You're mixing game magazine reviews and actual game journalism. For reviews, I'm absolutely with you. For journalism, we do really need more of it. Industry trends, acquisitions, laws. The industry needs a lot more transparency and accountability.

Right. Because your traditional binary couples never had fertility issues. Nope, not until 5g was invented.

That's easy enough for Latin or Cyrillic alphabets. Have an intern design a font for you. I'm oversimplifying the complexity here to a ludicrous extent. But then Asian languages need 3 to 7 thousand unique glyphs for a given project. You either get the free noto font from Google or make a deal with the devil. The selection of free options is limited and it might not work well aesthetically. Then there implementation factors like good scaling, contrast, interoperability...

Is the steady climb in AMD GPU share. It rose from as low as 15% to 18% this year, but all I hear in the media is the funeral march. AMD is also getting much better and more consistent performance when running on Linux.

Reading this news line every month. With more handhelds and steam machines happening in the future.

Oh. And I guess more room to put ads in is a great bonus.

I thought that was something to do with copyright. Recipes are almost by definition not copyrightable and easy to scrape in bulk. But if you wrap it into a bs story about your grandma's socks, it suddenly becomes a different story.

There's a good recent article from games industry biz on the subject. Trying to muddy the waters by claiming game dev had always been using AI is a straw man argument. Nobody cares if enemies have ai logic. Or if you used word prediction auto complete. Or use upscaler for a texture. Player specifically care about what we now call slop. Generated video segments, graphical assets, music, voices. Nobody wants to read walls of text nobody gave a shit to write. And when any such assets end up on the final product, we want to know and make a call on a case by case basis. There are good reasons to have placeholder assets, but they need to be tracked and replaced. See Anno Pax Romana dumpster fire for example.

I'm with you on not wanting to legitimise it, but it's got value either way. And I'm not sure how I feel about paying ransoms, but having a budget allocated and ready to go could save some lives when a hospital is hit. Advertising you have it is not good though.

There's plenty of price drivers. Russian oligarchs need to diversify their assets to bypass sanctions. Chinese millionaires need to move their money out of China. Drug dealers want to set money aside in a format that can be hard to confiscate. Venisuela does weird stuff. Then there's the daily grind of hype and rug pulls to take money out of people looking for a quick way to get rich. And there the ever-looming promise of crypto becoming the totally legit currency any day now.

I'm not entirely convinced a mail server wouldn't know if someone periodically checks the mail. I will concede that just one year might be a bit rushed. I think 3 to 5 is much better. As for websites I'm registered with... That's not actually a concern to me. I use a password manager, it lists every website. Maybe I'll skip for some something really stupid, but not for anything I leave my payment info with. As for security, I'm more concerned about this whole automatic card updating. And there's a stack of other security blunders down the list. Letting someone update delivery address without MFA sort of thing.

If you don't like getting that in your new mailbox, register a new one. If the old owner did not care enough to change their email addresses across the services they use, they either don't care about privacy or might be long dead. It's not so different from me getting letters for the five previous people who rented this place. Life goes on.

Not just that. These are the cars rushed to meet production quotas. They're missing QA, parts, and might not even work. Half of these manufactured cars start getting scraped for parts the minute they're "finished" to hit quotas elsewhere. They're sold as used because nobody wants to place the same guarantees on quality as a new car might imply.

I don't put a fence around my house because it's super effective. I put it to clearly designated the space as private and that you are not welcome here without permission. The fence is entirely not effective against a bulldozer, but the bulldozer is not a clever legal loophole you can present in court.

I've got GOG too. I've got games on it that I haven't played. But library management is kind of a pain. Or at least was. I can't sort things into folders like on Steam. I could only rate them with stars and apply multiple filters to work through things. And then one of the benefits of GOG is merging your steam and epic libraries into one client. Which is great, but just drowns the library in unsorted mess.