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  • The assumption is that they believe a not-insignificant portion of their customers are fascist or fascist-adjacent.

    If everyone upset about this boycotted and tanked their bottom line, they’d probably shift gears in a heartbeat.

    But I suspect that the number of fascist/fascist-adjacent customers is high enough that they need both groups’ money to survive.






  • “It’s almost certain” that AI will reach that level eventually, one researcher told Nature.

    Semafor doing so much work trying the launder this into a story. “One scientist” in the original article, to multiple scientists in their headline.

    This is the first of three waves of AI in science, says Sam Rodriques, chief executive of FutureHouse — a research lab in San Francisco, California, that debuted an LLM designed to do chemistry tasks earlier this year.

    And the one “scientist” seems to have switched tracks from doing actual research to doing capitalism.






  • The Yale researchers’ nothingburger result has precedent. In 2023, a study by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded that generative AI would probably not replace most workers.

    A study of Danish workers published in April determined that generative AI had no material impact on wages or jobs. Another such study published in February found “overall employment effects are modest, as reduced demand in exposed occupations is offset by productivity-driven increases in labor demand at AI-adopting firms.”

    There is some contradictory data.

    No shit.









  • A remake should always try to stay as close as possible to the original for its initial presentation. The intention of a remake is to become the current market replacement of an old product, for various reasons.

    Reading your comment, it seems like you’re locked onto the idea that all remasters are lazy, low quality cash grabs and that remakes should actually just be high quality remasters.

    Remasters don't change the content of the game. Remakes do. And there's a spectrum of quality for both.

    Life is Strange had a bad remaster. They updated the graphics, but there’s original aesthetic looked better than the uncanny “upgrade”. Skyrim - Special Edition had a better visual upgrade and fixed bugs.

    Twin Snakes was a bad remake of Metal Gear Solid. They added unnecessary cutscenes and tried to bork in mechanics from MGS2 just because it was newer. RE4 was a good one.

    It sounds like you wanted a high quality remaster of Silent Hill 2, and instead they gave you a remake and never released a digital version of the original. So now everyone’s playing the remake and calling it Silent Hill 2, instead of properly differentiating it as Silent Hill 2 Remake/Silent Hill 2 (2025).

    And I agree that the situation is ass for navigating online conversations.

    But a remake should not “stay as close as possible to the original”. That’s what remasters are for.

    The only thing they should do is be good.

    (And also release the originals DRM-free on GOG.)