What I’m going on about is simple:

You exist in an environment that’s equivalent to a billionaires cum jar.

You have been ejaculated on so much by their propaganda you now mistake simple human behavior, comparative logic, and all facets of reality for the nonsensical political jizz you’ve been crusted in.

Whithin 3 comments the prolapsed muppet hole you call a brain went from saying I’ve been acting with too much decency, to now wanting me to calm down.

Reality exists within the middle of those extremes. You are unwilling to see it because you’ve stockholmed yourself into loving being a billionaire bukakke bitch.

I’m not leftist. Despite what your pedo cum crusted eyes think they see. I’m just a human. So if human decency is “left” what does that mean about what you support, you giant fucking retard?

Protecting children from pedofiles is obviously far too decent and therefore “left” for you. So, you should be very clear about how much you support pedofiles, rather than pretending to be too decent to admit it, you leftist woke commie.

Please keep responding with more blatant stupidity. It’s hilarious how much you’ve cucked yourself from reality.

Good thing I never said that you ball chortling waste of oxygen. Sorry you’ve grown so accustomed to being a used cumsock for billionaire pedofiles that you’ve lost all basic sense of reading comprehension for words that don’t immediately felate fascism.

Compassion is human, you uncooked humonculous. Every human ever born needs it from their parents and community in order to survive past the age of 0. For a human, you suck absolute bottom tier ass at being one. You’d know this if you had any individuality instead of the crusty and heavily exploited payslot that you’ve been turned into.

Here’s the thing snowflake, I didn’t forget shit. I’m simply mad at this person’s poor argument, not the person that made it. Something that atrophied lump of old socks you call a brain likely can’t process without a diagram written in crayon explaining it.

The above is far closer to what rage actually looks like. The only reason you feel it’s “left” is because of your massive insecurity about the 99.9% of the world that exists outside the political bubble you’ve adopted in place of an actual personality.

Nothing I said has anything to do with workers, or politics. You’re just another loud ignorant insecure rightoid snowflake too afraid to leave the conservative testube to even try to think for themselves.

Please respond so I can keep dunking on your simple and obvious ignorance to my own delight.

Mcdonald’s isn’t trying to get me to vote against my own free will by exploiting my user data dude.

I’m cool with eating garbage cheeseburgers because my Metadata is being used to manipulate me into thinking it’s great. I’m not cool with eating the actions of garbage politicians because my Metadata is being used to manipulate me into thinking they’re great.

I mean, based fully on our current dystopian reality, I feel you just made a really good point about tech growing to a point where it fully captures you from reality, and indeed frys your brain by convincing you that fantasies are real.

MAGA is a great example of people with brains so fried they think a pedophile exconman with 34 felonies who killed millions of Americans trough a poor pandemic response is somehow helping them by destroying USAID, DEI, Healthcare, and Social Security.

Their brains are gonzo, all through the constant applied exploitation of all the tech you just mentioned combined.

AI will absolutley make it worse.

Love how Tony Starks voice comes out of Doctor Dooms mouth.

You think Robert Downey Jr. Is just gonna talk through his role as Doom like he did here?

I’m pretty sure he’ll do some acting instead.

So counter-counterpoint. Doom should sound like Doom. Not like a copy and pasted RDJ from Iron Man 1.

The fact he just talks normally kinda proves my point about AI sucking ass.

Here’s that character in the comics. His voice is lettered in a distinct way that the comics even reference and make fun of.

Something that AI couldn’t reference for accuracy so didn’t, and the result is fucking hilarious 😂 if that trailer was real, Marvel would be made fun of even more than it is now.

Also, people exploding into green mist is Power Rangers 2000 level of SFX bad. Not impressed at all by the powers Doom is supposed to have in this trailer if his biggest threat is turning you into a fart cloud.

Ah yes. Please tell me how real your totally made up assumptions are on how AI will develop.

if the AI companies get their hands on it.

AI already had their hands on the sum total of everything humans have created for the last 10,000 years and the best it can do is sometimes generate something mediocre 1/100 times. This mediocre result can’t be modified, or improved in anyway. And you want me to believe adding a single other library of 300k films will be enough? That’s a bucket of water in an ocean of information it already has access to and uses poorly. It will not make AI magnitudes better than it is now, the technology itself has plateaued due to its own architecture. AI Models can get better, yet results still cannot be modified, duplicated, or improved.

Which in an industry where tiny creative iterative improvements is literally the key to making something great, you want me to believe a machine that is incapable of that can somehow reach the same quality result?

You are dillusional. This tech is a dead-end creatively and it’s an embarrassment that you think it can grow by impossible leaps and bounds that exist purely in your imagination.

the outcome will likely be good enough for the average Marvel movie.

Dude. Marvel isn’t even good enough for the typical marvel movie these days. You think the guys who made 26 blockbuster hits can be replaced by AI when they can’t even successfully replace themselves with other humans? Marvel can’t even make a movie to save their own ass these days, I doubt AI has a shot.

1 scene at a time means AI has results with inconsistent locations that change as they leave the frame, inconsistent costumes on actors, inconsistent background SFX, inconsistent lighting, inconsistent cinematography. Etc etc.

AI doesn’t know how to keep the color temperature between indoor lighting and outdoor lighting consistent. So it has no control over style, rather just a single scene’s lighting. So it can’t be a cinematographer. It can just guess what each scene looks like and you better hope shot 5 is the same 5400 degrees Kelvin white balance as shot 3 or that scene is going to look like a fucking amateur shot it once edited together.

AI can’t emote. Period. In any way that makes a human interested instead of angry. Acting is a range of emotions, displayed in ways uniquely and handled by each actor. An AI can give you 100 emojis options to have appear on a face in a scene, and none of them consider the emotional arc and narrative of the film, because this is one scene being generated out of 73. So AI can look and sound like Natalie Portman, but be limited to acting like her in Star Wars episode 2: Attack of the Clones. Just constantly one emotion full throttle or another to the point it’s hilarious an Oscar winning actress gets completely forgotten about in her Star Wars appearances.

AI can’t be consistant. Period. So sets will change. Props will change. And “plot holes” or “set mistakes” will become common as AI can’t remember what something looks like when it leaves the screen. It’ll be like accidentally having a Starbucks cup in that one episode of game of thrones, but for every episode of ever, instead of just the one in season 8. Imaging that seasons mistakes but done in every shot and every scene because the robot dreaming up the production cares even less than the directors did making that season.

People like you think AI can make a movie because you’ve never made anything creative yourself to sell to the public. It’s not easy. And the public doesn’t just lap up bullshit. There’s trends and tastes and opinions that every creator whose ever made something has had to navigate to become successful. Just because an AI can get criticized instead of a human doesn’t mean that AI can get better as a creative generator. Only humans can do that through constant iteration. AI, even at its best, still needs 100 tries to get something alright. An expert filmmaker needs 1. Because they’ve made thousands of mistakes before, and learned from each. Something AI literally is incapable of and will never be able to replace. So every creative human work that is built atop the journey of failure and self improvement can never be emulated by a machine that fully lacks that mechanism. At best, it can kinda copy it 1 out of 100 tries.

Good thing they won’t be convincing enough. The preview for every AI actor I’ve seen has been laughably bad. Mostly because AI has trained itself off of decades of mediocre people using social media to “act” for ad placements while forcing a fake charismatic demeanor on everything else for community building. AI actors have the depth of a porn star convincing you their work is enjoyed more than their paycheck. Except AI performs that way for every basic human emotion.

AI isn’t even intelligent my dude. All forms of it just predict what best fills in a blank, and the sum total of every bad actor on social media is the largest pool it has to pull from. Expecting good or meaningful performances from AI actors is hilariously misguided. At best we’ll get perfect looking humans with flawless facial symmetry that have the emotional depth and inflection of text emojis.

That can’t carry a 2 hour film, let alone any content that requires emotional complexity. At best we’ll get movies that are just 2 hour reaction videos in what AI thinks humans do in certain situations. Baby born = happy face. Baby died = sad face. Is about the depth you can expect from these actors.

Unless you’re an oligarch of course. Then you can J6, Doge, destroy half the Whitehouse, etc.

Ink Inside.

Made by ex Cartoon Network + horror devs. Game is basically a cartoon show you play. But with unique combat, a funny narrative, and game mechanics that often can make you laugh with how silly it is (if you like slapstick)

It’s two player co-op as well, with some killer VO.

Brian David Gilbert is one of the leads, so if their humor works for you, you should check it out! 😁

I was impressed with it’s accuracy AND coherency.

The problem is addiction. Same as any other drug. It’s no coincidence that Facebook and X were rolled out as free services, with free accounts, where you can interact with anyone for free.

Before the digital drug dealers running each changed that deal. Needing money, running ads, and restricting what you can do that all used to be free.

These companies got us addicted to using tech in place of human socialization and then monitized that addiction.

People can’t leave because for some it’s the only human contact they have. Even if it’s artificial, they still want it to the point of it hurting themselves. Just like any other addiction.

Kinda hard to explain this concept to executives who have made their entire careers based off of dumb decisions like this. Problem is these execs never get fired or laid off, and instead get promoted upwards until all of Microsoft is doing the dumbest thing imaginable to their name. These people have never had consequence before, so are now destined to place those consequences on the company that’s kept them woefully employed.

Hey! I think this is a FANTASTIC question, because the answers reveal the diverse ways we all categorize what a “good” game is.

The straightforward simple nature of it like TicTacToe makes it good.

The easy on boarding to new players makes it good.

The simple task and challenge while not deep, is competitive enough to make it good.

Even bad games can become good under the right circumstances or perspectives. Sonic 06 is generally considered to be one of the worst games in the franchise, and an overall bad game. But it’s great to watch others play it because of how bad it is. It’s great to watch speed runs, or the odd glitch hunting videos. Playing it JUST to experience how bad it is can even be enjoyable and “good” to anyone that likes playing bad games.

My point is, what makes a game truly “good” isn’t just a single thing about it that someone might like, but rather, a combination of all those “good” things about it that work together in a way to create a better experience than the sum of its parts. Multiple “good” things all working together to make an experience that is uniquely “good” to that game.

So what’s interesting, is that all the different perspectives in this thread prove fairly well that Flappy Bird was indeed a good game.

However, the one part about it that people haven’t mentioned yet that I appreciated about it most:

Was the fact that the bird had some of the worst physics ever.

Having a linear jump up, but an accelerating decent down that despite its description, felt like juggling a rock in high gravity more than making a bird flap it’s wings.

It was SO UNINTUITIVE, that even with the quick onboarding it felt like playing a carnival game that was rigged for you to lose. And just like those games, there was a trick to getting good at it. And that trick created a learning curve needed to actually get gud at Flappy Bird. One that in combination with its easy and simple concept, quick onbaording, and competitive design (leader boards) made it honestly a great experience at the time that I feel hasn’t quite been captured since.

(With the closest being maybe Baby Steps or Getting Over It, but neither have such a simple design. Rather a simple mechanic pushed to its limit.)

Anyway, thanks for asking this! Imo, Flappy Bird was definitley a good game worth talking about.

Google, the point is we’re all worried that when Gemini actually places itself into a robot body that the resulting literal Terminator is what AI models think perfection is.

then through competition they’re all driven down to a price that’s near production.

The creation of “better” products means improved production methods as well. There’s an incentive to improve processes to be more efficient if it means you can earn more profit than someone else and stay in business longer. That’s how we’ve gone from hand copying books to printing presses to free digital libraries. Better doesn’t just mean making better books, it also means better methods in making books.

you don’t seem to understand the difference between laws that prevent the creation of anti-competitive practice and regulation that increases the cost of product and decreases competitiveness.

You don’t seem to understand that both of those things are essentially the same. Regulations are just interpretations of existing laws. Without laws, there are no regulations. That’s why breaking them has legal consequences, and 3rd party agencies that enforce them.

Also, you don’t seem to understand how regulations clearly protect the cost of production at a sustainable price above exploitation within that market. I find it fascinating that on one hand you say competition drives prices to near production levels, but on the other complain that regulations increase the cost of product. Do you not see the very obvious mechanism that regulations have in making sure competition is sustainable by keeping market costs fair and safe above exploitative practices? You literally described both cause and effect as problems then complained as if they don’t clearly relate.

Any European country with ranked choice voting is safe from the 2 system exploit that has allowed people like Trump and Orban to take office.

I’ve already agreed that any system we design will collapse including capitalism. Regulations are what’s needed to maintain any system from collapse. This includes Anarchism.

Without rules, what’s to stop sociopaths taking what they want? The issue isn’t what system is best, it’s what can be done to prevent any system from collapsing.

The answer is regulations. Not the complete absense of them. We have an incredible amount of data and studies that consistently show how anarchistic societies based on self motivation are immediately exploited by strong men sociopaths.

The same with capitalism. The enemies of both are the same, but at least with capitalism there is a mechanism through which to maintain regulations. Self-governing communities always self corrupt, as evidenced by the US’s now entire corrupt system that was previously self-governing. It just took centuries to corrupt because of strict regulations. But in those centuries people had livelihoods.

Anarchism provides no mechanism by which this can be protected for so long by design. It’s a system that allows for maximum exploitation by those who want to exploit it. That is the double edge of not having bigger heirarchal structures - there’s no reason not to take through strength if you have it. No punishment for breaking rules as there are no general rules that society can reliably enforce.

Historically, Anarchistic societies bend the knee to the first warlord that wants to conquer them, and then only after generations of suffering feel that maybe there should be rules and a hierarchy of law to prevent such exploitation.

I’m very familiar with what Anarchism is. And you’re just focusing on the rose colored parts of it the same as you think I’m doing for Capitalism.

No system works. Period. But rules do. And unfortunately a system is needed for those rules. We just haven’t found the right one yet that can last for more than a couple hundred years.

Compare Europe’s surge of Far Right to the US’s. They’re handling it a lot better and passing regulations to prevent it in the future. Even getting laws passed to regulate the total use of social media by kids.

I’m not saying capitalism is perfect in Europe, I’m saying it’s a better example of how to regulate it into something sustainable.

Respectfully, the biggest flaw in anarchism imo is that it’s not a system at all. It’s basically just tribalism and immediately devolves into the rule of whoevers strongest in those tribes.

Humans are social creatures. We have literally always made societies based on expanded family dynamics and rules, as that is literally human nature. We want family and structure, and to do that we create rules that structure needs to follow for the family to survive.

Anarchism doesn’t really work for the elderly. The sick. The disabled. Anarchism doesn’t really do anything to protect the families we create as whoever is strongest can just take what they want when they want to.

Granted, Capitalism is horrible, but literally any system we create is doomed to become horrible and fucked up if we cannot regulate it from corruption. If we can’t prevent it from being taken over by strong opinionated assholes, it will also eventually devolve into tribalism.

Literally the problem that needs solving is just our own dark nature. That some of us are born without the capacity to understand our social nature, and survive exclusively through exploiting it. Those people are the sociopaths that have destroyed every society we’ve ever had, including the earliest recorded ones that were basically anarchistic.

It is within our nature to be highly social, but the few of us born without that nature only want to take from others instead of giving.

That dual nature of humanity is something that no civilization we’ve ever built has survived.

Not true at all. In a free market competition drives the creation of better and more profitable products. Companies that can’t improve fail.

The way we reach the end state of capitalism we’re now in is exclusively and only through the removal of fair and equal trade. Deregulation is how Capitalism got this bad. What youre saying is nothing but provenly false propaganda.

It’s only without regulations can the formation of monopolies and oligopolies even happen where there is no competition and both price and quality are captured and frozen. Companies in these positions then artificially leech from the societies they’re in through corruption to survive instead of collapsing to dust naturally.

That’s 100% where the US is now. In an unregulated monopolistic billionaire playground where the best performing companies in the stock market haven’t made anything of value in over a decade, and have done nothing but raise prices on worsening products and leech value from the society theyre in in place of giving anything of value back.