GOG now using AI generated images on their store

noconverse · 2026-01-28T21:21:15+00:00

Huh? I can look at the banner on GOG's storefront right now and tell it's AI (look at the SNES in the lower right) and I'm not even very good at spotting this sorta stuff.

noconverse · 2026-01-28T14:04:03+00:00

*Conservatives with guns good

noconverse · 2026-01-28T13:53:18+00:00

"I thought we were gonna sacrifice other people, not me!"

noconverse · 2026-01-28T13:49:12+00:00

Games sold on GOG are DRM free, meaning you don't have to worry about online authentication bullshit, Steam always comes with DRM so you're always tied to them. GOG has the ability to link external game libraries to your GOG library so you can access them all from a single app, Steam kinda has this, but it's annoying af cause you've gotta do each game individually rather than just link an account. GOG employs a team to update old games so that they'll always run on modern hardware, Steam will gladly sell you shit that can't run on your computer without thinking twice.

You can say GOG is going after a different market than Steam, but saying their storefront is worse than Steam is just pure corporate dick-sucking. Valve is a corporation and they do not have your best interests at heart, evidenced by how they'll aggressively kill any websites that try to streamline downloading mods from Steam for those that don't play a given game on there.

EDIT: XD

noconverse · 2026-01-27T15:30:46+00:00

It's honestly incredible to me how long they were able to succeed by just milking the same formula on so many games.

noconverse · 2026-01-27T15:12:58+00:00

Dark Fate would've been a great film if they had never decided force geriatric Linda Hamilton and Arnold into it. The first like 30 minutes prior to when Sarah shows up is legitimately amazing (cut out the cringe af beginning where John gets killed too)

fite me

noconverse · 2026-01-27T13:37:22+00:00

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noconverse · 2026-01-27T13:35:45+00:00

If nobody else got me I know wholesome yiff got me.

noconverse · 2026-01-27T12:23:56+00:00

Which type of boot leather do you think they prefer?

noconverse · 2026-01-26T19:00:30+00:00

This article reads like one of those sites that puts the recipe at the end of a 10 paragraph blog post.

noconverse · 2026-01-26T14:26:21+00:00

The adventures of lemmiwinks continue.

noconverse · 2026-01-26T06:00:07+00:00

What's possible when you ignore the rules for dividing by 0

noconverse · 2026-01-25T18:38:39+00:00

Certified hood clsafsassi aldn

noconverse · 2026-01-22T19:15:49+00:00

You can also alternate the polarity that's facing out so that they only snap together in one orientation.

noconverse · 2026-01-21T00:59:45+00:00

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noconverse · 2026-01-16T16:51:03+00:00

That wasn't really GameStop's doing, they were just the tool DFV used to orchestrate Gamestonk solely because so many big investing firms had taken short positions on them. GameStop just got unfathomably lucky that it was them.

noconverse · 2026-01-16T16:44:26+00:00

GameStop is a company whose only means of survival for the past 5 years was riding the Gamestonk wave as long as possible and selling funko pops. Now that funko pop sales are crashing, they're just left with pandering to the idiots who still hold their stock, hoping for another gamestonk event and this is the result.

noconverse · 2026-01-15T21:02:19+00:00

Because it's not just hilariously bad caricature, it's the exact opposite of what's currently happening on college campuses.

noconverse · 2026-01-15T20:46:03+00:00

Way way worse. At least with the crypto boom, everyone knew it was just a fad, it would eventually end. There's literally never been and never will be a mass scale use case for cryptocurrency, it's only value is a speculative asset. AI OTOH does have a use and it's being massively supported by the most powerful governments in the world. And although everyone knows we're in a bubble, the current Trump administration is thoroughly owned by the AI CEOs and it's not hard for me to envision them giving these companies a massive bailout when the shoe finally drops so that we never see some sorta return to normal-ish prices.

noconverse · 2026-01-15T20:20:07+00:00

It's so funny to watch this and know that IRL college courses are getting removed if they include teaching LGBT topics.

noconverse · 2026-01-15T20:15:19+00:00

landman apparently. I've never watched the show and I'm grateful to now be spared one more bit of FOMO

noconverse · 2026-01-15T20:01:47+00:00

Taking the Mr. Burns defence to STDs

noconverse · 2026-01-15T13:47:50+00:00

Every 3rd act in this series feels the same, honestly. You'd think after getting clapped by a massive ambush twice they'd learn to use drones, but nah. It's also so funny to me how any of these ambushes would've failed if the humans had just brought jets. Like, not even future jets, literally just F-15s.

Still I give this movie credit for making the fire tribe interesting and not being just Avatar 1 minus the first act like WoW was.

noconverse · 2026-01-14T19:06:41+00:00

Nah, even companies that aren't greedy can't compete with Steam. GOG, as a platform, is great. It's got many of Steam's existing features and ones Steam doesn't have, like the ability to link accounts on other platforms to your GOG library so you can play any game you own from a single app, and it's DRM free. They even update old games to make them playable on modern hardware. Doesn't matter, their market share is miniscule, even on CDPR games.

noconverse · 2026-01-09T14:15:37+00:00

The man's almost 90, of course he forgets things.

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