Well maybe tech should stop taking over perfectly good words grumble grumble.

Well half joking; there are much worse culprits than Godot (looking at you Apple) and something like "Still Waiting For Godot" may have made the reference easier to get.

Came here to say something like that. Made me raise my eyebrow on why Ed might be talking about the best game engine.

"In popular culture" section coming in clutch per usual:

The two Argentine developers, Jaun Linietsky & Ariel Manzur, were repeatedly tasked with updating the engine from a period of time from 2001 to 2014, and chose the name "Godot" due to its relation to the play, as it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but would never actually be completed.

Ed is presuming a high school education from his readers, where kids get hammered with the play whether or not they have any idea what it is

out in the world, ~nobody has heard of the game engine

Or a secret, third option:

(Obligatory, “oh thank God it’s not the game engine”)

that was my exact reaction when the thread popped up — it took me a couple seconds to realize the article was authored by Ed and not some asshole in the gaming-to-fascism pipeline still upset because the Godot engine rightfully bans assholes from their collaborative spaces

I wonder if there’s any analysis to link NFTs and blockchain boosters back to the AI pushers as well?

literally the same VCs

compute power to some extent, or repurposing wired-up crypto mining data centres

Shall we brainstorm other ways that running GPUs at 99% capacity at all times can be used to bilk suckers out of their money?

I expect there will be a big push to figure out how to use GPU as generic compute resources, regardless of the drawbacks or inefficiencies. No way these corps are just going to let hundreds of thousands of high end GPU modules sit idle after how much damn money they spent.