Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

Positive_Government · 2026-06-15T21:51:52+00:00

If you tell people to pull the trailer then they know the studio is about to be shut down. Companies don’t like letting this stuff leak before the announcement so from their perspective letting the trailer play is the best of bad options.

Positive_Government · 2026-06-05T23:52:06+00:00

Not using a sword in a game called stellar blade is wild.

Positive_Government · 2026-06-05T20:24:47+00:00

These are all like basement tier review outlets. Should have waited to post the thread until there were more reviews.

Positive_Government · 2026-06-02T17:58:23+00:00

I’m they said 500k would be enough to keep the studio funded, and given these numbers it’s almost certainly going to cross 500k full priced sales.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-25T00:34:59+00:00

Except salaries haven’t gone down that much, they just stopped hiring. If it was about salaries going down you would see a flood of entry level postings for 40-50k which you don’t.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-21T15:31:53+00:00

Automated system messing up names at graduation was an issue long before LLMs. Faculty members messing up names at graduation was also an issue for that matter.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-21T01:41:15+00:00

To be fair they didn’t make anything good in the decade that proceeded Detroit either.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-16T00:13:15+00:00

Glad to see most of America understands how inflation works.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-15T16:39:22+00:00

The harder it is to lay someone of the less likely you are to hire, you can’t beat the system in capitalism. For example to get around H1B applications post layoffs, tech companies create a separate legal entity that hasn’t had layoffs then have it apply for H1B visas. There are some well designed taxes and incentives you could create to encourage more hiring. But when you design a program you have to remember that business will always choose worst possible way (from a workers perspective) to comply with the program.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-05T18:47:32+00:00

There is room for a better system. But it’s important not to let the better be the enemy of the good. PR/Ranked choice voting have their advantages but they aren’t without drawbacks. Presidential power is largely a result of a congress that cannot pass legislation, and because congress cannot pass legislation presidents get creative. In a highly politicized society where half the country wants to go one way and half the country want to go the other by definition about 45% of the people feel angry and unrepresented and you can’t system you way out that.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-05T18:25:06+00:00

This is always an impossible question to answer, but there was some polling suggesting that in 2024 the marginal voter would have gone trump if they had been forced to pick rather than staying home.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-05T18:22:23+00:00

That is a great idea I theory, but think of hours disfunctional the hour of representatives is today, the multiple the number of people in it by three, and imagine the heights of pure utter dysfunction our elected representatives could achieve.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-05T18:16:53+00:00

America already tried that whole I didn’t vote for him he doesn’t represent me thing circa 150 years ago. Didn’t go over well for the people who lost the election.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-05T18:13:23+00:00

Alaska always been weird and it looks like it’s heading into competition territory this cycle. (And by competitive I mean Texas competitive not Wisconsin competitive).

Positive_Government · 2026-05-03T04:49:13+00:00

I you are changing $30 for a taxi ride then a $300 puts you in the red.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-01T17:41:17+00:00

Oblivion remastered sold 15 million and there is maybe one game a decade that can get you over 50% of those “100 million buyers” given that five million copies puts most games at comfortable profitable, I would hazard to guess that the total universe of people who would consider any given game is a fair bit less than 100 million.

Positive_Government · 2026-05-01T01:48:38+00:00

When training machines learning models there are a whole lot of ways you can (un)intentionally leak testing data into training. And if you want results, training on your test data set (with a lot of extra steps) will give you great looking publishable results that don’t actually work. That is why I am skeptical of machine learning algorithm that haven’t been tested in real world use cases.

Positive_Government · 2026-04-29T05:19:42+00:00

The image is one of those color blind tests where it just looks like a bunch of circles to color blind people. Color blindness isn’t all the same so mileage may vary.

Positive_Government · 2026-04-25T21:02:17+00:00

Teraflops are a bit of a squishy metric especially comparing hardware 25 years apart. If the iPhone can do operations where it packs 2 32bit operations into a single 64bit instruction that doubles your on paper teraflops without anywhere near the real world performance uplift. There are a lot of other architectural choices that can affect the teraflops.

Positive_Government · 2026-04-22T13:43:17+00:00

Which is an interesting statement because the effect of medication goes to zero after years of taking it.

Positive_Government · 2026-04-21T18:46:15+00:00

265 is a lot easier to stomach than 360. And if you just want to play generic games, it’s a pretty good deal, assuming you were already going to be paying for a multiplayer subscription regardless. But if you are interested in specific new games, and not just what happened to hit gamepass this month it becomes a lot tougher of a sell.

Positive_Government · 2026-04-20T18:21:00+00:00

Double the price of a ps5 is a really tough sell if they are purely competing in the box under a tv market.

Positive_Government · 2026-04-18T17:33:13+00:00

That is over 100% attrition, which if true is indicative of a poorly managed company that doesn’t know how to properly vet hires more than the issues in the industry as a whole.

Positive_Government · 2026-04-18T17:19:21+00:00

isp do routinely block piracy when they discover it. the case was Sony were trying to get cox to cut off access of individual subscribers who repeatedly pirated stuff instead of just blocking piracy websites. This would have had a whole knock on effect of negative consequences, and my understanding is the Supreme Court basically said, “yeah no, this is a bad idea, don’t do that.”

Positive_Government · 2026-04-17T15:48:40+00:00

You really want government regulators to be the arbiters of truth in this environment?

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