I totally agree. However, when looking at the bigger picture I think Microsoft wouldn’t want to be so dependend on Epic after spending so much money on their game service, Bethesda and Activision/Blizzard. I don’t expect them to actively consider switching engines and I don’t think it would solve all that many problems anyway.
The actual term is satellites. Blame media and maybe engineers. People constructed so many manmade ones that natural satellites got the moons rebranding.
On top of all of this, those efforts to tame and control outputs from the developer side could be abused to simply appease investors or totalitarian markets. So we might see a Disneyfication like we‘re seeing on other platforms like Youtube with their horrendous filters, spawning ridiculous terms like „unlifed“. And just imagine the level of censorship we‘d see if they ever try to get into the Chinese market because clearly, the ‚non‘ in non-profit is becoming more and more silent.
Gangster organizations like the Yakuza or the italian mafia ARE those white collar criminals doing lobbying and getting rich through loop holes in the system. They‘re more powerful than ever and don‘t have to break anyone‘s bones or smash anyone‘s store anymore. They won.
Es sind leider oft Tankies, die wirklich an Chinas Überlegenheit glauben. Das Fediverse ist halt leider immer noch stark überrannt mit denen.
Uff. Da führst du jetzt leider genau das Argument fort, was ich am Anfang schon schwierig fand. Du machst es dir viel zu einfach nur Jordan Peterson zu nehmen und anhand dessen zu sagen, dass Kritiker ja keine richtigen Argumente hätten. Peterson machst du hier zu deinem Strohmann. Man kann ja schon den Kommentaren hier entnehmen, dass die „Sprache formt Denken“ Hypothese sich großer Beliebtheit erfreut und man darüber scheinbar doch reden muss.
Sprache ist etwas gesellschaftliches, nichts was verordnet werden kann. Und genau das Argument machen die Rechten. Sie wehren sich gegen die vermeintliche Verordnung der Sprache und machen das zum Kulturkampf.
Fairerweise muss man sagen, dass diese Verordnung nicht ganz so vermeintlich ist, sondern sehr explizit von einigen Leuten im linken spektrum der Politik gefordert wird und sich sehr oft genau dagegen der widerstand erhebt. Und da muss man ein bisschen die Spreu vom Weizen trennen, denn das halten bei weitem nicht alle LGBT+ Leute für eine gute Idee oder zumindest nicht für tauglich. Es ist eben keine zentral gesteuerte Agenda die verfolgt wird, sondern unzähle Menschen mit unzähligen Meinungen die unterschiedlich ausgeprägt sind. Da sind auch einige mehr, andere aber widerrum gar nicht politisch aktiv.
Und wie du schon erwähntest, geht es am Ende allen ja darum,
ihr eigenes Leben leben zu können ohne bevormundet zu werden.
Na ja und dass Jordan Peterson ein Saftsack ist, ist kein Geheimnis. Gesunde Kritik an der Woke-Bewegung, wie du sie hier beschreibst gibt es aber durchaus von beispielsweise Slavoj Zizek. Da verrennen sich durchaus viele Linke in ihrem Eifer eine vermeintlich bessere Welt zu schaffen.
Just one? You underestimate german bureaucracy, Freundchen.
Aliens would be really disappointed to find out we already have blue checkmarks invented and people don‘t care nearly enough about it.
I think you misunderstand something. The same thing many AI enthusiasts and critics often choose to not understand. Regenerative AIs aren‘t just born from plain code and they don’t just imitate. They use a ton of data as reference points. It’s literally in the name of the technology.
You could claim „well maybe they used different voices and mixed them together“ but that is highly unlikely, given how much of a wild west approach most regenerative AI services have. it‘s more likely they used protected property here in a way it was not intended to be used. In which case SJ does indeed have a legal case here.
As if Spotify wasn‘t bordering bloatware territory already. Just give me a music subscription service without the dozenth of functions I will never use or „recommendations“ that are clearly just paid ads and don‘t fit my taste at all.
Sounds like absolute garbage.
Youtube premium is a very short sighted band-aid solution. Because the more people sign up for it early, the more expensive and/or less convenient it will become later when the ‘market is saturated’ (meaning there’s no one left who wants to sign up for it). When they can’t grow their income through more users, they’ll ramp up prices and shave off services. It’s happening everywhere already and in the end you’ll wish everyone advocated for adblockers a little more because by the time you’re fed up with their pricing, it might already be too late to go back.
The fact that ‚Fucking‘ is literally written out on the map yet the creator still chose to censor themselves is fucking priceless.
That is why I am looking up price trends of more expensive things. Websites often even show you trends in different currencies. It is wild how much prices of everything fluctuate in recent years.
It‘s laughable to expect corporations to act against their only purpose. As soon as a company sells shares it takes the route of infinite growth which is impossible. First they grow their user base and once they start to inevitably stagnate, they start milking their costumers, shaving off features and laying off workers in order to grow their income. It is really the only way for them to remain existent when the market is saturated. They cannot stay in business when they make billions a year when these billions aren‘t even more billions than last year. You can‘t attract new investors that way and therefore cannot continue to exist. Enshittyfication only just started. It cannot possibly get better when they can‘t expand their user base, only worse. They know they will self destruct eventually, but that doesn‘t matter as long as shareholders get their piece of the cake and jump ship to sink the next one. Just being a massively profitable company is bad business if you‘re not growing. That‘s the state of capitalism we‘re in.
Google‘s ‚auto complete‘ is driving me nuts sometimes and it‘s also prevalent on Youtube. I mean just scrolling through completely unrelated suggestions in Youtube‘s search results tells you how little they care to show you what you actually want and rather something that makes them more money one way or another. But the direct fiddling with actual search quarries is just malpractice for a search engine.
Where is the anger? He made a stupid post, siding with what can only be described as neo nazis and got owned by the german foreign ministry on his own platform. Didn‘t stop him from doubling down with insane radical right claims, though. Anyway, that‘s a bad headline of quite an empty article if I may say so.
On a different note I just watched a very similar video that was recommended to me by a pretty much unknown creator about the importance of indie developers and pretty much everything Alanah says here shows how important they really are. To imagine where we would be without tiny indies breaking the mold… it sends a shudder down my spine. ‘Indies > AAA’ has been my way to go for many years, now that I think about it.
Nintendo Wii/WiiU/DS/Switch did it better.