DeScruff

Summary
'GAMURS Group' is a company that has bought out several videogame media publications/sites (Prima Games, Twinfinite, Destructoid, the Escapist, Siliconera) in the past 3-4 years.
They are doing major layoffs. - ~40% of their workforce layoffs. (Potentially more)
They got caught putting up a job listing for an AI Editor
 
Quotes
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor

https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 
 

 
My thoughts
Disclosure: - I frequent Destructoid. The reason I found out about this is because one of Dtoid's most prominent and well liked writers, was fired today without warning with no chance for a goodbye article (which has been typical for the site) with the only explanation being that he always gave 110% when it came to the site, rather then minimum effort work.

After seeing that kids were handing in book reports for school made in ChatGPT, it was only a matter of time before some executive somewhere saw this a way to cut their labor costs. The WGA (Writers Guild of America) is proactively on strike right now to ban the use of AI for writing source material in TV shows and Movies, as they see AI being a threat in the near future.
It doesn't surprise me gaming journalism would be the first to take a bite. I just hate to see once prominent sites get turned into AI generated SEO garbage.

 
Sources
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor
https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 

Summary
'GAMURS Group' is a company that has bought out several videogame media publications/sites (Prima Games, Twinfinite, Destructoid, the Escapist, Siliconera) in the past 3-4 years.
They are doing major layoffs. - ~40% of their workforce layoffs. (Potentially more)
They got caught putting up a job listing for an AI Editor
 
Quotes
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor

https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 
 

 
My thoughts
Disclosure: - I frequent Destructoid. The reason I found out about this is because one of Dtoid's most prominent and well liked writers, was fired today without warning with no chance for a goodbye article (which has been typical for the site) with the only explanation being that he always gave 110% when it came to the site, rather then minimum effort work.

After seeing that kids were handing in book reports for school made in ChatGPT, it was only a matter of time before some executive somewhere saw this a way to cut their labor costs. The WGA (Writers Guild of America) is proactively on strike right now to ban the use of AI for writing source material in TV shows and Movies, as they see AI being a threat in the near future.
It doesn't surprise me gaming journalism would be the first to take a bite. I just hate to see once prominent sites get turned into AI generated SEO garbage.

 
Sources
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor
https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 

Summary
'GAMURS Group' is a company that has bought out several videogame media publications/sites (Prima Games, Twinfinite, Destructoid, the Escapist, Siliconera) in the past 3-4 years.
They are doing major layoffs. - ~40% of their workforce layoffs. (Potentially more)
They got caught putting up a job listing for an AI Editor
 
Quotes
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor

https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 
 

 
My thoughts
Disclosure: - I frequent Destructoid. The reason I found out about this is because one of Dtoid's most prominent and well liked writers, was fired today without warning with no chance for a goodbye article (which has been typical for the site) with the only explanation being that he always gave 110% when it came to the site, rather then minimum effort work.

After seeing that kids were handing in book reports for school made in ChatGPT, it was only a matter of time before some executive somewhere saw this a way to cut their labor costs. The WGA (Writers Guild of America) is proactively on strike right now to ban the use of AI for writing source material in TV shows and Movies, as they see AI being a threat in the near future.
It doesn't surprise me gaming journalism would be the first to take a bite. I just hate to see once prominent sites get turned into AI generated SEO garbage.

 
Sources
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor
https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 

Summary
'GAMURS Group' is a company that has bought out several videogame media publications/sites (Prima Games, Twinfinite, Destructoid, the Escapist, Siliconera) in the past 3-4 years.
They are doing major layoffs. - ~40% of their workforce layoffs. (Potentially more)
They got caught putting up a job listing for an AI Editor
 
Quotes
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor

https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 
 

 
My thoughts
Disclosure: - I frequent Destructoid. The reason I found out about this is because one of Dtoid's most prominent and well liked writers, was fired today without warning with no chance for a goodbye article (which has been typical for the site) with the only explanation being that he always gave 110% when it came to the site, rather then minimum effort work.

After seeing that kids were handing in book reports for school made in ChatGPT, it was only a matter of time before some executive somewhere saw this a way to cut their labor costs. The WGA (Writers Guild of America) is proactively on strike right now to ban the use of AI for writing source material in TV shows and Movies, as they see AI being a threat in the near future.
It doesn't surprise me gaming journalism would be the first to take a bite. I just hate to see once prominent sites get turned into AI generated SEO garbage.

 
Sources
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor
https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 

Summary
'GAMURS Group' is a company that has bought out several videogame media publications/sites (Prima Games, Twinfinite, Destructoid, the Escapist, Siliconera) in the past 3-4 years.
They are doing major layoffs. - ~40% of their workforce layoffs. (Potentially more)
They got caught putting up a job listing for an AI Editor
 
Quotes
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor

https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 
 

 
My thoughts
Disclosure: - I frequent Destructoid. The reason I found out about this is because one of Dtoid's most prominent and well liked writers, was fired today without warning with no chance for a goodbye article (which has been typical for the site) with the only explanation being that he always gave 110% when it came to the site, rather then minimum effort work.

After seeing that kids were handing in book reports for school made in ChatGPT, it was only a matter of time before some executive somewhere saw this a way to cut their labor costs. The WGA (Writers Guild of America) is proactively on strike right now to ban the use of AI for writing source material in TV shows and Movies, as they see AI being a threat in the near future.
It doesn't surprise me gaming journalism would be the first to take a bite. I just hate to see once prominent sites get turned into AI generated SEO garbage.

 
Sources
https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor
https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/
 

Protip: Don't play games on max settings. I know it's a wild concept, but the max settings are usually terrible anyway. You get like 5% better image quality at the cost of like 20% performance. And this might just be me, but I typically don't really care about the graphics anyway when I play games. Of course the graphics matter, but I generally don't enjoy a game more because there are 10 rocks per square inch on a pavement vs 7 rocks per square inch.
 
System requirements are also, as far as my experience go, usually pretty inaccurate. 

I just can't stand how people argue over 0.5mm of phone thickness or 300grams of laptop weight when defending their glued in pieces of shit.  Like we get it, your an IT nerd that will likely develop a hernia looking at a P4000, but that doesn't mean we should be dozing hundreds of what can be perfectly serviceable devices into landfill because company X can't make enough money doing it any other way.

TV ads are absolutely terrible.
Twice in the past 5 years Ive tried to give television a second chance, and I could not stand it.
 
About a year ago I was up at like 4 AM, Bored, try to watch TV, some channel has a marathon of Star Trek TNG on. "Sounds fun".
The first Adbreak I just go "frig this", Cold boot my laptop, searched and found a site that shows Star Trek TNG, find the exact episode, fast forward to the exact place in the episode. - All before the adbreak even finished.

Similar story with 'Toonami', I remember as a kid after my parents went to bed sneaking downstairs, turning the TV down really low, and watching these 'Cool shows none of my friends have ever heard of!' (Ghost in the Shell, Detective Conan, Big O exc) 
... The lineup was all shows I had already watched years ago. Kinda a disappointment and even if I did want to watch then again I couldn't even make it past a single adbreak before going. "I could probably find and download a torrent of this show before it gets back if I really wanted to watch it again."  - I decided to play a game instead.

Finally. 

Releasing a new version and requiring payment for it is fine, blocking updates to said new version behind an annual subscription, and downgrading the software back to the original if you stop paying for the subscription, not so much.
This just looks like they're preparing to make it subscription only in the future.

Summary
Yes this is 2022, and yes Apple was still making iPods. But no more!
In a post on the Apple website newsroom, Apple announced that after 20 long years Apple is discontinuing the iPod line and that the latest model is now available "While supplies last".

My thoughts
I am kinda surprised it didn't happen sooner, specially with the chip shortage and the relatively low price of $199.
The iPod Touch used to be a good way for indie game developers to get an iOS device for cheap to test their games with. But even that use case started to wane as the iPhone started getting features that wouldn't be brought down to the iPod.
 
Sources
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/goodbye-ipod-apple-stops-making-last-model/

If you count non-phone device, I think the number increases dramatically, just because these tend to be devices that do not get updated frequently, so them moving to USB C has been slow. (Soooo many peripherals are still MicroB)
Medical devices are a big one as those take years for approval, supported for extended periods, and are updated infrequently. The insulin pump a family member of mine recently got is a fairly new model, and still uses MicroB for example. (I believe the optional glucose monitor display device also uses MicroB)

A lot of rechargeable flashlights Ive seen also still use MicroB - because they are models that come from Pre-USB C days. Then you have devices without batteries that just use USB for power rather then a barrel plug, those tend to still use MicroB. - The Raspberry Pi has C, but the Pi Zero is still micro B. Chargers for NiMh AA batteries when they aren't wall warts tend to be MicroB. - Happily MILBEP battery chargers tend to use C though!

I'd rather everything move to C, and do actively try to buy things that use C over MicroB, just cause I love that I can use my laptop charger and PinePower for everything.

I see a lot of people complain that this will stifle innovation and that we are now stuck with USB-C...
You do realize the law can be changed, right? If someone comes up with a better port then the law could easily be changed to "USB-C or <New Port>". 
 
Laws are not written on stone tablets anymore. They can be changed. 

I doubt the supply was going into desktop modules, so much that these were going into Single Board Computers and other low end devices and applications. Probably a lot of smart TVs are using DDR3. I’d imagine a lot of lower end DSLR and compact cameras also use DDR3. And SSDs have been using DDR3 for some time as well. 

Na to me that looks like they put a Dbrand skin on a Zune and an old Linksys Router.

Na to me that looks like they put a Dbrand skin on a Zune and an old Linksys Router.

Just FYI, AtariAge is basically where a lot of other console projects get discussed, and the most valuable ones were the Analogue NT Mini, SuperNT, Mega SG, etc. But in the same thread, people basically look at software emulators as inaccurate, and various things like Retron5, and similar are nothing more than RetroArch being slapped in a plastic box, and the only "hardware" in the unit is the cartridge and controller interface.
 
The problem is a lot of these non-FPGA consoles are simply RetroArch, or ripping off the emulators that you'd find in RetroArch. This is why you should view ANY non-FPGA console with a high amount of skepticism, since what you're buying is something that is less functional than just playing it on your own PC.
 
AtariAge has had several "clone console" and "new console" threads before and basically it comes back to "this is an over-promised product, that does nothing a software emulator (name of emulator here) can't already do", because the appeal of a clone console is allowing vintage hardware to actually be used. Simply acquiring the brand of a vintage console and then trying to sell it as related is dishonest about what it's for.
 
And just like on LTT, we usually get excited about things, and then all the cracks in the marketing make it obvious that some of these projects are just an overhyped solution in search of a problem.
 
Personally. I'm reminded of all these horrible 1000-in-1 consoles that make no secret of that they're just stealing retroarch.
 

Na to me that looks like they put a Dbrand skin on a Zune and an old Linksys Router.

Na to me that looks like they put a Dbrand skin on a Zune and an old Linksys Router.

Na to me that looks like they put a Dbrand skin on a Zune and an old Linksys Router.

Na to me that looks like they put a Dbrand skin on a Zune and an old Linksys Router.

wow, that looks stupid as fuck.

I expect to see "rare ISS thinkpad STILL WORKS NO RESERVE" on ebay in a decade

theyd probably send a slavage boat to the crash in the ocean.
i mean, the thinkpads will still work ofc, they never break

If this takes gains traction, they're basically supporting eWaste at a huge level. What happens if the motherboard dies? Or something else happens and you want to harvest components? Ridiculous. As much as I like Lenovo, I'd never support then again if they went down this route.