This isn't gamers. It's a few vocal morons who will literally get into every hobby and bitch about wokeness. These people aren't customers or gamers, they are just annoying fuckwits kicking a hornets nest for engagement. None of these people were going to play GTA VI regardless of who wrote it in what way.

If you don't know what it stands for then it's probably not for you and you can happily move on. Not every news item suits every person. By not spelling it out, it just weeds out the people who should be reading something else.

Move on kid.

Hardly. You can kiss November/December goodbye but that's about it. Most people will get over it in a month or two and move on. Plenty of fanatics will get fanatical over it, but the rest of the industry will be just fine with normal gamers, to say nothing of the fact that the release is distributed. e.g. PC master race gamers will be looking for something to play for a while, and by the time it drops on PC, the console players will be looking to move on.

"Really? It's just a game ffs."

Yeah it's working for my mother (also in Australia), she's shedding a few kgs. But really a large portion of this is medicating people who otherwise are suffering from problems that are more akin to addiction than anything else.

I think if I installed a siren in the kitchen that belched out "CLOSE THE FUCKING FRIDGE DOOR" at 100dB every time the snackmaster decided she had an "appetite" it would probably be just as effective.

The worst part is self-defeating practices. It's easy to beat your appetite, don't fill your fridge with snacks. My mother visited us in Europe a few weeks back, and the things she loaded into the shopping cart were incredible. The stupid part is being on GPL-1 she didn't actually snack, but then left with all this purchased snackable rubbish in our house. Chocolate, tinned tuna, olives, caviar, spreads and breads and biscuits and protein bars, etc.

Now I'm the one struggling not to snack through it all because it's simply there.

As someone who works in a large company which has rolled out AI assistants for Teams I disagree.

Ticking off things live - it may sound like a nothing burger, but it's a god send for keeping meetings on track and on schedule without having to depend on how good the organiser is. Yes if you're good at hosting meetings it will make no difference. Most people are not, this replaces their incompetence.

Post meeting summaries are great - again it can't replace a human who does it in terms of accuracy, but... unless the meeting gets minuted for legal purposes by a dedicated scribe this simply isn't done. Most meetings end up being a waste with no follow up, with actions missed or no suitable summaries. I used to pride myself on doing the above, but even I would occasionally miss something in a summary and get an email back from a participant saying "thanks, but you missed item X". Copilot is actually surprisingly good at this now (it was a clusterfuck as little as 6 months ago as to what it would deem important).

So yeah, if you run very effective meetings, this is of no help. But most meetings are not very effective meetings. I fucking hate how AI has been shoved down our throats, but this is one area where I think the tools out there already are effective and of benefit.

On the flip side next time CoPilot offers to "clean my data" in excel I'm going to put my fist through the laptop screen.

If your company is considering this then Anthropic is already reading all your documents.

The numbers around the numbers matter. China's energy demand is massively increasing and the portion of fossil fuel consumption dedicated to both energy production as well as residential consumption is decreasing at the fastest rate in the world. Blaming them for still burning fossil fuels is insanely dishonest or woefully ignorant of how energy works in general.

The world would be in a far better place if we even remotely matched China both in terms of emissions per capita (China's is way lower than any western country), and in terms of how strongly we are addressing the problem.

Coal consumption in the US is the highest its been since 2022 and saw a 10% increase in 2025 alone. Don't celebrate until the Orange Dumbfuck in Chief is gone. The EU is holding steady but has seen no meaningful decrease since COVID thanks to the restriction in gas supplies causing all countries to put on hold plans to shut down coal plants.

Also "already on gas" is a bit dishonest. The USA is still burning 8.7 exajoules of coal a year. All of Europe (not the EU, but total continent) a place with 2.5 times the number of people (but keep reading) is burning 7.33 exajoules. In the USA that's about 20% of the gas consumption, and in Europe it's about 35%. But a reminder nearly 30% of Europe's total gas use is residential and not substituting coal.

Coal still makes up an embarrassingly huge part of the USA and Europe's energy mix. We have a long way to go.

*Numbers from the 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy by the Energy Institute.

Agent Merkel didn't do anything bad. For that you should look to her predecessors. By the time Merkel implemented a policy that was craved for by the democratic voting public, Germany's nuclear infrastructure was in an already borderline obsolete stage thanks to 20 years of lack of investment in upgrades. At the point they started shutting down, all but 3 nuclear plants were either at end of life, or had their life spans dangerously extended. Merkel did a good thing here. Funny thing is, Merkel was historically pro nuclear.

If you want to point the finger do so, but point it at Gerhard Schröder and Helmut Kohl, and note that both were from opposing political parties and both of them championed the end of the nuclear industry in Germany through systemic underinvestment.

China's coal consumption has decreased over the past decade. At this point they are building more efficient replacement options for areas where no suitable logistical alternatives exist.

This makes sense for them, but unfortunately it gives certain morons a perceived scapegoat to point a finger at as an excuse to not fix their own dirty practices.

I think we can all agree that person is beyond help.

Yes. You're good at pointing out facts. Have a gold star.

Ukrainians lost access to far more than just drones. I'm not sure which USSR funded news site is feeding you your "context" but it's worth looking further.

The Starlink terminals disabled were stationary and wide spread, and the first time he disabled them it was based on a threat of retaliation right after a meeting with Putin. So on behalf of everyone here fuck off. And on behalf of the people of Ukraine, fuck off you bootlicking piece of shit.