The kind of social media they know about, anyway.

I am not ashamed of anything I say here, but I am never doing it with my full identity accessible to whomever. Basic online hygiene.

They’re literally half the ads Youtube sends me. Crazy long ones too.

They’re also powerful enough that they can get a lot of ad spots on national TV channels too (France), and only have to print a tiny unreadable warning about risks, while having a giant tagline saying “The important part is winning”.

Castlevania DLC in Dead Cells, and if it’s anything like it, the new actual Castlevania game that is coming soon from the same developers. And it’s a new Castlevania game that is not a freaking pachinko machine. It’s been more than ten years since the last one… And that last one was also developed externally, by Mercury Steam.

Konami signed on a lot of crossovers lately (there’s some random Contra ones too). Probably the only things of value bearing their name since forever.

All this time I assumed destroying the world was just an easily dismissed, unfortunate consequence, turns out it’s their main objective after all.

Konami’s only redeeming factor today is that they occasionally find people who give some fuck about their IPs and let them handle those.

On the very console that owes a huge deal of its initial success to the comparison with the intended XBOne bullshit.

Fucking hell.

Shit. I was going to say, maybe I could not update (I haven’t in a while) and keep my console offline forever.

But then I remembered that thanks to the piss poor storage capacity of that console half my games must be unistalled right now.

First Sony console I ever bought. After that stunt, also last.

I have a 2 now, but yeah, they don’t build them as they used too.

I changed my switch 1’s fan twice, and its backplate. No battery problem for now at least. But I also replaced way too many joy-con sticks and rails.

Don’t give them ideas, they’ll start drilling for new volcanoes.

Depends. Megachurch Dark Souls would have monster trucks, tanks and huge mechanical props.

Basically just a voice recorder with no connection, and you have to get your files through usb and submit them yourself to the pasta sauce site so they can send them to the library of congress for “preservation” or something.

Such a weird concept I can barely imagine someone doing that seriously. As a joke, maybe with your worst Mario impression cut by exaggerated slurping sounds, maybe.

I never activated cloud storage for Google Photos. Whenever I open it for some reason, it complains about it. I need something non-shittified to go through my gallery, just haven’t looked for it very much yet.

Seriously, Concord? Have some of these people been traumatized by its whole two weeks of existence?

It’s a pokémon joke. In the first games there is a kid who has a very random line about his love for shorts, and since then they’ve put someone like him with a similar quote in a lot of games.

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That would certainly explain it.

I guess the story they’re trying to push is “People intentionally use bad AI just to give officially supported, good AI a bad name!”. And that’s quite the ridiculous claim.

I remember a long time ago complaining about a shitty pattern like this (specifically, bombing your history by artificially making a shitload of redirects and thus making the back button useless. Probably the old school way to do this shit). Back then I was told by web devs “this is how the web works, you can’t have a browser detect and block this!”.

Fuck that.

sabotaging their company’s AI by entering proprietary info into public AI chatbots, using unapproved AI tools,

This is counter-productive and can get you in big trouble IMO. I don’t even get what these are protesting.

or intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it.

This is better and I think I would totally do this if management forced me to use AI. If they want to pretend using this thing is a better use of my time, I’ll give them what they want.

Fortunately I am working for an administration that has had rather tame expectations for gen AI use till now. They’re basically just like “experiment if you want, be careful and use what works for you”. So I just keep doing what I always did.

Roughly same age group (I think? early Y), and yeah, exactly that.

Searching has become a battle against the terrible AI answers that misinterpret and oversimplify one random result while making it a chore to find actual good sources.

And of course gen AI is also to blame for these good sources being drowned in an ocean of content farms, those shitstain tentacular bastards stealing and garbling information beyond recognition. Walls and walls of text saying absolutely nothing, or complete lies, on every subject known to humanity, feeding on themselves and replacing everything else.

It’s no use. You can always try to hide it, we might have slightly fewer opportunities to use “slopilot” but we can still default to “microslop”.