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Have they sent out Dev kits yet? I know a game dev shoes making a VR game on steam and he’s had nothing but radio silence from valve.

No, not really. But if you don’t sell you don’t get a lot of money and mostly that’s what people want, that’s why the startup exists.

The problem with using AI textures is that at a glance they look like the real thing. So it’s not always easy for QA to spot that a texture hasn’t been swapped out. The thing is it’s also super easy to deal with that, you just put all the AI textures in a temporary folder and then when you think you already to ship the game, delete that folder and see if you get any bright purple broken textures showing up.

Most game engines will let you set the missing texture to be something truly awful and very obvious.

Because the Chinese government controls Chinese companies whereas the American government just lets companies do whatever the hell they want.

they’re embargoed by the US, so nobody on good terms with the US can get it.

So no one.

That’s my point though they can’t do that.

The market isn’t just going to wait around for them to get around to selling to consumers again. China is going to see an opening and they’re going to manufacture their own chips and make bank. Then when the traditional manufacturer is getting their head out of their arses then realise there market share has vanished. All 100% their fault.

They have decided to shoot themselves in the foot because someone’s convinced them they won’t ever need legs ever again.

I don’t understand what their long-term plan is here. Even if AI isn’t a bubble eventually all of the AI companies are going to get to a point where they don’t need more compute because they’re working on algorithmic optimisations because they decide that that’s cheaper.

Then they’re going to have to pivot back to the consumer market. Except by that point it won’t even be a consumer market because China will have eaten their lunch.

Do your evidence that this was a murder is limited only to something that even crystal healers would consider crack pot?

How much RAM does a time machine require because that seems to be the basic advice here.

My personal feeling about companies like this is that there is very little reason to assume that requesting my information be deleted will result in it actually being deleted. So at best I’m paying to be ignored.

If I could 100% guarantee that my personal information would actually be deleted upon request then sure it would be worth the money. But we all know that companies violate the law on a regular basis and nothing happens to them, especially if they’re US based. So why bother?

All that nonsense can just hit my spam filter like it’s been doing for the past 20 years. It’s not like I answer the phone to unknown numbers either, so I’m not sure what I’m paying for here.

Why even have a QA department if they just release the game anyway?

Yes and the examples you provided are so compelling.

Drones don’t pilot themselves humans do it. You’re not going to want to put on board processing on a drone it’s just going to increase the cost to limited tactical benefit. Plus without oversight you couldn’t take the chance it wouldn’t go completely haywire.

I’m not sure how it’s an arms race given the fact that it can’t do anything remotely useful.

The US has absolutely mad road to traffic laws. Zero concept of lane discipline, you driving whatever lane you feel like. Don’t understand roundabouts even though it’s just a curved road, it’s really not that hard. Still don’t have standardised pedestrian crossings even when other countries had them back in the 1920s. A red traffic light only means stop sometimes, but sometimes you can go if you’re turning right. No one obeys the speed limit, people regularly exceed it, and see no problem with that. And of course no one has separate indicator lights and brake lights because when would you ever slow down and go around a corner, definitely no need to engineer for that eventuality.

Yeah the sentence should really be rewritten as “to capture knowledge already accessible on the internet, and repackage it into an utterly pointless hallucinating RAM guzzling money pit”

Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don’t spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it’s on expensive yachts in Monaco. They’re not contributing to the economy in which they live.

The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.

Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn’t really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it’s mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they’re the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.

Do they mean latex gloves like you might use in a hospital or do they mean actual rubber gloves you would use for washing up. Need to makes any sense.

I had to send an email telling people that part of the installation process of a new application is that they need to restart the computer. Restarting the computer involves clicking the power button and clicking shutdown, closing the lid and then immediately opening it again is not restarting it.

The problem with that is what do you do if a game doesn’t match all of the tags, do you hide it or do you show it. How many of the tags does it have to match in order to be shown?

For example Teardown is a story rich, FPS with destruction mechanics. But it don’t have much in the way of weapons customisation, so do you want it, or not?