A lot of great points, all contradicted by the fact that this is a pro-Harris piece. Sure, she’s the lesser of two evils, but evil nonetheless. I certainly wouldn’t call her progressive. She’s just another pro-genocide corporate tool.

Wishful thinking? Fortnite. Pleeeeeease let’s forget about Fortnite.

While I do agree that unity is the way to go in the fight for rights, I can understand why one would want to separate the T from the LGB. It’s an issue of consistency - L, G, and B all describe sexuality, while T describes gender. The two are related, but ultimately separate concepts - one does not inform the other, and grouping them can hypothetically lead ignorant people to think that they are directly related, which could hypothetically lead to non-straight cisfolk experiencing more oppression than they would have otherwise experienced due to the perceived association with transfolk, as non-conforming sexuality is more generally accepted today than non-conforming gender.

That being said, it’s all hypothetical, and what matters is the reality that people from all spectra of nonconformity are regularly oppressed, and in many places, the oppressors treat anyone LGBT+ with the same disdain. So grouping them is vital for the sake of the most oppressed.

The creator of the format is documented as having confirmed the pronunciation is “jif”, but I don’t care. Once he created it and put it into the world, he relinquished his control.

I’m not sure that widespread use of the platform is indicative of widespread love of the platform. People are entrenched, have sunk so much into it, and can’t find acceptable alternatives (cries in Fediverse). I’d guess that most people still using the platform do so out of necessity/ obligation while wishing for something better.

Like we did with Occupy Wall Street or are doing now for Palestine?

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Oh, we’ve known. There just isn’t anything we can do about it.

Same. My Steam Deck has completely replaced my PS5. Sure, it’s not as powerful, but it’s got a much, much larger selection of games, it’s completely customizable, any controller works with it, and most importantly, it’s from a company that actually still has a conscience.

If I really must play a AAA game, I run it from my PC and use remote play to stream to the Deck, which works perfectly.

With Sony putting its best exclusives onto Steam and the ease of emulating Switch games, there’s really no reason to own any other console.

Yep, yeah, I don’t know how I missed that. Preeeeeetty embarrassing. Definitely the kind of thing that would keep me up at night if it had happened IRL.

Why? “Men” seems more apt and inclusive. Trans men can be rapists, too.

EDIT: I’m an idiot.

Oh, did GTA IV have multiplayer? That’s the one I’m least familiar with. Must not have been nearly as robust as GTA V’s.

GTA V made online the core component of it’s game. So much so, that they innitially considered GTA Online to be a seperate game included with GTA V.

You contradicted yourself there. GTA Online can’t be both a core component of GTA V and a standalone game.

So Rockstar, who already had the most financially successful game of all time in GTA V from game sales alone, put its resources into the online component in order to fund the development of its sequel. It’s not like they needed to attract new players to the single player game, being, again, that it was the most successful game of all time. Technically it was the most successful media venture of all time (it made more money than any movie, music, or game ever).

If they hadn’t done that, GTA VI and RDR 2 would’ve had smaller budgets and likely wouldn’t have been as good.

I see nothing wrong with this.

Only one GTA game has had an online component. Every GTA game since 3 has been a best-in-class, genre/generation-defining singleplayer experience.

You pay for the singleplayer. The online bit is just gravy. Some people like said gravy enough to fund the development of Rockstar’s next game. I see nothing wrong with this.

I, for one, welcome our new cyborg mushroom overlords.

Oh no, the regulators are actually regulating?! What a horrible hindrance to unfettered, unsustainable growth innovation. They must be stopped!

The obvious answer is to abandon GaaS as a concept and focus making more great single player games like the ones that put Playstation into a clear lead in this generation of the console wars.

However, we’ve seen that a massive failure in the space isn’t enough to deter the truly greedy coughWBcough, so who knows?

Can you explain how you came to that conclusion?

The way I understand it, generative AI training is more like a single person analyzing art at impossibly fast speeds, then using said art as inspiration to create new art at impossibly fast speeds.

chomping at the bit

FYI, the term is “champing at the bit”

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Of course. He’s a US politician. Can’t get into US politics without being a zionist. Sure, there are some who pay lip service to basic human decency by suggesting that maybe genocide isn’t okay, but I suspect they’re acting as controlled opposition, just to show the mostly-anti-genocide populace that not all politicians are zionists, that maybe it’s okay to do nothing since there are at least some people in power who acknowledge reality.

No, the whole “Wikileaks is a Russian asset” story is a farce used to unjustly discredit them, since they’ve published some extremely damning documents.