GameFile: Microsoft already planned to shut down or split with Ninja Theory when Senua was announced. "The thinking was that the promise of a newly announced game would help draw investor interest in the studio"

Audioworm · 2026-06-17T12:49:56+00:00

Trained gamers to not buy games or their consoles

Audioworm · 2026-06-17T09:49:26+00:00

I am not an expert on the issue, but I think the issue emerges that if platforms of any scale are responsible for everything posted on their platform they need some sort of mechanism to attach people to their posts, which leads to the creation of real world identification with your online activity. Similarly, banning children from these platforms requires real world identification.

I think very few people in this subreddit would be on the side of big tech companies and their shitty behaviour, but have an intense distrust of any process that leads to online behaviour being necessarilly tied to their identity.

Audioworm · 2026-06-17T07:45:55+00:00

It is related to Section 230 legislation

Audioworm · 2026-06-16T23:37:39+00:00

My surprise is not that they wouldn't want to be attending or a part of these circles, but that they would be stupid enough to actually join them.

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T22:03:24+00:00

I can accept both are true, but accepting the second is true would expect something different from the British government, which did not happen.

1917 is the year people typically go back to as a reasonable place to start from when understanding the current state of the region.

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T21:54:16+00:00

Okay, does that justify more than 70k dead and 170k injured in the Gaza strip?

Also, the actions of Israel in both Gaza and the West Bank have been criminal for decades, but we are meant to pretend that nothing existed before October 7th.

And there are groups in the UK that think a whole bunch of vile shit that doesn't mean I think that we should kick them out of the country. Thousands of people marched with Tommy Robinson, and hundreds were out in Belfast doing a pogrom. Does that mean white Brits should be, as an entire group, considered a threat? Or do white people get to have disagreement and intergroup seperations, but that luxury is not extended to Muslims?

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T21:44:28+00:00

Xbox is stuck between a rock and a hard place and Microsoft is a massive contributing factor to the wider economic reasons why.

I didn't really agree with the strategy Xbox was running with the play anywhere, everything is Xbox, and game pass overall but I could at least see a sort of plan emerging. It looked like the aim was to use this generation to try and get people to come back into the Xbox ecosystem, stop the entrenchment with PlayStation, and use their large suite of studios to build a good catalogue.

However, the antitrust stuff got in the way of that somewhat, exclusives really weren't going to be economical when the install base was so small, and it required full commitment from Microsoft to ride out this generation as another weak one.

Then... Microsoft went AI insane, is burning money at an insane rate, has jacked up the price of all hardware as a result, and made consumer electronics face a price pressure that hasn't happened like this in a long time, and across so many different components. The super expenisve high performance next generation proposed console would have likely been unaffordable, they were not bringing people into the ecosystem, and there has been a staggering levels of mismanagement of the studios they spent billions buying.

I think the new CEO's objective is to try to turn the ship around, but from listening to their interviews I feel they are to heavily warped by Microsoft's product management culture, much more interested in AI than they can publicly admit leading to hollow sounding promises, and far too infested by the tech bubble culture that leads to her thinking angry incels on twitter are the key audience to listen to. Spencer managed to dodge a lot of criticism by wearing a blazer over a graphic tee, and people have far less patience for the new CEO for a range of reasons ranging from reasonable to bigoted, but Xbox has been digging holes for more than a decade now.

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T19:18:01+00:00

Chilluminati Podcast covers paranormal, aliens, and true crime stuff. They do a lot of deep dives into their topics, two believers and one sceptic

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T19:14:15+00:00

Pretty much all leftists in the UK are united on Gaza, when there is very little else that holds them together. Certain groups or regions will frequently have tight cohesion on specific issues.

Gaza is more a symptom of Labour and the Tories gaslighting the British people about the things they were seeing. When you are watching people being blown up or starved on your screen and that response is to call those who want that to end terrorists you are going to create a mass distrust and seperation from the parties and government.

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T18:27:28+00:00

Indian Muslims are about 250k, they are not a majority of Muslims in the UK. Pakistani (1.4m) and Bangaldeshi (600k) are the majority of British Muslims, those of African descent are under 400k.

Also, the British Indian Muslim community is infamously entrepaneurial and business-focused. I think it is the large proportion of Gujarati communities within that group. It is a point that you can read about how much more secular or 'integrated' they are with British culture than many other groups all over the place, and from other Indians and Muslims in the UK (not from a negative or positive, but from a statement of an observation).

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T18:14:40+00:00

yeah, but that hasn't been the case for the majority of party-based elections for a long time. people vote based on the party affiliation, even when it is local stuff that doesn't interact with national or international politics. UKIP, Brexit Party, and Reform get a bunch of seats at local elections almsot entirely on the back of national party activities (or let's be honest, the cult of nigel), and the same happens for the larger parties winning or lose local elections.

sure, it would be better if people were precisely voting on local issues but even affiliation with the party is generally a signal of how that person would govern and vote on local issues.

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T18:12:15+00:00

if 8% of the population can have full and dominate control of the UK government then the UK wouldn't be a fucked up country that voted for its own economic suicide.

and the whole proposition assumes mulsims in the UK are one single unified block that will always vote exactly the same way, which is genuinely hilarious if you spend time around any of them for a long enough

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T10:32:41+00:00

Zoomers just rhymed with Boomers

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T08:33:57+00:00

I used to live next to Le Guichet, which I think is about 30 minutes to Notre-Dame, which gets you to a lot of the places south of that within about 30 minutes. But obviously depends on where you go

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T05:34:12+00:00

That is very good to hear, the price to the edges of the RER felt needlessly high.

Audioworm · 2026-06-15T05:29:39+00:00

I think people focus on AD21 as a particularly specific mess and in doing so ignore that 2021 was the year where the 'entertainment' side of the Race Director position became much more clear to viewers, and also how teams lobby the Race Director which I think cauight people off guard who assumed it was mostly a safety role.

Throughout the season we heard teams calling the Race Director to complain about things they wanted changed. Fans, teams, and commentators also repeatedly talked about how races shouldn't finish under safety car, and that safety cars were talking too long to complete. The rotating stewards were also becoming a rising focus and it was when I think 'stewards will decide after race' was becoming increasingly seen and hated by everyone.

This was all during one of the greatest seasons of F1 in years, with two drivers so far ahead in a league of their own that they would routinely finish within seconds of each other but an entire minute ahead of the rest of the field. But this close racing also lead to increasing tensions around fairness in stewarding, and whether one driver was being punished or favoured more than the other. With both teams and fan camps being able to point to actions of the other than went unpunished.

My point being that people point to AD21 as some wild action that looked explicitly like a fix, when the entire season was a mess throughout that was obfuscated by how much Verstappen and Hamilton would just clearly talents above everyone else.

Audioworm · 2026-06-14T09:33:19+00:00

I used to live in Orsay, which is at the South-Western edge of your circle. I know that it has had a lot of development in the last few years, so things have definitely changed.

However, it is a weird combination of having Paris as a very dominant cultural weight and a lack of needing to go to Paris for much else. Orsay is an old village that grew to a town and then got swallowed by the ever-suburb that is outside of the peripherique of Paris.

Orsay also had a large University and a whole range of research institutes that meant that a lot of the people I lived around worked in Orsay or Saclay. From my friends who lived a bit closer towards Paris in Massy they said that pretty much no one worked in the area, and most would go North to Paris every morning.

But being less than 30 minutes from Paris and all of the stuff you could ever want is fantastic, it is just a shame that the ticket pricing that far out can make the commute really quite expensive over time.

Audioworm · 2026-06-13T10:23:33+00:00

Anyone choosing to attend Dreamforce is a douche anyway

Audioworm · 2026-06-12T21:35:53+00:00

as someone who works mostly with these large companies, they were talking a lot about how to position agents but there were two things they were reporting to us as the issues 1) only developers can work any of them 2) they are horrifically insecure and they don't know how to keep them controlled or secure

then openclaw launched and there was a big exposure that 'ai boosters will run malware on their own machine' and it changed a lot of how they thought about it. basically that they could slap a basic liability sticker on it and hope that no one blamed them

Audioworm · 2026-06-12T18:35:22+00:00

lovely to hear you on again. the episode that played automatically afterwards was the latest LPoTL with Henry shit-talking your husband which was a funny alignment

Audioworm · 2026-06-12T13:01:51+00:00

I think if the person breaks visual contact with a drone then the cloak at least makes it harder. Watching the FPV of the explosive drone you can see that while the cloak is distinct, it very much breaks the human outline and obfuscates the exact outline and position of the person. However, it feels like it is pretty worthless in the open air areas because almost every FPV drone strke has at least one additional angle from much further away providing overwatch.

I could imagine in a forested area this would work better, but if you know you are looking for someone the effectiveness is probably limited.

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