A Nerdy Dystopia

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PC Gamers in Countries Without PSN Hit Out at Sony for Blocking Sale of Single-Player Games God of War Ragnarok and Until Dawn on Steam - IGN (web.archive.org)

submitted 3 months ago by ToyDork@sh.itjust.works to c/anerdydystopia@sh.itjust.works

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Fuck Sony, down with these corpo bastards.

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EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO (www.tomshardware.com)

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Korea: Samsung barricades office after union planned to demonstrate in building’s lobby (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by ToyDork@sh.itjust.works to c/anerdydystopia@sh.itjust.works

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18028108

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1137217

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Don't use Discord for tech support. Seriously. (forum.agoraroad.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ToyDork@sh.itjust.works to c/anerdydystopia@sh.itjust.works

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Otherwise in 10 years we may not have a place to find tech support resources.

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Younger generations have bigger brains – and it's impacting dementia (newatlas.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ToyDork@sh.itjust.works to c/anerdydystopia@sh.itjust.works

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~~Unfortunately, not every dystopian element of real life is caused by corpo-jerks. Sometimes the full truth is inescapably fucking awful even before money gets involved.~~

Got confused somehow, sorry about that. I must have had this tab open and mistook it for one of my "bad news suitable for Nerdy Cyberpunk Dystopia" tabs.

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AI Companies Running Out of Training Data After Burning Through Entire Internet (futurism.com)

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CPU prices could rise as Apple takes 50% of next gen manufacturing (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ToyDork@sh.itjust.works to c/anerdydystopia@sh.itjust.works

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Oh great, more bad news about hardware prices...

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AI is good enough to replace hack writers (i.redd.it)

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I can only hope it goes no further because f*** the corpos, I want to write for a living and actually provide quality.

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Square Enix is testing new "eTolkien" AI to generate conlangs (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ToyDork@sh.itjust.works to c/anerdydystopia@sh.itjust.works

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Actually, this sounds pretty cool to experiment with.

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Legal battle erupts: Game developers say you can't sue us for making games addicting under guise of making games entertaining. (techstory.in)

submitted 5 months ago by ToyDork@sh.itjust.works to c/anerdydystopia@sh.itjust.works

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Yeah, see if I continue spending ANY money on Minecraft if you win this, ~~Blizzard~~ ~~Activision~~ Micro$oft.

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CD Projekt Red rules out microtransactions for single player games (www.techspot.com)

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"Well, at least some corporations aren't always evil by default..."

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Captain Barbossa: "Ye best start believing in Cyberpunk stories, cuz ye'll be living in one." (sh.itjust.works)

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"Arr! I be using me talk like a pirate day avatar voicemod profile because me calendar can't decide what holiday it be today!"

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They nearly Trojan'd all of Linux... Scary. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ToyDork@sh.itjust.works to c/anerdydystopia@sh.itjust.works

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We need less solar and more cyber in our punks if we're going to actually save ourselves as a species without destroying nature; corporations profit from climate change, they're the ones that directly cause the vast majority of it on purpose...

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#eat-the-rich #before-they-eat-us (lemmy.world)

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takes the Whitepill (lemmy.world)

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The whitepill, "be yourself, even when it hurts because people expect you to conform", isn't sexy but it is the truth.

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Blackouts in Europe! Soviets are at it again, poking holes in the power grid! (www.newscientist.com)

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...and Russia... is still Russia. Join me for another night in our internet of dreams!

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I feel old, Choom. (lemmy.world)

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