I’d like to see how they measured success. Was it to break even? Well from what point? Including the time that it was supposed to be a live service game? Through the committees and executives shutting down ideas? It was in the top 10 for games on Steam that week and had generally favorable reviews. If that didn’t match their plan, that’s on them.

Is it false? Even if it is dumb, here we are 15 years later talking about it. Still, after hours we’re still going back and forth about it.

Can someone ELI5? He’s admitting it was never truly open? Or they were wrong for thinking open was good at all?

It’s kind of pick your poison honestly, and there won’t be any open alternatives any time soon because it requires banks also trusting the open solution. I think it’s a tradeoff, if you want security you’re gonna have the big guys watching. If you want discretion, it’s going to come with risk.

But yes, I definitely trust PayPal/Google/Samsung to not have a financial data breach more than Joe’s Crab Shack just type in your credit card to our totally secure system. Plus if any of those big guys have a breach it’ll be in the news for weeks, it’d be easy to replace the card.

I’m glad you shared that because if I go online people think I’m crazy for liking it. I thought the ending was good too, I liked that it wrapped up questions that I’ve had since origins in a way that felt honorable to the original game. The game and characters however were flat, but I’d vastly prefer knowing the ending to them never finishing the story

I brought up a story about a red square, of which you are, 15 years later, still trying to convince someone that it’s not art. Something that is still being debated on 15 years later is pretty interesting, especially for it being just a red square. The more we talk about it, the more it legitimizes it.

As a long time fan - it was fine. It was just… fine. People rage against it but gamers rage against everything. It’s not Inquisition. Inquisition is the best IMO personally. However, Veilguard was worth playing, I think it wrapped up the story fine, I thought the ending did do a fair job wrapping up all of those loose ends, I feel like it ended the story. However, it came out closer to Assassin’s Creed in terms of my personal fun level. If horrible is Anthem and Top level is RDR2, it came out at Assassin’s creed.

So yeah, pick it up on sale. I’d say it was a solid $40 game.

Half of those “AI Executives” are just part of hype companies wrapped up in the AI bubble. It’s the exact same as the crypto bubble, everyone started some company to get gullible VCs to dump money into them. Now it’s popping. Congrats. Now we’re going to lose the rest of the internet as we know it because they wanted to make it rich quick.

Yet here we are talking about it.

Even with NFC exploits tokenized is the way to go. Tokenized payments only send a unique token to the PoS. The PoS system then (and probably not the register itself but rather their systems) then take that single use token, combine it with their secrets that only they have, and pass it up to Google/Apple/whoever to actually initialize the transaction. Google Pay/Apple/Whoever then verify that they are the ones who issued the token, and that it is signed correctly with the secrets that are shared. So not only would someone have to snoop the NFC token that was transmitted, but also have hacked into the PoS system and retrieved the secrets, which is no small feat - and even then since the token is one time only they’ve only accessed that specific purchase. They still know nothing about you or your banking information. The token expires and can never be used again.

Tokenized pay via Google/Apple/Samsung/Whoever pay is the most secure form of adhoc payment at the moment. Tap is safer than swipe or chip, but since there’s no communication to get a one time token, it requires a slightly different approach. Tldr there, if you’re that worried about it, just add your card to your phone/watch.

Thank you, was about to rage

So EA put way too high of a sales target on the game, obviously held it back from becoming what it could be, and now are blaming the studio with layoffs, ensuring the next game will flop.

I don’t care what their “numbers” and “projections” were. The game was on the top 10 list in Steam. Even if it wasn’t an A+ game I’d say it looked like it at least hit Assassin’s Creed numbers, I’d hardly call that a failure. Sounds more like a failure to accurately predict, maybe they should fire their business analysts instead of the people who you know, make the games.

It’s a good feeling to be out, isn’t it?

This is a very nuanced question, because art isn’t always about skill.

I remember I was one of those guys who thought modern art was stupid. My family took me to MoMA and I remember I was looking at a painting of a red square. It was a large 2 foot by 2 foot red square. I remember saying “but anyone could do this” to my aunt. She replied:

But nobody else did.

Stopped in my tracks and it clicked. The fact that they had done it, and we were there talking about it and discussing it, that right there proved it was art.

So it’s not just quality. I’m sure AI could spot out 1000 red squares, and some would consider that low effort, but no one would ever discuss them.

Oh I got one. Hanging out around and/or knowing everything about “the old high school”. Gossip is fun, “did you hear our old principal got indicted” oh snap for what?!. But if you know the inner workings of the school (and you don’t have kids there) come on man, that’s just sad.

You’re right to be worried about this. I’ve worked in Fintech for a while, so I’ll break down my current views from worst to best

Worst - Using bank information, routing checking number. Avoid this at all costs. These numbers lead directly to your money, and amcan only be changed by opening a new account. Avoid giving these out.

Debit cards. There’s a thin layer separating you from your money, but debit cards are still pretty much a direct line to your money. I don’t think I’ve used mine in years, it sits collecting dust, only used when I need money from an ATM, which I jiggle the slot for first.

Credit cards. Now there’s a difference. You’re using their money instead of your money to pay for things, and so they will not just let someone drain your account. Fraud is taken more seriously. You must be responsible with them, but you have many more protections. Plus if it does leak, ask for a new one.

Payment with credit cards goes swipe, chip, then tap from least safe to most protected. Tap is near impossible to intercept where swipe is pretty much cleartext. Always tap if you can.

The finally we get to tokenization, e.g. google/apple/Samsung pay or paypal. Another layer where your details aren’t even passed from your device to the register, just a one time token that says “here’s where you can get your money”. This is currently the most secure way to pay for anything.

So I’m not directly answering your question because I would not trust an online digital credit card thing, but I’m trying to say that if you know what you’re doing, you can avoid a lot of risk. If you use tap to pay or better yet google pay, you’re as low of risk as you can get.

For online forms, use google pay when you can, or things like shop pay (all tokenization providers, and I trust them more than I do random shop owner), and I have a credit card with really high protections for anything I really don’t trust

Reported

Ow his free speech is hurting me! Authorities!

So sendgrid checking does 2.5M emails a month for $90/month, and if call them the Cadillac provider. More than that you have to contact sales, so I’m still wondering how it’s that expensive to them

Incentives to sign up for psn and be tracked. Pass.

I think we’re surprising close to the Futurama Napster episode