That's why you make good products that people cannot resist buying. Too much boring slop out there right now

These price hikes could not have come at a worse time, not just in the sense of the general cash people have but in the sense that video games right now are straight up not interesting.

Good games are not being made anymore. Bloated "experiences" designed to keep you hooked and spending money are being made. I can't even accuse them of being casino games because that would more fun and interesting.

The rise in price comes at a time when we have virtually limitless backlogs of digital and physical games that are superb and high quality and indie games that get better and better. The price alone isn't the issue, it's the price and stagnation of game design

Speaking of, what's the open alternative to discord? If there is one that is

Not just the high payed software folks, but the data centers are also maintained by highly skilled and hard working techs. And this technology is only possible with constant pristine maintenance if the servers to train their models. They loathe these people just as much and can't wait to get humans out of the process

What's crazy is how fragile their ai ecosystem is. The tech requires insane scaling in the form of data centers. We've hit the Moore's law limit, this tech isn't getting better in and of itself, it just gets better by adding more tpus and servers.

It all goes down if the data centers go down

They want slavery because ai taking jobs makes no economic sense and breaks labor theory of value. No human production means nothing has value. We are literally already seeing this with ai slop!

The humane solution is we get a society where that philosophy major actually gets to be a philosopher in a mostly post scarcity automated communist society... But that would mean these ghouls wouldn't be in power so now they're trying to tell us we need to go backwards in time to feudalism.

What an absolute fucking joke, their technology needs nationalized and given to the people, they belong in cages

Two things can't both be true? We're a corrupt hellhole but we're also a selfish corrupt hellhole. There is no reason other than money and blackmail for our corrupt elites to align themselves with a failing state like Russia

All "I don't like cats" people become cat people the moment they get a cat

The rot is so deep global revolution is the only answer.

Huh...my favorites are all of the evils

They would rather everything, everyone die before giving a single stolen penny back to the people, even if that means they also die

The only hope is when things take a turn, they take a turn in our favor. And I don't hold much hope for that, we've been at war and the rest of the country is pretending there isn't one