I honestly don’t know how they’re so disconnected from reality. To in the same statement within 2 paragraphs say they both want to be more focused on the gamer, and immediately then say “More GenAI, more recurring payments, more Games as a Service”. I just, I don’t know man. I don’t want layoffs but man they really just don’t get it do they?

Yeah so, we know gamers have hated our stuff because of these horrible shitty practices - but, and hear me out, what if we did that stuff even more, don’t even mention things like great stories and fun worlds or anything gamers have been asking for, and also laid off most of our staff and forced return to office too?

Ubisoft founder and CEO, Yves Guillemot, said the company must pursue a “radically new” value-creation model and become a more “gamer-centric” organization to find its footing in an increasingly competitive and selective triple-A market.

Good! Realizing it needs to be about the gamer again not just shareholder value.

“The new operating model will further empower the execution of the Group’s strategy, centered on Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences, supported by targeted investments, deeper specialization, and cutting-edge technology, including accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI,” reads the document.

Oh god damnit nevermind, the boycott continues

Lovers in a dangerous spacetime was a ton of fun! Very adorable, simple mechanics, plays on one screen, and not too hard. Also came out over 5 years ago so win win

Asus has always just chased after the short term goals. This reminds me when they suddenly made android tablets, and mini pcs, and every stupid tech fad. They’re always after the latest fad, they release a subpar product, and then it fizzles.

Kai Leng - ME3

Not a happy place to be for sure

I hear the first screenshot.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

Don’t. I think it honestly has a place. Now that place is vastly different from what business bros think it is, but it does have a place. I think writing tests is a great reason, and it’s a good double check. Writing documentation is good, and even writing some boilerplate code and models. The kicker is that you need to already be an engineer to use it, and to understand what it’s doing. I would not trust it blindly, and I feel confident enough to catch it.

It’s another tool in our belt, it’s fine to use it that way. Management is insane though if they think you’ll 10x. Maybe 2x.

Exactly, they join d the main networks and instances, who hate the Al right trolling, anger, and hatred, and have defederated all of them. They’re still out there, isolated and alone, b cause we all chose we didn’t want to sit here and listen to their drivel.

Because it was their fault of course!

Of course it is. Anything that does even moderately well the executives start thinking not just franchise, but universe

I’ll give it a shot!

God I’ve tried three times to enjoy no man’s sky and I just can’t. It’s just endless grinding, no real reward for it, and no way to automate any of the tasks so you can move onto more fun things

Surprise! You get your surprise spoiled by some rag article site. Aren’t you surprised?!

Wait they complain about the volume issues while also not using their soundbar?!

Simply that you’re spending more time watching their content instead of something else makes them more money

People are out there getting scammed into buying the shittest panels available and now the media itself is being compromised because they’re the biggest market.

I sold TVs at best buy now 15 years ago and this was it. It didn’t matter if it was 20 dollars more, I’ll say at least 70% of the people I talked to would not be interested. It’s cheaper? Sign me up. “But for 20 dollars you can have an actual good tv, with like, a good picture and everything”. Nope, they’d happily leave with their crap. Please just save for one more month, come back, and buy something worth the money instead of throwing it away on garbage.

What’s even worse is sound. I hear so freaking often “they’re making the sound terrible” “I have to constantly turn it up and down”. 99% of the time when I ask them what they did for sound they say “I just use the TV speakers”. Well there’s the freaking problem! You’re listening on speakers that are slightly better than those you’d find in a tablet. TV makers will make it as cheap as possible, and speakers don’t sell TVs. I’m not even saying do something like surround sound, just something that was made with sound in mind like a sound bar, hell even computer speakers are going to be better than the pieces of tissue paper they call speakers in your TV. You go buy any sound device, even a cheap soundbar, and the quality will go up. Again though, people will just complain, say it’s horrible, and even when presented with a very reasonable option, they will opt to save a few bucks. Even if it’s an investment they’ll be sitting in front of for years, nope 20-100 bucks more is not worth it.

I haven’t seen stranger things on my C… something, but I do remember tuning it quite a bit, making sure HDR was enabled and I calibrated with dark images for a while.

That being said, going back to Netflix, they’ll happily sacrifice quality for a better bitrate. I usually buy the Blurays

This is one of those things that you know something looks wrong or cheap, but you don’t know why. Once you know though you can’t unsee it, and it’s absolutely horrible.

I think a lot of people have tvs that can’t handle darks well, so things like the dark knight, game of thrones, I remember the departed especially, if you have a lot of shadow it won’t show at all. So there was already a push from consumers to make things “easier to see” at the expense of good cinematography.

Netflix though is the worst because they encourage and actively push for people to watch big block uster hits on their phones and tablets while commuting or out and about. Turns out big movies don’t really look great on a 4.3 inch screen, and so my tin foil hat theory is all this over brightness is to make things easy to watch on formats that aren’t good for them.

But line must go up. They make more money when you watch a big budget drama on your cracked iPhone, so screw actual good lighting. Otherwise you might watch a YouTube video or social media instead of giving them views.

(If you like movies at all and you are getting a new TV, just get an OLED. Trust me. Just do it. It’s more expensive yes but you just need to. Movies look so much better. I even got the wife begrudging approval that even she admits it was worth the cost. There’s so much you’re missing on the dark range, and it’s insane how ina dark scene there is no backlight, there’s just nothing, the panel is off, it makes the watching experience better)

The whole solar system destroying weird thing seems pretty interesting and got me to read the book.