There might not be a future with a population problem, most countries are already below sustainable fertility rates and like every country is in decline. Young people are not having children, they cannot afford it.

Well, they completely killed Overwatch chasing the money and it worked. People still play and constantly buy skins that cost more than entire games.

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Hey but as long as the rich are happy!

Its just wasted space. Horrible design.

I think Facebook’s “end to end encryption” just means it was encrypted when it got their servers and then encrypted again when it got to the end user.

Im allowed to express my opinion on a topic or someone as much as anyone is. If you dont like that, you dont have to engage with it. If someone disagrees with me or calls me an asshole, that’s fine, I’ll take their opinion onboard, but I wont lose sleep over it.

Hounding someone would be commenting about them in every location possible, which I am not doing. If multiple people share my opinion and have posted it elsewhere, thats also not hounding.

It’s always the extreme comparisons…

You must simply sit in an empty space and do nothing in order to avoid links to some disgusting actions or morals. You arent stupid, you know that.

I avoid GitHub as much as I can, but you know it’s impossible to completely avoid it while still using many FOSS projects. But lets see, if I visit GitHub to download a project, I am only using up their bandwidth, costing Microsoft money, not giving them any. Youll argue the clicks increases their popularity and thats worth more etc and on and on…

Hardware… yes of course… the food you eat… yes… its pointless comparisons. A classic argument technique though.

The talking point is AI and I avoid AI as much as I can.

Lmao. I have nothing but respect for FOSS projects and have donated plenty of money to many.

What I am not supporting is the use the of AI, if they want to, then they can, I will just stop using their project.

Yes, you are an asshole if you dont disclose it and the comments I’ve seen from him just cements that for me more.

AI can fuck off, we havent needed it for decades and decades, we dont need it now.

These AI people are so delusional. They contradict themselves immediately.

But I have over 30 years of programming experience

Then you don’t need AI.

In many ways, it couldn’t have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn’t AI that laid off thousands of employees, it’s deluded executives who don’t understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

??? The common denominator is AI. By using it you are part of the problem. All mainstream AI is trained on stolen data.

I’m not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don’t like depending on cloud services.

Then don’t?

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves.

The “tools” require large amounts of storage, RAM, electricity, water etc etc. The only tool is the end user.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this “issue” might come up so I’ve removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what’s generated and what is not.

So they are just an asshole and their excuse finding is just irrelevant.

I hope both engines rot.

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What about Yaak? I was using it before AI started creeping in, but seems to be the same with all of them.

It’s an impressive brick and system to be fair, but not being able to replace the battery is insanity. Also very overpriced.

I honestly thought it was Java again, but it’s a really smooth game, a great boon for Godot!

I hope they don’t overhire and struggle to finance it privately.

It’s not free to play because they are being generous. It’s because it enables the most exposure to the most predatory model.

Would they have made the same amount of money with a paid game? Probably not, most free to play games know they arent interesting enough to sell like that.

Selling the game after the fact is just gross, not them being nice. The trend that needs to start is any online games just being playable offline from the start, or for free in the end.

Or we wait for legislation to hopefully force this, without any extra purchases needed.

Unless you are buying DRM-free, ownership isn’t implied for any game. They don’t need the money to make the game playable offline, that work has already been done, charging for it is just trying to get one last cashout.

Hey that game you’ve been playing all this time, them purchases you’ve made, well if you want to keep playing, you have to pay us!

Silly question. They haven’t made a game for free.

Live service games exist to extract as much as they can from people through the form of MTX. They should use that money to plan for the eventual shutdown of their game, not then ask people to pay for it. Just make it paid to begin with and scrap the in game purchases.