So, I was scrooling yt last night as I am wont to do sometimes, and miraculously, all these videos showed up, one after the other. I haven’t seen the algorithm working this well in over a decade lol.
Microsoft’s addiction to hiring 18 month contractors and then forcing them to learn an in-house engine has disastrous effects on Halo Infinite, leading them to abandon their slipspace engine in favor of Unreal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eXIVC8494l8
Serious, the developer of CoD BO3’s T7 patch, was one of the first community patches to address the arbitrary code exploits which began to ravage the multiplayer servers of the older CoD games, making them unsafe to play online. Recently this topic has made a resurgence, new RCEs have been found, but the developer of T7 makes a convincing case that his patch has been safe all along, and the people causing controversy (mostly cod/zombies youtubers) have no idea what they’re talking about beyond regurgitating FUD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnjB4gMRL4A
Someone dives into the question of why TV appearances of the world’s greatest detective are so….weird, if he even appears at all. Makes a convincing case that it’s nothing to do with “preserving the brand” (look at gay black superman for confirmation) and is probably because of a legal quagmire surrounding the rights of Batman ‘66
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MrSarELf6uc
Apparently Cloudflare’s business model is something like the mafia’s
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zj7ei5Egk8
Who could have ever imagined that the evolution over 20 years of the approach to clearing or controlling a single hallway in a video game could be so interesting
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vGtCJFSiSpE
EVE Online, at its highest levels, isn’t PvE and it isn’t even PvP. Eventually you reach a point where it becomes PvDev (or you join goonsquad)
Basically, Microsoft, being a corporate megolith, wants to really be a financial company that pays people to make games as an investment, rather than be a company that makes games.
A lot of the major companies in America really just see themselves as investment firms that actually make nothing.
It's called rent-seeking, and it's the natural consequence of a service economy that produces nothing but paper.
I'm not even sure it produce paper, seems more like it produce waste paper to me, haha
Worst part imo is that it results in nothing but soulless, design-by-committee pap; incapable of even approaching “artistic expression”. The second worst part is that because demons are incapable of creation, the only place they can direct their vast wealth is to acquiring beloved IPs and hollowing them out into skinsuits
It would explain why they're so weird with AI. Lots of talk and showing off, but no good products actually released.
Because they want to brag about what makes it unique and better than competition, but those things also make it far less constrained and "dangerous" if used by wrongthinkers.
So they will hype it up to get people excited about it, then literally retard it so that it won't get them in trouble. They are caught in a never ending catch-22 of wokeness.
Among other things. Even big name AI companies are having a hard time getting into others. Open AI has Sora for videos, but other companies have the product with regular updates instead of vaporware.
The issue there is that most of AI is purely an economic bubble. It's the modern "tech bubble".
It’s crazy that we’re basically going through the dot com bubble again with AI. People should know better. Group think has to be one of the most powerful phenomena in human psychology.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
Serious question: How does this bubble burst?
Economic bubbles I get, but AI?
“Bubble” just means “overvalued relative to what it is actually capable of at the moment”
Remember, there was a “dot-com” bubble which burst, but it’s not like internet 1.0 was bad/useless, it was just overvalued relative to what it could actually produce at the time. Weed stocks were a massive recent bubble, it’s not like weed isn’t popular, it’s just that the stocks were basically elaborate pump n’ dump schemes often enough. Similar things are happening all over the ai space
The problem is that the regime needs something to prop up the stock market to delude people into thinking that the economy is healthy and growing. This is why Nvidia is so profitable. All they are doing is inflating Nvidia stocks to prop up, effectively, the entirety of the world economy.
Huh, we got the money trail for that? Is the feds doing quantitative easing to nvida?, Always found it weird they skyrocket when the crypto currency went fubar.
I almost included this one in the list but didn’t, because I had to skip through a few bits, but it’s directly relavent here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KoiNtJ3lHA&pp=ygUZTWljcm9zb2Z0IGlzIGZhdm9yaW5nIGFtZA%3D%3D
It seems M$ has been gimping AMD CPUs for months now, which adds some weight to the idea that the big players in ai are manipulating things to favor Nvidia
i don't have it, no. It just seems like the obsession with Nvidia in the past year, it's spike in profit, the major investment by Nancy Pelosi, and it's inclusion into several industry averages, suggest to me that the US government is more than a little involved.
I wish I could say that that Eve Online video is unusual, but, I can't.
CCP devs have been caught over and over again messing with the game. Back when you could still get blueprints (not blueprint copies, blueprints, unlimited run blueprints) for T2 gear, CCP used to play favorites with who got them.
I remember this one, and I think Cloudflare was in the right.
The customer was creating trouble for Cloudflare by running an online casino using Cloudflare's cheap service. Doing this both risked poisoning Cloudflare's IP addresses by getting them banned for hosting an illegal website and potentially would get Cloudflare themselves in legal hot water since it's their name on the paperwork. At that point, Cloudflare would be 100% justified in banning the customer on the spot for brazenly violating their TOS in ways that would damage the company.
Instead, Cloudflare directed them to Cloudflare's expensive service. This service gives the customer more control over their plan, including the option to tie it to your own IP address instead of using Cloudflare's. Since it would be the customer's IP address at risk and the customer's name associated with the website, it would solve the problems on Cloudflare's end and thus they could reasonably say the expensive service is acceptable where the cheap service is not.
Cloudflare is guilty of bad optics by giving the banned customer the option to switch to the more expensive plan where Cloudflare's liability is removed, but the only alternative was to ban the customer outright.
Glad you didn't mention the hall clearing tactics video was CS or I wouldn't have bothered, since I've never really enjoyed any version of CS. It's turned out to be an interesting video so far.
Glad you're liking it. CS to play and CS to watch at the highest level are two totally different experiences. They might as well be separate universes. I don't enjoy playing, but top level team play can be very interesting to watch.
:)
Honestly, I think all the videos have general interest/value even without a personal experience with the area, so don’t let (for example, and to anyone reading) the mention of “the spreadsheet simulator EVE” scare you off from (yet another) interesting example of developers shooting themselves and their GaaS model in the leg, which seems to be disastrously common these days (concord, bungie’s collapse, BioWare’s anthem faceplant and selling off swtor, fo76 launch, etc etc). We see even the “untouchable titans” like WoW and EVE aren’t immune
Is EVE the game that the devs broke the economy of?
... yeah, I know some of those words!
A real smörgåsbord for the boys
Microsoft fucking sucks.