The tech industry chases acquisition and investor money only now, not consumer demand or innovative achievement. It’s all just people trying to get rich, mostly so they can escape the effects of late stage capitalism.

looks like me and the boys are going back to teamspeak

shareholders are poison to gaming

If a corp has shareholders to answer to, they will only churn out unfinished dogshit.

Very few people actually need or more make use of the power that nvidia’s high end cards provide

discord also uses opus

Idealogues getting mad that their ideology is becoming less popular is both predictable and uninteresting. It’s mostly astroturfing. Left vs right is a divide and conquer tactic to get the workers to not rise up against the oligarchs by convincing them to blame other workers for their problems.

Bethesda being owned by Microsoft means they’re tainted by the influence of shareholders now. The decay is inevitable. Wall street ruins all studios with time.

There is no war but the class war.

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The shareholders demand a return on their investment, so they demand that every game be no less than a billion dollar hit. This is where infinite growth shareholder economics gets us in the end. It is toxic to any art medium.

Why are the devs so confident that “less is more” is what the players of this genre want?

Absolute braindead idols.

why is that?

I’ll take worse anything over a blurry vaseline smeared image during motion. The fact that devs of high speed games like shooters think this is the most acceptable compromise is bewildering.

Like getting devs to stop using TAA

They say stuff that isn’t true because it gets them engagement from people who come to correct them. We figured out how to generate profit from misinformation.

corporations ruin everything they touch

lalal AI has made some great innovations in taking songs and separating them into vocals and instrumentals. that’s a game changer for remix artists.

other than that niche utility and a handful of others, AI is largely bullshit.

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

Mega corporations that only hire contract workers with no morale or investment in the long term success of the company (because the majority of their efforts are purely to appear shareholders) are not equipped with the means to put out decent products.

Passion, dedication, investment in workers, and long term talent are what create remarkable pieces of software. Microsoft has none of this because these things are incompatible with the directives of infinite growth shareholder appeasement. Want extra time for QA? nope, that would reduce profits. Want to pay higher salaries to attract better talent? Nope, that would reduce profits. Want to adequately reward employees in ways they actually connect with like raises and bonuses? Nope, that would cut into the boss’ annual bonus and he needs his new vacation home more than we need to afford rent.

There is an optimal level of profit chasing and company size within which excellent software can be produced, and Microsoft exceeded those thresholds years ago. There is also an optimal phase of capitalism that is conducive to quality innovation and development, and we’re well past it.

This is already how it is. Our public schools are underfunded to the point of being useless. The lack of quality public education is how you end up with this many idiots voting for trump in the first place.

That, and religious indoctrination destroying any chance they had at developing critical thinking skills.