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On the post: Deep Breath: Okay, Let’s Talk About That Controversial DLSS 5 Demo

PeterScott ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2026 @ 03:15pm

Surprised you are discussing this here, but I agree.

The reaction seems more about people's rage against AI in general than any kind of reasonable examination. I appreciated the reasoned take here. The AI mania driving tech in general, is kind of disgusting right now. But some local game graphics effects feature is NOT really part of the problem. It's a triviality not worth raging over. The Problem with AI is in the large centralized models, running on corporate servers, hoovering up all the data on the net and spewing hallucinations. It's also driving HW prices through the roof for PC enthusiast. Ultimately this is closer to something like DLSS frame generation. People that like it will turn it on, people that don't won't. That's it. Not worth the crazy rage we see against it. That rage should be aimed ChatGPT, Claude, Grok. Big Centralized AI is the real problem, not a local graphics effect.

On the post: If Your Antitrust Case Depends On Pretending TikTok Doesn’t Exist, It’s Going To Fail

PeterScott ( profile ), 24 Nov, 2025 @ 05:42pm

An Ounce of Prevention...

It's much harder to put the tooth paste back in the tube. Why let Meta buy Instagram, and WhatApp to solidify monopolies? Force them to compete instead of allowing them to buy out competitors. It's much easier to deny acquisitions, than to establish legal grounds to break them apart later.

On the post: Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’

PeterScott ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2025 @ 11:41am

Of course Trump believes it, because it's how he runs the country. Bribes and kickbacks are the norm in the USA now.

On the post: NCTC Discovers That Online Gaming Platforms Have Chats, Image Sharing

PeterScott ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2025 @ 06:38am

They will pay Peter Thiel to have Palantir do it.

Automated AI monitoring of every citizen all the time, everywhere. It's not dystopian at all.

On the post: FCC To Install A ‘Bias Monitor’ At New CBS To Ensure Network Kisses Trump’s Ass

PeterScott ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2025 @ 06:19am

At Minimum Boycott Skydance, Paramount, CBS

The very minimum everyone who isn't on the side of this authoritarian regime, should boycott all things Skydance, Paramount and CBS, as they are now fully willing propagandist for the regime.

On the post: Verizon Wants Trump To Kill Phone Unlocking. Consumer Groups Say That Will Drag U.S. Wireless Back To The Stone Age

PeterScott ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2025 @ 07:03am

Dragging us back to the stone age seems to be the point.

I wouldn't be surprised, going back to the stone age seems to be point. Combine that with a complete corrupt, openly bribable government, and this seems like Verizon will easily get their way with a properly applied bribe.

On the post: Judge Dismisses Case Against NYC Mayor Eric Adams But Makes Sure Trump’s DOJ Will Have To Live With It

PeterScott ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2025 @ 04:05pm

Horrendous watching the march to despotism.

Another day, and more examples of open corruption. As the rule of law goes out the window, society will trend toward chaos. You can respect the rule of law, when it no longer exists.

On the post: Trevor Milton Lists All Of The Cozy Relationships With Trump That Definitely Didn’t Lead To His Pardon

PeterScott ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2025 @ 08:16pm

So much corruption.

I thought Milton was a con man from the early days of Nikola as his house of cards never made any economic sense. I don't why people were taken in by his ever shifting stories, but despite him planning to not pay back the investors he duped. It seems like they should have grounds for a civil lawsuit to recoup some of their losses from him directly.

On the post: Ctrl-Alt-Speech: World Wide Wedge Issue

PeterScott ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2025 @ 04:01pm

That ESPN story.

So much wrong with that. The obvious one is amplifying false rumors that sends a teen girl into hiding. But there is also the hideous misogyny in the USA, that even if this were true, why are people persecuting the child, and not the middle aged man that supposedly slept with her?? USA has one seriously sick culture right now.

On the post: Meta Pays Trump $25M Protection Money After Mar-a-Lago ‘Offer’

PeterScott ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2025 @ 10:17am

Extortionists don't stop.

Anyone paying Extortion money to Trump is just going to keep paying. The level of corruption and destruction of democracy just sickens me. Trump is removing protection details his political opponents. Clearing a path for one of his extremist followers to assassinate them. It's questionable if Democracy will still exist 4 years from now. Will we have elections at all? Will Trump run again in a totally rigged election, or install one of his kids. It's dark times.

On the post: We Looked At All The Recent Evidence On Mobile Phone Bans In Schools – This Is What We Found

PeterScott ( profile ), 10 May, 2024 @ 02:39pm

Windows

That would leave them working where they are most disruptive. In classrooms, as they tend to have lots of windows.

On the post: Ubisoft Says It Out Loud: We Want People To Get Used To Not Owning What They’ve Bought

PeterScott ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2024 @ 04:29am

I can't see them winning.

The problem Ubisoft will have, even if we do shift to a "streaming" like model, will be like exactly like mentioned in the article. Why would I pay much more for a Ubisoft library, when I can get a much larger, varied library from Microsoft for less money?? Even if there were a Ubisoft "must play" title. I would just get Ubisoft for a month, and play that game until finished, then cancel. Though I'm very unlikely to subscribe even for a month. I'm old enough that I'm over gaming FOMO. I'm GoG only for games. I'm confident the games I buy will keep working. GoG doesn't have everything. But they have good games in every genre. If there is a hot new RPG I can't get, I'll just replay one of the ten great RPGs I already OWN...

On the post: Warner Bros Discovery Eyes Paramount Merger, Because Its Last Two Disastrous Mergers Apparently Weren’t Disastrous Enough

PeterScott ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2023 @ 08:34am

executives at Warner Bros Discovery appear to have learned absolutely nothing

Actually they learned they get rewarded for doing this, so of course they will do it again.

On the post: Would You Trust All Of Your Financial Services & Money To Elon Musk?

PeterScott ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 09:51am

Headline LOL. Nope!

I wouldn't trust Musk with my internet cookies. Twitter is just run on the whims of the Mad King, and I wouldn't trust the Mad King with anything. He's just throwing everything at the wall looking for something that sticks.

On the post: Witcher Producer: Show’s Shit Viewership Is Because Of Dumb Americans And Social Media

PeterScott ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 04:35am

Huge Witcher Fan: They made a mess of the source material.

I read the books, played the games. The games did a MUCH better job of telling the story. Henry Cavill was a also a big Witcher fan who read the books and lobbied for the part because he was such a fan. He knew the source material better than the shows "writers". Just about everyone assumes he left because they made such a mess of the books he loved. I'm in that camp. I really can't think of any other reason he would leave a show where he cared deeply about the source material and lobbied hard to get the job.

On the post: Something Stupid This Way Comes: Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Threads, Because Meta Hired Some Of The People Elon Fired

PeterScott ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2023 @ 04:00pm

No Ex-Twitter employees working on Threads...

Someone at Meta responded with "no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee—that's just not a thing." It wasn't an official response, but it's not like the pointless letter full of empty bluster needs an official response, unless it's a Poop Emoji...

On the post: Metadud: Just 4% Of U.S. Teens Use VR Daily, 7% Plan To Buy A Headset Anytime Soon

PeterScott ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2023 @ 05:58am

4% daily us is much higher than I would have expected.

Really VR seem like a novelty with so many downsides that would win over time and see it gathering dust after a while. So I'm surprised daily use is that high.

On the post: Gamers Celebrate Their ‘Loss’ In Court Over Blocking Microsoft’s Activision/Blizzard Acquisition

PeterScott ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2023 @ 07:24am

Isn't the Why obvious?

I, too, don’t understand why Microsoft sees it as economically advantageous to limit the platforms on which the titles produced by a studio it now owns can be sold.

Isn't it an obvious attempt to attract more people to the Xbox platform and more specifically away from Playstation. This is a long game, they have been playing for over two decades, most of the first years of Xbox they had multi-Billions in losses. It's clear they are willing to lose billions in the short term to win the platform war against Sony.

On the post: It’s Not The Decision, But The Process: Musk & The Trump Decision

PeterScott ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2022 @ 09:51am

Polling is just an excuse for his decisions.

Musk knows his audience, so did a poll with known outcome. Musk behaves much like teenage edgelord with twitter, surrounding himself with rightwing yes men cronies, as you can see in tweets where he interacts. It's hard to imagine how this doesn't essentially end up with the same tone as "Truth" Social and Parler.

On the post: EUIPO Study Indicates It's Likely That Piracy Traffic Has Decreased Significantly, Even During The Pandemic

PeterScott ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2021 @ 05:22pm

Makes sense that it's falling faster for music, and slower for T

Generally, you only need one Music streaming service, and you get all the music you need. So music streaming has really been the service that can be better than Piracy to significantly curtail it.

TV OTOH is becoming an increasingly fragmented streaming landscape, with exclusives at Disney, Apple TV, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, etc...

So consumers feel a bit annoyed with the need to subscribe to 7 different streaming TV sources, to watch all the shows they want to see, so no surprise that more are resorting to TV piracy.

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