There could be a couple of reasons why this is the way it is:

• Lazy game design. Failure states have to be written, balancing has to be tested, if you did this right.
• Appealing to the broadest player base. If anyone can win, no one is excluded by skill issues (like game journalists who aren’t skilled)
• Crunch. Balancing and failure were supposed to be included but were cut due to releasing too easily.

Oh, please. The CIA would never interfere because of social values. If there is oil involved, or the interests of a big American company, though…

I would distrust any woman who would date an ICE agent, too.

Of course there is one. Multiple even. Just not a famous one.

It was never about ‘office culture’ or something like that. The return to the office was always about insecure bosses who feared losing control. How can you feel like a big man if you can’t lord over your employees?

Stock fotos. Cost a bit, but look great.

Awaken! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8iSbvxem8E

First A, then B? Bricks are sturdier than fascists.

Reduce, re-use, recycle.

Suppress the poor. Duh. 🙄

They probably try to keep the normal users out, so that their spy-ware infested normal version is still the default for most of the users.

Either that or they didn’t remove the crud but replaced it with AI crud that needs the RAM.

Sometimes I wonder if there’s a cool game out there that is just buried in microtransactions and greed.

Is there a community that removes microtransactions from pay to win games to make them enjoyable? Like pirates do with copy protection, just for greed?

You know that you can use ChatGPT for free, right? Also, paid plans aren’t so expensive that a student couldn’t afford one.

If you think free access is the only thing between students using AI and learning traditionally, I’m afraid you will be disappointed.

Free AI won’t change much for most people, except that the government can choose what models the citizens will use. This way they can be independent of US companies dominating the market.

The difference in building a loyal customer base vs expelling unwanted low lifes

Excepted return of investment

PR vs hand outs

CAPITALISM!

Zelenskyy wishes he had such a great body.

Yes, why would he stop? There have been no negative consequences for him, and his preferences are unlikely to change.

Sure, Epstein might be dead (and even that is not certain), but his network never has been investigated.

What? No, that’s wrong. They can, for example, create a picture of a monkey made of yarn. Does that mean they were trained on pictures of ‘yarn monkeys’?

No, they had pictures of monkeys and pictures of things made of yarn; therefore, they can create pictures of ‘yarn monkeys’.

If you want to learn more about that, the specific term is ‘latent space’.

If AIs could only reproduce their training data they would be completely useless.

Oh, I just singled them out because they are big offenders and completely unnecessary in general.

You already can get from A to B without them, the only usage they have is to save rich people time and the indignation of traveling with the poor.

I’m not against the abolition of the plastic straw. It’s a step in the right direction. But if you look around in a supermarket and count the plastic on the shelves…

The plastic straw ban was a drop in the ocean, a symbolic act, a propaganda piece without addressing the heart of the problem.

What would have been a real solution? Make plastic more expensive, for example by introducing a tax going towards research for a solution and subsidizing plastic alternatives.

Why wasn’t something like that done before? It would cost money, and rich doners control the politicians.

So we get performative actions only - rolled back by the next government of course.

Oh, I’m not saying that there are no activists anymore, just that the corporations successfully distracted large parts of the population by shifting blame to the consumers.

Well, GTA5 doesn’t even have an option to ask your friend, who has a private island, to take you to his wildest parties, so Elon was disappointed that he could not live out his crime fantasies!