Let's delve into the peculiarities of this article— shall we? (/s)
A lot of people don't know what proper English looks like because they don't read enough books offline, and so chatbots, sounding grammatically correct or even passing a single customer service or human reading check are elevated to the status of "speaks proper English" by neophytes.
As a result, people who want to be seen as speaking _"completely proper English" _ will adopt certain habits of the chatbots (especially if they're from a different nation or speak a foreign language and don't understand the grammatical rules of English natively), e.g: Like the Nigerian Tech scams.
You also have the incompetent, like the UK politicians mentioned, converting "simple English to complex English" using an LLM dialect/formatting tool.
It can kill even a AAA game; Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 came out, a sequel to VTM after 12-18 years.
No one had a clue and no one bought it for that reason
The ideal time to release a trailer or promo materials is around 1-2 weeks (4 weeks tops) before the game's formal release, it gives people time to adjust schedules and/or get word of mouth out or even allocate funds (if they need to)
Half Life 3 could open drop on Steam with zero advertising and people wouldn't have a clue unless the Steam front page informed them about it
A certain percentage of gamers shamble forwards in a haze of marijuana smoke, whose long term memory or executive function may not be the best
I get an alert saying the RAM in my cart was unavailable.
I'm thinking, okay, maybe they're out of white RAM, I'll just do black.
The $200 kit in my cart was now $1,200, but worse yet, everything but the slowest RAM was out of stock.
I decided, fuck this, fuck them, and I bought everything but the RAM.
A few days later, I told my friend my troubles, he says: "DUDE! I HAVE SPARE DDR5 in my closet!"
I tell him: "I will pay for shipping, fair value, and 20% extra for your trouble"
The moral of this story is fuck these greedy bastards, you can train your 10T models but please leave gamers alone; they are a tiny % of the demand for DRAM chips.
P.S: Pay the kindness forward, help your fellow friends with any spare parts
I mean that's the issue with working under a narcissist right? If you're not a sycophant, they'll fire you and find someone who is (lacking a spine)