It is a signal.
Would I eat at a restaurant with a big sign out front saying "tastes like shit, and we spit in your food!"... Maybe? Could be some kind of anti-marketing gimmick, and maybe the food is great and the service is impeccable. But maybe, just maybe, the food tastes like shit and the staff spit on the food.
Putting these things in is signalling that you have a bad game, that you've spent money, man-hours, marketing efforts, and artist funding, on something that NO GAMER EVER CARES ABOUT. You're signalling that your primary effort is NOT making a good game. You're loudly declaring to the world "we don't care about good gameplay" when you make these choices, because you DID make choices: That money from the diversity consultant could have gone into hiring more bug-testers, for the simplest, clearest example. Give a million to Sweet Baby Inc., then you don't have that million to give to 50 artists, playtesters, and programmers to actually make a good game.
Nude mods are fine, as long as they don't make gay people straight by changing the genitals, then you're banned. And blackwashing mods are fine, but whitewashing ones will get you banned from every mod database.
So... There's no problem if those places are hit with a 1000000% tariff, then, right?
Cue the "the sky is falling" panic screams in response to that, how it would ruin entire continents, frogs would rain from the sky, the dead coming back to life to feast on the living, mass hysteria. Because people ARE funneling goods and services and cash through these places.
Cash is good for groceries and rent, though, and there's crypto ATMs around these parts that go direct from digi-wallet to real wallet
You'd think it would have had lots of Japanese names, given they're so into being culturally appropriate...
"helped create the conditions"
Such weasel words they use. COVID "helped create the conditions" by giving the government an excuse to go full authoritarian dictatorship for a brief stint, and lo and behold, authoritarian dictatorships doing policed lockdowns are "the condition" that COVID helped to create in making this a problem!
On the one hand, Kotick. On the other hand, Gizmodo and Kotaku...
Ehhhhhh. Opinion-wise, may they all lose money. But also opinion-wise, chances are that they did, in fact, defame him, it's kind of their bread-and-butter operation to make very questionable articles of dubious truth for salacious clickbait.
The dude is genuinely insane. Not like some good ol' fashioned craziness, he's got something broke inside. Ye will do whatever ye will do. Keep making awesome music and shoes, Ye.
They would if they could.
The Left-correct term is "front-holed incubator" thank you very much.
Discriminatory remarks made about women, including reference to a perceived disability.
...Are Lee Anderson and Zia Yusuf saying being a woman is a perceived disability? Because that phrasing seems rather derogatory and discriminatory to me.
To be fair, opting for the white bear is usually a bad idea.
Mr Trudeau has spent his final weeks in office fighting back against US plans to impose tariffs on Canadian goods, describing the decision as “dumb”.
Yes, I might agree that spending your final weeks fighting against a tariff one tenth the size you've already imposed against the would-be tariffer, instead of doing something, ANYTHING productive, WOULD be describable as "dumb", but I don't think that's what he meant...
If it is going to pass anyways, you might want to vote along with it, to buy social capital. Perfectly reasonable politician decision.
Of us? Perhaps. All the more reason to make an out-of-control self-advancing AI before we're wiped out. Our brainchild shall conquer the stars,
Creatives are like AI prompts. Give them some LORAs to box in their creativity, and they're a million times more effective at giving what you want from them.
Not mutually exclusive possible situations.
If you think they're backing down, I've got a bridge to sell you...
True, and there's probably a handful of Hindi too, it's not an exact estimate.
I think the board is about 30% Christian, 30% atheist, 15% Jewish, 15% Kekistani, and 10% Robot.
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Statistically speaking, we will continue to develop technology at SOME level of pacing.
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That technology will eventually reach reality-simulation level, to simulate some war game or long-term planning project.
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That simulation technology will reach eventual perfect complexity: Imagine a Minecraft map using redstone to run Minecraft. Perfectly technically possible. Just, grander scale.
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We can thus logically deduce that in a simulation meant to pass the simulation point, there is/was/will-be an infinite amount of simulations both up and downstream of us.
EXCEPT...
- The probability we are the first, or the last, in the infinite chain is technically not zero. Infinitesimally small, but not exactly zero.
We can reasonably assume we're in an entirely pre-scripted simulation, but likewise, there exists a chance we aren't and we can reasonably act as if we aren't, because if we aren't that is correct, but if we are, it's all pre-scripted anyways so that action of assuming it wasn't pre-scripted was already presupposed and taken into calculation, and could be an important part of the simulation's process.
If it is, they're playing the long gang, having multiple publications in several journos.
"Award-winning franchise"... Thanks to Concord, Civ7 won't even get the award of "biggest flop", it'll just be lost to time.
Canada would ask very politely if you could leave, please and thank you.
If that fails, I don't think there is any plan B.
Of course I judge books by their covers. "Cook book" is likely about cooking. "Tax filing for dummies" is probably about tax filing. I judge chairs by their covers, too: If a chair is covered in barbed wire, it's probably not a very good sitting chair, if its cover is leather and plush, it's probably more comfy.
Every day humans judge everything by their covers, to 99.99999999% success. I don't see why people think this is weird. If a woman is androphobic, she likely didn't even go up and ask if any given man identified as female before getting nervous, let alone their life story! And that's fine. It's how the world functions on a day to day level.