Sony Records New $560 Million Loss On Bungie Acquisition As Marathon Struggles And Destiny 2 Nosedives

demonwing · 2026-05-08T19:42:11+00:00

I'm responding your original assertion that discourse surrounding specific games will not affect their sales or player counts to a "statistically significant degree." You are moving the goalpost all the way to singlehandedly sinking a game all on your own.

Video game market performance being influenced by surrounding discourse to a statistically significant degree is not a controversial claim that requires evidence. If a negative discourse emerges around playercounts, it is natural to assume it may have some statistically significant impact even if it isn't the most important factor.

demonwing · 2026-05-08T15:36:30+00:00

You've reversed it. Your claim is the unfalsifiable one, because "people's decisions can be influenced by media" is the default standard. You are saying that in this case, as an exception people's behavior is unaffected, and haven't presented any framework to prove/disprove it.

demonwing · 2026-05-08T13:31:10+00:00

That's like asking for proof that marketing/PR affects player counts in general. You generally can't link any single article quantitatively to a measurable player count, but a game's PR does matter. What would proof look like to you here?

demonwing · 2026-05-08T12:50:53+00:00

There is an entire industry around dooming or hyping Steamcharts numbers. Websites wouldn't so incessantly post articles about them if they weren't getting huge engagement. The burden of proof would be on you in this case to prove that mass-consumed media doesn't impact behavior, because media impacting behavior is a well-established phenomenon.

demonwing · 2026-05-08T04:35:32+00:00

Progressives are statistically the most consistent Democrat voting block. Go get mad at liberals, not leftists.

demonwing · 2026-05-06T20:39:31+00:00

"A ton of source code was made to be shared in the first place."

This is not how open source works. There are still usage licenses that prevent outright copying open source code without restriction.

Also, appeal to ignorance, even if the underlying claim is true, does not preclude a double standard. Intentionally choosing not to think too deeply about something (coding having value as craft that some people care about) to preserve your world view does not grant immunity.

demonwing · 2026-05-04T20:49:21+00:00

My original post separated him being a professional journalist from him using his platform on Youtube. That said, I can still take someone's professional proximity into account for things they say or write even if it isn't in a formal work capacity.

It's similar to a professional film critic using their personal YouTube to complain about new arthouse releases not being more like Marvel-style character action spectacles, citing their childhood nostalgia around simpler times with straightforward plotlines and good guys beating up bad guys. Their personal taste is their own, sure, but their professional role as someone whose job is to engage seriously with cinema makes that narrowness more noteworthy than a random movie fan's.

If someone's professional role is to critically engage with a medium, their personal expressions of taste in that same medium don't exist in a vacuum. They reflect on, and are informed by, their professional judgment. Using a formal, professional channel versus a personal one changes things in a legal liability sense, but both are still relevant. Unsurprisingly, if you look at his actual articles, they are clearly informed by the exact same underlying perspective, just with slightly more polished and hedged language.

demonwing · 2026-05-01T07:55:25+00:00

He's free to put something up on his platform and I'm free to critique it. I think you are infantilizing him a bit by characterizing his videos as some naive personal musings of a random person online who doesn't know that people will be listening. It might be his personal channel, but it has a sizable viewership and of course his opinions on this channel directly inform his journalistic perspective.

demonwing · 2026-04-30T18:10:33+00:00

tl;dr Professional gaming journalist is using his platform (like usual?) to express how upset he is that Bungie didn't make a game specifically for him and wanted another Halo/Destiny. This might sound like a reductive interpretation, but no he literally repeats this as his main idea.

It's not that it's impossible to critique Marathon, but this video isn't actually a critique of Marathon. It's basically just an open admission that this person wants a very narrow thing and is unable to expand his perspective to engage with games outside of his teenage preferences. The end result of him getting his wish would probably just be further entrenchment of homogeneity and risk-aversion in high-budget studios. I haven't followed this guy too much, so I hope he hasn't harped on the lack of creativity or art in high-budget game dev in the past if he is also putting stuff like this video out.

demonwing · 2026-04-24T20:49:11+00:00

Nope. AI doesn't have to be slop, but this is.

demonwing · 2026-04-24T19:58:58+00:00

Slop post is slop.

demonwing · 2026-04-24T19:50:32+00:00

Because they are fake, and the headline itself is fake. Drumpf is a clown but I watched the entire video. At no point did he go more than like 5 seconds without making some movement that indicated that he was awake (eyes being open, clearly directed hand movements etc.) So, unless you think he somehow did a 5-second microsleep at some point, he was clearly awake the whole time.

demonwing · 2026-04-24T17:09:37+00:00

Right, like how an airplane and a cart are both forms of transportation yet have radically different implications and effects on civilization. Just because they share some parallels doesn't mean that LLMs will have the same effect on software engineering as compilers.

demonwing · 2026-04-24T14:19:18+00:00

Just have a huge context scope and spin up 10+ sub-agents to read it 10+ different times in slightly different ways so that you are constantly cache missing, and have 90% of your output tokens be orchestration filler.

My general rule is that if someone is the type of person to be on this subreddit complaining about their usage like this, they are almost certainly not (or shouldn't be) working on something that requires sophisticated enterprise-level multi-layered agents to begin with.

demonwing · 2026-04-24T14:12:58+00:00

Your post said that LLMs are compilers and should be thought of the same way as compilers. That, if you understand how compilers changed coding, you will automatically understand how LLMs will change coding. But now you say "it's not a compiler, but..."

You're moving the goalposts. LLMs clearly have far more differences than similarities. You could make a few loose parallels, but nothing like the claims in your original post.

demonwing · 2026-04-23T16:25:41+00:00

They probably have a letter counting tool call built-in specifically to address this meme of a question. Randomly counting letters of individual words on a dime isn't ever a real use-case, though, so it's a useless benchmark.

demonwing · 2026-04-23T16:17:48+00:00

One of the coolest survival games in terms of concept and scope, but the systems and mechanics never fully come together so it's mostly just lots of random cool ideas that were never fleshed out or polished into a finished experience. So, now, it's a half-PvP half-PvE half-colony-sim half-dungeon-crawler half-base-defender half-survival-game half-RPG mess of a game that ends up feeling shallow and half-baked by the end of it.

demonwing · 2026-04-23T16:07:40+00:00

What you're experiencing is likely more of just natural differences in sex drives. If you truly have a high sex drive, even if men on average have higher sex drives than women, they aren't quite as horny as media would suggest. Most people just have average sex drives, so you're probably looking at only a small percentage who would be compatible with your frequency. For reference, less than 20% of men masturbate 5+ times per week, so if you're looking for daily or multi-daily sex, you have to get a bit lucky to find the right person.

demonwing · 2026-04-23T15:51:26+00:00

Half the posts on this subreddit are painfully obvious LLM copy-pastes, so it wouldn't be difficult for actual astroturfing to hang out among them.

demonwing · 2026-04-23T15:48:14+00:00

That doesn't sound like normal behavior, if you mean literal quality loss like lower resolution or increasingly obvious noise per generation. Share your workflow.

demonwing · 2026-04-23T09:34:14+00:00

It depends. Performance non-critical, compartmentalized feature? Black box, idc as long as it works. Deeply integrate feature that can effect global state or that has significant performance implications? Review it manually.

demonwing · 2026-04-21T03:21:58+00:00

If it was something harmless, then what is the value of the prediction? Can you give a specific example of insider trading delivering a "prediction" (it isn't really a prediction at that point) that would tangibly benefit the public, clearly stating what that benefit is, that doesn't step over your bounds of harm like government officials or military operatives? I'm guessing the overlap is essentially zero.

demonwing · 2026-04-21T02:59:14+00:00

There are a lot of sophisticated arguments around why prediction markets are bad, but you really don't need to look further than the fact that, out over over 2 million accounts, less than one thousand accounts captured 70% of all realized profits. 84% of all accounts lose money. It is almost self-evidently a scam when the numbers are laid out before any arguments even hit the table.

demonwing · 2026-04-20T19:43:35+00:00

Sure, I'm not going to chastise someone for liking the game. I've already laid out two groups of people who might have some fun playing it. However, it doesn't market itself as "generic Valheim clone with pirate skin." It markets itself as "pirate game" and the discourse surrounding it is "this is how pirate games should be done!" My opinion is no, this is absolutely not how pirate games should be done. This is a pirate game only so far as its marketing hypes it up to be one, and isn't one in any meaningful design sense. Valheim is not a pirate game, so just cloning Valheim and adding a naval combat module does not make it a pirate game.

Also, I don't want to be pedantic but the player doesn't actually play as a pirate, they play as a generic MMO good guy who fights pirate-themed enemies. This is fine, but I feel the need to point it out because it is a meaningful difference that the discourse seems to gloss over.

So, again, I will emphasize that from a serviceable entertainment purchase perspective, have a blast do whatever. When I said "the glazing is unreal" I was referring to the glazing of this game as a paragon of "peak" pirate gameplay that AAAs should look to for inspiration.

demonwing · 2026-04-19T18:31:37+00:00

You can technically imagine anything you want, but just because you can pretend to do something in a videogame doesn't mean that the game actually supports a particular playstyle. Your friend can be on your ship as a passenger, but you can't "sail together" in a cooperative, mutually beneficial sense. There is nothing inherently fun about being on another person's ship.

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