Nintendo should be shooting their fans
So accurate
Microslop should be the ones instructing everybody else how to murder their fans. “Hey, charge for online!” “Don’t give free stuff!” “Anti-competitive? More like fuck you!”
But that’s what they’re all doing, so Nintendo could just as well shoot itself in the face.
On one hand: GOG is unfortunately having a case of the ultranationalists. On the other hand: we still have Itch.io, Zoom Platform, and GameJolt, so that’s something?
itch.io’s been bad for creators especially queer and nsfw ones. source: https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans
before anyone jumps in to say this was visa/mastercard or collective shouts fault - no. itch.io could’ve communicated with the creators, given them notices, and information. have public announcement on what and why. they didnt even inform most of the creators their content was removed until it was manually checked by them
Any information on the moral standing of Zoom and GameJolt? Otherwise I think there’s no alternative, literally
i have no idea what zoom is. havent heard anything good or bad on gamejolt
ik there’s not many alternatives in terms of hubs, there’s some games u can buy directly from devs but thats rare. but its important to keep in mind the bad shit that each of these platforms have done and keep pressuring them to change when we can
as long as you’re fine with supporting neonazis i guess
GOG Supremacy 🙌
Very poor choice of words
Shhhh, nobody is looking this way rn
Why is steam being killed by AI?
Might want to add TSMC and the other silicon manufacturers to the ones shooting. The silicon cartel isn’t just a cog in the machine here, they’re also a large part of the ones behind it. That’s why they’re trying to lock in high pricing.
TSMC’s market dominance certainly has caused an upward trend in logic chip prices, but they make no RAM, which is the most insane price at the moment.
RAM is made by Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.
Fact that they’re still the only big 3 is what created this pickle in the first place. They have no real competition.
Yeah that doesn’t make sense at all
People keep blaming AI for the steam machine pricing but nobody is forcing the semiconductor and memory manufacturers to raise their prices. Most of the ram capacity is held up in non binding agreements. Furthermore most likely the ram manufacturers are artificially raising their prices to cash in on the AI boom.
(Yes AI does play a massive part here but they’re only half the problem).
The problem is that a majority of the supply was bought out by AI companies who couldn’t compete by offering a better product, instead needing to make them be the only ones with hardware to run models. It isn’t a problem inherent to the technology, but one manufactured by American billionaires riding on over speculation while it’s still hot.
If anything, these companies are holding back machine learning from reaching its true potential by wasting all the hardware on overgeneralized slop. The most productive uses of machine learning aren’t most of what these fuckheads use it for or force down our throats. The increases in productivity for most uses of LLMs are marginal at best, while more specialized models can save orders of magnitude more time by doing very specific things. However, all that hardware being dedicated to corpo models makes it more expensive for people to run what they actually need.
If silicon was manufactured like any other technology, by thousands of companies all around the world, rather than by a handful of companies who all work together. Or even, by nationalized government branches, after all computers are a key piece of what makes modern life possible (not just for entertainment but to provide the services for a healthy and sanitary life). Then this whole fiasco wouldn’t be feasible or even possible. The silicon supply chain is fragile and there is little being done to fix that.
If we didn’t have a literal silicon cartel who controls the whole world’s manufacturing it wouldn’t have happened in the first place. If there were more companies manufacturing semiconductors, or dare I say, they were nationalized and not for-profit companies. The option to buy up all silicon production in the world would be less feasible if even possible at all.
it’s so fucking baffling that the EU hasn’t gone through with the plans for a german chipfab, it’s such an obvious thing to do
I mean way more countries should have chip fabs. Nationalized ones even that aren’t going to sell out stock or production to any tom, dick, and harry that shows up with cash demanding it.
It can be both.
Plus, VALVe knows that people will defend anything they do and purchase anything they sell no matter the cost, while saying that VALVe is just a small indie company that needs their personal money.
Genuinely, half the shit VALVe gets away with would be talked endlessly if any other company did it. VALVe stans are the Disney adults of gaming culture.
capitalizing the company’s name like that kind of makes you look silly
It is how they spell it for branding, but yes I understand it does.
Steam machine pricing maybe? AI caused the shortage of electronics and apparently steam people said they couldnt afford to sell the machine at the price they planned
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