Michael Fitch

Nah, they read me the riot act and I went about my business. I hadn’t said anything that wasn’t true.

There are so many other things that Tencent is an investor in…

This would have been 2008. After Iron Lore shut down, I put a little rant about the piracy numbers we had seen on Quarter to Three.

In a game of internet telephone over the weekend, a series of games “journos” turned this into the headline above.

Our head of PR was not amused.

Have I told the story about how a forum post on a Thursday afternoon turned into Monday morning headlines about the CEO of THQ blaming piracy for the ills of the industry?

I dunno if Hidden Agenda was actually a game or really just an exercise in pain...

As you can imagine, this was a significant critique, and we tutorialized this feature, so there's no way they should have missed it.

We contacted the site, and they deleted the critique, but left the score the same.

They erased that they had been wrong rather than issuing a correction.

Back in 2006, when we released Titan Quest, we had a reviewer for one of the big 3 online game sites miss the fact that there were free town portals in the world.

As a result, they complained about the inconvenience of the limited inventory and how long it too to run to town to sell things.

Reviews - the less said the better.

This framing is completely wrong. Marches take people.

Rich assholes are using algorithms and GenAI to flood the zone with hate.

Most people want nothing to do with this. It’s being manufactured.

I really cannot overstate how much letting rich people pay to avoid consequences has destroyed the world.

We have to eliminate the profit incentives for treating people badly. Everywhere we allow those to exist, terrible things happen.

As a rule, if you're saying "All people [of type X] need to be rounded up", that's a fascistic urge, and you should resist it.

However, when it comes to Republican legislators in Congress...

This may be the Mandela effect, but I felt like I was in line to get my badge when you were running into problems. But, I was there in 2018, so it probably wasn't you.

I mean, that's what it is. I watched it because my kid was into it.

it's 3rd rate anime, but it has a heart and morality and a kickass girl hero. There's definitely worse out there. (Winx?)

The big bad in Miraculous (Ladybug & Cat Noir) does everything to try and save his dead wife.

Come to think of it, isn't that also the plot of the Dr. Who Christmas special that riffs on the Christmas Carol?

My wife and I have been on a ten year hiatus. Soon, the kid will be able to DPS for us.

Another great lineup - every year!

Gee, I wonder why all these people with high-profile policy voices are advocating for politics that are less likely to impact on the wealthy and corporations?

I'm sure it has nothing to do with where their paychecks come from.

I also dropped out of my Ph.D. program.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

This is what people want. Consequences. Fight.

The people who are breaking the law must be brought to justice.

Anything less is giving up. Anything less is complicity.

We need politicians with values and spines.

I reject this framing on its face. I did not choose this. I am part of America.

We don't need more punditry.

Thanks for the insights!

Yeah, I don't really understand Chess AI, but my sense is it's very permutation-driven; you're doing look-aheads and evaluation of potential outcomes.

What kind of world-state does an RTS AI need to care about? What form does that take?

@thegamechief.bsky.social @graemedevine.com any insights here? Out of my depth, but seems like an area you two would understand deeply.

Trans Rights are Human Rights.

Moon astronaut meme:
You mean it’s people all the way down?

Always was.

Yes! Love to see it.

Yes, yes, 100 times yes.

You cannot create a profit incentive to jail people and not expect innocent people to end up in jail.

Given that her handbag had thousands of dollars of cash in it when it was lifted in DC?

I'm going with Cocaine.

I am definitely stupider about things that are happening now than I used to be, but I'm also wiser about the context in which such things happen in ways that were completely inaccessible to me at the time.