Smartphone cameras are obscured in your pocket though. And isn’t typically always responsive like Alexa attached to your shirt.
I’m not saying you’re wrong though. It’s just lest obvious and doesn’t have the opportunity to film all the time.
I’ve now realizing that these Tech giants have poisoned their entire well:
Want to make AR glasses? Cool! Oh… Uh, I guess we run a platform that handsomely pays pervs for engagement, so that’s not going to work.
Let’s start gaming services. Oh… why does no one want to make an account with us, or trust we will keep it running?
Generative models for creative media. Oh, uh… back to the AR glasses issue. And some others.
Ah, so our LLMs need to reference the web to be at their best which…. We… Kind of killed for a quick buck? Oops.
There are hundreds of examples of this.
And now? The whole reason people use these platforms is being consumed by cancer. Rapidly, from the feel of things.
I’m a cynic. I believe companies like Meta can carry on destroying people and getting away with it, no matter what, and users will be indifferent.
But now I’m starting to suspect they they have nowhere to pivot to, because they’ve burned the forest down.
My Mom already does this around smartphones.
Some family thinks it’s weird or paranoid. I think it’s smart.
It sends the message. It’s an effective, reasonable way to get it across.
I mean, in theory we do. An AR display or earpiece with lots of sensors would be cool.
But these companies have all poisoned the well. No one trusts them nor users on their platforms anymore.
EDIT: In case we forgot, half the problem with the Meta glasses IS Instagram. They created a space where macho jerks can get super rich live-streaming being a jerk, so of course thats what they will use the glasses for.
Otherwise it could be a neat idea, but we are not in that universe.
OpenAI’s wearable hardware will be even better.
I dunno if it’s a pin or belt buckle or earpiece or what, but imagine such a thing with its camera always on, its microphone always recording and ready to talk back, plus whatever other sensors and data streams it has for “awareness.”
Even if they disable video recording on the thing, I think it will become taboo too.
I mean, Odyssey seems like an obvious target for a remaster, so maybe it will come back.
That was peak AC for me though. In fact, I have no motivation to try later titles because that felt like the series’ definitive game, to me. And Fate of Atlantis was such a good epilogue.
starfield won “most innovative game”
No way…
I’m not a gaming drama queen, but that’s just silly.
EDIT: Oh, it was the Steam Awards.
That makes sense. The voting is largely a popularity contest.
To be fair, engagement bait works.
Look how much Twitter ragebait gets upvoted here on Lemmy.
Whenever I go to check the source for the posts, they aren’t even real; it’s a bot account posting 24/7, or at the very least a dedicated engagement farmer. But people don’t care, they just want that feeling.
That’s fair, but does it have to be like that? Kids paying parents, for example, seems more like a choice than a necessity of living together.
I’ve just seen a lot of misery from the separation, even in the west. Elderly folks in miserable, expensive retirement homes, or new parents that just can’t get by with the amount of labor between them while their folks are lonely just across town. Dysfunctional households that would’ve never deteriorated with another set of eyes there.
…Maybe family compounds are too far. But I think families have moved to the other extreme of “uncommunality,” at least in some subcultures here, where we get a little too distant from other family.
Will they, though?
I cite Lemmy again. This is supposed to be a newer, better version of Reddit, basically, but I can’t even upload a WebP to my instance… when are they supposed to adopt AVIF?
If I try to host externally, which is more of a pain, very few image hosts will take an AVIF. Not a single one I found except catbox will take a JXL.
Where’s the pressure? Who’s making these files and trying to use them? Even my phone converts uploaded JXL and HEIF files to SDR JPEGs upon upload, since it rightfully assumes nothing will work with them.
I hate to sound so cynical, but I had your mindset a while back. And outside Apple, precisely nothing has changed. Its gotten more dramatic, if anything, since HDR support is now basically DOA too.
I’ve honestly given up on support of new formats.
Here we are, 2026, and brand new software like Lemmy:
Doesn’t support AVIF
Doesn’t support JXL
Doesn’t support WebP
Won’t upload short, small videos either.
Meanwhile:
Many clients won’t play animated WebP
Most clients won’t play APNG
Many won’t load AVIF
Basically only Apple/Safari will load JXL
VP8/VP9/AV1 support in video isn’t universal
What am I supposed to do?
I used to send support requests over this, but I’ve given up. We are going to be stuck with SDR JPEGs and blocky GIFs forever, especially since media format literacy seems to be globally.
Lemmy won’t even upload AVIF files
As you can see below, it won’t play back for many users…
I think it’s all a bit silly.
Palworld absolutely leans into the controversy in their marketing, but fundamentally it’s an Ark-like, on a different platform. It’s really not competing with Nintendo sales.
Hence, it’s kind of ridiculous Nintendo pursued this so aggressively. It’d be like Bethesda Game Studios relentlessly going after Stardew Valley on iOS because they both have “NPCs with schedules,” when fundamentally, their games are nothing alike.
Yeah. I played Pokopia with a sibling, and from that alone, Nintendo has no leg to stand on.
I know not everyone has great relationships with their folks, but I wish “living with your parents” and generational compounds was the norm, not taboo, in western culture.
Think about it. It solves a whole bunch of worsening problems at once:
Lonely seniors get attention and (when possible) stuff to do.
It’d also keeps many out of nursing homes, which is a tremendous global expense.
Children get a family “tribe” to live with, which is what our brains are wired for anyway.
It takes some financial pressure off kids’ parents, which buys them some time with them.
Saves on hired child caregivers (again, a massive cost).
“Safer” social dynamics, IMO. It’s harder for a single messed up family member to do so much damaged, and offers a bigger support net.
Blunts expensive housing, cost of living, generational wealth gaps, carbon footprints.
The structure doesn’t have to be “traditional” these days, either. And it doesn’t preclude assisted living, which can be a massive burden on children.
In other words, this is a problem that shouldn’t really exist in the first place, IMO. It’s not natural.
You know, I’d argue it’s hard to stop kids from doing that privately. If they want to use some local model to undress Jessica from history class, for only their eyeballs… well, that genie is out of the bottle unless we take everyone’s computers away.
Morally, I’d argue it’s similar to using their imagination.
Now, where it crosses another line is spreading those nudes.
Or even worse, selling them.
No one should be allowed to make money off that. Not the financial processors that facilitate it if they “buy” an undressing service, not the social media platforms that advertise it to them in the first place; they should all be crushed to dust with liability. And kids should get in deep trouble if they pass it around, just like they would if they ripped Jessica’s clothes off in broad daylight.
This is what I’m getting at. It’s the platforms that are negligent, here. If some real-world platform was facilitating it in this way, the owners would be in prison.
It totally does. My sister got it to play Pokopia and Animal Crossing. I know of families that have gotten it for their kids, for similar reasons.
I’m not saying it’s a smart buy, but not everyone is a seasoned, mature gamer. If you have a decent budget, zero spare time, no experience with PCs, and your young kid is dying to play Pokopia like all their friends, a Switch 2 makes sense. As a plus, it’s not a tablet where you have to deal with straight up scam apps, nor a expensive PC where you need some technical know-how and a lot of oversight to make it safe for one’s kid.
The Xbox and PlayStation, on the other hand, have lost that niche, as they aren’t strictly needed to play Fortnite or whatever media is en vogue these days. It’s not like when I was a kid and literally my whole grade had Xboxes to play CoD and Halo.
…Wow.
“What if we took early 2000s cable, and added everything bad about YouTube and Twitch to it?”
I have a theory.
The “casual” or “mainstream” crowd, the one that used to buy CoD, FIFA, Madden, Sims and such yearly like clockwork, has transitioned to phone apps, or sports betting/fantasy.
Their attention has been robbed from consoles.
Meanwhile, “games as art” gamers that treat them more like movies are less affected, especially with the state of smartphone app stores. That segment continues to grow on PC, and maybe even consoles, but the attrition of the first group masks that for the console crowd.
I’d postit that another factor is Steam’s rising market share coming at the expense of other PC gaming storefronts. For market purposes, it effectively is PC gaming now.
Fuck this.
Fuck. This.
The last thing I want is forcing my money into an OpenAI/Anthropic investment at the peak of their bubble. Don’t listen to any of this, its all part of the con, to keep their scheme going and leave the public holding the bag.