Sony is of course trying to maximize profit levels, that’s why I said this is probably just A/B testing. I did have another thought that could also make some sense so I shared that, because it wouldn’t surprise me if Sony used demographic information to offer different sales to further maximize profits. Still not seeing any evidence that this is Dynamic Pricing like the article stated.

This doesn’t feel like dynamic pricing to me. Dynamic pricing to me sounds like real-time algorithm based price adjustments.

This to me feels most like generic A/B testing where they’re trying to identify optimal sales prices for future titles by offering different deals to different people. It could also be the result of some kind of classification of accounts that results in some kind of stratified pricing, like is done for regional pricing, but using account statistics rather than geolocation.

Why should some people have a better deal for the same product is because some people have better buying power, and they’re used to subsidize lower prices for those who don’t, so more people can experience it. It kind of follows the same reason for the existence of marginal tax brackets.

For whatever this is worth, Turtles made me nostalgic for Double Dragon, while Cosmic Encounter made me nostalgic for the X-Men Arcade game. Both fine, just hit different.

CEO of Mistral AI says warnings about extreme risks of artificial intelligence [presented by other AI companies] are often ‘distraction tactics’

I think makes more sense.

Epstein Visualizer at least was a thing at some point, not sure what’s up with it now, but it was a searchable graph database.

It’s a first person survival crafter with very strange science vibes.

Imagine you were a scientist on your first day at Black Mesa when Gordon caused the Lambda Incident (this is a Half-Life reference for those uninitiated) and in a kind of Subnautica style need to scrounge the environment for resources to research and crafted supplies and equipment to use to survive and explore further while encountering invaders as well as what are essentially SCPs or Objects of Power (Control/Alan Wake) throughout the facility and other environment all in the hopes of trying to escape with your life.

April had a content patch, 12 new subclasses and it enabled crossplay I believe.

I just want to see some more exceptionalism from Flute Guy.

This guy was working for them and did all this before the standards got lowered and the expectations for intimidation and violence were increased, so I’m not sure I can even imagine the sheer horrors currently happening that we only might find out in a few years.

The point of games is to have fun, “cheats” are essentially just difficulty options.

Does the length of the bill matter?

Maybe the elected representatives should read an entire bill before they vote on passing it…