Resplendent606

I’m happy with 1080p content. I have a 4k TV and from the couch I can’t see a difference. I would be perfectly happy with a bargain 4k TV, bigger the better.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies toaster

Does a bear shit on the pope?

Well, that’s just water under the fridge.

It is shitty in many ways. First, I view videogames as art (because they are art) and taking out the human element just makes them a product created by a machine. Coding is a form of human expression. I understand the capitalist urge not to pay people, but replacing people with AI is a moral wrong. Microsoft, for example, after purchasing many studios over the past few years, has fired over 15,000 people in 2025 alone, despite making record profits and charging us more for new games.

I would be terrified if I were a full-time coder. Like many other occupations, programming jobs are in jeopardy. I would be considering other fields or specializations because these corporations plan to replace them all. Google already is saying that more 25% of their code is written by ai. That will only increase and bleed over to game development.

Second, by forcing the development timeline by basically any means necessary, you are creating an inferior product. Just throwing a game in early access because it isn’t complete isn’t a good solution and there are hundreds of games currently in that status. Personally, I avoid anything that is early access, with a few exceptions. I get the point in the article about making games with lesser graphics, which I am fine with if the project warrants it, but it feels like these companies don’t care what the product is as long as it sells. They are going to create ai-slop and charge us more for it. This is how the AAA industry dies.

Sources:

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/in-new-memo-microsoft-ceo-addresses-enigma-of-layoffs-amid-record-profits-and-ai-investments/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282757/google-new-code-generated-ai-q3-2024

The enshittification of videogames.

Instead of “the Oregon Trail generation” we should be called the “I read the damn manual” generation.

I’m not sure why people are down voting this. I agree 100%. The most techie people I have ever known are part of what you called “the Oregon Trail generation” (I love this term).

As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.

That be ok. Me crew sails the ‘igh seas an’ we don’t 'ave to share passwords.

So, KDE Plasma but even more bugs?

edit: I was kidding. The “KDE is buggy” meme has been a long-standing joke on top of Wayland having a reputation of not running well for many Linux users, especially NVIDIA users.