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I mean… they didn’t specify it had to be random (or even uniform)? But yeah, it’s a good showcase of how GPT acquired the same biases as people, from people…

I was referring to the Armored Core games that From developed starting with the original PlayStation in 1997. But to your point, it speaks to their flexibility in using the same engine to make games of two fairly different genres.

Those are in fact all objective measures of a game’s quality. FPS on certain hardware, game length, frequency of crashes, the presence of microstuttering, lists of features, these are all things that can be quantified, and by being quantified they are made objective. You can take this information and compare games against each other to make purchasing decisions, critique them, etc. Those decisions are subjective, yet they are based on objective data.

But I didn’t say that we should only use objective measures to evaluate games, nor do I agree that we can only evaluate games subjectively. We need both, gaming media should give us both, but we both need to be able to distinguish between them.

Welp. :/

Gaming media has a difficult time differentiating their thoughts on games as a consumer product and games as art. For the former, it’s useful to have objective measures. For the latter, subjective.

Does Google classify the Pixel Watch as a game console? Making some popcorn to see them explain that in the face of California’s RTR law.

an ancient game engine that’s probably barely hanging together

I think Bethesda is a company full of people at the terminus of their careers - they don’t know how to make any other kind of game than “Bethesda RPG,” they don’t know how to use any other game engine, and they are unable to learn either of those skills. Many other game studios have learned to evolve and shift their resources and assets - Naughty Dog doesn’t still use the Jak and Daxter engine, From Software went from making mecha games like Armored Core to defining an entire genre with Dark Souls. It seems like Bethesda doesn’t have the capacity to change like other companies.

I mean, what does he think makes a good game, if not sorry, characters, and world? Must a game only be evaluated by it’s rules and systems? Then guess what, BG3 is built on DND 5e, arguably the most successful RPG system of all time. What even is his complaint?

Odd, I got TPK’d in a regular combat encounter and it just prompted me to reload a save.

For those looking, the video is about Rajneeshpuram. But you can also find a well-done Netflix documentary on it.

One of my favorite Down The Rabbit Hole videos. Too bad it’s not on Youtube anymore…

I think that’s an image caching bug.

I should have provided a link, my bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs was widely praised despite and/or because of its over 2 hour length. I think if the video has a lot to say and says it well, who’s to say how much time it should be worth?

I think he’s referring to the “AI is banning books” argument (a strawman) not the “Republicans are banning books” which we all know.

I wasn’t just talking about Luke, sometimes other folks stand in. Though yes Luke is most often the co-host, the show is structured such that Linus does a vast majority of the talking regardless of who else is there. Even Dan in the audio booth just curates and reads questions from chat.

You should see the WAN Show, their podcast. His co-host always looks nervous to say anything out of turn, they basically just read the next topic that Linus wants to talk about.

Or the time where Linus almost took Jake’s fingers out with a hole saw trying to drill holes in a RUNNING PC. Man’s a workplace hazard in more ways than one.

Trust me, you weren’t missing much.

But many bosses are getting impatient, and many are using the approaching Labor Day holiday as an occasion to officially put “work from anywhere” policies to bed, whether workers like it or not.

Oh the irony.

Yes, the impracticality is one of the major points of wish fulfillment. It’s fantasy and most reasonable people don’t actually want the crap Linus builds. They just want to see it, it’s make-believe.

And I wouldn’t call destroying a startup’s intellectual property, ignoring their requests to return it, and then selling the detritus as “merch” at an auction “just having some fun.” That’s what I would call negligent and unprofessional.

That’s kind of the problem, they did fire their developers.