Kushan

I appreciate that, but that isn’t really a solution for a saleable game. Concept art sure but that’s it.

Yewahh… How does that help?

Yeah I’ve never been able to draw in my entire life, believe me I tried. I have an eyesight impairment and that doesn’t help.

I feel like your rage is directed at the wrong people

So I’m in two minds about this. I am a software engineer by trade and have an idea for a game I’d like to try making.

The problem is that I don’t even really know how to make games, not do I have any artistic abilities myself. I can’t afford to pay a load of artists for work for a game that might never be finished and might never make money.

So I’m stuck in this hard decision of do I try and make my game, invest a lot of money and potentially lose it all, or do I try and find a publisher who can front the money but lose creative control of my game? Or do I use AI to give me a head start in building something that I can use to garner interest in, in the hope that enough people like it that I can fund the development?

Essentially, AI offers me a way to create something that I would not otherwise be able to create and that’s really hard to accept.

Nah it’s just shit writing. Occam’s razor and all that.

You know exactly what I’m referring to

Yeah this sucks but honestly it never really worked well for me, ebooks are horribly underserved in the media world.

I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Times any of those metrics by the literal billions of phones out there and it adds up quite quickly.

Sure on an individual basis it might mean savings of a few bucks over the course of the lifetime of the phone, but scale that up and we’re talking entire power plant’s worth of electricity that isn’t required.

It doesn’t really matter if people stick around to play a single game, they’ll almost certainly explore other games and stick around for the service. That’s the idea I think they’re going for.

I’d be curious to see how many CoD players stuck around.

Game pass is a big success for them as far as anyone can tell.

There’s no cad somewhere on this planet with good UX.

I’m in the UK, they force you to turn right.

Make sure your ublock lists are up to date, sometimes the extension gets a bit stuck and needs a nudge to update them.

It’s an arms race and Google hasn’t won it yet.

… But he did run and he did win?

I think it’ll be somewhere in the middle. Quite a few people have not had to deal with ads in streaming for many years now, if it’s suddenly forced it’ll piss off a lot

I don’t think they’re all going to suddenly pirate again, I think many will just switch to other streaming providers.

If they all start doing the shitty ads, we’re fucked.

I don’t think that’s a new trend

I actually think Google is going to win this one, they’re the only ones making their own hardware to run their own models. Open ai are starting down that road but they’re years behind.

When you look at the pricing of all the AI companies, Google’s is so much cheaper (orders of magnitude) and they’re not having to pay Nvidia billions to do it.

Came here to say this, Gmail search has been basically broken for me for years. The preview suggestions when typing in a search query have been more accurate for me than the actual search.

I have a couple of old emails from 2020 that always appear in search results no matter what I search for.

You keep saying to people that they’re missing your point but over all of your comments, I don’t see what point you’re trying to make. You keep alluding to some mistreatment by the EU when we left, but haven’t elaborated further.

You keep saying we’re better off with the US as an ally, but haven’t given any real steer as to why that is - especially concerning given that the US has turned on many of it’s closest allys. They’ve also not given us a trade deal and I’m far keep threatening tariffs so how much better off are we with them, really?

All of this is kind of moot anyway, the world and political landscape has changed massively in the last couple of months; most Britain’s now so not see the US as an ally according to recent polling, so no political leader is going to lose face by aligning with the EU.

Besides all that, everything is a negotiation and in this instance, both the EU and the UK will benefit each other. It would be senseless for either party to be spiteful over what happened years ago when the real looming threat is in the whitehouse right now