Not to say this shouldn’t be treated with the gravity it deserves, but are there any media outlets reporting on this other than the Daily Mail? Not exactly known for being the most reliable rag out there.

He spends more time at Mar a Lago anyways

That full self driving Tesla is actually running into him so quickly that his mind hasn’t processed it happening and his body has begun to fuse into the chassis. Just a very good high-speed camera.

Reminds me of back when Microsoft tried making their Tay chatbot. But when Tay was regurgitating Nazi/white supremacist talking points, it was a huge deal and they killed it immediately.

The only difference now is that people stopped caring, since the companies can’t seem to be held accountable for it.

No kidding. Here I was today just trying to do an image search for some game artwork, and about half of the results were AI-generated slop, hosted on sites boosting their SEO by listing hundreds of keywords people might search for.

Playground is planning to fill their games with AI slop, so I can’t say I’m overly interested in anything they have to say or show off.

That just leaves Gamefreak, which simply cannot make a good game if a gun was held to their head, so I don’t have much interest in them either.

I heard a joke once: Man turns on computer. Goes to edit settings. Needs a patch to fix a system deficiency. Can’t find any other solution. Windows says, “The fix is simple. Only a system administrator can make these changes. Go call one. That should take care of it.” Man bursts into tears. Says, “But Windows… I am the system administrator.” Good joke. Everybody laugh. Upgrade to enterprise for $199.99. Curtains.

(Original reference)

Not to mention those companies have divided priorities. Valve’s main income is Steam, they have a vested interest in keeping their product dominant. Microsoft and Epic simply don’t, because their stores are only side projects that incentivise their main income sources. But that’s not to say I want to substitute Steam with some other corpo giant’s latest money grab either.

The bigger question is why more consumer-friendly stores like GOG that sell DRM-free games can’t compete with Steam. High profile games have no incentive to release DRM-free versions of their titles on GOG because the bigger store where they make more money encourages DRM. And these locked-in publisher relationships built on DRM allows Valve to outcompete more consumer-friendly stores through sales and user experience.

Valve gets a lot of clout in the Linux sphere because their adoption of open-source platforms is better than their competitors, and we have the mindset of “a rising tide lifts all ships”, but this is also what we were saying about Google and Android 15 years ago and we can see how that is shaping up. Something something “you either die a hero…”

Basically, Valve is too big to compete with at this point, because any competing product needs to be more perfect out the gate for people to even consider using it. Which is hard to do when you are not as entrenched and don’t have the kind of money Valve has.

Or maybe we can all just, like, stop trying to take over countries?

I count it as a handheld because every switch can be used as a handheld, while not every switch can be used as a home console.

So I guess why wouldn’t the Switch Lite be counted in those sales? It’s the same device, sans detachable controllers and docking capabilities.

It’s like calling a phone that you can plug into a monitor with peripherals a “desktop”

Plus the Switch is a handheld, which makes it a weird distinction to make.

I wish my wife could play subnautica with me

Well she’s too busy taking care of young Molly to be able to make the time. Maybe have Worf babysit?

Jisho.org is a fairly helpful site for finding words like that. Sometimes you have to scroll a bit to find the “loanword” version of a term, but it helps with showing different nuances of translated words when looking them up.

Unfortunately I think it’s EN-JP only, but helpful if you know the English word you want.

https://jisho.org/word/スコア

You’re right, they just exchange it in circles to make themselves even richer.

Richard Attenborough

Rupert Murdoch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch