If only some sort of newfangled technology could come along

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    Sweeney is such a dishonest and corrupt piece of shit, a very typical retrograde American oligarch.

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        I am not a Valve fanboy.

        They are only sort of OK when viewed in comparison to other American technology oligarch groups. I even hesitate to use the term “OK” in this context.

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          Valve is the best gaming company, who has a storefront (and even consoles / systems to sell). All other suck in comparison and I think Valve is good for the entire gaming industry and the gamers.

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          Indeed. Even stuff like their casino side business with CS skins seems to be often downplayed.

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        You don’t have to like Gaben to see that Tim is much worse. Tim only cares about business. That’s why Epic store is great for publishers and developers and dogshit for customers, because Tim doesn’t see you as nothing more than cattle. Your interests don’t matter, you’re just a vessel to extract money from. You can dislike Gaben all you want but Valve at least treats you like a customer.

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            There are no good billionaires, period.

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                There is no such thing as a good billionaire and to say otherwise is just lickspittle behavior. Gabe does not care about you.

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      in what way was he dishonest or corrupt?

      sure his statement is ridiculous but it doesnt make him dishonest or corrupt

      EDIT: people. i asked a question. the guy answered my question. i cant u derstand the need to downvote because i dont know something.

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    Destiny 2 died BECAUSE of soulless, maligned, pathetic, ignorant, coward, contrived, boring, corrupt, greedy, pussy, dick, anus farts like Sweeney. Epic belongs in the fucking grave.

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    If there were anyone who needed to hire a PR firm to handle all of their public-facing communications, Tim Sweeney is it, because every time I read a news article that starts “Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Says…”, it is always (from my memory, at least) the dumbest and/or most infuriating bullshit you’ve ever heard from someone who is, notionally, supposed to sell customers on their products or services.

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    What a dog shit take damn

    Even someone who likes AI knows games don’t write themselves.

    I’m really trying to think if his comments are aimed at investors for bringing in new funding and consolidate AI games on his platform but even he should know that just makes him the AI guy people don’t wanna associate with. It’s puzzling that I don’t get the strategy here.

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      hey now but what if I want my code to be like

       if gun.is_valid and not gun == null and gun.id != null:
              shoot()
      
        func shoot():
               fire(gun):
      
      
          func fire(gun):
                if gun.is_valid and not gun == null and gun.id != null:
                         weapon_activate(gun)
      
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      to think, all this mad scrabbling for AI right as people are galvanizing against it’s outsized costs and complete lack of a useful endgame. Great timing Timmy.

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    “Tim Sweeney claims that the technology he is behind will be a cure-all. Somehow reporters think that a CEO backing their own business venture is newsworthy.”

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    Ugh, once again Tim Sweeney is being not only disingenuous, but also letting shit spill from his mouth. His desperation knows no bounds. If only people would just mock this idiot more.

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    Tim Sweeney? The Tim Sweeney who argued that Roblox wasn’t a platform used by pedophiles to groom minors and exploiting child labor laws? That Tim Sweeney?

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    I don’t know what his point is. That we can mass produce slop for the lowest common denominator without needing to pay anyone? I legitimately don’t understand who he thinks he’s talking to! None of the players who would be fine with slop are listening (by definition), and he can talk to his rich buddies without the bad PR. And those are the only two groups who could possibly stand to benefit from what he’s suggesting.

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    Too bad Epic is kept alive by children buying skins and silly dances who aren’t old enough to care about how sick that company has become

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    I tot Destiny 2 died because it’s just repetitive and people moving on. AI adding the same shit will not save anything, but accelerate it.

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      Destiny 2 died because the studio was more interested in chasing F2P microtransactions than story content.

      They cut the paid story content so they could go F2P, then the new players had no idea what was going on or how to engage.

      What they SHOULD have done was this:

      Fork Destiny 2 into 2 games, each balanced separately. A) PvE Paid Story Content B) F2P PvP microtransactions.

      Let the same character bounce from one to the other.

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        This guy nailed it. I’m one of the players who came back for MoT / bought the everything collection. I’ve been playing through the content after the Europa story, and the game’s quality tanked after Final Shape. Final Shape is GREAT - campaign is fun & interesting, new location has tons of new activities with lots of secret content, and prismatic is a cool new way to build your character.

        But then Edge of Fate comes along, and Bungie very clearly cheaped out and cut all kinds of corners. The story dialogue is nonsense and half of the interactions are literally just text boxes over static characters, Fallout-style. They didn’t even bother to record voice work. The campaign level design to a nose dive where they clearly just decided to throw a billion enemies at you rather than create interesting encounters.

        Renegades is a little better from a writing perspective, but all of the other corner-cutting problems persist.

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      The Monument of Triumph update shows that people still WANT to play Destiny. The people in charge were too busy siphoning money away from the game to fund (way too many) other projects, a new building, and cars, just to name a few things.