I am relatively tech literate and I have troubles remembering every canal I have to use to join all of my contacts. I have like 6 or 7 different ones.

Meanwhile, my father can’t remember one password to save his life, and my grandfather tries answering the phone on a TV remote. Good luck with that.

In this case the problem is not even DRM, it’s that the game was entirely streamed from a cloud service. People buying that technically never had the game on their device and were always dependent on a server that would be shut down eventually.

This is the future big tech companies want. Not owning anything to the point the game doesn’t even exist on your device. I say fuck them.

This is what I feel happened with Starfield (not to the same extent, but still).

Everyone hyped the hell of it, it released, huge collective “meh”, and two weeks later it was mostly forgotten.

I had already had enough of Todd Howard and Bethesda’s bullshit at this point, so I was just wondering why that was even hyped so much to begin with.

At least I used to like Bethesda. I don’t even give a shit about GTA, so Rockstar can crash and burn for all I care.

AI moderating AI advertizing to AI talking to AI.

There’s an app, Petit Computer/SmileBasic, available on Nintendo consoles since the DSi and Wii (then had 3DS, wii U and switch version). It’s a programming language that has a lot of features using the target console’s input/output capabilities (touch screen, 3D, gyroscopes, etc).

On 3DS there was a feature to share files (code, image…) through the app’s server, but some wanted to be able to share their stuff in other ways, so they didn’t depend on the app server or so they could share locally with a PC for example.

Someone made a modem kind of program with it to transform the file into a sound sequence, emit it, receive it on another device through mic and retransform it to file. Max transfer rate 92 bytes per second with error checking.

He’s working hard on destroying that one, don’t worry. The quest experience has only gotten worse with every update.

I was like “wait, weren’t there people measuring the Earth-Moon distance with lasers?” so I had to check…

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

At the Moon’s surface, the beam is about 6.5 kilometers (4.0 mi) wide

Oh.

She’s starting this complaining about a casual game of table tennis so it’s not exclusively board games, it’s like… the concept of playing a game? And apparently, not only as a party activity, but in general.

Very weird take.

There are three mentions to alcohol, one for each potential social interaction in that article. So I guess I know how the author parties typically.

I’d rather have the games, thank you.

Anthropic writes a shitty roleplay every other week and somehow it still makes the news.

They say we shouldn’t attribute to malice what could be attributed to stupidity, let’s try that :

“Wait, people searching for books don’t like that we help destroy real books en masse to feed the infinite fake book machines? Oh, my bad, we hadn’t realized, we’re not doing that then.”

Yeah, I’m not absolutely convinced.

Zeitz wrote that he hosted the party to meet “exceptional people” and find out if they were “just as crazy as we are.”

“You know what would be reeeally crazy, dude? What if you got an ad for my company permanently etched on your skin? So quirky and fun, just like someone I might hire ! Just saying.”

This is absolutely pathetic. Love the way they have no idea what to do with their arms, but desperately try to do something anyway, at a glacial pace, I assume because any faster could throw them off-balance… And they just end up stuck in the most awkward, unnatural poses anyway.

The clanker in the pic is from a CES demo. I did not see whose skin the classroom terminator is supposed to wear but it is supposed to have dark hair.

Fediverse needs that. There’s just not enough people to attain the one cool thing about reddit, that was having a couple people create communities around basically any niche hobby you could think of.

Only very generic topics or ultra-popular stuff get some traction, and in many cases it’s barely a blip.

Agree on principle, but the fact they delayed it that late most likely means that some shit management happened and that they were already crunching to try to meet the failed deadline.

I respect the effort someone put into making that acronym. That must be a fun job.

More like DLSS 5 is “vibe-rendering”.

Oh yeah, thankfully now we can automate that phase of game development where all character faces are made “beautiful” and totally unrecognizable from the initial concept and where graphic artists spawn new hair and nostrils out of nowhere.

Oh shit, was halfway through when they mentioned being in EU. Don’t think it could happen (legally) in my country because we’ve got a privacy agency that’s quite older than GDPR (and one of its precursors). But it’s worrying.