Both of those are absolutely true, and I apologize for being a dumb american and forgetting the first.

A description I heard from Conrad Zimmerman that I think is apt is that Nintendo is a toy company. They largely aren’t following the tactics of the other big movers in the gaming space because their strategy is fundamentally different.

Personally, I cut ties with Nintendo after what they did to Bowser (no, not that one (no, not that one)).

I won’t launch into a rant no-one asked for but I think you’d be in the minority of pirates if this news is what changed your mind.

I mean, the reason it won’t hurt sales is because piracy doesn’t actually hurt sales, and studies have shown piracy can increase sales.

Basically, most people willing to pirate games weren’t going to buy the games in the first place^[1], but there are going to be a percentage of converters who like the game enough to buy through official channels.

And there’s a cultural currency that comes from being a popular piracy target, too, as that means more people (who have played it) are talking about the game and are likely to convince others to try it, which is going to bring in more customers. Basically what happened with Game of Thrones, when they (I think it was the director?) boasted about being the most-pirated show in the world. In that way, you can get sales out of people who never even purchased your product.

EDIT: fixed costumer typo

I actually want to take this seriously for a moment and point out that this is why so many people end up falling down conspiracy theory and hatesphere slopes. Of course when so much of their outside stimuli is about how wrong they are for one reason or another (even when it’s obtuse sources like all the bad-faith op-eds about “millennials”), people are going to latch on to sources that build them up.

Like I wouldn’t be surprised if a decent %age of people who do have ethical objections to genAI still interact with it because it’s one of the few places they feel like they can go without being judged to high heaven.

Oh, hey, I’m pretty sure this is the game Punchy covered a while ago! I’m sure he’ll be glad to be yet again proven wrong that the game he thought would never get an English translation did in fact get an English translation.

I literally haven’t used the subscribed feed in over a decade ever since they first started doing that shit. At one time I was subscribed to 300+ channels, now I’m only subscribed to one singular channel I never check (Tomii11, a young boy who at the time had brain cancer and wanted to be a youtuber so there was a grassroots effort to help him find success) because they thoroughly enshittified the subscribed feed (and no I’m not going to click the fucking bell I don’t want notifications, I want a functioning feed).

I don’t doubt that happens to people but I’ve been curating my feed for over a decade, I don’t get any of that – for my main feed it’s a mix of video game analysis/essays, speedrunning, science videos, and RWBY, and I’m in the process of re-curating to get RWBY to show up instead of science because I never actually interact with the science videos beyond watching and I have an entire other feed for edutainment.

HEY YO XBOX AHOY IS BACK?

Hold up I’ve missed how many videos?

Why hasn’t youtube been pushing them to me I used to love their vids

I may have expressed myself poorly, then, because my point was that people were anthropomorphizing the pencil with googly eyes just the same as they are now with AI. It’s not that I blame people for doing what they are innately, biologically programmed to do (form social bonds), it’s that people are so blindly against AI that they’ll accept wildly incorrect assumptions like (quoting a friend here) “they made an AI work a retail job and it wanted to kill itself” without examining what’s at play, like the people who were momentarily horrified that the professor snapped the pencil in half.

I am almost continuously reminded of a tumblr post I saw about a college professor that brought in a pencil with googly eyes, did a little voice, then snapped it in half and told the class (of whom at least some gasped in shock) “we’re at that stage of AI right now”. And that post was years ago now. I know people are apes that pack bond and imprint on anything, but it’s getting ridiculous how many people don’t recognize it.

Thanks, I’ll look into that.

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FWIW, I joined that instance because it had the only RWBY community I could find.

(Also love the FLCL avatar)

Yeah, I’m new (also driven from Reddit after the recent changes) and within like a week I signed up for three different servers, and I’ll probably sign up for more if I can figure out how to navigate servers well enough to find what I’m looking for.

It’s actually rather nice to have separate accounts for different use cases and not mix, say, a memery and general discussion account with an art account.

Why is that your question?

Kinda hate to show my whole ass on this topic, but I lived through this exact thing 5 or 6 years ago when AI Dungeon accused its entire userbase of being pedophiles.

I learned about it from Austin Powers in Goldmember in the early aughts, but yeah I’m glad someone else pointing out there’s like, an odd historical rhyme with the particular numbers coming back.

Obligatory: “GENTLEMEN! You can’t fight here! This is a war room!”

It’s math like this that convinces me that you can contribute more to the ecosystem by paying even a single dollar to a creator’s Patreon (even when Patreon takes 30% off the top) and watching w/ adblock than paying a monthly subscription to YT.

Hot take: visually this looks awful in comparison to the original.