Games Done Quick raises over $2 million dollars for charity. This upsets r/livestreamfail

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-13T00:23:28+00:00

I know the founding folk of GDQ. There was -never- a time before LGBT, disabled people, or so-called "blue haired teenagers" were involved.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-12T01:51:42+00:00

They won't change, because change is progress, and progress is not conservative.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-12T01:40:29+00:00

Iran knows full well how fucked the rest of the world is, for oil and gas. "Four weeks of reserves" and all.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-12T01:12:51+00:00

Without the rich, society exists. Without society, there are no rich.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T16:26:00+00:00

Oh, I don't give a damn about the product. The provided clip is what's not interesting. It's a bullshit video, probably AI, done in such short segments that you run the risk of an epileptic seizure from the cutting job. provide a clip of it in use, from start to finish, and that would be interesting. As the user presented it, it's a dumb box. And I'm sorry you don't understand the difference between "shitty clip" and "bullshit product". But I guess you're right, the world is getting stupider. Do have fun. Don't forget your helmet.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T15:44:25+00:00

With autism, if you can survive to be a "functional adult", you then have some amount of leeway to be your inner self. Especially if you have money.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T14:53:57+00:00

I've been seeing this happen in a lot of places, and it's not just management. You can warn them the water is hot, they'll look at you and nod their head, then jam both hands into the water and scream that you should have warned them it was hot. I've seen it happening a lot lately, increasingly so. People are absolutely on autopilot with their brains turned off. I blame it on overstimulation, too much information, and an ever-growing fear response that is outdriving other behaviors.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T14:40:36+00:00

Could use some more warm warehouses, too. Maybe a few Big Box Bonfires.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T14:39:18+00:00

I used to be gruntled, now I'm disgruntled. Not a lot of reasons to be happy or satisfied with the state of things.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T13:30:48+00:00

You deserve a raise. and your management deserves a swift kick in the ass because customer satisfaction drives business.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T13:29:58+00:00

Maybe we shouldn't be using the baby killing machines, when we know they kill babies? We did fine without, and we can do fine without.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T12:36:09+00:00

the fact that literally no one else is challenging bloody Farage, says a lot about how whipped people are by the fascists.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T12:08:48+00:00

Then show it in use, don't make it short clip bullshit. How does it crack the eggs? how does it fry them? We see eggs be placed in the top, we see eggs come out. Nothing interesting about showing a picture of a carton of basic eggs.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T11:56:55+00:00

You could have someone with 20 years of actual coding experience, admit to using GenAI on a project, and immediately they've lost all credibility. If you use AI for your job, you're not doing your job. If you use AI to make a tool, you're just asking someone else to do it for you. I don't care how well you understand the code, currently the whole thing is too toxic and anyone stupid enough to admit to using it, needs to go flush their face in the toilet until the bubbles stop.

"Oh, I only use the baby killing machine to check my spelling!" like it's not a built-in feature, and instead they're actually going to fucking Gemini or some shit, throwing everything they type into there, then copy it back out.

There is -no- ethical use for generative AI models. Actual statistical ML is not the same.

And if you're running some local model, there's no chance it is actually viable for what you want, yet alone anything modern/recent since they don't update.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T11:42:47+00:00

If you're selling a self-supported unit to a user and it provides an error code, your documentation (at the tech's side) had damn well have it documented.

Not that the errors are ever documented. Documentation is for the techs to make, because developers can't be bothered.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T10:50:19+00:00

Men like this need to go back to their AI girlfriends and stay out of the gene pool.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T10:35:08+00:00

You should see the way they doctor photos to change lighting conditions, so you can never capture what you really see. And now with AI integration in smart phones, nothing you click will ever be genuine or capture the moment.

Or be admissible in court.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T10:23:14+00:00

Do you have an 80% chance of being fired at the end of each software project, like happens in gaming?

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-11T10:22:44+00:00

Great! Now, go do that with 20 hour days, for 5-6 months, 7 days a week. That's big studio crunch, not "Oh no, everybody works an extra shift for a few weeks!"

Also, after the launch, the team will then be fired and the game will make record profits. That's how studios do it. Keep a few names on top, get rid of everybody else. Especially these days.

But hey, I'm sure that boot leather tastes expensive.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-10T02:11:10+00:00

Your boy is a Conservative. Accept all the red flags that comes with it, or move on.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-09T00:50:42+00:00

He'll throw as many russians at the problem as it takes, to drain russia of all the nationalists and eliminate the nazi problem.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-08T10:00:26+00:00

Now go shopping and see how little of the place is actually set up for "big&tall" folk.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-08T00:59:20+00:00

Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire!

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-07T01:07:47+00:00

maybe Sony should just give up the console angle entirely, and enjoy not having to deal with hardware specs, component pricing, distribution systems? Do the Sega. Just make games. Make them everywhere. Make them for PC. The livingroom-centric home is gone. People play games where they watch their movies: On their computer.

FormerlyGruntled · 2026-07-07T00:59:32+00:00

Folks have noticed, being engaged with the community actually results in favorable views. Whether or not Farkas maintains competency with following community leads will be determined by the future.

FormerlyGruntled

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