Epic's been coasting on Fortnite and Unreal Engine money.

The Epic Game Store is a joke and loses them money, between giving away games, courting publishers over players, and not even trying to compete with other storefronts (Steam is feature rich, GOG is DRM-free). Paying for exclusives, even though usually timed, also costs money and doesn't really sit well with a lot of gamers.

It also costs money to fight companies like Google and Valve, to make it to where in-game transactions aren't charged the same cut that Google and Valve's storefronts have.

It sounds like the quality of Fortnite has dwindled, and the costs for skins has gone up.

It doesn't help that it's run by Tim Sweeney. He's a bit of an asshole and isn't really anyone that should be speaking for the company.

...that the nonsense around Hyundai and the ICE raid at that Georgia plant really didn't help.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/08/korean-americans-foreigners-biggest-ice-raid-hyundai/86950317007/

I'm not sure I can blame you for asking these questions, it is Microsoft, but I think you're overthinking it.

This just sounds like Microsoft's version of Valve's "Big Picture Mode". For those unaware, it turns the normal PC UI into an UI that more mimics a console with a focus on controllers.

Alex Pretti: Having a gun, and having a gun on your person, are not crimes, and especially not punishable by death. He was also not fighting with them, he was helping a woman up who was knocked down by the gestapo.

Rene Good: She did not. She was turning away from the gestapo.

Please cite the laws that they broke. You are really bad at this.

Have you ever read a summary in your life? Sounds like she's at least played Firewatch.

I think it's fine to criticize her lack of industry experience, but yes, it does sound like she's played at least one game in her life.

I can only go by the summary since the article is paywalled, but the first point is the only one that really seems worth digging into. Expanding on that does seem important; how are you getting people to interact? What does that process look like in terms of how that interaction works? What is the temperature of those people who engage further? Though they say that don't do that anymore...

It's difficult for me to care about children using social media. The internet was just coming into being when I was a young teenager. I know that the internet is a vastly different beats these days, but...yeah, sorry. Same with the filters. How people feel about themselves in terms of their looks is a society problem, not a social media platform problem.

Not saying I like the guy, I don't like what FB has become or everything it's done, but some of those topics just don't really feel like very pressing matters.

There are other cameras you can get other than Ring. The way you posted this makes it seem like Ring is the only game in town. You can get cameras that aren't will-nilly shared with the government/gestapo.

I've become really unexcited about Rockstar lately. Stupid, unnecessary game launcher. Overwhelming focus on multiplayer/shark cards, though it's a money-maker, so...hard to fault them from a business standpoint, but really hate it from a gamer standpoint. Lack of focus on PC.

But I'm probably just not their target market anymore.

Artificial General Intelligence, I would imagine.

What was the joke, exactly?

Being dead is not a pass to be excluded from criticism.

I imagine it would be a monitor with network capabilities that you can plug a mouse and keyboard into, that's it. Everything is streamed. Nothing is processed locally. Just a dumb monitor that doesn't do anything unless it's connected to their service.

If you drink at home or at a house party, sure, alcohol isn't very expensive. Going out to drink at restaurants and clubs is pretty expensive.

But I say that without knowing the numbers of why or where people drink.

Pitchford says a LOT of stupid things. It's kind of amazing he's kept his job. Gearbox succeeds in spite of Pitchford, not because of.

I'm curious about all the payment options you have. When I go to buy a game on Steam, I see the usual Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and Discover.

Beyond that, I also only have the options for PayPal and JCB. Not sure what PayPay is.

SteamWallet is an option, since you can buy those at brick & mortar stores with cash, but that's not quite as convenient.

But I'm not really seeing a whole lot of the "etc." that you're claiming.

That a lot of companies will try. And LLM could, probably, replace some barebones-type customer service ("have you tried to turn it off and then back on again?").

I guess it depends on a lot of things, like how complex the issue or situation is. Or what kind of permissions are granted to the LLM (would it be allowed to order parts for you? Could it send certain parts free? Could it issue credits?). On top of that is liability. What happens with the LLM does something outside the normal process? People are frustrated enough at customer service, and many companies either design their customer service trees to be terrible or they just don't care (as much as I like Samsung products, their customer service is generally pretty bad).

Not to mention what this would look like for the general public in terms of jobs. Customer service is a great entry-level job for a lot of people; it's not always glamorous but it does pay the bills and lets people get a foot in the door at some companies. More and more competition for jobs is great for employers but not so much for job seekers.

I maintain that no LLM should be "let loose"; in nearly all circumstances it should merely be a tool to a human doing the work. We already have accountability problems in our society; this will make it worse.

And I say this as someone that likes and uses LLMs regularly.