The suspense is killing me!

I just wish they hired a composer!

Programming is a use it or lose it skill. Eventually the programming skills of these LLM output reviewers will atrophy to the point where they are no longer qualified to review LLM output. Not to worry, I’m sure big-tech will have a shiny new LLM output review automation for rent soon.

I’m pretty sure they can afford it. But I’d be happy for the tag system to continue being meaningless if they would just hoist genre out into a separate system curated only by Valve.

Yes, they can afford to ensure the quality of their systems.

The tag system has been so badly abused that you can’t do this without collateral damage though. It’s not fit for purpose. I have mixed feelings about Valve curating games… but I think they should absolutely curate the tags.

I think you are assuming that the vendor must be the one doing the lock-in. Not all developers have the skills/budget to decouple from Steamworks. This is just a reality of software development. It’s not Valve’s fault and it’s not “nefarious”. The same problem applies to Tantrum Tim’s cloud services… doesn’t matter how loud he shouts “bbbut it’s free*”.

They aren’t wrong… vendor lock-in is bad. Not seeing any proposed solutions though, only shit slinging.

Remove them!

Seems to me that Steam is embracing it rather than working on it. None of their discovery tools will ever be effective as long as they are built on the hopelessly flawed tag system.

They’ll just put aircon in their bunkers.

Preaching to the choir… I’ve always been an album listener. Playlists (and the associated loudness war) are a crime!

And I can relate… I’ve only managed to find 2 of my 50 or so CD collection. I know most of them are long gone but I could’ve sworn I’d kept more than 2!

I bought a CD player and some CDs and it’s got me right back into treating music as an activity rather than background noise. No streaming service is ever going to get my money again!

I’m just about to finish season 2. I’m enjoying it enough to keep going but it does feel somewhat jarring coming into this from DS9. I definitely prefer 90s TV show style.

The next show on the list will be Babylon 5 though because I could use a Star Trek break!

Recently finished Deep Space 9. It took me almost a year to get to the end and it was awesome. Highly recommend. Now watching Strange New Worlds and it’s… okay. The seasons are too short for any interesting character development and the dialogue has a lot of streaming-era quipping which makes me stop listening.

Imagine trying to fill out a leave request on that!

It’s one of the big contradictions of Star Trek… they somehow achieved utopian society while running everything on fucking touch screens.

I spend enough time playing whack-a-mole on my various platforms now that I might as well call it a hobby.

I don’t want to see any Reddit communities. Anything worth emulating there died 10 or more years ago. I’d rather we came up with our own original communities with actual standards.

IMO the worst Reddit communities are the ones themed around other Reddit communities and posts. Best of XYZ, XYZ updates, XYZ drama, etc. They are designed to generate shit-tier rage commentary and they get reposted relentlessly. I miss the days when reposters would get attacked in the comments and mass downvoted.

I would like them to separate genre out of the tag system and curate the list of genres themselves, create strict guidelines for devs to select genres for their games, and let customers discover games via genre instead of tags. IMO the tag system is the worst thing they’ve ever added to the store.