AwesomeLowlander

There’s like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them…

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq

They’re not working on the half life series because there’s no way they’ll ever live up to the hype that’s built up. Best to let sleeping dogs lie.

I’m not getting on that island till the Factorio expansion is out next month.

Right. I see there’s no logical discussion to be had here. Have a good day.

My question was very simple and limited in scope:

Would the impact have been any different if they had used photoshop?

I did not make any sweeping comments, and I would appreciate if you stopped trying to claim things on my behalf.

Fuck knows. It’s not like I made any such claim, you just decided to put up a strawman argument.

Since when could someone do this … with a couple of clicks and zero training, for free and on any device?

You know, somebody probably said the exact same thing about Photoshop when it first came out? Back when cutting up photos and pasting them together was a thing. Then again, somebody probably said the same thing about the advent of photography too, during the days of woodcuts and oil paintings.

Would the impact have been any different if they had used photoshop?

It’s never been on sale, but the price HAS gone up multiple times since it was first launched in alpha.

There isn’t even any risk, considering the amount of detail they’ve covered in the dev blogs.

western banking system

Are you implying the rest of the world uses a different, more socially friendly banking system? For that matter, when’s the last time China sent out a multi-billion dollar aid package?

1% is hardly worth calling sinister.

Yeah, it’s only a few billion dollars. What’s that between buddies?

semantic difference in my word choice is hardly significant enough to be worth quoting lol

It’s only significant when it’s in your favour, eh?

Oh no! We’re comparing credit card interest rates with country-level loans! And they’re higher! Gosh! Never mind that the IMF interest rate is half of that. 🙄

the logical conclusion is foul play

Nobody but you claimed foul play, only bad intentions.

The warnings are self-serving, not the AI

If it helps, I agreed with your 1st 2 points. You may die with your dignity half intact.

“Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”

The full quote is “UNLIKE self-serving warnings from Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”. In other words, they’re actively denigrating Musk and Altman, and you’ve taken the quote entirely out of context, in direct opposite to the original meaning.

Cue the tankies to show up soon explaining how China had everybody’s best interests at heart, and all previous examples were taken out of context.

What article did you read, seeing as there’s nothing from Musk in there?

Straight to you, from the makers of Stagnetti’s Revenge…

Oh wow, they picked up Hades. I could see some potential here, if they’re getting high quality content instead of the MTX trash.

And that’s how you get people to click on the article