“Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds”: this doesn’t come as any surprise (there was very little chance Bioware was going to survive long enough to ship any other game) but it still is sad. Call me back once capitalism is done with the games industry.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Another day, another company trying to extract more money out of our data. Today’s company: eBay! Go to your Account Settings and turn that shit off. Well, assuming that toggle actually does anything, because we’ll never know, right?
“Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers”: $4.6b in revenue (at best), $12.65b in operating expenses, and $500+b in commitments they can’t possibly cover. Meanwhile, the Conservatives always lecture us about “government spending” and “balanced budgets”, LOL.
“Copyright and the Vibe-Coded Adobe Clones”: A good summary of the problems waiting for these vibe-coded clones we’ve seen popping up. Still, I’m grabbing some popcorn because things might get interesting.
Congrats to our Albertans neighbours for going out en masse to vote against a bunch of silly disinformation, but it’s only the start of your work: there’s still 1 in 4 of you that believes secession is going to accomplish anything worthwhile.
Video games studios: <are risk adverse and want to lay-off people willy-nilly, so use contractors for 80% of their production>
Video games press: “THIS GAME WAS MADE WITH A VERY SMALL CORE TEAM!”
Dog in fog / dog above fog
“Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First”: A little classic from the Onion, which is relevant again for my fellow French people!
Congrats to the neighbouring city of Vancouver for ousting Ken Sim and electing their first Green Party mayor Pete Fry! (plus mostly Green and COPE councillors!) Here in Burnaby, we apparently just went with the same old formula we’ve had for the past decade 🤷🏽♂️