Quazatron

Between Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Itch, Fanatical, Prime, and all the retro emulation stuff, I have more games than I have life left.

I was today’s years old when I discovered that Robert Palmer had a cover of DEVO’s Girl U Want.

This has been standard operational procedure for some other governments around the world: transpire that some outlandish law is being considered, wait for the wave of indignation, get what you wanted to regulate in the first place approved while the people wave their pitchforks. Rinse and repeat.

Whip It - DEVO

It’s not unheard of Valve going things that hurt its’ bottom line.

Family sharing, for instance. I can use the same instance of The Talos Principle 2 that my kid uses instead having two copies.

That kind of touch makes me a happy customer, with way too many games on my “one day I’ll play this” list.

Thanks, but it only solves part of the issue.

That’s not the issue here. They are free to have whatever games they want in the store, I don’t care.

The issue is: if you have a recommendation system in place (like the Discovery Queue, which I use and have found great games on), you’d better let me customize it so I don’t recommended yet another hentai puzzle instead of a nice boomer shooter. Just this. I just want some control on what I’m being recommended.

That is good to know, thanks!

As far as I can tell, you can only add about 10 tags to the ignore list. That’s way too few for me.

No need to be gatekeepers, just let me blacklist entire genres, publishers and studios.

You can measure their despair level by counting the number of “OpenAI says” articles per week.

I used it quite a bit right at the beginning, when it was transitioning from being a “Pre-HTML Processor” templating utility to a proper language.

The syntax was nice and easy to pick up. The rest was pretty bad, a lot of security was left to the developer following best practices.

It improved with time, but it had already left a bad impression on me.

I know it’s still popular, as you can tell from the downvotes.

Here it is.

When you want to distract the voters from something you are about to do that is massively unpopular, simply point them to a target. Chinese, communist, emigrants, you choose. You have the media machines to do it. Easy.

Brilliant.

I don’t doubt that for a second, my friend.

Soon, the guys upstairs will realise that the real savings are in replacing the middle management with agents, not replacing the workers. Fingers crossed.

Fortunately, the people above them care about numbers, and these don’t add up.

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

I think this was the standard management reaction across all the companies that embraced AI as if it was the second coming of Jesus Christ.

January: We’re going AI native, please use AI as much as possible.

March: Everyone needs to attend workshops on how to maximize AI productivity.

July: Some models are only available for special (properly justified) cases. Speak to your manager. Turns out that some people did everything (even commits) with top cost models.

August: Ok, we’re setting some limits on token usage, due to some people spending 1000% over the average.

September: we are creating additional frameworks and limits to AI use.

It took a bit of time for the actual AI cost/benefit to reach the top management and put some hard numbers in contrast with the hype machine, but it’s happening.