Not sure what the actors / union are expecting here. If a computer can generate a passable artificial voice, then there's no need to pay humans to do it. Duh.

jdreyer wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 15:36:
The reason the judge is threatening to shut Twitter down in Brazil is precisely because he closed the Brazilian offices. In Brazil, it's illegal to run a business unless you have a legal representative in the nation, a pretty reasonable requirement.

How is that remotely "reasonable" when it comes to online content / commerce? If I have a product and advertise it on the web, are you saying that I must have an office in Brazil to sell anything to Brazilians? That's ridiculous.

DarkCntry wrote on Aug 28, 2024, 21:11:
I'm lucky to get a shot in my ass monthly for the rest of my foreseeable future to help combat it, and hopefully that treatment will take and I'll be around to see a lot more games piss off gamers

Lanreotide?

Cutter wrote on Jul 10, 2024, 15:33:
My and my friends folks were the same. Get outside, go do something. If you got out of line you got a kick in the ass or a smack on the back of the head, 'Smarten up.', and/or grounded. It's not rocket science, it's called parenting.

The problem is it is rocket science for many, if not most parents today. Because they're stupid or just lazy.

Prez wrote on Jun 27, 2024, 11:40:
You want to know what my favorite 'AAA' game has been in the last 5 years has been? (Shut up; I'm going to tell you anyway)

It's Redfall. I bought it for $18 after they released an offline patch and made it actually pretty fun to play. I'm loving the open-world horror and the vamp killing. It's pretty telling that the game that was allowed to breathe a little after the monolithic corporate monstrosity abandoned it and sacked the studio is the game I'm enjoying the most by far from them.

Hmm, you got me interested.

One of the tags for it is "co-op". Is that important or does it play okay with just single player?

Such hate against the leading platform in these types of threads. Oh well, doesn't seem to mean much.

I prefer a single platform. That could change, but I've seen no reason for it to in the 21st century.

Movie industry deserves everything they're getting (or not getting) right now.

Gave up on multiplayer games years ago because of the rampant cheating. Companies haven't cared too much about that either, so no surprise this is a thing as well.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on May 28, 2024, 20:36:
Ugh, GoG is still only breaking even? People need to stop buying shit on Steam.

I'll keep buying on Steam, thank you very much.

Okay, having myself grown up in a physical-media world, I can understand some of the thinking in this thread. But when it comes to Steam and most other platforms, we've lived in a digital-only world for quite a long time now.

Why people think that they should be able to just legally transfer their games to someone else is beyond me. If it's not in the license agreement then I don't see how it's legal. People are free to buy or not from Steam. But if you're going to play by their rules, then why do you think you can later change the rules?

And what do wills or inheritance have to do with anything? If you're not allowed to transfer ownership to another person while you're alive, why does dying change all that?

If you want to give away your credentials, go for it! Just know that if you no longer exist that may become apparent after a while (especially with credit card info), and the person who has your account has essentially stolen it.

Cutter wrote on May 15, 2024, 21:48:
What about a game? Will an actual game ever beckon?

I don't see any financial incentive for them to actually release a game.

Of course, Intel can point its fingers at the mobo manufacturerers for their BIOS settings.
Or the mobo manufactures can point right back if those settings were recommended by Intel.

It would be nice to know which one it is, but I suspect we won't get that info.

Yeah I don't think this one's gonna go Apple's way.

If AI can turn a "normal" actor's voice into something close enough to what a certain character is in real life, then good for it. The only person who should have an issue with that is the character being represented.

If I was a developer, especially a smaller one, I would be paying a non-union person to deliver the lines then use AI to enhance those however they want. If the union doesn't like that then too bad so sad. They don't own the world.

That's because healthcare is not supposed to be a big profit center. But that's what the USA has turned it into. Worst "first-world" country in the world.

first-person shooter?

Timmeh wrote on Nov 18, 2023, 20:07:

Ive been playing Starfield and it is TOTAL TRASH. there is not one single thing star citizen needs to add from Starfield. The graphics are sub par, the animations suck, the quests are shallow and lame, the world is FAKE AS HELL. there is no real depth there at all. There is no actual space travel. the plants are not real, none of your choices mean anything they are fake. The exploration is the same 3 things over and over on planets other people have already been there because there are the same exact 3 abandoned structures on every single planet. there are not even any physics in the game, If i had paid for this i would be PISSED. fortunately its included in game pass.

There is litterally nothing at all good about Starfield.

And yet you were dumb enough to buy it?

Star Citizen is 1000x the game starfield .

Oh, well. That answers my question above.

So apparently space is right above the upper cloud layer?

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Oct 19, 2023, 22:03:
$145 for a shitty T shirt, with a door on it? Fuck that guy.

Umm, if people are stupid enough to buy it...

Slick wrote on Oct 13, 2023, 17:57:
Jesus, they literally can't give away games for free because "gamers" won't touch anything not on Steam.

Did you notice the 40 or 50 studios closing their doors this year or else facing massive layoffs?

You think that 30% of everything you buy going to GabeN has anything to do with it?

The gaming industry has become a Monty Python sketch.

Yeah, gamers voting with their wallets. Terrible isn't it?