“The closure of any team is hard obviously on the individuals there, hard on the team,” Spencer said. "I haven’t been talking publicly about this, because right now is the time for us to focus on the team and the individuals. It’s obviously a decision that’s very hard on them, and I want to make sure through severance...
For millennia, the sense of smell has been widely undervalued — ranked far below vision by the likes of Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud. In 2021, a survey in the journal Brain Sciences found that people consistently ranked smell below vision and hearing — and even below commercial products. One quarter of college students...
This is an interesting take. Historically, the main benefits to console gaming were 2 things:
Consoles are cheaper than PCs
Games require no config and and are guaranteed to be compatible
Nether of these is really the case anymore. For the price of a PS5 or a Series X you could get a midrange gaming PC with similar performance.
Regarding complexity, we kind of met in the middle. Long gone are the days when you could just pop a disc in the tray of your playstation or xbox and start playing, every game requires an install now. And on the PC side, you very rarely need to configure settings to get a game to a playable state. Hell, you dont really even need to manually install drivers anymore.
Of course, as the article points out, none of this applies to Nintendo and those consoles are still worth buying.
My guess for the future is that if Microsoft and Sony are going to hang around in the hardware space, they’re going to make something akin to the steam deck, but locked to their own storefront. And then they’ll wonder why people are still choosing PCs over their hardware.
Mid-range GPUs still exist, they just dont get the same coverage as the top-end cards. An RTX 4060 is set at $300 which is much cheaper than a PS5 or Series X
Copyright is generally a good idea. There has to be some level of restriction, otherwise infinite copies of your art immediately show up and you cant make a living.
On the flipside, it harms the industry at large if the copyright is too long. There is no reason why a corporate entity should be making royalties on something long after it’s creator has died.
So, where is the middle point? What is a good length of time to let an artist exclusively sell their art without fear of someone undercutting them as soon as they make something? Personally, i think the US figured out the sweet spot before all the changes. 14 years, plus a single 14 year extension you have to register. 28 years is enough time that you can make a career, but also not long enough to harm the creative process or prevent art from reaching the masses while its relevant.
Under the current system, people that produce creative works as their job are forced to monetize them. Until we live in a post-scarcity world where everyone’s needs are met, like Star Trek, we have to deal with capitalist problems. To say otherwise is to ensure a system where artists and authors are unable to survive. Currently, the copyright system is good enough™ that creating art can be profitable enough that they are not destitute.
Simply because the technology exists to endlessly replicate and distribute art, regardless of the wishes of the artist (for which it is already frequently used, if you look at piracy channels) does not mean that it should be used with reckless abandon.
It’s the comic sans of art movements. It works really well for what it was designed for (eye-catching, inoffensive, and simple) but its both overused and misused in enough places that people have soured on it over the years.
I’m about 60% through Ori and the Blind forest. Its curently scratching an itch I have for metroidvania games.
However, I learned that instead of patching the original game or releasing a DLC, they just made a re-release and im not buying the game a second time just for a new area and some improved QoL with fast travel.
Computer engineers will try to get 2 things running on anything that could be described as Turing complete. The first is Conway’s Game of Life and the other is Doom
The same thing happened in Victoria when they converted that hotel to make permanent housing for the homeless while offering basically no social support for those people.
If I understand the US system correctly, even if this does become law, its still up for interpretation by the supreme court, so it’ll still likely favor Republican interests.
It sucks that this was the outcome as it’s going to require a ton of work from the modders, but to expect that a major publisher would involve the unofficial modding community in the release of official patches feels insane, even if they do have a sizable following.
In fact, I prefer it this way. I want the publisher to keep their fingers out of what the modders do as much as possible. Things are their best when the publisher is ignorant of their work. Less chance that the Eye of Sauron that is their legal department starts checking over mods for potential copyright lawsuits
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered a fiery speech Thursday that depicted the government’s latest budget as a threat to the country’s future, and suggested a number of new social programs will get a second look if he leads the next government....
He also claimed Ottawa’s push into pharmacare could dismantle private drug insurance and leave Canadians with inferior coverage and higher taxes to pay for it all.
Cool, my private insurance currently costs $103/month. How much will my taxes go up? If its less than that, then its a good deal.
This is the kind of thing I’d like to see a lot more of.
Lobby groups in the US cant be trusted to offer sensible regulation of themselves and congress doesn’t know the industry so they cant be trusted for sensible regulations either.
Id be far more willing to trust the US Congress if they knew at least a little about the things they are trying to regulate
So far, the only thing AI has shown to be pretty good at is summerizing a large amount of data, and even then it cant be fully trusted to not make mistakes.
There is currently a very funny, kind of sad dust-up over Helldivers 2, in which self-proclaimed “anti-woke” gamers have previously heralded it as a rare game where they believe “politics” does not play a factor. Their faith was been shaken by an Arrowhead community manager they believed they found to be (gasp)...
Truth. (lemmy.world)
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Beyond Good & Evil’s remaster includes a new mission connecting to the second game. Ubisoft says the added content shows its “enduring commitment to the franchise” (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Addresses Studio Closures (www.ign.com)
“The closure of any team is hard obviously on the individuals there, hard on the team,” Spencer said. "I haven’t been talking publicly about this, because right now is the time for us to focus on the team and the individuals. It’s obviously a decision that’s very hard on them, and I want to make sure through severance...
Canadians who have lost their sense of smell say it's misunderstood, undervalued — and deserves more attention (www.cbc.ca)
For millennia, the sense of smell has been widely undervalued — ranked far below vision by the likes of Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud. In 2021, a survey in the journal Brain Sciences found that people consistently ranked smell below vision and hearing — and even below commercial products. One quarter of college students...
(Opinion piece) Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them? (www.pcgamer.com)
Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it' (www.pcgamer.com)
Always r(ule)emember what they took from you. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
fantasy (mander.xyz)
Me to myself everyday. (lemmy.world)
I hate waking up and immediately jumping up to do shit
Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction (www.nbcnews.com)
When coworkers just casually drop personal info (lemmy.world)
Such a quirky, yet inoffensive art style for my corporate shitpost (lemmy.world)
Next-gen AMD CPUs could feature up to 32 cores per die (www.pcgamesn.com)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th
What are you all playing! I beat thousand year door! Really amazing game. I understand why it is so beloved....
joyous skittering of the least-bird (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? (www.youtube.com)
You can now play Doom in Persona 5 Royal (twitter.com)
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So I played the original TimeSplitters last night (lemmy.world)
So I played the original TimeSplitters last night. It was a PS2 launch title in 2000....
British Columbia abruptly drops drug decriminalization after backlash (www.theguardian.com)
Grule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) passes House, headed to Senate. Overshadowed by TikTok ban but arguably much more important. (www.whitecase.com)
What others are saying about the APRA www.commerce.senate.gov/…/what-others-are-saying#…...
Microsoft Just Released MS-DOS Source Code! (github.com)
Fallout London's project lead is not taking the surprise drop of Fallout 4's update well: 'That has, for a lack of a better term, screwed us over' (www.pcgamer.com)
Trump Respects Women, Most Men Say (www.nytimes.com)
Fr(ule)iends (beehaw.org)
cougar rule (files.catbox.moe)
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US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine (apnews.com)
Poilievre won't commit to keeping new social programs like pharmacare (www.cbc.ca)
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered a fiery speech Thursday that depicted the government’s latest budget as a threat to the country’s future, and suggested a number of new social programs will get a second look if he leads the next government....
Water rule (lemmy.world)
Wizards of the Coast "now talking to lots of partners" about next Baldur's Gate (www.eurogamer.net)
3DS Rule (i.imgur.com)
3ds.hacks.guide...
A congressman wanted to understand AI. So he went back to a college classroom to learn (apnews.com)
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? (locusmag.com)
Corporate Crulety (fedia.io)
Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!
I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!...
Helldivers 2’s Politics Appear To Be Flying Over The Heads Of Some (www.forbes.com)
There is currently a very funny, kind of sad dust-up over Helldivers 2, in which self-proclaimed “anti-woke” gamers have previously heralded it as a rare game where they believe “politics” does not play a factor. Their faith was been shaken by an Arrowhead community manager they believed they found to be (gasp)...
It’s time for a hard reset on notifications (www.theverge.com)