- WeihnachtenSalvador : If the game flop than in a month it will be 50% off
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"Maybe this is their strategy. Add in a main character for a game that’s really controversial and that way it’ll distract from the fact you’re trying to get people to spend $130 for the f**king game.”
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) May 16, 2024
Asmongold called out Assassin’s Creed Shadows for their pricing pic.twitter.com/Lmosrp17Vb
Death threats all around, good 
opportunity
@rogerwaters love sucking peepee, as long as it's gaben and not ubisoft's
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WeihnachtenSalvador
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I'm leaving this gay site I'm seething frick you Aevaan
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The interiors were taken ten years ago, the exteriors this past week.
I have a lot of similar shots and need to figure out which ones to use. Usually I'd just let the client determine that, but I'm the client now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_de_Sales_Church_(Norton_Shores,_Michigan)
and escape artist, David Copperfield, gearing up for his greatest escape trick yet; evading 16 women's 
sexual assault allegations
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This will be the last surviving hole. Including all the gussy and bussy holes which will be ripped to shreds by @CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM.
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I'm not gay but I'm all too aware of how horrible LGBTQ people were treated not that long ago. Violence against them wasn't that uncommon.
One of the things that had the biggest effect on me was seeing circle marks on the pavement back in the early 90s in downtown Vancouver Canada. They were put there by gay rights groups to show where gay men were beaten by homophobes.
!leafs bring it back! @Eleganza You live in strag city you can be a spotter!
says universal gibs 
will be needed
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The guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
We'll need universal basic income - AI 'godfather'
The computer scientist regarded as the “godfather of artificial intelligence” says the government will have to establish a universal basic income to deal with the impact of AI on inequality.
Professor Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight that a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of cash to every citizen would be needed because he was “very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”.
“I was consulted by people in Downing Street and I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea,” he said.
He said while he felt AI would increase productivity and wealth, the money would go to the rich “and not the people whose jobs get lost and that's going to be very bad for society”.
Professor Hinton is the pioneer of neural networks, which form the theoretical basis of the current explosion in artificial intelligence.
Until last year he worked at Google, but left the tech giant so he could talk more freely about the dangers from unregulated AI.
The concept of a universal basic income amounts to the government paying all individuals a set salary regardless of their means.
Critics say it would be extremely costly and divert funding away from public services, while not necessarily helping to alleviate poverty.
A government spokesman said there were "no plans to introduce a universal basic income".
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Professor Hinton reiterated his concern that there were human extinction-level threats emerging.
Developments over the last year showed governments were unwilling to rein in military use of AI, he said, while the competition to develop products rapidly meant there was a risk tech companies wouldn't “put enough effort into safety”.
Professor Hinton said "my guess is in between five and 20 years from now there's a probability of half that we'll have to confront the problem of AI trying to take over".
This would lead to an “extinction-level threat” for humans because we could have “created a form of intelligence that is just better than biological intelligence… That's very worrying for us”.
AI could “evolve”, he said, “to get the motivation to make more of itself” and could autonomously “develop a sub-goal of getting control”.
He said there was already evidence of large language models - a type of AI algorithm used to generate text - choosing to be deceptive.
He said recent applications of AI to generate thousands of military targets were the “thin end of the wedge”.
“What I'm most concerned about is when these can autonomously make the decision to kill people," he said.
Professor Hinton said something similar to the Geneva Conventions - the international treaties that establish legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war - may be needed to regulate the military use of AI.
"But I don't think that's going to happen until after very nasty things have happened,” he added.
Asked if the West was in a Manhattan Project-style race - referring to nuclear weapons research during World War Two - with autocracies such as Russia and China on the military use of AI, Professor Hinton replied: “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin said some years ago that whoever controls AI controls the world. So I imagine they're working very hard.
"Fortunately, the West is probably well ahead of them in research. We're probably still slightly ahead of China. But China's putting more resources in. And so in terms of military uses I think there's going to be a race”.
He said a better solution would be a prohibition on military uses of AI.
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nothing more aggravating after being on hold for 10 minutes than hearing an Indian accent 
proof crapitalism has failed
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- HailVictory1776 : Animal abuse
cute twink
.webp?x=8 "Cat Ears (wiggly) - MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW")
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I'll make this an effort post since I know you zoomies know nothing about the Internet or gaming before 2015.
Dyack in the middle
Silicon Knights
Silicon Knights was a Canadian developer who made a few decent games, like Legacy of Kain and the Gamecube remake of Metal Gear Solid. They're mainly remembered for the classic Gamecube horror game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, which is quite good for its time and is notable for being the only rated-M game ever published directly by Nintendo. They were lead by a guy named Dennis Dyack, a whiny manchild who doomed his company to fail.
Zoomers: This was considered scary in 2002
To give you an idea of their management, here's an image of games in production, games that were cancelled or abandoned before release are marked in yellow. Note the staggering ratio of unreleased/released games:
Anyways, Dyack's passion project for decades had always been a game called Too Human, but every effort to make it had been abortive. After the successes of Eternal Darkness and MGS, Dyack decides the Wii doesn't have shiny enough graphics and makes the bold choice to unshackle his company from a lucrative position as a Nintendo third party so he can truly fulfill his vision on the superior XBawx Please Fix Me. Silicon Knights shacks up with Microsoft and Epic Games and produce an E3 demo (zoomers: people used to go to an annual convention for video game trailers) which is received overwhelmingly negatively.
Dyack is NOT HAPPY and goes on the IGN forums to whine about how the critics will regret their words and deeds:
Unedited clip from Too Human
NeoGAF
Once upon a time there was a gayming website called Gaming Age, with their forum called the Gaming Age Forum (or GAF). Eventually Gaming Age imploded, but the top two jannies (Evillore and Bishoptl) were able to move their community to a new forum, appropriately called NeoGAF. You wouldn't know it these days with GAF being a shambling corpse and its spinoff ResetERA being what it is, but pre-G*merGate GAF was chill and a place where industry figures would show up and sperg out while everyone laughed at them.
Dennis Dyack makes a bet 
Right now the man just appears confident in his project. But his next post is a bit more... unhinged, and seems to be setting the bar rather low by making alreay-forgotten games Lair and Haze the standard to beat:
Dyack then does another interview where he declares that not only is NeoGAF the worst forum in the world, but forums in general are evil and this is why the US military no longer uses writing:
Too Human comes out and scores lower than Haze. In classic GAF fashion the top janny punishes Dyack for losing the bet by writing lots of words and then perma-banning him. Dyack copes by saying g*mers are too stupid to understand his genius.
By this point the capital-G G*mers are pissed at Dyack in a way that prefigures G*merGate in a way. Seething articles are written speculating that angering the G*mers has resulted in him not just being banned from NeoGAF, but divorced from his wife, kicked out of the house, abandoned by his employees, his car towed, banned from every website ever, banned from the city of Niagara and tossed over the waterfall.
He messed with g*mers. G*mers.
The Saga Ends
Denis Dyack has brought Silicon Knights from one of the more respected devs in the industry to basically a joke. Following the failure of Too Human Dyack blamed the Unreal Engine and Epic Games and made the genius decision to sue them. This didn't go their way and by 2012 they owed Epic millions of dollars, had less than five employees, and were legally obligated to destroy all of their unsold games and source code.
In the meantime they had six more projects (including two sequels for Too Human) which were cancelled before they finally released another game, the absolutely awful X-Men Destiny, which turns out to be their last. In desperation, Dyack crawls back to Nintendo and pitches a sequel to their last hit, Eternal Darkness. NeoGAF insider reveals that Nintendo is agreeable until SK loses the lawsuit against Epic, and they decide they'd rather not fork over $10 million in legal fees so SK can survive, which Dyack denied. Former SK staff reveal that this was the case and part of the reason the X-Men game sucked was because Dyack was taking money given by Activision for that game and instead putting it toward Eternal Darkness II.
Years later Dyack attempts to kickstart his own Eternal Darkness successor and makes $300,000 out of the $700,000 target. He has yet to make another game. The end!
Dyack, left
tl;dr
mom??
- WeihnachtenSalvador : Will die even faster. Germs as always don't know how to spend money
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Guten Tag, Bonjour, God Dag, Dobry dzień and other !eurochads noises
@ThatHoeOverThere once lost control of this hole, but I will Make Europe Great Again
Post drama, sneed against Burgers and display the superior culture! 
Bonus points to post in a foreign language to burgers 
- WeihnachtenSalvador : Objectively should had changed they day one. But it's Wikipedia
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"SONIC'S ARMS ARE NOT FRICKING BLUE!!"
Sorry I only had one effortpost in me today, just click through. Remember that 95% of people will never know a few morons jerking each other off determine what the internet thinks is true
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