As Gaben put it in the recent valve doc, moving the story forward wasnât a good enough reason to put out a new Half Life. The series has always been about pushing technological innovations, and they just felt stumped on how HL3 was going to do that.
People like to claim valve doesnât do anything anymore, but I legitimately feel like PC gaming is the best deal for gaming right now, handily beating out console and mobile, and that is in large part due to valve.
Their flat internal structure hasnât been perfect, but on the bright side it didnât result in them pumping out what the gaming industry would have viewed in retrospect as yet another obligatory entry in an FPS series. Valveâs intention was to let smart people solve hard problems in the gaming space, and IMO they have always done that, it just so far hasnât resulted in a HL3.
It is a fact that there is a pattern termed a âdeath crossâ, and it is a fact that Tesla exhibits it.
It is also stated clearly in the article that, in the opinion of the author,
the chart pattern reading kinda strikes me as astrology for guys in suits.
And according to Reuters,
about half the time that a death cross appears, it marks the worst point for the index rather than a harbinger of a steeper decline.
Imagine reading an article before making inflammatory statements about it in 2025.
As someone who doesnât know the first thing about bsky, IMO as long as theyâre centralized and closed source, itâs not possible to call their algorithm opt-in, nor configurable. You simply canât know how theyâve arrived at the content they are (or more importantly, are not) serving you.
But yes, I do think lemmy and ActivityPub services in general need to prioritize user control over custom âalgorithmsâ for filtering and prioritizing content.
I wonder how successful a crowd-funded fediverse marketing push would be. I really think thatâs the main thing that pushed people to bsky over mastodon.
A huge number of Twitter->bsky converts were people happy to just stay in their bubble, until eventually enough of their bubble engaged with a bsky ad they were served somewhere.
A good chunk of crowd funded ads to push the benefits of mastodon, Lemmy, etc could be the lowest hanging fruit right now.
barrier to entry is higher than that because it first requires you to understand the technology at a base level.
I just donât buy that argument. Email is prolific and virtually no one knows how it works. IMO it comes down to marketing budgets.
I legitimately believe that if ActivityPub services had gained traction before the dotcom bubble, they would be the default today, and twitter/bsky/reddit etc would have to go above and beyond to convince people to used their siloed platforms.
Instead, for-profit ventures are motivated by money to come up with new ideas and push them into the mainstream with their marketing budgets. Then later, the fediverse copies those ideas, often with half-baked approximations that are hard to scale (usually due to bandwidth and/or moderation costs).
people just abandon the old one and join the new popular one. Theyâll leave when it gets shitty enough and join the new thing
Iâm hoping this is the phenomenon that is the best chance for the fediverseâs future, because every time one of the platforms dies off some small percentage of the userbase switches to a fediverse alternative. And a protocol wonât fail like a private service will. So over time, the more often private services fail, the more users find the fediverse, the larger it gets, and the more people notice that itâs the most dependable way to go. It might take 100 years for a critical mass of people to figure it out, but I think in the long term, the fediverse will eventually be seen as âold reliableâ.
Do you believe that the film industry didnât start until the 40s and 50s? Of course not. The first âfilmsâ came out around 1900, but the technology was still improving, and the industry was still figuring itself out. It wasnât until the 20s that both had progressed enough for real âtraditionalâ films could be made.
Similarly, the gaming industry collapsed and rebounded twice before the 90s because it wasnât getting off the ground. The tech wasnât there yet. So yes, if you look at a timeline of the gaming industry, it was objectively in its infancy until âlike the late 90sâ. The same way the dotcom bubble came and went a decade before the vast majority of people even realized the internet had anything to offer them. I get that maybe you were in a nerdy little bubble of early adopters, but Iâm talking about the world outside that bubble.
- Note that revenue in ~1975 and ~1990 are basically the same. Industry revenue was mostly sideways for 20 years.
- Then the 90s came. People shifted from arcades to handhelds, mobile, PC, the internet.
- The number of games published per year increased significantly.
- And an explosion of objectively âinfluential titlesâ were published in this era. Many of which are featured in Baftaâs list. (Though obviously Rogue should be on there).
To be fair, the video game industry is relatively young, and the games that built it to what it is today did come out during the years that correspond with millennial youthhood. If we made a list of most influential films today, a lot of them would be from the 40s and 50s, but that wouldnât be because a bunch of Silent Gens showed up to vote.
Yeah, the rest are like âok sure, but maybe not in that orderâ. But BG3 and KCD2 are like 90% recency bias. Great games, but probably on par with Witcher 3 or the RDR games.
But they didnât do any research here, they didnât have a panel of judges, they just put it up to a vote of the internet. By âinfluentialâ they really meant a popularity contest.
Hah very different themes Iâd say.
On the Beach is about all the people who thought itâd be a good idea to move to Australia in case all the nukes drop during the Cold War, and then the nukes drop and everyone in the northern hemisphere dies and they survive, but then they realize theyâre just waiting for the natural wind patterns to bring all the radiation over to them to kill them too. The only way to win is not to play.
So similar in that theyâre both very dismal.
Well at least the physical key works for the doors. What year is that?
Yeah, I wish there was a company that made a fully dumb electric car, but thereâs just no incentive to do that. I have a 2014 gas car with a normal physical key that you use to turn start it, but I donât think Iâve ever seen an electric car where you have to use the physical key to start the car.
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Have you you tried stealing the personâs identity? Seems like thatâs what the bank is asking for.