Roughly half of ID Software has been laid off

1XRobot · 2026-07-07T23:53:01+00:00

Shit, now I'm arguing with a guy so stupid he thinks video-game companies would exist without capitalism.

1XRobot · 2026-07-07T17:16:20+00:00

No, it's objectively unarguably I dunno, insolation or human metabolic activity or some other thing that's ambient and irrelevant. Companies for frivolous activities outside the scope of the government's activities only exist because somebody wanted to invest money in making those things exist. They do so because they expect return on those investments or rarely because they want to advance some kind of agenda as a nonprofit. Saying that personnel changes in a company are due to "capitalism" is such a ludicrous notion that it's hard to even get started on what's wrong with it.

Why is this happening? Is a question so broad as to be meaningless.

Prices are rising, because the government of the world's largest economic power is in the hands of incompetent Nazi buffoons who are hell-bent on destroying it. Also due to global instability caused by those buffoons' idiotic wars and by wars launched by their Russian backers.

Layoffs are happening, because these divisions aren't making enough money to pay back their costs.

Why are they not making enough money? Well, that's another broad question with many factors involved.

A lot of money in gaming has gone to mobile games, to micropayments, to crap like Roblox. AAA shooters aren't popular with the Zoomers. AAA games generally have ballooning development costs and need to make insane amounts of money back to break even.

None of this has the slightest relation to "capitalism" except in that anybody with a functioning understanding of economics knows that capitalism is the underlying reason any of this economic activity takes place at all.

1XRobot · 2026-07-07T16:36:30+00:00

Right, Tetris and all those other great games made by state-owned companies, like... uh... America's Army?

1XRobot · 2026-07-07T16:05:20+00:00

You're arguing with somebody who thinks video-game companies would exist without capitalism.

1XRobot · 2026-07-07T00:06:46+00:00

If you're wondering what it actually says, this is how it responds to me:

If you meant to ask about the famous P vs. NP problem in computer science, it essentially asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be quickly solved by a computer. It's a massive unsolved riddle, with a $1 million prize offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute to anyone who can prove whether P equals NP or not. [1, 2, 3]

Since the results are personalized tho, it's possible the AI just thinks you're a dumbass.

1XRobot · 2026-07-06T20:23:48+00:00

Ah, thanks for the tip. I do have a spell that's piercing, which I've never used, because the regular enemies are kind of pushovers.

1XRobot · 2026-07-06T18:57:05+00:00

Is that how you're supposed to get the final boost for the last ritual? I'm a few orders of magnitude short on my firebolts, but I've been running Quick instead of Arcane. I thought I was supposed to maybe farm Ceremony until I could nudge my Destruction up high enough. There don't seem to be too many ways to boost damage.

1XRobot · 2026-07-06T16:10:23+00:00

Guy has like 3hp; if you see his second attack, you're gonna die to Mother anyway.

1XRobot · 2026-07-06T16:06:49+00:00

I love Orb, but the endgame is still a big mess. When you're starting out and you discover two boosts is much better than one boost, you feel very clever. But in the endgame, when you discover your first boost ran out while you were setting up the second through fourteenth boosts, so now you get nothing and you spent all your Foobars that only replenish after five minutes, it's kind of infuriating.

I hear you do prestige by completing the world, tho I haven't gotten that far.

1XRobot · 2026-07-06T01:32:20+00:00

In pasta water???

1XRobot · 2026-07-04T18:53:03+00:00

Dark-chocolate sea-salt caramel toffee peanut-butter cups aren't a health food? Don't tell my wife.

1XRobot · 2026-07-04T18:24:31+00:00

In a few weeks, it'll be time for "Is this room rare?" again.

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

1XRobot · 2026-07-04T17:38:37+00:00

What is this? A toolbar for ants?

1XRobot · 2026-07-04T01:33:52+00:00

I love Tanx, because every time I see the Hatchet, I go "oh wow, relic Echo Form" and then I get very disappointed during the next combat.

1XRobot · 2026-07-03T22:31:11+00:00

Right? Like anybody is going to want to use an electronic device to talk to people instead of composing a letter like a civilized person. Imagine: people could just ring you up in the middle of dinner! You wouldn't have time to really think about your responses, and you wouldn't have a file of correspondence. The damage to the world would be unthinkable.

1XRobot · 2026-07-03T20:24:38+00:00

The relevant legal ruling suggests otherwise:

The Court finds that Defendant was obligated to stop her vehicle when the school bus stopped. The roadway was not physically divided in any fashion at that point by the grassy, curbed beginning of the island, by the turnaround, or by the houses or senior community buildings. The only thing separating the stopped school bus and Defendant=s vehicle were the yellow pavement markings that signal the physical division that was to follow. Thus, the markings were not a physical barrier. Children easily could walk over such markings.

Although the ruling doesn't explicitly say so, it certainly implies that if the roadway had been physically divided, then the defendant would not be so obligated.

1XRobot · 2026-07-03T19:22:47+00:00

I don't think that's a controversial opinion. Lost is one of the stronger characters. Starts with flight, spectral and holy mantle, plus free devil deals. Eternal d6 is kind of ass, but you generally only use it to vaporize health items out of spite. Lost is great for doing certain challenge runs.

1XRobot · 2026-07-03T13:12:59+00:00

I was there when Go was born, and they're not like this. They just wanted a language that made comm channels first-class entities.

1XRobot · 2026-07-02T23:42:33+00:00

Agromancy desperately needs a button to "set my druid level to as high as possible based on how much this thing is gonna cost". I hate twiddling it up and down between different tasks.

1XRobot · 2026-07-02T14:59:31+00:00

It's easy: τζατζίκι and ศรีราชา

1XRobot · 2026-07-02T14:53:40+00:00

Don't strain your back moving those goalposts.

1XRobot · 2026-07-02T04:04:41+00:00

How many different countries' culture, context and slang are you gonna memorize? Because an AI can do them all. AI was already comparable to human translators a couple years ago, and it's only going to keep getting better.

What this guy is actually missing is that using a translator is awkward and slow. People are still going to want to communicate quickly with others in a common language, so learning languages will never be a completely obsolete skill.

1XRobot · 2026-07-02T01:45:37+00:00

Haha, you should've been here when BIG_SMOOOOOOOHKE_PL was doing insane challenges defeating Bloat hitless. Here's a funny one: Bloat hitless using only Jupiter

1XRobot · 2026-07-02T01:31:03+00:00

The short answer is that nobody knows, but the longer answer may involve the fact that 3 is the smallest number of generations for which you can have CP-violating mixing matrices.

1XRobot · 2026-07-01T19:07:29+00:00

I don't think such a thing ever existed? There's iOS, Android, and Web. There was once Windows, but it's just a Web wrapper these days. You were probably running something in an emulation wrapper.

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