That’s an insane thing to say, especially considering most people streaming and making videos about games are probably not using an Xbox to do it, let alone making any money doing it.

We simply need to tax billionaires at 99% and codify copyright law to require that AI training data is explicitly licensed by the rights holders.

What we are seeing right now is a turducken of exploitation of the working and creative class by techno-oligarchs, and we must reject it.

Nice slop ad.

I’ll file this under the “I’ll believe it when I see it column”.

At any rate, I absolutely do not expect oil and gas prices to go down at all, considering a lot of infrastructure has been destroyed and isn’t going to simply be wished back.

That leader’s name? Trent R. Agua.

That’s not what I mean. It’s breaking up the centralization and Reddit’s hegemony in general that’s good for smaller platforms like ours

This is a subtly good thing for the fediverse, assuming they are able to draw people away from Reddit. Divide and conquer.

Wholie Whork?

Looks cool. It reminds me an enemy from the golden age of Final Fantasy games.

Counter-argument: Earn your keep and do nothing more. Unless you have stake in the business that you’re working for you are unlikely to benefit directly from any productivity gains.

Fair enough! I’m genuinely not trying to be a hater.

However, there is a line between mythology (a set of tales and myths spawning from a specific historical culture) and fantasy (a fictitious construct from the start). This particular game seems to be going pretty far into the realm of fantasy with the jello cube and the cinematic universe style storytelling, but maybe all of the God of War games have been like that, I don’t know.

Makes sense, they are assimilating everything in their grasp by force and without consent.

Yikes… Imagine pulling this pathetic culture war shit while PC parts are up 400% and gas is >$5 per gallon… It’s over dude.

Anyway, I think the reason you dislike the game and the reason I’m disliking it are very different. I can get behind calling it slop, because it looks like something a corpo AI hallucinated, however.

Gotta say, it’s pretty wild that the mere sight of a woman is the new line for “woke” though.

I didn’t mean to hit a sure spot, and good for people if they like it, but it just seems so all over the place…

Originally GoW was Greek mythology, and then the last couple of games were all Norse mythology, but now it looks like a jumble of random mishmash ideas and aesthetics. You’d be forgiven for trying this was a Mortal Kombat cutscene…

I guess it’s like a mythology cinematic universe, or something? Like, what culture/mythos is the jelly cube from?

Wasn’t this game about mythology? What am I looking at here?

I like this list, but I want to add Windjammers, Neo Turf Masters (golf), and League Bowling!

If you really think about it, how is this different from what all the AI startups are going?

Personally I don’t think that should matter in this case. Why are they taking it upon themselves to moderate private user files?

Plus, we all know they’re probably scraping all of it for AI training too.

Yeah, I really missed the boat getting in on it when it was $0.00…

Now I’d better get it at $0.0 before it shoots up to $0 next year.

I pay more than that as a single adult. And to make matters worse, my plan fucking sucks and covers barely anything with a $9,000 deductible. It’s the cheapest plan in my area…

Meanwhile Festerman gets free fucking healthcare on my tax dollars. Fuck that.