Letting Go

In Act V, Scene III of King Lear, Shakespeare writes: “He Dies”; the simplest words with the humblest presentation ends the life of the central protagonist who spanned a great many events beforehand. Lear doesn’t continue on in a Pomp and Circumstance parade of words detailing a central wisdom of events during an elongated death, he doesn’t generate a huge commotion, nor is there dramatic closure exposing hidden meaning. The entire play culminates at the death of King Lear. The death of Lear has monumental impact to the entire play. It saddens both the late King’s fictional companions and audiences alike, but they live on to experience a different story altogether.

Let us turn now to the wonderment of not how, but why these franchises need to simply die off:

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Keebmon’s “keyboard PC” promises RTX eGPU gaming - backers want proof

Darryl Linington from Notebookheck writes: "Keebmon is a crowdfunded foldable workstation concept that combines a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 PC, a 13-inch ultrawide touchscreen, and a low-profile mechanical keyboard in a single aluminum device."

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Blizzard Sends Legal Notice to bbno$ Over Diablo-Themed Website

bbno$ has temporarily shut down his website after receiving a legal notice from Blizzard Entertainment related to Diablo-themed content.

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Mulletino14d ago

More and more it seems like these gaming companies are at war with their fans.

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Video Game Stocks Plunge on Fears Google's Genie 3 Will Replace Game Engines

When Google unveiled Genie 3, an AI that generates explorable 3D worlds from simple text prompts, investors responded by dumping video game stocks en masse—wiping out billions in market value in mere hours. But in their rush to flee, Wall Street confused "playable environments" with actual video games, ignoring the technology's hard limits while threatening the human creativity that makes games worth playing. As the industry faces a future of automated mediocrity driven by shareholder demands, the panic reveals a deeper truth: investors aren't betting on better games, just cheaper ones.

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peppeaccardo31d ago

same level of fear that gen ai will replace art ... it is a tool that will help to prototipize open world games, but to completelly substitute game engines ... we are still a long way from it

z2g31d ago

Duplicate story. Or does Christopher just remove xbox stories that are similar?

Commentby31d ago

Humans have been developing things to simplify jobs since the beginning.
AI is going to remove the human factor from the job, but it can never replace all jobs that need a human factor.
I wish I could see the end of the story. What is the end, end goal, final piece, etc.
Is it a world run by machines, do humans live in a free world, does a dictator finally have an robot army, do humans finally free of working forever, does ChatGPT create an army to defeat Gemini., so many possibilities …