Uhhhh, sure, I guess.

So, we’re moving on from bribery and straight to conflict of interest?

What does sexual orientation have anything to do with HIV?

Borderlands 2 had an excellent antag with some pretty good writing. With Borderlands 3, the antags were so insufferable, with the rest of the characters only progressing the plot because of stupid decisions, that I really didn’t feel the need to continue.

I’m sure it starts with C and ends with “Strike”.

It will be the opposite. Even Microsoft hates kernel-level anti-cheat.

It’s just getting wierd because people can cash in on it easily.

Yep, I remember the old South Park episode about “Internet Dollars” something like 15 years old, and suddenly, people are figuring out how to do just that.

It’s bizarre they haven’t shut down this .ru domain.

Why is this coming from a Russian site?

Translation: We don’t know how to create new IP, and nostalgiabait sells.

What teen is using Facebook?

World of Warcraft has battle pets that you can capture by throwing cages at them and then train and fight them against other battle pets.

Which is arguable a more realistic representation of what Pokemon represents: slavery.

This is what we expected to happen. They should have not taunted the bear with that whole “library rental” model a few years back.

Now, an important resource is going to crumble under the weight of lawsuits because of one domino.

This is an incredibly condescending headline, directed at the wrong party. They had every right to blame Funko.

AI could have been a decent bridge for indie developers to fill in holes in their talent pool with something that was halfway decent. After all, if you have two developers, and none of them are good at art or voice acting, maybe they can put enough time and effort to produce actually good AI images and voice work. It wouldn’t be a substitute for real artists and voice actors, but at least they can have something where they previously had nothing. Or artists that use the tech for getting a starting design, and use their own talents for producing the final picture. Or musicians getting a starting idea, etc., etc.

The problem is that all we seeing are billion dollar companies spending even less effort to save money. These companies think they can rush their people into spending five minutes on an AI image, and whoopsie, there’s an obviously bad AI image with 6 fingers and weird background objects.

This technology is not for them. They have the money to spend on this shit. It should be for the people, but now there’s so much bad rep from corpos that it’s ruining it for everybody.

Their leaders just haven’t figured out how to ignore protests yet. Protest something in the US, and it always falls on deaf ears, while politicians walk on their backs on the way to work.

Having said that, I guess we’ll find out when Trump does something as brazen as this… oh right, that was Jan 6th.

Because this is a shit article that is just trying to push clickbait.

The actual CCG they had was miles better than the one in Witcher 3 as well. I miss that game.

I want to have a beer with this guy, as he speaks with my voice. Throat-clearing and all. The cadence is uncanny.

How do you think people like George Bush or Trump got elected?

The smarter and more-educated journalists out there need to figure out how not to always turn on their aloofness and find better ways to just relate to their audience.

Again, HST figured this out 50 years ago.

Ten years ago, something this raw wouldn’t have been published. This is a fascinating take on how far the media have moved, but also society in general. And this also feels like that rare time where a columnist wrote the hed.

The Rolling Stone, Playboy (back in the day), and more modern publications like The Root have been publishing shit this raw for a long time.

Gonzo. Fucking. Journalism.

We need to bring it to the forefront again. Fuck the false equivalency bullshit and pretending to be unbiased in a world that is more biased and blatant than ever! Fuck the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, and all of the other bullshitters that ride that moderate fenceline like it gets them off. Their opponents at NY Post, Fox News, Daily Fail, NewsMax, Daily Caller, and SuperEagleJesusConservativeNews.ru certainly do not give a shit about moderation or maintaining some form of unbiasedness. They only care about getting their propaganda out there to their base in the most consumable way possible.

HST figured this out 50 years ago. There’s no such thing as “being unbiased”. The best thing you can do is give out your raw, truthful opinion on the state of the world and hope that enough people listen to it.