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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is it $30/month on top of Xbox gold or does the game pass include it?

[–] redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's included, but good lord if that's not a very high price for temporary access to a collection of bargain bin games. You could buy a full price game every other month for that money.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

or 3-6 indies on sale - hell if you save up that money you can go nuts every steam/gog same, 360$ should get you around 1k$ games retail price upwards if you are a patient gamer

Edit: and you can KEEP that, not temporary

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On top of that, I have personally developed some gaming habits that I don't care for at all as a direct result of gamepass.

[–] Clanket@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What type of habits?

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The theoretically vast availability has made me quick to abandon games that didn't deserve it. I'm having a lot of difficulty committing to even some objectively good games. I don't enjoy the bouncing around and yet I keep doing it. It feels related to FOMO.

[–] redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Subscriptions are thieves of intentionality

[–] tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Gold doesn’t exist anymore. Now it’s game pass core or something…the rate went up with that forced “migration”. You do get access to a few “free” games with core, but you gotta pay way more to have the full deal. I think core (which is the cheapest, baseline option) is $70/yr now? (Edit- i just checked my statement, it’s $78.50)