Jedi Survivor 25% off
From $90USD finally at $70 in the region I'm currently in, wow much discount !
From $90USD finally at $70 in the region I'm currently in, wow much discount !
Community MetaSteam | June 2023 - halfway through the year
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Excuse me if im gonna be extremely inflammatory here, but,
WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK?
Ever since the dawn of the industrial revolution 300 years ago, new technology has put people out of work as the technology made work more efficient than manual labor, resulting in a deprication of the value of said labor, until it reached virtually zero and forced these people to get new jobs (such as operating and maintaining the machines).
This has been the defacto norm for society for hundreds of years now.
Artists, due to the particular unique nature of art, were so far the only form of job mostly exempt of it - but even there exceptions already did exist, cheap CGI displacing all the people involved in creating sets, costumes, animal training, stuntmen and many others.
And yet, i don't see anyone crying for those people losing their jobs.
Nor do i see people crying that McDonalds and its consorts have shrunk their laborface through selforder screens by like what 70% throughout the last 15 years?
Artists will merely be under the same boot, that is machines taking mer jobs, as everyone else.
And while the very existence of such a boot is not a good thing, as machines should set us free rather than make us poor, (which is an issue of capitalism, not technology) i find these crocodile tears artists and their fans currently spill ignorant at best. Welcome to the real world?
So either the discounts are loading up really slowly or more than half the games on my wish list aren't getting discounts lol.
Anyone that actually cares about art and other types of work that rely on human creativity should, which I guess is something that techbros wouldn't understand.
As my wishlist is not loading at all, I think it is safe to say we experience the typical hour or so until the load is lowered enough that all discounts are displayed correctly.
Up to 0%? This means negative discounts?yay let's go
If these works are reliant on human creativity, then the human creativity will retain its value anyways
Oh, you wanted a sale, did you? You will get a second job to afford these games, peasant.Up to 0%? This means negative discounts?
Not buying at 90% off Samurai Shodown will haunt me to the end of times.
Honestly, I really think that's a bit snobbish.
How is it completely different when artists lose their jobs compared to when blue collar workers do?
And I'm not going to single out artists here -- I have far more contact with white collar office/"knowledge" workers, and I've seen a very similar attitude there.
Some people who seemingly never really put much thought into labor policies or the inherent issues with our economic system when it was "just" blue collar workers affected by something are suddenly up in arms now that LLMs might be making their jobs redundant.
My hope is that when larger parts of society are affected people might start to collectively think about the real issues, but I'm sure the moneyed interests will find some way to rather spin it as in-group vs. out-group again. "Artists" vs. "Techbros" is surely a great start.
Pizza Tower finally on sale, easy first purchase
'Things have sucked for everyone else it was about time it was your turn' ain't a great argument lol
"Artists" don't have the monopoly on human creativity or creative work, and yet somehow people in other fields that require ingenuity and creativity have been losing their jobs for literal hundreds of years.
I'll go one step further and be particularly cynical and say and these people wouldn't give a shit if THEIR neck wasn't on the automation chopping block this time in fact they wouldn't be thinking about the topic at all, so yeah as far as I'm concerned welcome to how the world works.
The BG3 news is incredible. They moved it up by a month lol.
Release dates are a farce anyways. Just get rid of them and let people play the game at whatever stage of development it is in.
Release dates are a farce anyways. Just get rid of them and let people play the game at whatever stage of development it is in.
Man y'all act like artists were making the big bucks with their creations and not dependent on tip jars and abusive contracts with their customers
to be fair, from what i've seen so far - you all agree with each other
you're all arguing the same side, haha yes, even Hektor
That's not at all the argument.
The argument is that the problem is not with technological tools that make humans capable of doing more. The problem is when the economic system results in the effect of those tools being negative for some people, despite them improving human productivity as a whole. And that it's myopic at best and selfish at worst to only recognize this when it applies to tools which affect some professions but not others, as if they are better and more deserving of protection.
Well, I don't consider using AI as 'doing more'. Plus I'm very wary of AI used in stuff like this because it will quite possibly be used to reinforce the status quo, i.e. white supremacy and Western ideals of aesthetics.
My wishlist is still populating with discounts so wait a while before shopping
Why the fuck do I feel an urge to buy RE4R despite it not being on sale.
If AI wasn't, to some extent, enabling people to "do more" in less time then I feel like there wouldn't be as much concern about it.
A ton of generative AI progress (especially in image generation) is currently coming out of China.
(Which is one of the reasons why the US establishment is scrambling to create increasingly stringent constraints on export)
But is that 'more' good though.
Look, I'm not in the mood of discussing this any further because we clearly don't see eye to eye on this and I don't want to ruin my morning, let's just agree to disagree
This is the last thing I'll post about the AI stuff, for those defending AI replacing activities/work that relies on human creativity, let's say, if AI advanced enough to the point of being close enough to immitating human speech and nuances, would you be accepting of it replacing entertainers, streamers, vtubers and such?
If your response is yes, there's just no way I'm ever going to agree with you.
If your response is yes, there's just no way I'm ever going to agree with you.
I hereby found our Anti AI corner, population: 2
It's also annoying how the proliferation of AI art has resulted in some amount of blind hatred for anything with AI. Like the muscle deformation tech in the recent Spiderman games.
Didn't this interview happen way back when the console ports were released?
A lot of the games I want still have denuvo, the war was lost it seems.
Square is the only one that still tries.
Square is the only one that still tries.
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The game will be the first title from Annapurna Interactive's internal studio led by game director, Chelsea Hash (Solar Ash, What Remains of Edith Finch, Radiohead's Kid A Mnesia Exhibition).
I am backing out of the AI argument. Like too many people here to lose my rag over it. Instead going to paint some miniatures and play some games.
You can dual wield Shotguns.
You can do bullet time.
You can do superspeed.
You can dual wield Shotguns!
You can dropkick people.
You can throw people across the map with super strenght.
You can wield two Shotguns at once.
You can dropkick someone so hard against an obstacle that their heads get chopped off.
You can slide around with super speed.
You can kill people utilizing a shotgun in each of your hands.
You can slidekick entire groups of people into the air.
You can kill them with slow-mo mid air afterwards as you are dual wielding shotguns.
You can grab an enemy and throw him into enemies, making them drop like bowling pins.
But most of all.
You can dual wield shotguns.
Some historic lows that I'm probably going to pick up
what game is this?
You can dual wield Shotguns.
You can do bullet time.
You can do superspeed.
You can dual wield Shotguns!
You can dropkick people.
You can throw people across the map with super strenght.
You can wield two Shotguns at once.
You can dropkick someone so hard against an obstacle that their heads get chopped off.
You can slide around with super speed.
You can kill people utilizing a shotgun in each of your hands.
You can slidekick entire groups of people into the air.
You can kill them with slow-mo mid air afterwards as you are dual wielding shotguns.
You can grab an enemy and throw him into enemies, making them drop like bowling pins.
But most of all.
You can dual wield shotguns.
It usually happens a couple of days before the new bundle is released, so maybe sunday or monday.
Oh right, heard a lot of positive comparisons with FEAR for that one. Will have to give that a try at some point.
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