RaphZ
RaphZ
@imraphz.bsky.social
🇵🇹 | Games and Movies enthusiast Learning how to create fun ideas
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hey white games journalists i think we should probably listen to our Black comrades who are desperately asking us to pay attention to South of Midnight and what it means to them
Juneteenth is about liberation, which should extend to all people. I’ve gotten some responses about the Xbox boycott, from folks I respect and won’t ignore. I admire No Games for Genocide’s willingness to allow for some nuance when it comes to South of Midnight in particular, but the choice is yours
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"If the world started burning, would we put it out together? Or would we still fight with one another?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLY...
Unless there's another store that is near perfect for gamers as Steam is, there will never be a way to change this. A reminder that the 30% is market standard, and there is a reason GOG or Itch (or even Epic) can't get the same amount of players as steam can.
Is it possible for indie game devs to unionize and bargain with Steam over the 30% cut? I guess you would have to get some of the bigger names on board, and threaten to move to itch or something? I can't see it happening, but I wonder if it's even legally possible.
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These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."
OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK
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Also, let's get pedantic af here: gen-ai has not done jack shit to cure cancer. Every cancer advancement in the past 5-10 years has been because of Machine Learning, and ML is a good thing, because it doesn't boil lakes, nor steal from anyone, and it (eventually) is WAY more accurate than gen-ai.
Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.
@fogospt.bsky.social has been sending notifications here again, and wow, it's a great way to end up depressed, must have received at least 100 notifications just today of new fires.
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When I was in high school, it would take me hours to get 3/4 pages done for an assignment. It also, coincidentally, was the time when I was reading fewer books. Now that I'm in university and I read everyday, I can write as many pages as I want on a topic I comprehend. Read books, that's the answer
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
I've been watching the series FROM (great show btw). The show comes up weekly, it's slow paced, creates new theories and discussion with every new episode. Yet people still complain that nothing happens and that MGM should release all episodes at once. Times changed, idiots still need tv shows.
i believe that the the entire "binge watch" model of releasing television series is based on a faulty premise, and that faulty premise has significantly devaluated television as an art form. stick with me on this one...
The funny thing about this, is that fans have been trying to change this "rule" for years, and the world cup only made discount time worse. No game is ever 90 minutes either, it's an average of 60 minutes play time, and fans want to change it so it's similar to futsal, but with two 30 minute halves
it's pretty funny that the World Cup has sensors that detect the ball's rotation, acceleration, and location every .002 seconds (not exaggerating, the actual tech specs of the sensor) but also the game gets to the end and the ref says "ok I think 9 more minutes ... maybe more if I feel like it"
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They are so, SO desperate for people to resub. PLEASE don't resub your Nitro everyone. Props if you aren't already subbed, props if you were subbed and you unsub right now. NOTHING changes unless a company FEARS for their bottom line. Feel free to use Discord still, but don't give them a penny. 💖
Discord is beta testing Nitro Squads for desktop users in Australia. Squads offers 6 users full Nitro perks, excluding Boosts, for $33.99 AUD (roughly the cost of 2.5 individual subscribers).