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  • GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game

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  • If Cyberleek isn't shitposting out of his ass and actually has a deadman's switch which could leak the build in its entirety online, then this could be a very dumb move on Take Two's end. The authorities would need to go full Ross Ulbricht on his ass and hope they can control the switch.

    What's even sadder is that T2I and Rockstar have been such greedy litigious fucks over the years that I'm genuinely rooting for a crypto scammer who has used this entire leak to promote his shitcoin over them.

    Just the fact that the GTA6 Extended Look will be a timed Netflix exclusive gives me the ick. That's one step removed from releasing game trailers as exclusive PPV events.

    If we're gonna start treating game reveals like UFC and WrestleMania then I'm out.

  • What's the most unforgivable sin done in media that you're still bitter about?

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  • Do what they did with Killer Instinct 2013 and Battletoads 2020. Bring in another studio but keep the main company associated with the IP in an advisory/support role. Rare clearly shouldn't be trusted with solo developing another game and neither should Bungie.

    Or, do what Activision did with Neversoft when they effectively merged them with Infinity Ward and became one of the three core CoD developers. Merging Arkane with Bungie could make one hell of a team.

    Bungie holds serious brand recognition with Halo fans.

  • What's the most unforgivable sin done in media that you're still bitter about?

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  • I think it was a consequence of them fleshing out the Halo lore after the first game became a surprise hit. To me Halo 2 Cortana will always be the best design.

  • Do you think UBI will be the future of the world?

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  • Each technological advancement has created new jobs in some capacity. What new jobs has AI created? And don't tell me "prompt engineer" like every AI bro likes to hype up. That is not an actual position and the fact that I cannot find any jobs advertised where typing out very specific and accurate prompts are one of the skills required is proof of this.

    AI isn't perfect. It hallucinates and sometimes gives bad answers. But I think that we are one incredibly good model away from being able to reliably automate white collar work.

  • Do you think UBI will be the future of the world?

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  • I'm talking about a scenario where entire industries of workers end up getting displaced by AI and robotics, and I don't think we're far off from this becoming a reality. If Tesla's Optimus 3 robots are anywhere near as advanced as they are rumoured to be, they could easily replace warehouse and logistics workers.

    We already have Waymo disrupting the taxi industry further by removing the driver from the equation, and Miso Robotics automating kitchens in restaurant chains like Jersey Mike's Subs and White Castle.

    Also, doesn't means-testing UBI kinda defeat its intended purpose?

  • What's the most unforgivable sin done in media that you're still bitter about?

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  • Apart from Master Chief Collection and Campaign Evolved, I haven't touched a post-Bungie Halo game, so I can't really comment on the quality of 4, 5 or Infinite. From what I've heard, 4 had a divisive campaign and horrible multiplayer, Halo 5 had decent multiplayer and a terrible story, and Infinite was heavily flawed.

    What I can say is that 343 Industries fucked up hard with remastering the old games. Not even Rare (a development studio with a similarly bad reputation for pumping out shit game after shit game under Microsoft) have managed the feat of fucking up a remaster. Halo 1 Anniversary genuinely has updated graphics that do not align at all with the level geometry, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the Truth & Reconciliation mission where you had to sneak past Covenant forces, and if you were playing on the updated graphics, they could see and shoot you through boulders.

    The studio rebrand and switch to Unreal 5 was a huge gamble that clearly didn't pay off, because Campaign Evolved had terrible gunplay, glaring bugs, prequel missions with bad design and more exposition than a Shounen anime, and a redesign of Cortana where she has an incredibly masculine jawline and genuinely looks like Jerma985 wearing a wig.

    I once saw a comment on Facebook about how the Halo Studios logo looks like an ODST being pounded in the ass with a giant dildo and I genuinely cannot unsee that image. It's also a very fitting metaphor for what they did to the Halo franchise.

    Disbanding Halo Studios, waiting for Marathon to inevitably fail and then buying Bungie from Sony for chump change is probably the best thing Asha Sharma can do with the franchise right now.

  • Do you think UBI will be the future of the world?

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  • UBI to me is a leftist pipe dream of how a post-scarcity society could work. When you actually look at the financials and how greedy humanity is, it all falls apart and will either bankrupt entire nations or pay an absolute pittance.

    The UK's voluntary living wage is £13.45 an hour, which translates to £26,227.50 for someone working full time 37.5 hours a week. If we replaced our entire welfare system (state pensions, Universal Credit, child benefit, Personal Independence Payments, Disability Living Allowance, etc) and paid our approx 58.1 million population of working age people and retirees the living wage, it would cost us over £1.5 trillion, or roughly half our annual GDP. Our current welfare expenditure by comparison is at an estimated £333.7 billion.

    I am using the Living Wage as a comparison since it's an agreed metric calculated by a non-profit organisation for how much a worker would need to earn to live on their wage in the UK. To pay a living wage to every adult in the country we would need to spend nearly three times as much as what the USA spends on its military.

    The question then becomes "How the fuck will we pay for it?" We can't even get the rich to pay their fair share of tax as things stand. They are going to flat-out refuse to foot the bill once AI leads to mass unemployment.

    What I think is a more likely scenario is societal collapse. People starve, leading to widespread civil unrest and then a brutal and violent crackdown, made easier than ever by armed drones and humanoid robots that have no sense of morals. This is exactly the kind of doomsday scenario that a lot of billionaires are prepping for.

    The only way I can see humanity not ripping itself apart is if automation somehow makes the cost of living so cheap that UBI could viably exist.

  • Fuming Trump, 80, Melts Down Over Embarrassing Poll Numbers

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  • I thought that was only if the President chose to contest it?

  • RFK Jr.'s staff shuts down questions as he admits he eats 'stuff I find on the street'

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  • Khlav kalash?

  • Fuming Trump, 80, Melts Down Over Embarrassing Poll Numbers

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  • Unless this results in a Democrat landslide so substantial that they sweep every Senate seat up for grabs and win huge in the House, I cannot see this being the end of Trump. It would need to be a more substantial result than this year's Hungary Parliament elections which awarded Magyar a two-thirds majority that could undo the damage Viktor Orban did upon the state.

    Donald has been impeached twice. Both impeachments failed because you need a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict. A third impeachment will probably fail unless the scenario I outlined above does happen by some absolute fluke.

    If anything, Trump is far more likely to be removed via the 25th Amendment. He's 80 years old, showing worsening signs of dementia, and I can definitely see the cabinet trying to convince him to stand down and let Vance salvage their chances for 2028. That is unless Trump chooses to challenge their attempts to invoke the 25th Amendment, in which case it goes to Congress. A two-thirds majority will then be needed in both houses to remove Trump.

  • US House of Representatives passed the KIDS Act, Which would basically require age checks for Americans to get online

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  • I'd turn that vote tally into a six-seven "joke", but that would require more critical thought than what every politician put into drafting and/or voting that law through Congress.

  • Republican bill urges "deadly force" to stop abortions in North Carolina

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  • I for one think it's pretty ironic to stop unwanted pregnancies from being terminated by ordering law enforcement to carry out 153rd trimester abortions upon the doctors...

  • Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard

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  • Understandable omission. It was only really in use in PAL regions.

  • Am I broken, or am I saying the quiet part out loud?

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  • I don't think it's the case of OP possibly being trans but I don't want to dismiss your tale nor discourage the OP from considering this possibility. It's possible that it could be gender dysphoria.

    I'm glad you found peace with your transition.

  • Am I broken, or am I saying the quiet part out loud?

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  • A lot of this is normal, and yes there are some aspects of your behaviour that I'd find a bit concerning but it's been mentioned a lot in this thread. And I think that we've done so much to vilify men and male sexual desire as a society that it's giving the manosphere a voice they would otherwise have not existed decades ago.

    Society is genuinely at the point where we'll creep shame any guy who even so much as glances at a well-endowed lady's boobs or arse in a tank top or yoga pants.

    We need to take a long and hard look at our society and ask how we've managed to make people like Andrew Tate, Steven Crowder and Charlie Kirk household names.

    The amount of people calling similar takes to mine incel ideology is shocking, and I think this immediate attack is why we have a male loneliness epidemic and why I worry for what the future brings.

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  • I'd pay to see an American history pantomime.

  • IT workers, which certs would you get that are quick to obtain in the help desk and general office IT expertise?

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  • I'm debating on whether to go down this career route.

    Accountancy is a dud these days and I think I'd get more value from doing CompTIA or Cisco certificates and trying to branch out into IT.

    Where I'm skeptical is that it's being pushed a lot by all these learning providers advertising cybersecurity career paths and boasting potentially misleading statistics. I've heard from differing sources that IT is both easy and incredibly hard to get into.

    But to answer the OG question, I've heard that Cisco CCNA is like the king of IT certifications, but is hard to pass and is expensive to both take and study.

  • Which accounts on the Fediverse have the most followers?

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  • Yeah. Reddit went to hell when the corpos got involved.

  • Which accounts on the Fediverse have the most followers?

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  • Wait, George Takei is on the Fediverse?

    It's a Mastodon instance, isn't it?

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