Gaming news too small for its own thread

[importaku]

Something i didn't expect to see, mario kart live home circuit just got a free update to add a new cup and some race modes.

https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/1461273022858473474?s=20

[wakka]

Not announced the game yet but my studio is working with Ikumi Nakamura on our new game.

https://twitter.com/nakamura193/stat...40422009753603

That's so cool

I love that you sent her Hula Hoops lol. Our finest export.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Pragmata has been delayed until 2023...whatever the hell this game is...

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-23-epic-games-acquires-rock-band-developer-harmonix

Epic Games buys Harmonix so they can make music etc for... Fortnite

[teddymeow]

If it keeps the lights on for a studio that I love, fine, I guess.

[nonny]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...loper-harmonix
Epic Games buys Harmonix so they can make music etc for... Fortnite

So sad. I still love Rock Band...

[briareos_kerensky]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...loper-harmonix
Epic Games buys Harmonix so they can make music etc for... Fortnite

As long as Epic don't become the next EA/Activision when it comes to studio acquisition and closure.

[Yakumo]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...loper-harmonix
Epic Games buys Harmonix so they can make music etc for... Fortnite

Well, that's a ****ter. Do Fortnite players even know real music?

[Asura]

I thought they were owned by EA.

[teddymeow]

I thought they were owned by EA.

Nah, they had a publishing agreement years back. They were owned by MTV Network (part of Viacom) for a bit.

[briareos_kerensky]

Awesome shooter Crimzon Clover will launch on Steam on December 6th.

[kryss]

Well, that's a ****ter. Do Fortnite players even know real music?

I imagine we'll see some of it in Rocket League too.

[fishbowlhead]

Seems the US is looking to introduce an anti bot law to stop bots buying up everything online, not sure how they will enforce that.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Seems the US is looking to introduce an anti bot law to stop bots buying up everything online, not sure how they will enforce that.

Anything they implement will last about 3 days before the bots are rewritten to circumvent the new rules.

[Asura]

Seems the US is looking to introduce an anti bot law to stop bots buying up everything online, not sure how they will enforce that.

One wonders if they're going to disable algorithmic stock market trading too, with that effectively being the same thing.

->Open Spoiler<-

They won't.

Illegalising it does at least mean that when egregious cases are found, they can be prosecuted, I guess.

However common discussion on bots is predicated on the public's false impression of what bots are and what they look like, especially on social media. Twitter has many thousands of sockpuppet bot-driven accounts. People think they can spot them because some of them are obvious; like they have profiles which blatantly give away that they're false at even a cursory examination. But that's a smokescreen for the countless bots/sockpuppets that, for all intents and purposes, you'd think were real.

I had an experience a few years ago where I got to "see behind the curtain" on this. There was a trend a while back where you could "buy followers" on Twitter; like you'd pay a service and over the next few weeks, you'd pick up followers every day. Obviously all of these were fake. I found out about it when a friend did it to me for a prank, and I noticed I started getting 50 new followers every day; by day-3 it was obvious something was up, but the point was that the accounts were totally "clean"; they all looked like genuine people, proper usernames, good pictures, interesting bios. They had hobbies, interests, political opinions. They supported sports teams, had favourite videogames, posted random stuff about their "day".

This experience totally changed my perspective when you see an argument in a divisive political hashtag on Twitter (for instance, in 2021, vax/antivax). I rarely engage anymore because I honestly wonder how many of those tweets are instigated by trollfarms in eastern Europe in the pay of political parties.