You’re totally on point. Lemmy has a lot of people stuck in the past. It’s a significant bias.

The store will garner good sales and the Tekken devs will eat well. This will be enabled by people who see value in their work and happily pay for it.

It really doesn’t matter what a vocal minority thinks, when the valuable non-vocal minority is out there paying big bucks for Kazuya in a fundoshi.

In order to reach new heights as a game service, Tekken needs all the money it can get.

People also seem to forget that Tekken started off in arcades. These arcade releases were far more aggressive in their monetization, especially in Korea and Japan. You would have people paying 5-10$ for a couple of hours. Players would also have to pay for their online player IDs.

Tekken 7 still had this business model. The game released for arcade in 2015. 2017 for all platforms.

The game was thoroughly milked before it was more accessible.

Isn’t MPC dead now?

Agreed. We’ve been safe from all the bullshit here. Looks like those days might soon be over.

Boring meetings and/or uninspiring rote programming: Tekken 7.

Tired: Age of Wonders 4

Chill with the missus: Tears of the Kingdom / Oxenfree 2

Unsure how this will really help. Anyone looking to really do damage using AI generated content would just make their own fork and run locally.

This content won’t have these hashes. Using the hash as a certificate of authenticity could just lead to a false sense of security. Unless we were to move towards applying said hashes to any and all content. Not just one generated by AI. That’s a colossal undertaking given the developmental overhead it introduces.

Yeah. They ran a social media influencing campaign based data aggregated from approx 270 million people. It’s debated on the degree of influence this data had.

One thing is certain though. Around 800 000 people had surrendered their data (admittedly through a seemingly benign Facebook app) to an app posing as just one of your usual fun personality quizzes. This data opened the floodgates through association to about 269 million other people due to the way FB APIs were set up.

This data was then used to create psych profiles that got utilized for targeted advertising.

Two of the biggest campaigns that used this data were Trump 2016 and the Brexit referendum.

Cambridge Analytica scandal maybe?

Don’t worry, the paperback was also made with ChatGPT

Sounds like a business savvy approach. You’ll see people who want to make content and promote themselves on the platform subscribing.

That’d be like saying 911 isn’t good because not everyone has a phone.

Again, it is an additional and optional service on top of the usual phone call. So those who have any old phone in hand will still have access. Just no video.

Pretty sure the standard option would remain as well.

However, given that almost everyone is on a smartphone here and hopped up on a cheap unlimited data plan, it’s pretty accessible for 99%.