I’m only casually following us politics but what would the advantage of delaying announcing his death be (and why wouldn’t the same apply to Lindsey Graham).

Here is an article giving some voice to both opinions after a team name change:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuit-reaction-edmonton-cfl-team-name-change-1.5658904

To me the “its a slur” camp seem to make a much stronger case.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/tanya-tagaq-pushes-us-band-eskimeaux-to-change-name-1.4074095

‘If you want to use the word Eskimo you had better be an Eskimo or I’ll eat you for lunch,’ tweeted Tagaq

In my personal experience its definitely a slur and a very strong one here in canada, and if i heard a canadian say it i would absolutely assume they were a racist.

Use AI at all: They already have, and most indies too, very minor AI usage is already a thing in most game studios workflow and has been for a long while (that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push back against irresponsible AI usage, such as using it for non-procedural production assets, or more than a couple lines of code at a time).

“Made purely with generative AI”: Debatable that they could get something that compiled, if they could it would be too bad for anything that isn’t a scam to ship, just like NFTs.

There will be, just like there are a bunch of games that use NFTs. Will anyone play them or interact with them? Probably not.

I think one of the silver linings of ai is that when the bubble bursts and/or they are able to develop more efficient models there will be a glut of power, which will make electricification cheaper.

Even without free power a full, 450km charge costs me about 5cad.

I think post pandmemic and as millennials become the dominant parental group, the number of people in that group is a lot smaller than it once was.

I think there is some nuance here. Data centers are being put in cities that cannot support them at the expense of their citizens, this is a corruption problem in my opinion. Data centers could also be much more water conservant than they are, and significantly less polluting and I appreciate the public pressure they are on to improve here. The warm water being released can damage the local ecosystem as well.

I have definitely seen some absurd claims about water usage, but it also isnt totally unconcerning either.

Imo its a pr strategy, water usage is a much more solvable issue than the immense energy usage, and the ai companies would rather actovists attack them for that than for the significant power consumption.

I think the power usage is also going to go down, either because they make ai more efficient, or because they can’t make it more efficient and it continues to make no economic sense and mostly goes away. Hopefully that latter scenario leads to a lot of eccess green energy to be constructed which would make electrifying the world a little easier. But that is probably wishful thinking.

I don’t think any canadian politicians are implicated in the epstein files. The Ontario premier dealt drugs with/to his crack smoking mayor brother though so lump us in with the nacrotrafficers I guess.

Does your dishwasher not have a drying cycle?

You could but it stinks, dog poop has a way stronger smell. Some people train their dogs to use the toilet which is a lot of work and doesn’t really reduce the number of walks you need to take.

Xbox gamepass

By default windows does block unverified binaries. It’s pretty annoying. You have to click more info and then run anyway:

So first off, you can’t have a game without a gameloop, I don’t think the author is using the term correctly. What the author means I think is that they don’t like repetitive gameloops, particularly in narrative focused games.

I think there are lots of games that a lot of different game loops, “It Takes Two” and it’s sister game “Split fiction” would be exactly what the author is asking for I think.

Most open world games fit to some extent too (do you spend your time fishing, or playing the board game in the game, or hunting, or fighting bad guys, or climbing things or racing etc etc etc) but usually fighting is tied to the main stories of the games. These days many games have a “story mode” difficulty to skip past this combat however. I don’t think this is really want the author is looking for.

But there is a cost to this, it’s either your budget blows up or your mechanics have to be very simple. It Takes Two has very basic mechanics because they have to support so many. Big open world games are only really possible for largest and most expensive of projects. I don’t think this is really what the author wants.

I think there is a spectrum to gaming between games as Art and games as sport. Chess and esports are all the way on the sport section, it is about growing your brain or your reflexes, it isn’t trying to tell a story or impart meaning. That’s not to say there is not beauty in sport to be clear or that one is superior to the other. What the author calls repetition is rarely just that (in good games at least!), first they make you use a mechanic to beat an enemu, then they make you use a mechanic while doing another mechanic and now they make you do the mechanic to beat 10 enemies at once. This is a test of consistently and of whether you have mastered the mechanic.

Then there are games as Art, games who main goal is to tell an interactive story. And I do think that for a time games were afraid to go too narrative while other games keep the mechanics and mechanics too separate. I definitely think there are games that should just be a movie or where the story harms the experience more than helps. But I also think it’s pretty silly to say we don’t have games that are primarily narrative today or games that merge the mechanics and story well. Most games are somewhere in the middle.

The author using Celeste is interesting to me. The game has a story that deeply resonates with a lot of people but it is also considered one of the best designed platformers of all time as well. Each level is very intentionally designed to teach and then test a particular mechanic within the game. The end of the story is in a lot of ways just the end of the tutorial mechanically. To remove any level would be to completely destroy that. I think there is a conversation to be had about whether this could have been two games, one a purely mechanical test and the other a narrative game with minimal interaction but I think that that misses exposing the joy of the other to a new audience. I know of many people who resonated with the lore and story of Celeste but didn’t really like platformers (or sometimes games at all!) who learnt how to play platformers and really got into the genre as a result of the game. On the flip side I have heard many stories about people going into this game for the platforming and coming out of the game realizing new things about themselves (in particular their gender) because of the story. I think that has a lot of value, and personally I think they are stronger packaged together than separate.

Another example not from the article is the fire emblem, the most recent 3 houses in particular, but I think most of the series has similar moments. I engaged with the this game primarily for it’s mechanics, I personally didn’t really care about the story of this particular game. I had a lot of fun going through all the optional battles and challenges. As I progressed through the story a character betrays you and becomes unavailable. This happened to also be my favorite unit for fighting, I was devastated, and the story I was only half paying attention to suddenly became incredibly interesting and personal to me. My choice to focus on that character made a really big impact on the story and it’s only because I grinded so many missions. Had I only played the mandatory missions or focused on different characters I would have had a completely different experience of the story.

It seems like the author just doesn’t like and cannot engage with games that aren’t all the way on the art side of things and are extremely dismissive of the other side of things as a result. They also seem to just believe that this is a universal experience, in particular I was quite irked at the author’s liberal use of “we” as someone who generally only DNFs games that I strongly dislike and enjoys games at both a mechanical and artistic level.

It apparently went into open beta in 2020.

They were just starting to win people over with the simple ai upscaling and then they pull bullshit like this. It isn’t even going to be what the released product looks like.

There are quite a few pieces of software that have 2 different branding. For instance the windows file searcher agent ransack also goes by “file locator pro” to keep from scaring the corpos.

They literally try and positively review bazzite in the linked video.

If his teasers are to be believed thats what he does for the second installment of this.

I think the purpose of the video is to review who you can just tell to switch to linux and have them be able to do it unassisted in a short time frame. I think it does a pretty good job of showing that, the type of person linus was emulating represents a pretty large group of people and they generally can’t switch without either a large amount of frustration or a helpful friend. Also keep in mind this is the first in a series not a single video.

I think you are grossly overestimating people’s capabilities if you think anyone can switch to linux with no interactive help. https://xkcd.com/2501/ . “Setting up windows” for most people means swiping the credit card and pressing the power button. They do not care about data collection, and if its slow then they think they should buy the upgraded model.

I also think its funny how many of the people in this thread see this as a negative video, when I think it actually shows things in a very positive light, just a realistic one. I have already had someone switch to linux because of this video.