I’m totally seeing both sides here.

The studio is upset that people are leaving negative reviews for what the studio thinks may ultimately be minor issues and will be fixed by release.

But on the other hand, you can’t expect people to review a game on anything other than the state it is now.

That said, the gamer community is definitely pretty brutal and known to pile on with negative reviews to ‘punish’ the smallest changes they don’t like, and that is especially true for games that get ‘updates’, like live-service games, or in this case, games still in early access. Players hope the bad reviews will make the developers change course, but that’s no good if they go under before they can.

For Early Access, the type of game they picked (something with levelling and upgrades and ‘game meta’) is especially prone to rough feedback too, when compared to other genres like horror or platformers or sandbox games where people are a lot more forgiving.

I imagine they needed to do early access to keep the studio going and maybe to generate funds for the next Ori (fingers crossed?) and I hope that doesn’t end up being the wrong choice for them.

Dithering is still to this day extremely useful for making custom wall art in Minecraft using maps, because maps have a very specific and limited pallette.

And websites would have a link to a page and say “Warning! This page contains a lot of pictures!” so you wouldn’t click it unless you were prepared to put your other browsing on hold for a little while

You’ll probably have a while to wait.

The Switch 1 was able to run homebrew due to a hardware exploit in the CPU which allowed injection of arbitrary code. The interesting thing about that vulnerability being that since it was a hardware vulnerability, it couldn’t be patched out even after it was discovered.

Following that incident, I’m sure Nintendo has been working especially hard to ensure there are no similar vulnerabilities existing on the Switch 2.

That said, console hackers are an amazingly creative and talented bunch, so I wouldn’t be surprised by anything.

Yes for electronic devices that expect low voltage DC and have a converter, like laptops, phone chargers, etc.

But don’t try and take a 120V hairdryer on holiday and plug it in because it will certainly blow up.

Microsoft would absolutely love it if people had zero computer literacy and had to ask an AI for help to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.

Because then the AI becomes indispensable.

The idea there should be some definitive, canonical domain for the Fediverse is somewhat at odds with the core tenents of the Fediverse itself - decentralisation, and no single point of ownership or control. And on that basis, we absolutely should not care about a particular domain, or assign any level of ‘specialness’ to it.

I understand your worry - that some ‘bad actor’ could buy the domain and do something anti-Fediverse with it and mislead the public, but my response would be to simply not worry. The strength of the Fediverse is that we are diverse and unbothered by whatever nonsense some centralised platform is trying to pull. We don’t have a profit motive. We don’t care.

People who want to find the real Fediverse will absolutely still find us, all on their own, regardless of who owns some random domain :)

I use my air fryer a lot, despite having a fan oven also.

The fan circulation is more powerful than in a typical oven, so air fryers are really good at is crisping things up, and doing it quickly.

If you ever get take-out and have left over fries, you can put them in the air fryer and they go from fridge-limp to deliciously crisp in just 3 minutes, it resurrects them perfectly. Can’t get results like that in the big oven.

I was quite intrigued by the article and thinking I’d put this on my wishlist, until I saw “multiplayer”, and suddenly all my interest is down the drain.

It feels like some developers are making live service games simply to chase the revenue stream, not because the specific game they are making would actually be better online.

Honestly, it’s absolutely disgusting.

For a time my retired father was looking into buying one, but I’m super glad in retrospect now this has all come out that it didn’t go through and he walked away.

These parks and the individuals who run them are intentionally scamming vulnerable people out of their entire retirement by painting a false picture that these holiday caravans are a sound investment just like owning a house, while all the while knowing fully that people will lose almost everything they put in.

I think the reason non-tech people find this so difficult to comprehend is the poor understanding of what problems are easy for (classically programmed) computers to solve versus ones that are hard.

if ( person_at_crossing ) then { stop }

To the layperson it makes sense that self-driving cars should be programmed this way. Aftter all, this is a trivial problem for a human to solve. Just look, and if there is a person you stop. Easy peasy.

But for a computer, how do you know? What is a ‘person’? What is a ‘crossing’? How do we know if the person is ‘at/on’ the crossing as opposed to simply near it or passing by?

To me it’s this disconnect between the common understanding of computer capability and the reality that causes the misconception.

He wasn’t wrong, it was a great video

The line has to go up.

More engagement = more views = more ads = more money for the shareholders

Doesn’t matter how that engagement is generated, whether it’s human content or AI trash.

As a kid, like 9 years old, I wasn’t able to get a real Tamagotchi. I had a cheap knock-off version that had a little dog in it.

A bunch of my classmates were upset because their Tamagotchis ended up dying of neglect during the school day, but my fake-ass tamagotch has this weird bug where if you held down all the buttons at once it would freeze up and stay that way until you pushed something else.

So I basically had a Tamagotchi with a ‘pause’ function, that wouldn’t die when it was frozen.

My dog never died until the batteries finally ran out. Nice work, fake Tamagotchi :)

Not quite the same, but we do have “andfinally” for quirky and silly news.

https://feddit.uk/c/andfinally

Named after the tendency on TV to put lighthearted news pieces like these at the end, to give people something to smile about after all the depressing stuff.

People who buy these things don’t really want “a truck”

They want a vehicle which aesthetically resembles a truck, so their super manly male man ego can be satisfied, but which is actually just an SUV with extra steps.

It’s AIs ans automated systems all the way down at this point. No humans in the loop, just machines talking to machines.

As someone who loves mods, I’m totally I’m agreement.

Mods vary greatly, from ones that add tiny quality of life improvements, such as a ‘sort’ button on your inventory, right through to huge visual overhauls and new characters and mechanics changes.

Personally I like to always play games in a fairly vanilla way first with QOL changes only, and then when I’ve played it through once, the mods can keep things interesting.

That’s why mods are great, because they give you, the user, the choice.

Using established characters in your own works has long been accepted in Japan, especially for smaller doujin works, and that’s awesome. But the analogy between that and modding just isn’t the same.

If we apply the ‘modding’ analogy to manga, that would basically be taking someone else’s published work, applying white-out on half the frames, drawing in partial new contents of your own, and then republishing it. That would be incredibly disrespectful of the author to use not only their character, but their exact art in such a way. Very different from creating a whole new derivative work.

I’m personally very in-favour of modding, but I can understand why the Japanese in particular, when seen through that lens, do not like it.

That’s such garbage!