Having trouble finding the link now, but apparently at a big dev conference with a bunch of the business suits involved, they want to make games faster. But not make them smaller or have worse graphics. Just faster.
And yes, shoving AI slop into everything is part of that plan.
In other words, the industry is completely lost, and I will continue to spend the majority of my gaming time on indie titles.
I think you’re being too forgiving to Google, and also pointing at the wrong problem.
The central problem isn’t ad space, but the DMCA. It requires companies that host content the way YouTube does to have policies for DMCA takedown requests. Generally, this means removing content when they receive a request. The DMCA makes a form of compromise here, where hosting companies won’t be liable as long as they show they’re processing takedown requests in good faith.
This is exactly the same law in the US that comes into effect when your ISP gets a takedown notice. Your ISP isn’t liable as long as they pass that on to you and tell you to delete what you “stole”, etc.
The problem is partially Google’s implementation and partially the DMCA itself. To the best of my knowledge, the three strikes system isn’t something in the DMCA. That’s YouTube’s policy alone. ISPs generally don’t operate on a three strikes system–they might choose to, but they don’t have to.
The DMCA itself doesn’t have any kind of mechanism for pushing back against companies that send takedown notices abusively. This means companies setup an automated system that scans uploaded videos looking for anything they can claim is theirs and send a notice. That’s probably what Bloomberg did. These systems aren’t smart enough to distinguish fair use from not; they have zero incentive to even try something as simple as “a five second clip of our stuff in a 3 hour video is probably fair use”. The entire burden is placed on content creators to show they aren’t infringing.
Until the law is changed to deal with notices sent in bad faith, this sort of thing will continue. Naturally, companies like Disney and BMG yell bloody murder any time they even get a hint of Congress trying to do that.
All this is separate from YouTube’s own content ID automated system. That’s a whole different set of problems from the DMCA.
They say not to meet your heros, and it’s usually good advice. Imma go out on a limb and say it doesn’t apply to Woz.
There are several competitors that are more powerful, like the ROG Ally. They also need a bigger battery to support it, or they have worse battery life. And they’re more expensive.
Clear text and UI is an issue because games don’t scale their shit properly.
Steam Deck hits a sweet spot. You can make it more powerful, but it’ll cost significantly more. You can make it cheaper, but you’ll cut out too many games people want to play.
Also, anything like this with a resolution higher than 720p is wasting pixels and GPU power, IMO.
I answered that above already. Good bye.
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How do they apply pressure though? (they threaten to sue)
Beside the fact that it wasn’t even you, they made a specific answer to that question as if it was authoritative. They were not “just asking questions”, either.
Where did you ask a question in this reply chain?
They care about bad PR. Angry, organized people can create lots of bad PR.
Look, this whole subthread is jumping to conclusions based on speculation. Maybe they are using legal strategies, but that’s not obvious.
Do you know that or are you speculating?
It’s specifically due to a moral panic group, Collective Shout, pressuring credit card companies to do this. Litigation isn’t really part of it, just angry organized people on the Internet.
How data driven are cartels, anyway? Seems like they should be getting stats on loss rate to busts and calculating that in. They run as a business and want real numbers.
They’re a group that builds their own autonomous submarines. They gotta be calculating this.
That sounds like how the zombie apocalypse starts.
Sauces, too. You want a fat as a base in many of them, and mayo is a pretty good way to get it.
Maybe don’t eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.
You’re probably fine. AMD blamed motherboard makers because one maker in particular, ASRock, has some issues with an old BIOS. When it’s just one company, and that company already has a fix, then yeah, it’s the motherboard maker.
What AMD and Intel can do is set guidelines on how far motherboard makers can go to tweak some performance out of the chips. IIRC, Intel was historically better at this than AMD. They had specific documentation sent out and made sure it was followed. If a customer wants to unlock everything and void their warranty, fine, that’s on them. You just have to make it clear when that line has been crossed.