• tiny_mouse@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    To be fair, it probably won’t suck any more than EA games have for the past… er… ten years?

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    4 months ago

    Just so people know, you can ignore games by publisher in steam by searching their name in the store, clicking their page, then click the gear icon to ignore. EA who? Ubiwhat?

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      4 months ago

      I’ve had EA on ignore for years (whenever they demanded we switch to Origin) and they still showed up on my front page during the last sale !

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    4 months ago

    This is actually kind of interesting. This gamble is very likely to fail, EA could finally die, and its valuable IP sold off to companies that would actually make better use of them.

    The only wrinkle in this is that Trump’s son in law owns EA now, so if it does end up failing, they’ll probably find a way to get US tax payers to bail them out.

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      4 months ago

      valuable IP sold off to companies that would actually make better use of them

      More likely snatched up by VC to put them on (fuck) ICE or passed around to other AI companies until they’re really good and dead.

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    4 months ago

    For those that don’t know, Stability AI is already a zombie, even in the local ML community. SD3 was a flop, they shed all their devs/projects worth anything, and now with Qwen/Longcat SAI is beyond obsolete.

    Apparently EA didn’t get the message. They invested in a broken, burning company who’s only decent results are free and old?

    …Sounds about right.

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      FLUX.1 and WAN were already miles beyond Stable Diffusion a year ago. While America has been pushing capitalistic goals with LLMs, China has been releasing banger model after banger model, all as open-source.

      Downside is it’s China and comes with their own biases, both with image generation and politics within its text models. Fortunately, some of that can be re-trained back to normal, but the technology is moving so fast.

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    4 months ago

    Booooo EA Suuuuuuuuucks, it’s always sucked, it’s always gonna suck. As far as my purchasing power goes, this changes nothing. Rot in hell EA