"I still really wanted to be a mum and Elon made the offer around that time and I accepted," she said, explaining Musk in 2020 had offered to donate sperm.
"He was encouraging everyone around him at that time to have kids and he'd noticed I did not. He offered to make a donation," Zilis said.
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This is far from an Xbox issue. Gaming has become boring and commercialized. I grew up with the Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, NES, SNES and Genesis. There were a lot of weird, goofy, unique games that took major risks. Games that were obvious attempts to just earn cash were largely ridiculed (I’m thinking of you, M.C. Kids).
Much like music, film, books and all other media, gaming has largely lost its attraction.
Steam is still great because it allows small developers to try new things. From what I’ve read, trying to bring such games to consoles is almost impossible.
As for Xbox, specifically: they have sanitized a lot of the online interactions, trying to make everything family-friendly. Half of the fun of Call of Duty is hearing other players lose their shit. The shit-talking makes it fun. They keep trying to remove it and have made the game a glorified Fortnite.
Budgets generally make it impossible. Any “commercial” game costs enough no one seems to be willing to risk it unless they think it will pay back big. Often seemingly by making the game bigger (thus more expensive) to appeal to more people.
Much like Hollywood.
Combine on the trend mentality and rent seeking (live service shooters?) and it sucks.
I really liked the PS1 and 2 eras.
PS1 was cheap to develop for relative to cartridges, and Sony just wanted games. They published so many cool and experimental things. Even brought over stuff like that from Japan.
PS2 moved away from that some but we still got fun stuff. No one would ever publish Guitaroo Man today.
Once you hit the HD era budgets started skyrocketing, team size, and it never got better.
I agree indie is where much of the fun is. Some big games are still great. But so much cool stuff is in the indie scene.
They could be publishing that. Not every PS5 game needs to look jaw dropping.
MS helped the rise of indies big time with XBLA. Don’t know why they threw that away. But their business plan hasn’t made sense since the 360 era.
More or less, but "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." And also that the sticker price is a good indication of how easy it is to get an new one quickly.
The side with $25M helicopters and $4m patriot missiles is at a big disadvantage to the side with $40K shaheeds here. Attrition favours the latter side. Assuming that both sides have stockpiles, the latter side will have more items in the stockpile, and will replenish it sooner. What happens when the air defences run out?
Starting yesterday, browsing Reddit on my phone brings up a large app ad on the bottom half of the screen that cannot be removed. The more they push it, the less I use their crappy website.
The linked Reddit thread is quite hilarious. Earlier this year my company hired a new CEO and his first company address was solely to tell everyone to use AI or they’d lose their job and become unemployable in general.
I knew right there and then that he was a moron. There’s something about American companies where the best and brightest rarely show up in senior management. It seems to be populated by some weird class of golf playing NPCs that figured out how to game the system and bring all their cult members along for the ride.
My own company spent 2+ years enforcing extreme austerity, to the point of firing the very people who built everything, only to run wild with AI spending and seeing little results from it.
Surely, out there in the wilderness, there is a company staffed by intelligent, skilled people. Right?
Intelligent skilled people had been ghosted for so long that they don't bother applying anymore. Now the economy is just tree shaking, watching who will fall down. Personally I'm still irritated by the blockchain bubble and haven't even noticed when AI made me unemployable. Once in an airplane I overheard two kids from two different countries. One's job was to figure out where AI can be used, other's job was to figure out where AI can be used.
For the long time this worked oh right: get to know right people, wipe some asses, lick some other, play some golf and be sociopath. But right now it does not cut it anymore. You have to be either smart, skilled or know your business and IT somewhat to now how and to what extent or if at all you can use so called AI in your company. People like you described are out of their league entirely.
I was talking more about middle management. Some smaller CEOs like the parent comment suggested. Those people, as you said, are not our overloads, because they lack intelligence and technical skills.
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