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Someone needs to go to Switzerland

I’m curious, what accent is that ment to be?

Yeah but given the Portal came out 20 years ago I think their decision not to use an AI generated voice was probably more to do with the lack of AI generated Voice technology than any kind of moral decision

“In other words, we think AI should be voiced by AI - not to offend AI. This feels especially important nowadays, with AGI almost here. That’s all we can say, unpacking the whole AI cultural narrative isn’t really our place.”

Oh come on. That’s funny. Why does this author have a stick up their butt about this absolutely nothing burger? I’m actually somewhat irritated that you wasted my time with this complete non-story. At least I know about a new game, but seriously we don’t need to have a post about every single thing that’s posted on a gaming website, because a lot of it is just filler, like this.

Given Sony’s recent announcements I’m inclined to think that they might actually just be idiots.

I think what’s happening is they’re really panicking because they’re starting to realize that the ps6 is going to be extremely expensive to build, and won’t be an attractive option. So they are cutting costs everywhere they can, but that’s just pissing off the current player base.

As soon as they announced all of this I was pretty confident that we’re going to end up getting raked over the coals come the finish. Do they even have lawyers, did they even run this plan past them get their feedback or did they just announce it?

If you say “buy” but it turns out that what you actually meant was “limited license” then at a minimum that is false advertising, and given the fact that they chose to make this change, and it wasn’t something forced on them by third party action, you could even go as far as to charge them with conspiracy to commit fraud.

Also the fact that Blu-ray could play regular DVDs but HD DVD was a different size standard and couldn’t play DVDs. Not help by the fact that most people didn’t have a 4K TV anyway so it didn’t really matter for most of them, so they got a Blu-ray player so that it would be able to play both formats and then upgraded the TV at a later date.

It was also competing against The Finals a game that was considerably better and more innovative, and also free.

I always assumed that they were just lying about their “privacy commitment”. No corpo type is going to be able to resist leaving that much data on the table. Nonetheless people quite prepared to eat up for the claim and criticise Google, who at least honest about it, it was a completely unfounded claim made by the company itself the very people most incentivize to lie.

Let’s, fuck grandma!

Grandma ain’t invited

Jesus, could you leave some for the rest of us.

It depends how you use it.

If you put out a game that works but hasn’t got all its art assets yet then it looks like you’re basically just releasing the game early.

If you put out a game which only has its first two levels and upon completion of level 2 it has some text that says “more to come” people understand that’s an early access.

But there’s way too many of the first example and not enough of the second example. None of this is helped by games like No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield that released in buggy states, making people think that early access just means broken.

RM are apparently prepared to accept bees. So if you need to ship some bees to anyone they’ve got your back. So much better than a glitter bomb.

I know right wingers in general are thick, but Americans really do seem to take it to a new level the dull witted.

I’m sure that IC% of them wouldn’t even recognise the joke.

That’s why I recommend becoming an an aunt or uncle; you have kids but on a schedule and when they start to get irritating you can go back to being childless.

Hitler’s generals were so afraid of him that they didn’t even tell him about the D-Day landings for several hours because they didn’t want to wake him up.

Then why quit?

I know these people believe what they’re saying but what they’re saying isn’t true. If you genuinely 100% truly believed that you were building a bomb that would blow you up you would stop making it. No amount of financial incentive can convince you to create something that you wholeheartedly believe will destroy you.

The various AI companies just use the threat of human extinction as an advertising gimmick and it’s getting pathetic. You cannot continuously announce that you’ve invented AGI every three months for several years straight and maintain any kind of credibility.

Those would be all very valid uses but the problem is is that they’re not smart glasses. They are just normal glasses (well non prescription fake plastic glasses) with a camera in them. If they could give you directions or something on a sort of holographic heads up display they might have some use.

But then they won’t have any customers.