In my huge sample size of A Few Acquaintances, people seem to be turning to the Marvel TV shows instead.
I did this for Star Wars... I had basically zero interest in the new movies or really anything but the Old Republic setting, but the SW TV shows are pretty engaging. They're so much more grounded than... Whatever was going on in the new movies.
Going by the allegations in the reports, it wasn't just frostbite. Bioware chose to dump a lot of time into features like procedural generation (and having to use Frostbite exhasterbated this problem even more).
Part of the problem is that AAA is just (IMO) too big and expensive. Devs might actually have to ship a broken game around holiday time just to get enough sales to survive.
And the other extreme can be dangerous too, like how Mass Effect Andromeda's development dragged on forever, and EA let it happen because its such a golden IP.
I think the ultimate solution is to just scale down most studios a little bit, so the studio and publisher can afford to delay. Medium sized studios are the sweetspot, especially going forward with GenAI.
The whole idea of GenAI is to make purely digital content "cheap."
And that's basically NFT's niche, as I understand it. Why bother commoditizing the digital space when (according to GenAI acolytes) digital scarcity is going to disappear anyway?
I dunno about NFTs representing real world assets either. It feels like the order is fundamentally lost once that jump to the real world made.
In a slightly different universe, the literally criminal risk might have worked a little longer.
Then again, GenAI perhaps undermines the notion of NFTs and "digital art/assets as valuable fungible commodities." It was really wierd seeing Stable Diffusion take off as NFTs were collapsing... so maybe there is no universe where FTX fakes it until they make it.
> There is no sign that we will ever send out Von Neumann probes
Unless human civlization collapses, why not?
> Or, how do we know they haven’t reached us? Maybe they stayed in the outer solar system. Maybe they came, looked, and left. Maybe they have some sort of cloaking device technology. Maybe they are really small.
Ifthere is even one more civilization sending out probes, that implies there are many within our light horizon sending out probes. I find it implausible that every single one would choose the same strategy of keeping probes stealthy and undetectable.
> that technological civilisations remain unchanged over geologic time spans
Actually I think the opposite assumption, that civilization radically changes over time, is an argument for it. Future humanity is not people on (sublight) space boats touring the stars like Star Trek, its seemingly some kind of unfathomable transcendent intelligence. Maybe its not even recognized as "civilization" by our standards.
And why would such an intelligence not explore its environment? What's the likelihood, if there are many such intelligences, that essentially all of these intelligences choose to remain static, stagnant and stealthy instead of making their presence known within their light horizon?
Its highly probable that, if human-scale intelligence/civilization exists on other planets, Von Neumann probes (or some similar, highly detectable signs of activity) would have reached us by now.
And they have not. This is an interesting paradox.
> it would be so easy to destroy someone's career or relationship by making these deepfakes and then spreading them around.
If nude pics can get you fired, work culture needs to change.
Same with relationships.
Basically, people need to learn not to trust digital media at all without some kind of authentication, and to be a little more tolerant of nude human bodies when they do pop up.
I agree with what you are saying ideologically, but practically:
- Streaming services often work better with native TV apps than external devices, especially in regards to frame consistency and HDR support.
- The upscaling/interpolation ASICs in TVs are really good. Until very recently, especially on streaming services, PC and Android upscaling was not good.
Hence I dont really want a "dumb" TV/Monitor anymore unless I will never watch any kind of video content on it... mostly because of streaming DRM, which is also awful, but still.
I did this for Star Wars... I had basically zero interest in the new movies or really anything but the Old Republic setting, but the SW TV shows are pretty engaging. They're so much more grounded than... Whatever was going on in the new movies.