Wasn’t that deemed illegal back in 2021 by the Chinese Courts?

And didn’t it kick off a wave of labor protests? The lie flat movement?

China is not communist in any form anymore

Just a planned economy governed by it’s native population with a public policy centered on general social welfare.

Nothing Communist about this at all, no sir.

And before someone says “but they execute billionaires”, they only execute billionaires that get in the way of other billionaires’ profits

That’s certainly the American spin. It’s actually double-plus capitalism when you prosecute plutocrats. Because a rules based national order promoted domestic growth. And that’s… bad?

Anyway, don’t ask about their social housing, public education, public health care, and public mass transit. That’s Not Real Communism!

Demand for new games will always be up

Sounds heard shortly before an industry crashes.

Art is the medium through which we process and communicate our most complicated emotions.

I know why they aren’t still relevant now

:-/

I’m getting a lot of confused responses in this thread.

so you agree with me 100%

100%

:-/

Amazed you’re into text-heavy games when you’re struggling with basic literacy.

Idk who “they” is. But from what I’ve seen, the administrators of Wikipedia tend to bias intake of new power-users and mods to people who have been with the project from inception (or, at least, the earlier the better). You get all sorts of justifications for why they’ve adopted this policy. But the bottom line is that Millennials and GenX make up the overwhelming majority of ranking users. And as they age out, they aren’t being replaced with people who were their age when they started using the platform.

This traditionalist base has done a lot to calcify how Wikipedia functions, even as variant communities have improved on the model.

The AI-summary shit is just the tip of the iceberg on the system’s problems. The website is filling up with dead links. The definition of a “trusted news source” is getting outrun by private sector buyouts of old media and unemployed journalists spinning up new media. A big chunk of the organizations’ resources have to deal with fending off legal threats and attacks on system vulnerabilities. The centralized hosting model is expensive to maintain. The rush to be “first to post” creates unnecessary drama among power users in popular niche fields. International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).

This goes a lot farther than “they want to hurt my Wiki”. And if you bothered to read the whole article, you might see more of why. The Wiki Foundation has dragged its heels on automation and clustered around a handful of power-mods in a way that’s undermined its Open Editor model. Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.

Art is the medium through which we process and communicate our most complicated emotions.

Listen, I’m not saying we don’t need the odd new DeltaRune or Blue Prince. But the sheer volume of new mass market games seems to have eclipsed the real overall demand some time ago.

If you’re constantly obsessed with the New Title, you lose sight of the vintage classics. You never have a chance to pick up an old Atari game from the 70s or try some SNES banger from the 90s or even a PS3 classic from the 10s if you’ve glued yourself to the New Releases queue.

Maybe people have emotions worth communing with that are more than a year old.

The world needs more good games.

Does it? I feel like we’re flush. My Steam queue already has a dozen more games than I’d ever have time to play.

I mean, it’s another FtP PvP base defense shooter. Like we were running short of Team Fortress clones any time in the last ten years.

I do sometimes get the sense that when a marketing team can’t gin up artificial enthusiasm, they settle on “controversy” as an attention grabbing strategy. Getting legions of digital skanks to declare a mid-game The Worst Thing Ever at least keeps the title on the radar, rather than falling into obscurity.

Honestly, I’m not even clear how you can spend nine figures on a game when its a copy of a copy of a copy. “We reskinned Tribes again, then dropped a full scale motion picture’s budget on the fucking trailer” seems to be how AAA titles get sold these days. No wonder everyone in the industry is so excited about AI.

The guy in the comments calling you a tankie

Can’t wait until they double down and make this some kind of monthly service DLC.

Sony locking the technology that removes the fun part of a game from the game behind the 1,000 year IP door is an accidental blessing.

despite

Misspelled “Because”

It’s legitimately a gem. On par with 6, 7, and 10 without a doubt

We’ve formed a committee to look into it

“I’ve got four years college experience and another six years of part-time work experience.”

“Do you know how to use the Flibbidty Widget?”

“No. Where would I have learned how to use that?”

“Only our company. We have a proprietary system that revolves entirely around this custom piece of hardware.”

“So…”

“We are only hiring people with five years experience. Sorry.”

Gotta spend money to make money.

I’ll admit $33k/year is on the low end, but in a country where the average income is $4800 that’s still pretty good.