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Money has to do with whether you can make the game. Games are regularly funded by many non-profit options such as co-ops or grants, etc. Developers are free to make games however they want.

We don't have to relearn the concept, we just have a bunch of dumb idiots who we have to fight off every couple years and we often lose because a critical segment of people cannot remember what happened last time, don't understand anything, or are evil.

Nope, it's worse than that, the democracy actually works and the voters are just dumb.

I'm sure you would!

Yes, it's a culture war thing and the commenters here are participating in it: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/mixtape-is-at-the-ce...

cutscenes are often the most demanding part of a game!

This is exactly the type of cynicism that's destroying the country.

It’s much worse than that. People just feel like they’re getting screwed whether they are or not.

Who is proposing interpreting routine border searches as categorically "unreasonable"?

Also the skills are different. it's quite annoying!

Oh no, I use the top shelf models every day and I really think they have a lot of room to improve in pretty much every regard. I suspect Fable usage is flatlining because it's not that good comparitively and way too expensive.

Every time I try to use a lower tier model like Terra or Sonnet I regret it, so I just use the best one the first time to keep my sanity (it sort of works). Same with effort, you gotta just max it out (though I stopped using Ultra/Ultracode) and I never use fast because I'd rather work in parallel on more than on one thing faster almost always.

The issue isn't whether it's fine, it's that both Fable 5 and Opus 5 are worse to use for the job of programming than Codex-5.6-Sol in my experience. I am directly comparing these top tier models every week in my work, and many friends have left Claude in favor of Codex recently because of Claude's poor model quality.

One thing I do like about Claude is that the normal (non-Code) chat interface supports MCP, whereas ChatGPT basically does not.

Huh? Comparing model quality is something everyone is constantly doing here. If you need more specifics, it speaks in an incomprehensible way, stops working lazily, does a bad job and misses things constantly, and makes a lot more mistakes. I have both a $200/mo Codex and Claude subscription and swap between them when one runs out, and I'm always more miserable when I have to use Claude.

The Claude desktop app is also widely panned, as I mentioned, and for me this mainly is due to general UX and a poor remote control interface. Codex's connected machine support is top notch.

I also mentioned the value of the Codex resets!

Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic!

Edit: If you're mad I'm light on the details I have provided some in the replies.

what?

Like 1/3 of HN posts are people complaining or crashing out about AI, and so are all the comments.

Basic media numeracy will tell you that because the population is increasing and inflation exists this number is not meaningful.

It sounds like it's describing "the problem with credit card debt is worse than ever" but this number cannot tell you that.

Fortunately, the data does exist and has been analyzed and it's already been put together for you here: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-data/2026-q1-lar...

The good news from doing the analysis properly is that this situation has been improving recently. (You will find this a lot when people panic about statistics.)

The median wage has kept up with inflation anywhere this line is flat or sloping up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Looks like Google has started rolling out this Web Bot Auth thing which seems like something that should gain adoption or become an open standard. https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetcher...

Seems like the crawler companies would be incentivized to not want to take responsibility for people spoofing their user agents.

I can see why you might think that, but that is not what this article claims or what Sony said.

The CFO said this in 2021:

“But the profitability of PS5 in -- there was this view of reaching breakeven point in June, but PS5 breakeven point for standard edition, more correctly on standard edition, that's how we explain the situation. And it's been progressing according to the plan. Overall, hardware profitability and peripherals hardware profitability, including peripherals, as we have been saying, is proceeding smoothly.”

And PCMag is inferring this means ONLY the $499 edition of the console which they previously suggested could become profitable later. It doesn't mean every edition of the PS5, and things have changed since 2021.

And Sony said it was having losses on consoles as recently as 2024.

This is a conversation about Sony, not Nintendo. As far as I can tell from current data, Sony is still subsidizing PlayStation consoles overall.

As far as I can tell, despite Sony saying they would like the consoles to be profitable, they are still subsidized as of right now in aggregate. Perhaps some models are more profitable than others.

I can only respond to what you actually said which was "Sony doesn’t actually make the games" and "they don’t have the kitchen nor the cooks".

The large upfront cost is lower than it would be because its subsidized by buying the games for it!

Sony does make the games, they have many excellent first party studios!

What are you talking about!

"Stop Killing Games" is pure gamer slopulism. This idea is even sillier and more pointless than the last couple. There is a ton of competition in the games industry for games, platforms, hardware, etc.

It's truly a terrible UX decision that Apple's left in place because of apathy. (And presumably thinking someone wants to install software through the Mac App Store!?)

They should offer a first-class way of "installing downloaded apps" and push developers to use it. I would say use an Installer package but I can't remember if there's issues with it not being a single file. So a zipped installer package. And then make that not have an unnecessary 12 step wizard.

Hardly a novel concept in technology: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/19/iphone-ap...

I'm sure you can imagine why it might be unnecessarily complicated for a Waymo to take cash.

Glad to see everyone dispassionately awaiting the adjudication of this dispute in the official venue!