam

Maybe I’m just an old man now, but it’s been years since I was interested in a game with lootboxes. I think the last one I played was Overwatch, back when it originally came out

We have these in Lansing MI too! Part of the Satanic Panic back in the 80s involved kids playing D&D down in parts of the steam tunnels under MSU, which, I’m told, is much harder to do now unfortunately

I have procrastinated the switch this far, I’ll be damned if my laziness gives in now! Lol

… Meta’s security systems were unable to identify…

I think you mean incentivized to ignore

As far as I know, that’s pretty much stuck around. I think it’s a game where you kind of need to embrace the jank

And with the exception of the first, commonplace for a long time.

I would also argue the first use is actually a process flaw if implemented. That’s a great way to make sure no one reads emails, and all kinds of information is lost

Now we’re going to have to go north for medicine and graphics cards

Glad to know it’s not just me. I love his books, but I’ve bounced off of the show twice now