Thanks, I’ve only really seen the more common Touhou characters

Funny to think that meme is already 4 years old, eventually it’ll be older than the consoles it was referencing when it was made

Can’t say I know what show it’s from, I just saved the meme because I also find it relatable

The robot is the only one who won’t divorce him

I’m not saying there aren’t subtle ones that get through, I’m just saying that there’s nothing in the report distinguishing between the obvious shill and a well disguised advert. Granted, if an advert is disguised well enough, it’s hard to track in a study like this, but there are plenty that aren’t obvious until you start poking around posting history or metadata

The 2020 study published in Computers in Human Behavior analyzed the top 100 subreddits — the most influential communities on the entire platform. Their finding? 15% of these subreddits contained content likely posted by bots or corporate trolls specifically designed to promote companies or organizations.

“15% of all subreddits contained corporate bot content” is very different than “15% of all content”

This also doesn’t really give a whole picture. How much of this content actually trends? There’s always some corporate sludge at 0 points if you sort by New, which is how the site is supposed to work. And even some stuff that gets brute forced through is “Hey fellow kids” level obvious and gets trolled or removed by mods.

And while Reddit right now is a soulless husk, all of these things need to be studied on Lemmy as well. Right now there’s probably not much because we’re just not a big target, but as it grows it’s certain that corporate shills and propaganda farms will start to target us. Like I’m not opposed to the general idea of the research, but it really needs to be more specific and in-depth to be helpful

“When I founded it, there was no way for game developers to share their ideas; I created it to permit that idea-sharing that is so important. Nowadays, there are lots of ways for people to share. There are plenty of social forums for discussing just about every aspect of game design. We have interactive video for pulling people from all over the world together.”

While we certainly have a lot more options now, I’m not sure any of them compare to the technical depth and expertise you see in GDC talks. There’s far more actual experience and proven real world results compared to the average game dev forum or channel.

Though escalating costs (and the dangerous US situation) certainly means the current organizers should consider paring the conference down or perhaps moving it online. The point of it is to provide a platform for devs to share knowledge with each other, everything else can be cut out

Seems like a normal, sane and totally not-biased source

Sorry to say this, but this feels like AI with the way the dragon spines line up along the back and right behind the head

In the 1970s, Dr. Roy Sawyer discovered two adult specimens in a pond located in French Guiana. One of these leeches, dubbed Grandma Moses, founded a successful breeding colony at UC Berkeley. This specimen produced 750 offspring.

Oh god it’s like Jurassic Park but infinitely more horrifying

The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.

Risky projects are risky because there’s a potential financial loss to funding them. This is one of those times

Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.

If they put all the KS money towards the game unsure how it’s fraud. The fact that they couldn’t finish with the funding they got from KS is the risk that all KS projects come with

Again, it’s not a preorder site, there is no guarantee that someone who pledges on KS will receive anything. I’m just saying to adjust your expectations and pledgers should think about the risk when they’re putting down money

Those little dolls look so goofy, they’re amazing

Kickstarter is not a preorder site. The risk of Kickstarter is the same as investing in anything else, that whatever you’re funding goes belly-up and you lose what you invested

Need more places that sell this in the US

Yeah this screams “Let’s use AI for the sake of using AI”. If they wanted simpler summaries on complex topics they could just start an initiative to have them added by editors instead of using a wasteful, inaccurate hype machine

They want cultists though. Easier to exploit

Heh, almost missed that the initials are BFG

Amazing how all these billionaire apocalypse preppers think there’s gonna be a catastrophe and not only do nothing with their massive wealth to try and prevent it, but they’re actively making it worse

The only real source we have is the union, as TCGPlayer/eBay are not going to talk about it.

Their Bluesky account currently has the same info, but maybe more will come out