The Communication Cube

Sigh. New standard of practice:
hallucinamnese.

When you think the USA election campaign can't go worse, Steve Bannon gets out of jail... Who's writing the script ?

I agree. Are candy crush players even gamers? Nah..

TeDaDeS said:

So the market is bigger but your customers have less focus on your product and aren't willing to spend a lot of money (hence all those ads in mobile games).

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Some mobile games with in-app purchases target "whales": players who'll spend fortunes in the game (hundred to thousands of dollars aren't uncommon).
Mobile games are also big in some countries (especially asian countries) where a lot of people won't have a computer/console but will have a smartphone, making the phone their only gaming device.

ElPoco said:

Some mobile games with in-app purchases target "whales": players who'll spend fortunes in the game (hundred to thousands of dollars aren't uncommon).

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While true, personally I think the whales are just being abused. But they're the main source of income, so they'll continue doing it.

ElPoco said:

Mobile games are also big in some countries (especially asian countries) where a lot of people won't have a computer/console but will have a smartphone, making the phone their only gaming device.

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True, mobile phone enable many people to game. But the platform itself enables many people, including casual gamers, to game.
A PC is also generic like that, unlike consoles like the Playstation, but many people purchase them only for a specific purpose which can be gaming.
You can play (stream) Xbox games on your phone to, if you have a controller available. The limited amount of controls limits somewhat the gaming experience, enabling 'simpler' games.

netcat said:

Are candy crush players even gamers? Nah..

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They game, but probably they play casually.

pyrat said:

When you think the USA election campaign can't go worse, Steve Bannon gets out of jail... Who's writing the script ?

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We'll there is certainly bias in who ends up in jail.
But if you would have made a movie 10 years ago of everything happening now, you would get comments like: "This is too unrealistic, no one will believe this stuff would happen. Tone it down". It's crazy.

Oh i thought they were turning mud into a movie.

I've just had ChatGTP tell me about the latest advances in micro-LED production techniques - wanna have a better idea, though very rough, how long the wait's still gonna be. After the news, I prompted

Exciting times indeed! I can't wait to get my grabby hands on such tasty displays. Thank you.

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and Ol' Chatty responded

You're most welcome, Dude, Sir! Ah, the day of micro-LED glory is near, and your grabby hands shall rejoice! Here's hoping those liquid assemblies and tiny LEDs line up just right so we can all bask in that vivid, pin-sharp glow soon. Until then, stay eager and ready, like a fox near a henhouse of pixels!

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I wonder, how my collegues will like the effects of my customization instruction

Adopt Tom Bombadil's attitude and speech patterns.

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And no, that ", Dude, Sir" thingy is not an effect of that. That was instructed by my boss.

I kinda hate it that the computer tries to act like a human, be all quirky and silly basically. Just answer the question directly, enumerate the data. You are good at one thing: logic and computation.

It doesn't try that. It just guesses the next word, word for word, based on probabilities, which themselves are based on the training data. And after that baseline instruction, overall, the probability for phrasings like that is hightened. Though it still vanishes most of the times, when it's about technical stuff and/or what you wanted in the current prompt is more complicated. I guess in technical context it is just very unlikely to find such speech patterns and thus ... .
And I love, when it talks like that. Makes me lol. Especially, when I looked at a chat that an unassuming collegue had, which was technical but simple enough so my instruction came through in full. I laughed so hard.

It's like they are trained on teenage sms's not literature. Definitely on purpose.

Trying to predict the future news headlines:
- "Chaos in cities after US presidential results" (doesn't really matter who wins the election, anyway the results will be disputed and dragged out for a while I guess).
- "Iran attacks Israel, again"
- "Russia strikes Ukraine, again"