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@hwertz A lot of companies won't grant perpetual licenses. They know the value of their brands and time limit any licenses they do grant knowing that come renegotiation time, they can make another tidy profit for pretty much no effort on their part.

"It's a bit like a professional basketball player turning around to a wheelchair basketball player and saying "What's the point if you don't use your legs?"

It's absolutely nothing like this "example". You could take the time to learn to code properly. Someone in a wheelchair can not learn to play basketball like an able bodied person can.

That you think it's even vaguely similar shows just how insane you AI stans are.

Awww, I've upset the AI stans... Boo hoo.

And calling being anti Gen AI "ableist". Really? It absolutely isn't.

Being unable to code in say, C+, or Python, or Java etc is nothing like having an actual disability and having that prevent you from doing something. Frankly, it's offensive to suggest rota even vaguely similar.

Of course the AI stans are upset. It's such a vital part of their identity that anyone who attacks GenAI or disparages it in any way is seen as attacking them personally.

Well, guess what? There are still more of us who don't want GEN AI in our retro stuff than do.

The challenge of doing something yourself should be as important as the end goal. If you use AI, then you are only concerned with the end goal and are not willing to learn and grow.

@Ruka yes, that's the point I was making. People who were otherwise top level students just couldn't do language. Their intelligence played no part in it.

And you are wrong, not everyone is wired to learn multiple languages, just like not everyone is wired to do maths, or science, or engineering. People have different aptitides for different things.

Still a hard "nope" from me.

Learning a language is definitely something that requires a certain mindset. I did French & German at GCSE. I had an aptitude for languages. Equally so, some of my friends who were otherwise highly intelligent just couldn't get to grips with a 2nd (or 3rd) language. Our brains were just wired differently.

@Tankov It's when he says this:

"In regard to GenAI not a term I've used or heard others use. I use AI at work everyday and we just refer to them as LLM's or by the name of the product."

That's when you know he's full of excrement. If you use Claude, etc all the time, and are even loosely online, you can and will have seen/heard them referred to as Gen AI. He's trying to cover for the fact he's been found out and vilified for his laziness.

So RetchE is going to burn all their own standing in the fan translation community to stop an idiot who used AI as a shortcut from being rightly vilified?

Some people are just morons.

Looks like another AI "assisted" (and I'm being generous there) translation....

If the revenues generated by Doom The Dark ages were not what MS wanted, then I'd say their expectations were too high. It was a well reviewed, and sold reasonably well (c. 800k copies).

Sticking it on Game Pass day 1 probably took a big chunk of potential PC & Xbox purchasers out of the equation, given they reported 3m players. MS still don't seem to have grasped that putting major "AAA" titles on GP day 1 will hurt the revenue delivered by that game on one, if not 2 formats (Xbox & PC).

"fund R&D"...

This is an off the peg phone with some customisations. Plenty of companies in Shenzhen will do that if you order enough units.

Because there is no way that this phone (given it's proposed Oct/Nov delivery date) has been designed, sampled, tested, and secured the relevant FCC/UKCA/etc regulatory certificates in 18 or so months. Even the big boys like Samsung (with their huge R&D budgets) need longer than that to get a handset from idea to customers.

@slider1983 Its a grift. Always has been. "Peri" is using the Commodore brand, and whatever goodwill it has left to line his own pockets and polish his own ego (allegedly of course).

The blatant use of GenAI and all the ills that accompany it are indicative of how he views his "customers": They are mushrooms (ie kept in the dark and fed excrement)

1: I'm glad you are using his proper name, not "Peri Fractic" (So unprofessional when he uses that in official Commodore stuff)

2: Good luck to him untangling the Amiga rights.

@Guru_Larry I believe they want people to use the curated "CommoStore" to buy and download approved apps.

If this had been announced on 1st April, Commodore would be getting praise for a bloody good April Fools prank.

But, it wasn't. And it isn't. I certainly won't be buying one. And anyone who does... well, I would worry about them, frankly.

@Guru_Larry most of these manufacturers will heavily customise the phones (including the OS) if you are ordering in bulk.

This Commodore phone is a generic device with a custom OS. Easy enough for these company's to do.

@Guru_Larry I don't have the exact link, but it seems to be something like this one with some customisations:

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EJOBSwW

@Damo fair enough.

I'll be shocked if it isn't a generic, cheap Chinese made handset though.

It's already been identified in AliExpress. The basic version of this £500 phone can be bought for £25....

So much for their promise to not just slap the Commodore brand on cheap tat from China....

Good.

If you use AI to "code" you aren't a "coder" or a "software engineer". To be one of those you need to be able to actually code and understand the code you create.

@Sketcz You got what you wanted John. The comment is gone. So let's be adults and draw the line here.

You won't agree with me, I won't agree with you. That's that. No more threats.

You know what? It's not worth it. Clearly some people can not accept that they are behaving in a manner that others find objectionable. And their recourse is threats.

It's truly sad and pathetic.

@leogames free speech for me, but not for thee.... Quite a common approach from those who push the "cancel culture" narrative.

@leogames he's suffered "cancel culture" so much he still has a platform providing content for websites like this one. Soooo cancelled....

@AllieKitsune Well, someone thinks they do. Whilst also judging others for their views ("Sanctimonious virtue signallers).

But I expect that from people like him. Thin skinned and self centered.

I would suggest that some people are "irritated" because they are uncomfortable with their lack of basic empathy for those who suffer at the hands of SNKs owners being so publicly shamed.

It's easy to say "I don't care about XYZ" until someone else points out the bad things you "don't care" about. Then it gets awkward. It makes you look... cruel.

But hey, shouldn't lecture people about their choices, right? I mean, what has that ever achieved? It's not as if pointing out facts can change people's opinions is it?

@Sketcz If I was to stop reading this site, it would be because of the pathetic, childish rant that the site editorial team decided to delete that you left earlier calling those of us who disagreed with you "sanctimonious virtue signallers".

You don't get to "play nice" now. We see your moral emptiness, and your "me, me, me" attitude. You don't care about who is behind what you buy, or what abhorrent things they do. As long as you get yours, right? That's all that matters, yeah?

There are bigger, and more important things in the world that any one persons "personal joy". But I don't think you quite understand that, do you?

"Don't bring politics into gaming! Gaming isn't political!"

Erm, yes it is when countries like Saudi Arabia (who have a terrible human rights record) start to buy into the gaming space. Ever hear of a thing called "soft power"? It's how countries buy influence, often through seemingly innocuous ways, like SA buying games companies, or China building vital infrastructure in impoverished African nations.

Politics affects every single aspect of our day to day lives. Anyone who says they "don't do politics" is a liar. The tax you pay? Politics. The countries you buy stuff from? Politics. The media you consume? Politics.

Not everyone likes to feign ignorance and allow themselves to make choices without considering the moral implications of them. Some of us are actively engaged.

Oh, and to those looking for a "politics free" gaming site.... good luck. Most of the one that claim that are almost always made by and for those who think "Gamergate" was a fuss over nothing... and that is most definitely a political position.