EA and Ubisoft are really duking it out for the first prize in the worst game company competition.

I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I’d already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.

There’s an easy solution to that.

Seed something yourself.

Go buy a garage sale DVD of something that is semi-popular and doesn’t already exist on the private tracker, rip it, and post the torrent yourself.

'S what I did back when Underground Gamer still existed; I had a version of Mechwarrior 2 that didn’t already have a torrent, so I spent some time making a nice summary and uploaded it myself. Worked a treat; I had enough ratio to get me through my rough early weeks and never looked back. Until the site shut down, of course.

with no ads

For now.

Eventually it becomes a search engine that replaces the ads on the source material with its own ads, thus choking out the source’s funding and taking it for itself.

It’s the House Rules Committee, and actually one Republican voted in favor.

Isn’t Chuck E. Cheese the company that nearly turned Moppet Video arcade machines into lost media, by destroying the cabinets for a tax writeoff?

but but but how are the corporations supposed to make money off of our data if they can’t harvest it? Think of the poor corporations!!

The problem is that before LLMs, they had to actually put forward some effort to produce content on the internet, which at least kept the amount of thoughtless content down somewhat. Now the barrier to entry is practically zero, all while thieving people’s hard work without compensation and burning ridiculous amounts of resources to do so.

It is super interesting tech though.

It has nothing to do with that, and much more to do with people on 4chan being willing to call each other out. Without toxic behavior you can’t have examples on how to deal with toxic behavior.