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YouTube has started using AI to determine how old you are and feed you age-appropriate content, so prepare to be judged based on what you watch and when

YouTube warned us this was coming back in February. Now it’s actually rolling out a new AI feature to determine the age of viewers and then feed them age-appropriate content. According to an official YouTube blog post, this machine-learning approach to content filtering and user account classification has already been running in some unidentified markets…

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WoW’s questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn’t work out as planned, because the testers didn’t play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: ‘I ran out of quests right away!’

The idea that World of Warcraft was ever light on quests sounds like blasphemy at this point. Why would you ever make a game about killing seven wolves not because an NPC asked you to but just for the fun of it? But that’s how MMOs like Everquest worked back then, and it’s how the…

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Path of Exile 2 early access unlock times

Path of Exile 2 is the long-awaited follow-up to the free-to-play Diablo-like from Grinding Gear Games. Originally conceived as a new story campaign for the original Path of Exile, GGG’s habit of piling a sanity-straining amount of mechanics, systems, and nesting skill trees into their software turned the would-be expansion into a full sequel. After…

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