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"It’s Undeniably Going To Cost People Jobs:" Inside The Game Industry's Fight Over A.I.
  • At least, if you put too much money into one, there's a threshold between those being financially successful or not, so if they flood the market, they will also leave a bunch of dead studios in their wake while good games thrive.

    Oh, what's the threshold?

    It's called Ubisoft.

    There's not enough space for two of them. So it's beat them or lose it.

  • Stardew Valley Expanded exceeded its creator’s wildest dreams
  • Hey, there IS a way it could happen. Which would be for the developer to give the direct approval and do like 90% of the publishing workload.

    Which is what just hapenned to factorio and its space mod.

    So basically, a really small chance.

  • What if America never existed
  • Portugal and Spain would have never even started the treaty if they didn't already suspect the existence of South America. Spain particularly would have absolutely not had it. If anything, it's Africa that would look more like a splintered mess. So trying to go about the shape of the world by that standard is probably the wrong idea.

  • When you need to retire an old server
  • Truth be told, I started watching Once Upon a Time In Hollywood having zero context of what the hell the story is meant to actually be about until half way when someone told me, and it vastly improved the movie.

    Like, the woman just looked like a useless character you know. And would keep looking so.

  • Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024
  • On Chrome, you can join tabs into a colored group with a name and then collapse that group so that it occupies considerably less space in the bar. Useful to organize your browsing into tidy buckets.

    On Firefox, there's no adequate innate manner of doing that. But the browser has an add-on called simple tab groups that uses a native "hidden tabs" feature to make a similar approach. The difference is it adds a button to the left that becomes a drop-down menu, and each of the entries is a colored and named group, and pressing one, hides the rest and bring up the tabs you previously in the one selected.

    I find either just as good, and instrumental to browsing. For example, I have a red group just for YouTube, where like 20 tabs are open and to or from which I occasionally drag a tab.

  • Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024
  • I guess I'm lucky and actually find both the native chrome groups and the firefox simple tab group addon that uses hidden tabs equally good approaches.

    Specially since the tab groups work with the multiaccount container feature. With Chrome, I generally keep separate guest accounts and windows for that, because the sessions are bit messy otherwise.

  • Zoomer anon has brainrot
  • It's not a joke. But it's not sincere either.

    It's a criticism.

    Because yes. People DO want brand tie-ins. Literally look at Fortnite. It peaks in popularity during brand tie-ins.

  • 505 Games' parent company lays off 30% of its workforce, says gamers really only want sequels so that's what it's going to make
  • Yeah. I'm of the same mind. I was here to witness the resurgence of Boomer and Movement Shooters. Now, we're in the cusp of the resurgence of RTS. I am very much happy with the state of gaming, without having to focus on sequels.

    The last game published by 505 I played were apparently Indivisible, which was trash. I never played Ghostrunner nor Control which basically eliminates most of their notable recent output. I think I can safely say I'll be fine with my continued ignoring of them as a publisher.

  • Looking for advice as a junior software developer
  • I have never been in a company that had it all.

    I was in one with all of the proper setup, fucking 10/10 CI pipelines, tests, the works. Someone just made stellar templates. 0 documentation tho and if you need to launch something in dev, get fucked. 0 task management, minimal meetings, barely a trello, and often you'd be like "okay what I do now?".

  • Anon is in a relationship
  • Just get her into something repetitive but productive. Like knitting or cross stitch. Same motion, over and over. But something comes out of it.

    Or speedrunning. Get them twitch bux. Infinite hole to consume someone's mind rather than body

  • Synching music lists?

    So, I got a request for suggestions from the community here.

    I've been an android user basically all my life, and recently I've had a need for music. There's a long story here, but basically, Spotify is a no-go. I want to keep my own list of music files, sort them on PC, send them to my phone, and play it there. I do have means to get files I'm interested on, and playback devices and connections are no issue. So far so good.

    However, the experience I've had has been lacking, because I'm missing an important step: Synching. I've been copying everything manually. Back when iPods weren't a joke, way way back, I used one and the iTunes <-> iPod experience was great. I could setup playlists on PC or restrict certain files, then have them show up on the iPod. Then playing and rating music a number of times on iPod and those stats would transfer and generate new playlists such as most and least played. I'm looking for something like that again. I don't need a complete seamless experience, and the synching operation doesn't need to be done by an actual music playback application either.

    Can anyone help me with this? What mobile+desktop applications combos do you all use for music and do they synch up?

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    So... Can you pet a turtle throught its shell?

    YouTube just told me again about how turtles have nerve ends on their shell and how they have a decent amount of sensibility through it. Also, I've seen videos of turtles being social and helping one another and, finally, while this is apparently a bit rare, I did know people who owned iguanas who had some small attachment to their owners, and one would actually stick around for some stroking of their back.

    So, adding all up, let's just say this: I never owned a turtle and never really spoke about turtles with people who own them. I don't know if they bond, I don't even even know if they visibly give any indication of noticing being handled through their shells.

    So, turtle owners... Do turtles like being pet through their shells?

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    Assuming time travelers are real, but only influenced events so far back enough that a smartphone they lost in the past didn't survive for archeologists to find, how far back are we speaking?

    And what were the dominant terrestrial species at said time? Would there even be any? I have zero idea of what's the expected survival rate of an iPhone in the fossil record, but I like to imagine a giant sloth stepped on one once and we are none the wiser.

    Alternative title:

    "Assuming the timeline is stable and time travel is possible, but no evidence is ever found until its invention, what would be the earliest acceptable time period for time-travel tourism, and the latest cut-off point no one would be allowed to go to?"

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