[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 34 points 6 months ago

They do. There are plenty of indie Devs.

The reason why everyone doesn't do it is because it requires significant capital to be able to support a dev team through production for a number of years.

Not to mention they will still have to deal with publishers potentially fucking them over, as shown with the Helldivers 2 PSN fiasco.

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We've all got one. That pile of books waiting to be read, some of them surely doomed to linger for years as other more enticing novels are selected instead. What's in yours?

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I'm not usually a huge fan of rogue-likes, but I've enjoyed a few, like Hades. I bought Balatro last week and have been absolutely smashing it ever since then. I love the way the game works, each run being so different even within the same framework, and the feeling when your build starts to go off is so incredibly satisfying.

Anyone else hopelessly addicted to joker poker?

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 26 points 9 months ago

"Pokemon with guns on PC."

That's a great sales pitch.

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If you've never heard of wet bulb events, get ready for a new level of climate anxiety. When the air kills you!

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago

Creation Engine is based on Gamebryo.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

It was 2000 shares, he's already sold like 50k in the last year. Nothing sinister about it.

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[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

It's 5% more XP than the boost from sleeping alone.

Great thumbnail pic though.

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The massive 10 book epic fantasy series is a classic of the genre. If you've been interested in the series at all, this is the cheapest price I've seen for the whole lot.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

TLOU is criminally low on this list. Easily top 3, and personally, I'd put it at 1.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 34 points 1 year ago

Marcel LUX III SARL

Company wholly owned by the EQT group, a publicly traded global investment organization. This is just going to lead to more enshittification.

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[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 248 points 1 year ago

Pay 44 billion for a brand, then change it. Pure genius.

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A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm actually surprised by the comments in here. This technology is incredibly disruptive to authors, if they are correct that their intellectual property has been misused by these companies to train LLMs, then they absolutely should have the right to prevent that.

You can both be pro AI and advancement, and still respect creators intellectual rights and the right to not have all content stolen by megacorporations and used by them to create profits while decimating entire industries.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 43 points 1 year ago

This is a strawman.

You cannot act as though feeding LLMs data is remotely comparable to reading.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 41 points 1 year ago

I can’t believe people smart enough to acquire the wealth for that excursion

You do not need to be smart to acquire wealth.

Of the people in the sub, I am confident that 4/5 of them were born into wealth, and I can't really find any information on the other one.

  • The Dawoods (father and son) were only wealthy because their father/grandfather was wealthy.

  • Stockton Rush was also born into wealth, his family made their money from oil and shipping.

  • Can't find a lot of information about Hamish Harding, but he was flying aeroplanes at 13 and went to a prestigious private school called The King's School, so it's safe to say he was also born into considerable wealth.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

It's not illegal to seek asylum.

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Just wondering why lemmy is on a .ml domain. (Which is Mali) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml

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