Reading all those brand names took me back to my youthful audiophile years regularly visiting the high end audio shop to see and listen to what was new, and occasionally buying a second hand top piece of equipment and high quality recordings on CD.

That is, until I designed my own final loudspseaker system, which doesn't need high end electronics to outperform any system I had heard.

It's no wonder all those brands disappear or merge when the audio quality was already the same forty years ago. Only build quality and technical specifications make a difference.

Then I hope playable on the same hardware as the originals, or at least not a requerment to have a multi-gigabyte videocard to render things that won't be noticed anyway.
Besides, I think suddenly realistic graphics would break the transition between the episode 2 and 3.

Aside from this, they should bring out Alyx as a regular game as well for those of us not interested in virtual reality.

And good, affordable education for everyone, good, affordable healthcare for everyone, good social security for everyone, and most likely even better regulations to benefit humans and not corporations.
There's a reason why European countries do much better on the happiness scale than the USA. Personally, I didn't even want to trade Europe for the USA in my youth even if I could live in quiet, beautiful nature there.

This needs a cringe moderation option.

Just the other day my friend mentioned what happened with the mother of an emigrated US woman in Germany on some news thing. Was treated for the result of an earlier hit to the head in Germany, and later again in the USA. The bill in Germany was a few thousand euros while in the USA it came to a quarter of a million dollars in total.

This and many other examples has me thinking any USAsian saying America is the greatest country in the world needs to be sent to a psychiatrist (which is covered by insurance here) and a topography class.

And moving production to a cheap labour country is not protectionism of corporate and personal profits (greed)?
Move the knowledge to manufacture to others and they will learn from it and use it. You know, like a man and teaching how to fish and the like. Don't expect him not to sell fish to others when possible.

What I also look at is the quality of the game. If the studio goes on to a sequel while the old version is still full of bugs or plain code flaws, then I'm not tempted to buy it.
For example, I like city building games and have Simcity 1 to 4 and as a successor I am interested in Cities Skylines, but I've noticed fundamental flaws that won't be fixed now that they published CS II, which is also in a state of bugtesting by users.

I'd like to have the source code when a game is abandoned like this (no, just providing content DLCs without fixes is still abandoning) so I can fix it myself, even if it's written in C# *shudders*.

The automotive industry wants mandatory shop class.
The furniture industry wants mandatory woodworking class.
The chartered accountants want mandatory accounting class.

Every industry category should have their own mandatory class, and if you fail on 2 of the 173 exams, you're not graduating.

If they'd'let loose an AI on all the solar system data and it would uncover more (circumstancial) evidence for the planet, that would be a fitting task and actually ineresting AI news for once.

Of course. They'll make sure to hire a stage actor with many years of experience in security theatre.

I thought about that, but te problem is pets don't live as long as I do.
Besides, I don't trust the dog to not abuse his mug to order and pay for way too many snacks at the online store.

I think I might develop a compulsary anxious reaction of slapping those glasses from people wearing them near me.

Is it the AI used as a tool by students, or the students used as tools for AI?

Either way, I feel those who push unwanted AI in everything are utter tools.

Code in an image file to indicate it has loaded?

Microsoft hiring Poetering makes sense now.

Not surprising. Most of the characters in Outside are too dumb and/or bastards, the soundtrack a bad mix of noises, stage sets are often dirty and horrible, and who writes the shitty plot in the first place?
The resolution is the only decent thing, although that could depend on how sober the watcher is.

No wonder people prefer to watch just about anything else.