Yes but even I am questioning Valve themselves. We have an uncertain future of unanswered concerns as to what will actually happen once Gaben passes. We know for a fact that several potential companies are salivating at the idea of attempting to or outright acquiring Valve themselves.

Not all good things last. We’ve placed faith in many things that we thought was for our good and for the people. Only to watch them in time, devolve into the very things we are disappointed in what they’ve turned into.

That very value of owning digital games, under a new Valve leadership, could very well change, if things aren’t handled correctly.

Already reported

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One down, several dozen of others to go.

Wish a lot of CEOs have had this mindset of “I fucked up, I gotta go”. No, they just stick around because it’s all power games to them.

Is…is that the kind of hill you want to die on?

Okay then.

Buddy, as a believer of free will, I would suggest that you and others like you would put down the idea of trying to control others. How would you feel if someone saw everything that you did and say “you know, I don’t like what it is that you’re doing, so I’m going to try and control what you do”? You wouldn’t like that for very long.

People are going to decide as to how they spend their time, even at their own detriment. There’s little you can do, all you can do is just suggest or advise. But you’re looking for just straightforward convincing and control.

You have to be in your own lane.

ISPs doing dirty tactics, what else is new?

The same companies who display in the open “up to” on all of their plans. Their speeds are never guaranteed.

I accuse TikTok of dumbing down generations of people.

I wish consoles would go back to just having one model and that model is the definitive model. A model you can upgrade 3 years into the lifespan of the model’s life, but still stick to one model.

No more having to worry about a Series whatever or whether that model will have a disc adapter or not. Just one developed model.

I don’t. I remember all of the times I’ve been to family gatherings. They’ve all lasted 15 minutes and they usually end up spiraling into drama of some kind or people suddenly deciding they’ve got ‘things to do’ on that very day so they leave.

Nothing memorable.

Because lying is the cool thing to do.

I mean, look at the US Government and it’s track history record of lying. Look at the way religion projects itself, tons of lying there.

Lying is a manipulative tool that amazingly gets your results and even progress towards your goals. All at the expense of gullible morons who continue to buy into them.

Google has gotten tremendously awful at the basic fundamentals of searching.

So you’ve got this stupid AI thing of theirs that thinks it’s helpful by giving you its thoughts about what it thinks about what you’ve searched for. It also brings up relatively irrelevant things.

Then you’ve got another block of some of the dumbest things that get asked. You know the “People also asked about…” section which is just an annoying rabbit hole that degrades your intelligence just by reading what’s there.

Then you’ve got about the first page plastered with ads and suggestions that have nothing to do with what you’re looking for. Forcing you to go through pages until maybe something is there.

Ain’t it wonderful? /s

By the way, I hope you understand that by asking anything AI-related. You’re making your post vulnerable to be angrily reported by anti-ai virtue signalers running around.

Ai is far better at faking the appearance of intelligence than it was a couple years ago, but it’s still just algorithms built of data sets.

Well it’s also getting large swaths of it’s ‘knowledge’ from the internet. It’s just able to process and digest it all faster than a human could. It’s like calling a phone a ‘smartphone’ because it can do multiple functions than a human could.

It’s not hard to not see the little bubble icons as it searches through multiple sources before giving you an answer. It’s essentially a very pricey shopping advisor/guide.

Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction?

LLMs/AI cannot feel. They don’t have emotion. They’re good at talking with you when nobody else does, because everyone is so damn politically and socially wired anymore to have a cohesive discussion with. But not great at exactly problem solving things an AI can’t relate to.

Here’s what a lot of people forget about AI. For it to understand anything at all, you have to really dump years of effort into it. That means, you have to talk about it from the day you were born to all the way in the present. So you had better have been one of those diary writers so you can recall events you’d like to talk to the AI about so it can understand.

But is it really worth the hassle and trouble to? Just so you’d get generic, glad-hand holding, preemptive response that are automatically generated? Especially when said AI has never gone through an ounce that you, a human, has gone through?

Absolutely not.

The AI is a tool. LLMs are a tool. They’re to help you identify things you don’t know, like say you take a picture of a room and point out things you want to know about that you didn’t. So that way you’re spared from having to deal with a human being who’ll stand there and be like “UHHHH…UHHHHH” before inevitably telling you “I DON’T KNOW, GO LOOK IT UP!”. In by which sense, people should stop being so bitchy towards AI in this scenario when people decide to use it for that very purpose! Helps you from dealing with those kinds of interactions, because I always love nothing more than my time having spent going around forums online and talking to people in person about things, only for them to either be like “I HAVE THAT TOO!” or “GEE, I DON’T KNOW!”.

I use ChatGPT for general purpose. I use Grok for ERP, lol.

A week ago I asked for my account to be deleted. I was getting tired of Humble Choice, I couldn’t find anything for good deals on their market and I was awfully tired of IGN shoving their shit down everyone’s throats since they own Humble Bundle.

Plus a lot of the content they pick, are caught between garbage nobody asked for, content people would want are in upper tiers on purpose or content that made no sense to have been bundled with anyways.

They have been handling Humble Choice awfully for a while now, because they pick a lot of games that were only rated ‘Mostly Positive’ or just ‘Positive’ that nobody ever heard of nor care about.

It’s always funny over in the HB subreddit how people shit on those not liking the bundles but are always “happy” to get the games or so. Yeah because you’re a digital game hoarder, of course you’d take it anyways.

Isn’t it for that very reason, Valve is deciding to not allow Steam to run on older OSes? Least that was the general consensus. I get that a lot of Steam’s features today wouldn’t fly on old OSes like Windows XP or maybe even 7. But a lot of what I gathered is that, all of the web-based features are the reason why that Steam is forced to stop supporting old OSes.

People always say to people wanting to cut down on eating unhealthy foods is “well, prepare meals and cook food”. Well, the problem with that is A) gathering ingredients collectively are expensive. B) not everyone has the time to whip up a meal during a busy life. C) There’s like too many recipes out there to even count and a lot of them require this, this, that, maybe this, some of that, and a little more. Guess what? That’s more money to spend.

So combined all that, you’re looking to maybe spend about $25 ~ $100 or more to prepare these ‘simple meals’ where, it doesn’t hurt to grab a $5 sub from wal-mart’s deli.

I swear by none, because I don’t want to be some corporate sponsor goodie consumer who builds trust with certain companies.

I can only swear by my preferences, if it’s affordable, can do what I need or want it to do, whatever it is, that’s what I get.

Pfft, these tech CEOs are just playing political theater. When Republicans are in power, they’re all about “YEAH YEAH! FUCK EVERYONE! WE’RE GOING TO HAVE DATA CENTERS IN EVERY CORNER! AI IS GOING TO DOMINATE YOUR LIFE AND YOUR CAREER! AND WE’RE GOING TO REIGN FREE BECAUSE NOBODY WILL BUY US SINCE OUR MARKET CAPS ARE IN TRILLIONS! HAHAHAHAH!”

And when Democrats are in power, they’re like “Well, okay, we’ll behave and we’ll do what’s necessary for the betterment of this country. We’ll follow all the laws. Okay, okay, we’ll dial down our practices”

Like fuck you…