I think they could have been technically very much true but misleading in spirit by trying to present it as evidence that the merger has nothing to do with it. I'd expect any multi billion venture to have a plan for raising prices, and a plan for lowering prices, and a plan for like dozen other contingencies they might take depending on other factors; it's worth setting up "plans" even for things you're currently not expecting to be the thing you gonna do, because if something changes and pushes you to that decision, you can still have much of the effects mapped out and "planned for".

I mean, as the money is, over time, further and further removed from the median Person Who Actually Worked To Earn It, as opposed to having inherited it, I'd argue the average investor is inevitably getting dumber and dumber.

You can see how badly the game runs on current console hardware even in the cherry-picked footage they showed to you in the trailer.

Game is confirmed to be aiming at 30FPS on launch on the consoles that they've been targeting for like 8 years now.

Coupled with the "exclusive cloud-streaming rights" it sounds to me like they're releasing the PC port this early so people can try to run it on their GTX 1660 and find out that's unplayable and then dejectedly pay hourly to play it on Xbox cloud instead.

Anyway, a month back, I just did my first complete playthrough of GTA4 and it was a blast. Everything maxed out even though my GPU is 6 years old (still decade newer than the game), mods actually fixed most of the billion bugs left in the official releases, as well as the performance that was atrocious without bugs even on today hardware. Got the game including DLC for like $15 at some point.

I'm looking towards maybe playing GTA6 someday perhaps in .~2035; if we make it that far, it sounds like that might be a decent experience by then.

This is what happens when you try to make money through AI and fail to deliver a bunch of headlines about how your AIs commit a fuckton of felonies.

Should have kept the investors interested by posting things like "Sora from Kingdom Hearts bot already drove 69 teens to suicide, and he's only getting started!" or "Our users develop psychoses faster than those on actual heroine!"; boom, trillion dollar IPO.

Oh and I don't think they even tried to build a 80 billion datacenter they don't have power for, with money they can't afford to borrow, to serve customers they don't have.

Absolute amateur hour shit.

This post would be a real banger if it were satirical but it can also plausibly be serious, can you please clarify if you're funny or just stupid?

Through my glamorless academical career, largely focused on "shit that will help me make a living" (which it has, quite handily), I've heard many derisive opinions that career mathemathicians mostly just goof around with esoteric busywork that is rarely applicable, scarcely useful or meaningful outside of the academical recognition. Many people, often form very closely conected, but somehow more industrial focused disciplines shitting on mathemathicians as some sort of subpar STEM almost stinking of humanities that only the wacked out lazy weirdos who don't care about making money would trifle with.

Weird that those very same voices aren't calling the LLM companies forever-student nerd parasites even though picking off low hanging fruit mathemathical proofs nobody really asked for is the thing they seem most proud of these days!

Look, I agree on the politics of TOS being plenty woke. TOS was causing outrages regularly. Sadly, I also find TOS borderline unwatchable as television these days; to my mind, TNG is the first era of startrek vaguely watchable in completeness and having an okay time as far as acting, pacing and storytelling goes. But also, by late TNG, it feels like it already really lags behind the progress of the times, compared to TOS.

I've watched https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... a few days ago, sober, and it was one of the worst expireinces consuming media I've had this year. It was physically painful, and by 1994, they really oughta have known fuckin' better.

The stuff coming out these days seems more concerned with "but what if we're too woke?? what if the fascist spook section really is good and necessary-oh whoops it got eaten by genocidal robots that just came from somewhere for some reason, well I guess it's finally conveniently evil now and we don't have to worry about moral conflict anymore".

Statrek started proper woke, then barely progressed past what was woke when it did, aging like a gen Xer getting upset that racism means something else than when it was sufficient to agree slurs are bad, segregation is bad, but opposing "well meant" racist jokes is step too far.

This year I've watched thorugh Babylon 5 with my wife, and honestly, it made me like Star Trek a lot less. And no, fuck off, the problem with startrek isn't that it's woke. It's not woke enough. So many of the plotlines are just neoliberal both-side bullshit refusing to take an actual moral stance on anything. So much "It's so very complicated :(" hogwash. Babylon 5 gets proper dirty with way more candid and realistic depictions of subtle ways fascism poisons even well meaning groups and structures and actually asks of the protagonists to genuinely own up for their past flaws and mistakes rather than "never again, I've decided I'm a good person now" caricatures of how humans actually function.

I gotta give to Lucas that while much of his work is of questionable qualities across many metrics they could be judged on, he still spends his energy and more importantly money on things that make him happy and attempt to bring something he finds cool and interesting into the world, instead of trying to usurp platforms to further his fave political agendas and stroke his ego, which cannot be said for many/most pepole of his status. Can't say he's my favourite creator, but at least he acts like a human being, rather than turning into a monstrous hollow husk chasing profit or worse, trying to make other people's life worse actively like certain individuals that give many a slashdot commenter raging hardons.

IDK about whoever pwned them in this case, but I feel like my fashion choices could get hella flexible if they were in the way of a potential $320M. That's enough to disappear real good.

I don't see why'd it make sense to make many cybercabs because by 2016 all Tesla cars will be self driving and you'll be able to just send your own Tesla to run cab overnight and just make you money passively.

Well, however bad I get I do hope I won't start conflating typesetting and literacy because that's real dumb.

Okay, cool, but the heating effect on your head of stepping into direct sunlight, even wearing a hat and sunscreen is more than the total transmission power of a phone. Even if your apparently unusually large and dense brain somehow absorbed every last bit of energy radiated by the phone (ensuring you're not having a phone call), the net effect would still be less than just sunlight hitting your head.

Any meaningful, sudden, uncorrected change in temperature of your brain will instantenously knock you unconscious and you're not gonna be having a phone call loooooooong before it has any chance of making some nebulous "unusual chemical reactions more probable". Thankfully, your brain is VERY actively controlling its own temperature, which is the reason why, for instance, stepping from a shade into open sunlight, which exposes your head to orders of magnitude higher amounts of absorbed energy than having a phone call, doesn't do anything bad to you.

In my mind, ASCII has everything anyone ever needed to write English with, including the good ol' 0x2d hyphen - nothing beats that.