My root issue with people who shit on AI is that by pretending like it doesn’t exist or refusing to use it, your voice is not part of the conversation.
The world will use AI, regardless of your personal feelings.
And if you arent in the room to help shape decisions, don’t be surprised when we are fucked.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 3223 Staff 23 hours ago
I have lost my job to wider cuts a few times myself and on reflection, I think I prefer being “aligned” or “realigned” inasmuch as it makes me feel like a cool laser satellite. But I am not immune to the frictive charms of being “restructured”, which makes me feel like a Transformer
I absolutely love the comments on RPS. It’s hits like these which makes me keep coming back.
I completely forgot about the term SJW until this little dig into history.
You weren’t kidding! This is a rollercoaster ride of incredible twists and turns!
The problem, according to three former Cooler Screens executives and a former Yahoo executive, was that their clients thought of the screens as “shopper marketing,” an old-timey ad category that covered in-store promos like the balloons or cardboard displays that clerks hang over cases of beer. Spending in this area was far lower than the more lucrative digital ad rates Avakian hoped to charge. One of the former Cooler Screens execs says that Avakian wanted marketing dollars well above what the industry was willing to pay and that his lieutenants could be preposterously condescending on calls with the Yahoo sales team, which at times devolved into shouting matches. “The Yahoo people hated them!” this former exec says. “Their MO was to ride them [Yahoo] like Secretariat.” (A Cooler Screens spokesperson says that this description is inaccurate and that Avakian’s relationship with Yahoo executives remained positive.)
Condescending calls with Yahoo sales team. Fucking hilarious.
If it helps, they also lock a lot of product, requiring employees to come and help customers directly.
https://eurweb.com/2025/walgreens-theft-prevention-struggle/
It’s like they made their stores as hostile as possible to shop in.
They just keep finding interesting ways to fail!
I never heard of bazzite before! Thank you for the recommendation!
You’re absolutely right!
At no point did I consider it being a entertainment system.
I think this is a great party idea.
Unfortunately that’s the best part of FO76. Building your base/shelter, getting stuff for your base/shelter, etc. The story is okay. But at some point, everything revolves around you improving your base.
I can’t find that one story where a guy was having a lot of fun being kidnapped. They roleplayed for like an hour.
Oh man I remember how incredible Hammer was.
I built my college campus! (And never showed anybody because this was during the Columbine era)
Yep! That was the story in the book. He grabbed his wife and neighbor, and when they returned, everything was burned to the ground!
He originally wanted it to be about a game where people interacted with furniture to feel things, and it was called Dollhouse. But play testers found watching their Sims more fun.
😭
If I had a nickel for every time a 90s-2000s developer is now into Blockchain…
Do I have two nickels or three?
In before the “People still play?” Yeah. 12,000 people on average. The game was released 6 years ago. There’s been a hell of a lot of free updates since then.
We get it. You hate FO76/Bethesda/Todd Howard. Go touch grass.
Thanks to Trump judges, Presidents have Absolute Immunity.
Joe can absolutely start draining the swamp.
I remind my panicking liberal friends that the US only became a “Superpower” within the past 100 years.
So many countries have caught up.
I gotta admit, I was pretty amazed when they built Polygon out of scratch. It was just passionate game writers who is wanted to share the content they like reading. The first year was full of great writing. Then it kinda faded into the background, which isnt a problem.
Seeing how that happened gives me hope that a new website filled with passionate game writers will sprout up.