Don’t worry, like most ChatGPT attempts at analysis it’s very surface-level and never goes into enough depth or detail on anything.

I think it loses a few points on the "best game ever" scale for making you rent an apartment with a spare empty room to dance around in while wearing an expensive helmet.

I receive a lot of AI-written emails and reports and they are almost always terribly unprofessional. AI writing is competent on a purely surface level and only if you quickly skim-read and move on to something else. But if you need real information or specific details AI writing is usually incoherent and an insulting waste of time.

Absolutely. The Yakuza/Judgement/Like a Dragon games reuse maps and animations like TV shows reuse sets and locations and there is nothing wrong with this.

The only thing either are good for is money laundering and cheating on schoolwork. They’ve made life easier for thieves and liars and the rest of us just have to fucking put up with it as if this is the price of progress. The luddites were right, these machines need to be broken.

Like buttons and complex sorting algorithms are the building blocks of addictive social media skinner boxes and are inherently exploitative. They are a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of the internet, and we would be better off without them.

We should have gotten rid of upvotes back when we got rid of downvotes. Both are toxic.

She’s using a standard beige PC monitor with the keyboard that came with the powermac G4. They used to arrest you for doing that. Steve Jobs himself would waterboard you until you agreed to buy an overpriced clear plastic Apple display that properly matched.

I don’t even think there’s a room!

It’s not people though, it’s a social structure: a set of systems and rules with no one person in charge that, once broken, is very hard to put back together again.

True, and I just checked Burnout 3, the other game OP mentioned, it’s from 2004. These are both Playstation 2 era games. These games aren’t just older than any teenager, they’re also older than the Xbox 360 the teenagers supposedly found. Who knows whatever it was they actually found, or are actually playing.

A 19 year old today would have been 8 when the 360 was replaced by the XBone, and may have kept playing on one for a few years beyond that. It wasn’t quite that long ago when that generation was still current. Perhaps these particular kids / child labourers are so young they think the “retro” cutoff line is the start of the pandemic.

Yes, EU policy is clear. Foreign companies deliberately undercutting European business to monopolize whole sectors is only ok if they’re American, not Chinese. Amazon good, BYD bad.

Gaming PCs really ought to have some sort of extra processing chip on the motherboard just to run all of the fucking launchers each with own their special account and DRM and whatnot.

All kneel before the newly crowned king of the nepo babies

Surely the French would say butter and not olive oil, right? Maybe olive oil is the Italian version. Although to suggest that Anglos would use any garlic at all seems too kind.

I’m reminded of this cliché: European writers discuss class but forget about race, North American writers discuss race but forget about class.

What book is this image from? It definitely speaks to the massive problem with fragile masculinity in American media - it would be interesting to see what else is said about it.

Bill Clinton statue in Kosovo

Train derailed by wayward car on tracks