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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • Comment105@lemm.eetoGaming@beehaw.org•Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew
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    13 days ago

    And like other time-limited services outside entertainment, the duration should be made clear. I’d personally like something as clear and blunt as:

    "We guarantee access for at least X months/years after paying the license.

    After service is suspended we will release all information and code necessary to set up a private server or otherwise restore function."

    And for the worst kind:

    "We make no guarantees of access duration, and can revoke your access immediately after paying the license.

    After service is suspended we will not release information or code necessary to set up a private server or otherwise restore function."

    Ideally the last type dies out completely, or becomes exceedingly rare.

    These always online, server-dependent, licence-limited games are very unlike what we used to deal with; Books, DVDs, CDs, and other games on disk/cartridge or with a simple download that you can keep and use for as long as you live as long as they’re still stored and in readable condition.

    They’re very different, and should be treated like it.

    There should be a very clear visual difference when looking at the box or store page of a game that is made to simply last as long as you keep the code stored, and a game that won’t. A consistent warning design. Maybe two color codes.

  • Comment105@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops
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    1 month ago

    Yeah okay, so it sounds like he’s the kind of guy who’ll build a framework, or most of it, and won’t ever really become capable of hosting a lot of videos at a watchable quality.

    Technically he’ll probably have built something basically functional the community could rally behind and get going. But that won’t happen, because the people who care about the Fediverse are few, insufficiently resourceful, and most importantly don’t care about shorts.

  • Comment105@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•New slop just dropped, from OpenAI
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    1 month ago

    Yeah I don’t get the drama with this one. Unless you’re some disappointed investor.

    For me, with no stake in this, it’s fun. A bit weird and bad, but I’ve seen worse stuff. I feel like someone tried to do something interesting with that “Bird that wants to be a Plane” video.

    In my mind I pictured the bird as Sora/GPT and the plane as the theorized incredible and perfect general AI behemoth.

    Imagining the current AI as dumb, incapable and small. Not really able to understand the plane, only sort of, in it’s little bird way.