GTA VI will cost €79.99 in France. After VAT, Valve gets €20. One download, at 210GB would cost Steam €11.55 in this tax. If you uninstall and reinstall once, Steam loses money on the sale.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t see any way whatsoever that Steam won’t be passing this cost off directly onto users or just outright block French IPs. How incredibly stupid.
I thought the same as I typed my comment…
I just still cannot believe that happened and just…no one cares.
…Because the conversation was literally about Valve? Wtf are you smoking lmao
I meant by major AAA studios. I also prefaced with “in the west” AND “one of the first,” not the first. Not sure why you brought up China, despite the phrasing.
I didn’t lie, you’re just twisting my words and building a strawman argument to attack.
Why the white knighting for Valve? I actively play Valve games and even participate in buying the occasional lootboxes. That doesn’t mean they don’t profit massively off of children gambling. They’re a multibillion dollar corporation and do not need your defence.
Criticism and observations != hatred.
…they’ve been actively peddling loot box based gambling to kids for 16 years.
They’re probably one of the first western gaming companies to introduce such a mechanic, even.
That’s just a shitty front end interface implementation, it has nothing to do with the actual inference run by the models.
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Edit: protip, lock your phone before putting it in your pocket.
Between just my uncommon device, my languages spoken, and rough location (timezone), I’m actually crazy identifiable, yikes.
98.9% at least
It just means fast lol. Hayabusa is just Japanese for peregrine falcon, the haya probably deriving from fast, busa being some sort of suffix used for animals, I think (don’t quote me on that last bit).
Wait til you find out where the “haya” comes from 😜
Pff, maybe not your 12-year-old
For sure, and if this article had any more substance than him rambling, I’d agree with you.
This is an article about a sad, inept, old man’s ramblings, tangentially related to technology. Not nearly worth posting about in this community - in my opinion, of course.
I’m sure they’re happy with the reduced costs from firing half the employees, but to not consider the potential issues and actually vet the quality was such a bad decision
Kind of becomes irrelevant when the initial reduced costs were probably decimated by secondary costs they hadn’t even considered, for example, time wasted by remaining employees now burdened with correcting the AI’s mistakes.
I think they’re referring to the political article and the community within which it has been posted, not that AI isn’t technology.
I mean…
ChatGPT will remember this
And will bring more hardware to the market and bring down prices. Let’s go Chinaaaa