https://twitter.com/BangBangClick/status/1319305553454288896
Edit: Oh wait, this gets even better. This dumbass was the creative director for Assassin's Creed 3 (you know, the shitty one that tanked the series for a while), and once said that "women are too hard to animate" as a justification for only having male protagonists: https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1319363853021569025
that is a really good way of having your game receive no attention and just failing WHICH IS A THING GOOGLE STADIA EMPLOYEES WOULD KNOW ABOUT
I tried the Xbox equivalent a while back and if you have good internet, it is surprisingly quick and tolerable.
Lmao fuck Stadia tho, and especially fuck this dipshit.
I'm not willing to put money into a service that is inevitably going to one day just be canceled.
Apparently their cloud teams are a shitshow right now, and I'm very much into it.
Eagerly awaiting the day they shut down the first cloud service used by paying customers.
WHICH IS A THING GOOGLE STADIA EMPLOYEES WOULD KNOW ABOUT
Get their asses
Imagine looking at all the dumb, self-destructive, and thoroughly-despised shit the music industry pulled over the last 40 years and thinking to yourself, "Yeah, we should copy that, except only to punish people who currently give us free advertising."
Waiting patiently for a Chinese version of Twitch that inevitably takes over and sparks WW3
I think that's the bit that bothers me the most. A competent soul-sucking ghoul would at least realize that saying that bit out loud is dumb as shit and going to get thrown back in his face when he reveals the Totally-Not-A-Streaming-License Model(tm) in six months or whatever, but this idiot makes eight figures a year and is completely insulated from consequence so he's just going to do whatever and get away with it. Is it too much to ask that the capitalists at least have competent vampires running the show?
IIRC if you start a tweet with a username people will not see it in their feeds unless they follow that sn.
being paid more than six figures to waste billions producing a failed gaming platform
we give up public healthcare/spaces/transportation for this shit lol. ahh im thirsty gonna go make myself a drink with my juicero
"They should be buying a license like any real business."
Love buying a license to listen to my music for a set period of time, or buying a license to rent my own home computer. Actually owning things is for fake businesses apparently.
Waking up 07:00 on a Sunday morning in a cold sweat with the sudden realization we've always lived in the cyberpunk dystopia; then remembering how the dumb fucking rubes at Whole Foods haven't delivered my fucking groceries yet.
Not gonna lie, "User-Friendly Libertarian's Utopia" has always been one of my favorite bits. I wish I still had some of my best ones from the old sub.
Does Google pay content owners when it puts scraped info before search results to discourage traffic beyond Google search? Maybe they should.
No, but they abuse their browser monopoly to push awful standards that just happen to keep people on google's servers.
It's "open" though.
They also push businesses to the second page so they can favor their own services. That's what got the EU to fine them.
Australia is actually trying to make Google do that. They want Google to pay the press for grabbing headlines and paragraphs. I’m not sure the current status of the bill.
The arrogance of this tweet is astounding.
Does he realize that audiences tend to stick with streamers? The idiot seems to think that the entertainment value of watching a game stream is purely in the game. It's not.
Many smaller publishers would break their legs to have big streamers stream their games
"Pay! Pay for the privilege of being a walking advertisement! Pay us, lube the gears of the machine with your dollars, so we can use you harder, you filthy little paypigs! Oink and squeal for your precious content!"
Do you really believe that a license-to-stream payment model will result in artists and programmers having their salaries raised?
It might result in them not getting from Stadia for a little bit longer.
maybe.
It's their shitty game streaming thing that's probably going to be dead in a year.
I won't care when Stadia dies.
When google finishes completely blowing it in Cloud tech then I'll laugh.
Turns out just having dog shit customer service and constantly killing services has consequences when you try to be a platform.
In case any of you forget: any game in your library on Google Stadia can disappear on the publisher's whims. In other words, it's the ultimate form of DRM.
As if anyone should care what shitty opinions these assholes have about intellectual property.
Well, yes and no.
Yes, Steam has DRM, but it's apparently trivial to remove. And as far as I know, it is not possible for Valve to forcibly uninstall games already installed on your computer. I could go on-and-on about how Stadia is much more egregious then
Besides Valve does have a relatively good reputation among the gaming community. I certainly have a good opinion of them because of the contributions they've made to the Linux community. Nevertheless, they are a for-profit company, and Steam is proprietary software; there is nothing really stopping them from turning evil (for lack of a better phrase).
Steam's DRM is paper-thin, only really able to prevent the most casual of piracy. They can remove games from the store, but they can't remove games that are already installed on your machine.
No, I don't think so. Usually the worst that can happen is it gets pulled from the store, not from your library. The only egregious case I have heard of GTA 4 being patched to remove music that they had time limited contracts for.
This guy used to be high up at Ubisoft (and we know what that means now), oversaw the worst Assassin's Creed, left to go to Zynga where they promptly lost a billion dollars (in the mobile game market!), was fired, and only got hired even at the disaster that is Stadia because Google bought his game studio and it was part of the deal.
Other choice arguments from his past also apparently include rants about white victimhood because Japanese games review better despite their plots being all "gibberish" and famously forwarding the opinion that "women are too hard to animate" in games and that's why main characters can all continue to be generic white dude bros.
The guy is a grade A fuckwit.
This guy used to be high up at Ubisoft
I don't but I'm guessing the person who claimed it's lead by a bunch of rapists and harassers wasn't being hyperbolic?
that’s why main characters can all continue to be generic white dude bros
https://twitter.com/mariejasmin_/status/1285565180097761281
Female employees fought back against that sexist shit. 👍
jesus christ as if there was more of a reason to hate streaming games as a service
When do we get our own streaming service? Couldn’t we do like a block chain or torrenting like service where everyone on the site is also adding bandwidth for streamers?
Boink. I’ve heard it proposed for other services outside of finances. But honestly I am not that knowledgeable about it.
It's just a public leger tracking transactions with some extra verification really, there's not nearly as much magic around it as techbros would like to make you believe.
Blockchain is useful for almost nothing. The only thing it's good for is keep a distributed ledger, basically proof of something (usually ownership) that is distributed among a bunch of people instead of having a single authoritative source. Blockchain isn't even good for fleecing Silicon Valley types anymore.
Something like torrenting could work, I think Tor works similarly. So look at the problems Tor has to see what problems a service like this would have.
The ledger use is actually a pretty cool way to ensure transparent and untampered data.
But as a currency it's just stupid lib shit
This is what I have heard. Any good readings or video on this subject?
Accidentally deleted while editing so reposting:
I'm sure, but nothing off the top of my head.
The examples I'm thinking of that are neat have been the attempts to use it as a way to vote.
Sierra Leone somewhat famously attempted it in 2018, at the time I was writing for some tech news outlets and I covered a bit of it (no I will not link this for it is my great shame to have been involved with that scene).
But the general concept seemed pretty cool, as each citizen was basically given a an encrypted key for their vote. Can't spoof it, so there's basically zero way to fraud it, and you'd be able to check to see that your vote was added to the chain without giving up anonymity.
It didn't work out great, because Sierra Leone, but I always thought it was a very cool idea that could make voting really really easy to do without any risk of fraud.
Basically it can guarantee good faith on every end, so long as that specific chain was created to suit that need.
Oh wow. Now I have to do research. That could create a true democracy. Not that we need democracy to implement communism, but most people also support our ideas so it could be an effective avenue.
Yeah, a well set-up blockchain with a truly unbiased ruleset could be used as the new standard of unbiased elections pretty easily.
There's zero way anything like that would be used under the current system without it being imposed on a government though lol
I'm sure there's other use cases for the tech as well, but that's usually where my mind goes to.
But it's a really fucking dumb currency concept, it's just where our monkey mind went to the first time we got our paws on the new tech.
Does Tor have problems? I guess it takes a little while to get online, but seems to run alright once you’re doing it.
Probably should have been more specific, Tor is bad for high-bandwidth tasks. Even if you make it mandatory for everybody to donate upload bandwidth you would still have problems because people's upload speed is slower than their download speed. It's not an insurmountable problem, but it's difficult. If the US had less shitty internet it might become doable.
