Seeing this consistently now regardless of how significant the search is or isn't. Google AI overviews have a habit of citing Redditors first with stuff like, "According to Redditors" or "As noted in discussions on Reddit". Pops up for both medical and legal searches.

Jeffrey Lerman@snakester95.bsky.social · 4d ago

Started noticing Google AI overviews for medical searches that rely on Redditor opinions before citing doctors. Nothing can go wrong there for sure.

Started noticing Google AI overviews for medical searches that rely on Redditor opinions before citing doctors. Nothing can go wrong there for sure.

Caught a cold that has me absolutely dying today. The worst part is I'm struggling to sleep it off

Started playing Battlefield 6 a bit again and holy fuck, I need the game to stop overriding my objective orders. I'm deliberately telling people to defend or capture a point and then it decides naa, go somewhere that makes no sense instead.

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

I'll never stop being bewildered by Google's quality dropping. I'm still working on my Echoes of Aincrad guides and came across what has to be a genAI website ranked at the top. It has a bunch of basic information that's outright wrong. 1/3

There's something to be said about Project Zomboid increasing in price and breaking a player record shortly after laying off someone.

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

Any time I see a negative response to Mamdani stuff like, "you get what you vote for" it's always about something that people absolutely voted for him to do and it's a good thing haha

Updating Roblox code pages and some of these games feel like Osu with the way I'm clicking out of popups.

Not that it's new, but I continue to be annoyed at searching popular Discord channels for information. I tried searching a question, found tons of people asking the same question, and everyone is ignoring them. If there's an answer somewhere, I'm not going to find it.

Tried looking up a Grandma's Boy reference recently and Google hit me with its chatbot garbage

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

Stop talking to me, Google search aftermath.site/google-search-...

Started noticing a lot lately on Google that the different filters are all missing except "All" and "AI Mode". So I frequently can't search by Images, News, etc. I'm sure it's a bug, but it makes you wonder.

Not that I should spend much energy on random comments, but it's always interesting how people will say a game had zero marketing because they didn't know about it. Meanwhile, it could be something that was heavily marketed everywhere haha

What if I told you that all of the Publishing Agreements I have reviewed in the last 6 months (several dozen) included a no gen AI provision, wherein the use of gen AI in development is a material breach, but companies like Epic and EA are still trying to convince us the industry is cool with it

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2w ago

He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

Haven't been on Battlefield 6 since November, but I may have stayed up too late on the new Tsuru Reef map haha. Fun to have a larger map, but I'll never get the level of teamwork across large maps that the early Battlefield games had. i miss commander mode

Recently picked up Space Rangers HD: A War Apart as I search for more games that scratch the Mount & Blade simulation itch. While it does some interesting stuff, I think the balancing is a little too rough. A modern day version of that really is just Starsector.

Space Rangers HD: A War Apart on Steam

Space adventure, open world RPG, strategy, arcade, quest and more!

store.steampowered.com

It's always been risky to google character names especially with the way the autofill will toss "death" in there, whether accurate or not. But my favorite nowadays is the unavoidable AI overview spoiling everything immediately.

Despite the shittiness of it all, I'm glad to see most gaming media outlets immediately mentioning the Microsoft layoffs when discussing the Bethesda announcements.

Echoes of Aincrad has many little annoying things, but man, why do they tell you to follow the roads and then have some that lead out of bounds? They're not even blocked off with rocks or destroyed bridges to prevent you from going there. It just teleports you backward. 1/2

Noticing a trend lately where people will say an article is clickbait if they don't like it, rather than it actually being clickbait. Wonder if it's a reading comprehension issue or perhaps an inability to describe their thoughts.

As the article mentions, this is pretty much nothing new. You'll see clones for both niche and popular games. The worst part of it is often the monetization and the fact that many people will only experience the worst version of the game they're playing a clone of. 1/2

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 3w ago

Meccha Chameleon's Steam success has fueled an entire grey market of knock-offs on Roblox. A lot of the people on the Roblox platfor... https://kotaku.com/more-people-are-playing-meccha-chameleon-knock-offs-than-the-original-hit-steam-game-as-the-roblox-clone-machine-goes-into-overdrive-2000715371

Didn't watch the rest of the UFC card tonight, but am hopeful McGregor gets wrecked.

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

adweek.com

one thing that’s dying out in the next generation or so is knowing roads. my parents will ask me shit like “how’d you get there? 178? 232?” buddy i went where the computer told me.

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 4w ago

Can’t lie, the fact that y’all were driving with PAPER maps is insane. Even worse, you had to ask random strangers for directions??

Told a gamergater to fuck off after wishing layoffs onto games media and r/Games removed my comment, while leaving theirs up. awesome

Michael Scott: Nope. Don't Like That.

Alt: Michael Scott: Nope. Don't Like That.

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Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4w ago

Asha Sharma assigned to Federal Reserve's "productivity and jobs" task force the same week she oversaw 1,600 layoffs (with another 1,600 to come) aftermath.site/xbox-asha-shar...

Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...

Welcome to Respec: A word from the Editors | Respec

Welcome to our new little corner of the internet. Why a new video game website, and why now? Allow us to explain...

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That's going to be rough with them still working on The Outer Worlds 2 DLC and Grounded 2 after going through layoffs. While still worrying about the next batch of layoffs as well. Hopefully this doesn't just lead to crunching under a shitty situation. Good luck to that team.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: Obsidian Entertainment is making a big pivot as part of the Xbox restructuring. It has laid off a quarter of its staff, canceled a planned sequel to Avowed, and is now beginning work on a new Fallout game, according to people familiar with the plans www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Since the Echoes of Aincrad embargo lifted, I can continue to not exist for the next couple of weeks as I fill out the IGN wiki! Working through the walkthrough for it, so it should take some time, but it's nowhere near as beefy as Crimson Desert was haha