Youtube creators are spending sometimes 1/3 of the time of production of a video on the thumbnail, with a dozen of variations in A/B testing. They have to optimize because the basic user decides in the first 5 seconds if they will continue watching. And Youtube punishes content creator if they notice that those users don't stay more than those few seconds.

I believe the vast majority of the creators (the "players") hate having to resort to those, but they just don't have a choice if they want it to be sustainable.

I feel like it's actually a sign of a good game. A masterpiece that relies on my imagination just hits different.

tl;dr Don't Hate The Player, Hate The Game

1. It takes quite some entitlement to expect people to use of their own brain time for something you couldn't be bothered with

2. Even though SOTA LLM don't hallucinate as much anymore, they still produce low quality content:

  - Georgia's letters are already tall, that's literally what it was designed for. Stretching it taller fixes nothing and the stretch trick is broken anyway: the text gets bigger but the space it's given doesn't, so it spills onto whatever's underneath

  - a bunch of those "easy wins" do nothing at all, and one of them makes the text thinner right after the post tells you to make it thicker.

  - it never mentions Georgia's weird numbers. They dip below the line and never line up in a column. That's a big issue

Not making fun of it, I just found it fascninating.

A lot of train sim are about building the rail network, where Running Train focuses on driving. The scenery (dozens of kilometers of japanese railway) is beautiful and it reproduces the japanese railway system realistically.

The way I see it is that they try to normalize and ease the use of practices established by the community.

Guinness didn't want to make it public because he was afraid competition would start using it, and then lose his company's advantage.

In the current context, the retention didn't happen because of Anthropic. On the contrary, the company wanted to offer Mythos/Fable.

I understand that project might have started way before the public statement but it really doesn't look good from a PR standpoint.