Nathan Grayson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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I mean, broadly speaking, with anything involving Saudi Arabia, you kind of hate to see it. In part because, like, you know, Saudi Arabia is a place accused of numerous human rights abuses.
And all of this, in conjunction with everything else that their wealth fund has been doing, a lot of sports initiatives and boxing, MMA, I think even other sports that I don't follow as closely, are all, you know, an attempt to rehabilitate its image while not necessarily changing much of how it actually operates and, you know, the values that it holds.
and so this is just another part of that like i mean they've been trying to get into games and esports for a minute they have the esports world cup which has not been very successful in terms of viewership but they've definitely put a lot of money into it um and so yeah i mean something as big as pokemon go like i don't think that you want to see that particular country be in charge of it um but you know money talks unfortunately especially like in our current hyper capitalistic setting like
And I was thinking about it last night, actually, like what the Saudi Arabian government has done is kind of, you know, to borrow the title of their development studio, savvy. Like it worked really well in boxing to the point where when they first started bankrolling all of these really big fights, like a lot of articles talked about it. They were like, you know, Saudi Arabia is doing this.
The reason why is clear. They're doing it in order to, again, kind of, you know,
distract or sports wash away from these human rights abuses and like we should be skeptical of this now years down the line it's just accepted everyone's like yep saudi arabia's doing it cool we can we get another big fight um amazing wonderful and like that's how it works they just keep doing it until it's normalized and then people just turn a blind eye like and i i imagine this will just be more of that
It's a fun little art project. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, speaking of the data stuff, just a couple headlines from the past handful of months. Pokemon Go players have unwittingly trained AI to navigate the world. And, let's see, Pokemon Go data adding amplitude to war is obviously an issue, Niantic executive says. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, that's not amazing. The AI just wants to know what the world looks like.
Yeah, no militaries or governments would ever use that data. That would be crazy.
You'd go to our last story, the We News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Hit the music.
I mean, so to be clear, are these like, are they bringing back cartridges of older games? Or are these, oh, also I wanted to stay at the We News desk for a moment, because I have something that ties in perfectly with that. Oh yeah, bring back the We News desk. Yeah, bring it back for just a second. Heck yeah. Because I have a very small copy.
Yeah, it even has a back cover and everything. It's crazy.
Yeah, so it's about Twitch, but it's viewed through the lens of nine...
nine creators on the platform, nine streamers, some of whom were bigger, some of whom were smaller as a way to sort of understand how Twitch as a platform impacts the people on it and how those people in turn are able to shape that platform via, you know, their words and their actions and also just platforms, you know, needing to cater to the people on them to succeed.
And so, yeah, it's about, you know, it's very community and creator focused. It's about how I think the sort of what I'm going, what I try to say in it is that Twitch has obviously over the years changed a lot.
It's gone from being this little kind of up-and-coming thing to an Amazon-owned platform that has millions and millions of users and that has made some pretty unpopular decisions in the past handful of years. But that Twitch will always be first and foremost the people who are on it. If those people left tomorrow, Twitch would be nothing.
And so it will always be a platform by the creators, even if it's not one for them.
Yeah, you can read pieces of it at Polygon and Aftermath.
Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, first and foremost, you can find me at aftermath.site. That is the video game news site that me and some other folks run together. It's just aftermath.site. We're fully subscription-based, and so if you like what you see, like what you read, please consider subscribing, because that's our entire lifeblood. We have no ads. We have no anything else. We have no sponsors.
We want to be completely free of all of those, like, potential conflicts of interest. So we're only subscriber-based. um and then beyond that i'm on blue sky at nathan grayson and i'm on twitter at vahn16
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