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Comment Dustborn (Score 1) 25

a newer development: governments and the ultra-wealthy have begun treating games as tools of political influence

Oh, they must be talking about Dustborn, which was funded by the EU to push the establishment narrative about misinformation (among other topics).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment bit of irony (Score 5, Insightful) 73

"Netflix built a great service, but increasing Netflix's dominance this way would mean the end of the Golden Age of streaming for content creators and consumers," Lee wrote in a post on X.

The golden age was arguably when Netflix had the streaming monopoly and everyone licensed their stuff to them, which ended long, long ago.

Comment Wrong about Production, Too (Score 3, Informative) 73

They weren't just wrong about consumption/demand. I've said before that the peak oil wikipedia article has been one of the more amusing ones to follow for a while:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Figure 1: What we propagandized to you for decades and hoped to influence public policy with.
Figure 2: How pants-shittingly wrong we were.

Comment Won't Search for VISA Premium or MC Advantage (Score 1) 159

Then Amex is a poor choice, since it's already not accepted anywhere near as many places as Visa/MC or even Discover.

Amex is likely to be the primary card choice for me if merely checking for its logo is still all I have do, but the VISA/MC logos suddenly lose this important, decades-old trait.

Comment Like the Old Saying Goes . . . (Score 1) 39

. . . if you aren't the customer, you're the product.

Or with AI I guess your data is the product, and anything you might incidentally accomplish (learning, working, playing, earning, etc.) is a waste product, to be minimized accordingly.

There's probably car analogy that could express it better.

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