Because the website helpfully provides structured data with tags which make it clear what it is, it's very easy to just use old fashioned and cheap filters to exclude content like that from the training set without losing anything else.

I've seen a lot of different figures thrown around but it's definitely under 20 million in total. Wildly successful game, no Wall Street doubling the budget so they can pocket 20 or 30 million dollars off of somebody else's work.

The problem here is we have parasites who have taken over our economy. Grifters like Elon Musk. The scale of the grift has gotten too big. Kleptocracy combined with kekistocracy. It's not sustainable. You can't have a trillionaire who is never invented anything in his life and has a team of people at each of his businesses whose job is to prevent him from making decisions. That kind of incompetence is basically Nero burning Rome.

At some point we are either going to have everything collapse after everything is taken away from us and our property is stolen or we're going to put adults in charge again. Boring annoying frustrating adults.

Protesting something that doesn't happen is better PR for you than protesting something that does...

It's a holdover from the 60s. It was one part of a much broader movement that included a shitload of effort fighting voter suppression.

The current tactic for the corporations and the Epstein class is to just prevent just enough people from voting to get whatever the hell they want.

Because of winner take off first past the post voting all they have to do is get 51% of the vote and they can have anyone they want running the show and it doesn't matter what you think or what you want.

About 30% of any given country is batshit insane. There are studies showing why basically it's overactive fear responses. Another 15% can easily be confused by propaganda. From there you just need 7 hour wait times to vote, periodically arresting people on minor drug charges and taking away their rights, and a small army of old people with nothing better to do challenging signatures and registrations illegally. Blammo you're at 51%.

So politically it literally does not matter what you do or all you're dumb little protests. But shit those protests are fun aren't they?

I see this from the left wing all the time. They throw a block party and they call it a protest and they act like they've actually accomplished something. Remember those new Kings protests? The only thing anyone remembers from those is they got to work late that day....

It's the difference between professionals and hobbyists. The people in this article are just hobbyists having fun. So they are completely ineffective because they're using tactics from the 1960s that are opposition adapted to in the 1970s.

What's frustrating is the sheer number of people especially around here who somehow think they're in the in group. Everybody keeps forgetting, it's a big club but you ain't in it

Yes they have. Once or twice. Some layoffs happen. However this is just one data point for Microsoft. One data point among many repeated layoffs at MS. One datapoint among full studio closures. One datapoint among Microsoft currently attempting to divest 2 whole studios which they've aquired in said spending spree. One datapoint among the current CEO saying that Microsoft's strategy took them from 30% profit margin to around 4% this year.

One datapoint among the Xbox CEO being replaced this year because despite your "oh please" comment, even Microsoft's CEO agrees they royally fucked up.

So spare me the pity for the managers.

Yes we can tell that by the cuts they are making and the divestments of studios they bought. I think you're making my point for me. If Microsoft's grand plan is to make games then the executives are idiots given how they are executing that grand plan.

No. This isn't a large studio going defunk[t]. This is a large studio bought by a mega studio, bought by one of the largest tech companies in the world, only for then to have massive cuts across the entire gaming division after a double digit billion dollar spending spree all the while shaking up the executive team, changing strategy twice on what an "xbox" and how they distribute games.

You're looking at everything with an insanely narrow lens. If id were independent, or damn Zenimax independent, everything you said would be true, but in context of what is going on at MS it's just not. There's nothing "normal" about what's going on at MS right now.

Define succeed. Do you realise shareholders (specifically a major activist shareholder) recently tried ousting Hidetaka Miyazaki from his CEO position at Fromsoft after complaining that they didn't maximise profits despite producing one of the most critically acclaimed, well and truly financially successful, and wildly played titles of the past 5 years.

Carmack (god love him for his technical skills) proceeded to talk about Minecraft, as if that is the bar we need to meet these days. We may as well give up on the gaming industry completely.

Go on YouTube and technology connections has a good video explaining in detail why a very modest amount of wind and solar can supply energy to all of our needs. Maybe not the rapacious needs of AI slop generators designed to eliminate all of our jobs. But everything that good decent people want.

A very tiny handful of people have had enough of you having access to civilization. They are not content to be unfathomably wealthy. They want to be elevated to the kind of godhood that the Japanese emperor and the Pharaohs experienced. It's not about money it's about power.

Those people never went away we just stopped letting them take over our lives and take all of our property. We are in the process of taking all of our property and giving it back to them for stupid reasons.

Today's "games" don't try to reward you in that classic sense anymore.

this still happens today. you have people competing to "platinum" a game and get all of their trophies. exactly the same thing.

if you prefer percentages, big open world games do the same. i recall working very hard to get 100% with gta 5 and rdr 1, the only 2 games i have ever gotten 100%

Two tier policing is alive and well in the UK.

It is: right wing protests get the ultimate in soft touch policing, especially farmers. Protestors causing similar disruption but aligned left get massively harsh sentences. This two tier policing absolutely needs to end and the police need to crack down as hard on the right as they do on the left.

That way maybe the right will stop advocating for it.

Games are succeeding. Games are selling millions of copies but that's not enough to keep the suits happy. It's enough to keep everybody who makes the games very comfortable employed but it's not enough to make the line go up.

The problem we have here is a bunch of ghouls are sucking 50 to 70% out of the economy before anyone else gets a crack at anything. So things don't have to be successful they have to be wildly incredibly mind-bogglingly successful so that they can line the pockets of the Epstein class while leaving just enough left over that you and me can survive

Microsoft fired all the engine programmers except one guy for id. This means that if you need a advanced engine and you don't have the money to build it yourself the only option is going to ever be unreal. It is painfully obvious Microsoft should not have been allowed to buy id software because of the effect on the engine market. But here we are.

The blue haired college girls were never coming for your games. Gamer gate was always bullshit cooked up by Jeffrey Epstein. The people coming for your games are the finance bros and the AI Bros who made buying game hardware cost three times as much.

If you've got 1 bad cop, and 9 "good" cops who are covering for him, what you've actually got there is 10 bad cops.

You have it exactly right. I can see why you didn't post with an identity, you'd get punished by the reich wingers. Wage theft exceeds all other theft combined but maggots are still crying about shoplifters

Hurricanes aren't "bad" for any power generation. Power generation needs to take into account environmental effects in their design. That is all. That applies to solar, wind, gas, coal, nuclear, or whatever.

The shoddy way you may choose to put your solar panels on your roof probably won't withstand a hurricane. That doesn't mean solar isn't suitable for an area that gets hit by hurricanes, it just means you did a shit design and installation job. Same for wind.

It doesn't need to be a default belief. We have direct evidence showing that the executives in this case are in fact very much idiots. MS went on an insane spending spree acquiring studio after studio without any plan beyond "We bought Minecraft and that made money, so this should work."

If this were a case of a single acquisition and a single layoff we may not need to blame executives. But it is a pattern that has repeated over and over again for a few years now, so at what point do we stop blaming what were very successful studios when they were running themselves for not making "all the money", and start blaming executives who seem to be able to not make any success from their acquisitions?