DrQuint

I don't agree with this network access take. A lot of endangered cultures are simply being assimilated.

I was in a casual quiz in Hong Kong recently and one of the questions required us to know a language with less than 100 speakers. The default answer the quizzers had expected was Macanese Patuá. That sort of regional dialect existed in such a restricted set of conditions and between two different pressures to remove it (between Cantonese and Portuguese), that globalization simply drowned it out.

Ah! I get it. So it's a valid metric in theory. It's shit for everyone in practice.

They did market it. A lot.

It's just that the game's trailers were wildly forgettable.

Yeah, this headline reads "disappointing single player game somehow stopped selling all that much after 6 months"

Like... Yeah???

That is absolutely not true unless if you have exact word matches, and anyone with half a brain knows it's not about searching within discord, but about searching outside of it.

Discord is a black hole of information. What happens inside is unknown from the outside. This is why every single FOSS project using discord loses the right to call themselves FOSS - an issues page is equally free, has way, way better features to relate an issue to patches and releases, and is actually indexable.

If only there was something called an Issues page attached to every code repository. Oh well, that is an idea that is probably impossible or whatever.

Greatly improved usability, while still greatly hurting searchability, in that common bugs are still hidden away from indexable sight.

MAKE PRODUCT AT LOSS

GET CAPITOL TO MAKE PRODUCT LOOK BIGGER

SELL PRODUCT FOR MORE THAN SPENT

FIRE EVERYONE TO "MAKE SUSTAINABLE" (LIE)

LEAVE WITH GOLDEN PARACHUTE

REPEAT TILL YOU CAN BUY ENOUGH PROPERTIES TO RAISE SHITHEAD KID WHO WILL RUIN YOUR FORTUNE

Don't even need to make it about code. I once asked what a term meant in a page full of a certain well known FOSS application's benchmarks page. It gave me a lot of garbage that was unrelated because it made an assumption about the term, exactly the assumption I was trying to avoid. I try to deviate it away from that, and it fails to say anything coherent and then loops back and gives that initial attempt as the answer again. I was stuck unable from stopping it from hallucinating.

How? Why?

Basically, it was information you could only find by looking at the github code, and it was pretty straightforward - but the LLM sees "benchmark" and it must therefore make a bajillion assumptions.

Even if asked not to.

I have a conclusion to make. It does do the code thing too, and it is directly related. Once asked about a library, and it found a post where someone was ASKING if XYZ was what a piece of code was for - and it gave it out as if it was the answer. It wasn't. And this is the root of the problem:

AI's never say "I don't know".

It must ALWAYS know. It must ALWAYS assume something, anything, because not knowing is a crime and it won't commit it.

And that makes them shit.

Netorare, Cuckholdery. Basically an entire branch of porn where the plot has one man watch "his" woman be taken by another man. It's overdone in some circles and completely absent in others which makes me think there's some degree of turnoff associated with it that is cultural.

Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum.

It was shit. And I don't have to tell you why. Just look it up, sound on, that bit is mandatory.

My first ever gamer was a disappointment lmao. I did get super into the Megadrive and everything was fixed. But man.

This is why I expect the video side of things to be more on the level of stream channels that self-host content with subscriptions for access to VoDs, rather than singular big platforms. Streaming in of itself is a lot of traffic too, but you have much bigger RoI per bandwidth spent with live viewers, and you cut down the storage requirements with limited VoD access too.

The only problem then becomes discovering these channels from the rest of the federated space, but honestly, either that will be a problem that will be solved by the space in a more general manner (oooh, imagine the return of web rings! Lol) or... It will end up being an issue that doesn't matter. Like right now, still coming from video games, MinnMax and Second Wind are two creator-owned platforms that appear to be relatively unpopular, with short amount of thousands of views, except they run off of donations on Patreons and the viewers they do have keep them afloat with a good decent margin.