As much as I love Japan (lived there for 3+ years), their corporate culture and neoliberal political establishment are fucking awful.

I blame post-war US occupation for introducing capitalism.

This guy sounds like The Dude, man!

Now there’s a silver lining!

People will have to stop trying to monetize their passion projects and start creating for the undiluted love of the art.

Of course, that means they’ll need to find other sources of income. Which, under late-stage capitalism, is a disaster in its own right…

But at least our dystopian hellscape will have rad campfire songs!

It might also be a boost to indie devs and open-source projects. Again, not great for anyone set on it as a career path. But a small silver lining for the rest of us…

Hey, I happen to like elevator music. Smooth Jazz takes talent, okay!

200 hours was in reference to the main storyline.

There are also side quests, guild quests for dozens of different skills, and all sorts of other activities beyond questing. Plus several expansions. You really won’t ever run out of things to do in FFXIV…

Lets federate it (if it hasn’t already been done)

Jensen Huang has all the GPUs, he can probably play games where each character has its own dedicated GPU and every atom and molecule of the environment is rendered in real time with a hyper-realistic physics engine, with built-in AI that plays for you so that even your idle pastimes are automated giving you more time to WORK AND PRODUCE VALUE FOR THE OWNER-CASTE.

“This game only needs two GPUs to run, what’s the problem?”

“The consumers don’t know what they want. I, the CEO, know what the consumers want. And the consumers want to give me money!”

Open-source tech co-ops buy up the production capacity and flood the consumer market with cheap GPUs and RAM?

We can dream, at least…

Don’t do this to us! AMD was our last hope!

There are more besides just graphene though

Or… just don’t use android. There’s a few degoogled forks out there, they should really catch on.

“The tighter you squeeze, the more slips through your fingers.”

Also, we all know this isn’t about keeping malicious apps off people’s devices, because even the play store is full of malicious apps. I’d trust anything on F-droid more.

My last straw was when I had location services permission denied to chrome, and then one day discovered that it had turned them back on without notifying me…

Also, every time my apps updated they gave themselves back permissions that I had disabled.

Oh, fair enough. Thanks

Presumably if he uses the same or similar engine then much of the groundwork is already done, so I would imagine it wouldn’t take quite as long. But I could be wrong.

When it reaches the “good/mostly done but not perfect/could still be better” stage, it’s time to pre-release it for alpha/beta testing while you work out the kinks and add features.

I remember playing Minecraft in alpha version before it even switched to beta. It was fine.

Even full releases can have updates and expansions to add new features, it’s totally fine. But the core development of the game shouldn’t be rushed just to get it published.

I’ve said this about books, specifically since self-publishing and print-on-demand have saturated the market with garbage.

I say garbage and not slop because this was before AI even became a thing. I can’t imagine how bad it is now, but fortunately I’ve broken my habit of hoarding books so it’s not really something I notice anymore.