Comment Someone Digg its grave, please (Score 3, Insightful) 30
It's dead, Jim.
It's not coming back.
It's dead, Jim.
It's not coming back.
Spicy autocomplete indeed.
Chuckle.
AI is real. The implications of this are not priced in.
The 1936 Robinson-Patman Act "prohibits price discrimination, preventing sellers from charging different prices to different buyers for goods of 'like grade and quality' if it harms competition."
It's extremely rarely enforced, but
Context: I'm a relatively new (~20 months) POGO player, currently level 75/80, with 34 platinum medals (you need 50 to get to the top level, 80). That probably makes me knowledgeable, but not entirely an expert.
The thing that has made POGO so successful, I think, is that "gameplay" is really broad -- there are a bunch of game mechanics in the game, and you can progress while specializing in some and ignoring others. You want to go out and spin pokestops and find new gyms? You totally can! You want to stay home, do remote raids, and remote PVP? You totally can!
I'm really not a PVP person, I kinda hate PVP in all games, but that's just me. Others really love PVP in general, and some of them love PVP in POGO. So a POGO tournament could literally take place in a basement, away from any pokestops or gyms, because you could just PVP against each other (Heck, if you didn't have to worry about cheating, you could have PVP tournaments involving players coming in from their own individual basements across the world).
They didn't require these limitations, so my suspicion is Pentagon will say no, the deal will be classified so nobody will know, and Google will get the credit they want for "trying."
Pushing more and more people into dense urban landscapes that are hostile to life does not lead to happy people? You don't say...
We have codex 5.4 performing all IC2-3 tasks now with a higher success rate.
Laughing is about to stop.
Have a plan.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.