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Have you not seen the Time magazine cover? Once you have, can you deny it?

*nussy

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, my backlog is in the thousands but WoW is a social event for playing with old friends, Ocarina of Time is like a time capsule from my youth, and GTA6 is sure to be an unparalleled experience in every regard. Who knows how many days any of us have left in this existence, or how long civilization itself will last - can’t take money with us to whatever comes next, so might as well spend it on video games. 🎮

GTA6 will likely be my last game purchase of the year and I expect it will entertain me through the winter. I don’t have any other games on my radar on the horizon, it just seems that when it rains it pours.

I hope the emulation provides you a quality experience! The game is fantastic so far. It’s been so long since I last played I legitimately can’t tell what’s new and what I’ve just forgotten was there.

I’m not sure what you mean. They definitely won’t run out of WoW or GTA6, since they’re both digital only, so I assume you mean Ocarina of Time. I bet they will stop selling the physical version, but I doubt they’ll run out before the end of the year.

All three! WoW Forever in two hours, Zelda tomorrow, and GTA later this month. It’s a busy time to be a gamer.

Bandwidth doesn’t matter for gaming - latency does. You could have a 100Gbps connection, but if it has a latency of 1000ms then it’s useless for gaming.

I think you may have misread my comment. Please re-read it because my sentiment is identical to yours. Infamously so.

Sorry, I mistakenly thought this was a platform where divergent opinions can coexist. I’m going to go back to perpetually lurking now so that hopefully the mob will forget about me.

Thanks. I guess I’ve had enough Internet for now.

I won’t rehash that argument for the umpteenth time. I’m not going to change your mind, and you’re not going to change mine. Summed up, my retort is that if the AI “stole” content, then so did every artist who ever watched a Disney movie, and every author that read a book, and every programmer that looked at a repository. Theft inherently means something is gone, and the original owner no longer has it - nothing is gone, nothing was stolen.

You listed off a bunch of reasons why data centers are rationally hated, and I agree with you on that. However AI is not a data center. My open weight models running on my consumer hardware, powered by solar energy isn’t implicated by what data centers are guilty of. Yet you would apply the same labels to it, and it would draw the same irrational ire of people who only know “AI bad” because it’s the popular sentiment right now, and probably will be for a decade.

I’m not ashamed of my use of technology any more than you should be ashamed of using a computer - built in a factory, using rare earth minerals mined from our environment, likely utilizing dirty energy, potentially built by exploited labor, and statistically likely to be powered right now by dirty energy.

Usually I would agree with you that omission is lying, but as I’ve said, admitting you used AI will earn you nothing but scorn, with absolutely no benefit for the admission. If an angry mob knocked on your door and asked if there are any vulnerable people in your home, you’d be justified in not answering them at all, and simply slamming the door shut, and locking it. Then ignoring when they keep knocking. This is the same concept. Sometimes “lying” by omission is the right choice.

Just chant along with the mob “AI is bad” and you’ll fit in just fine on Lemmy.

If that were true then the labels wouldn’t even be necessary. People could just tell. But they can’t, hence the labels.

Who said anything about lying? Just don’t fill it out, and ignore any accusations. They don’t do it because they’re embarrassed, they do it because irrational people have prejudices.

Correct. That’s what fire does.

Or, at least, Elon Musk did.

I disowned all the Republicans I knew two years ago, and never looked back. Being in Utah, though, means there’s not a lot of people still left in my life. Oh well, the cost of having principles, right?

I’m amazed you’d say that honestly. What about Steam is not really good? Personally I love the meta-gaming of the platform itself - leveling up your profile, participating in events, earning digital collectibles you can showcase. I also love the fact that a game remains in your library even if it’s no longer available for sale. And it’s great to be able to go into airplane mode, and still have access to your library. What are they missing that would change it from “not really good” to “good” or even “great?”

That’s some high quality elitism right there! Is computer usage the only thing you gatekeep?

… We’re still on the same thread, prat. Not that you’ll ever see this 😂

Such a great album! I used to fall asleep listening to it as a teenager.

Edit: That looks like Ted Lasso (Jason Sudekis) at 1:57. Probably isn’t … But maybe?

Says the prat.