Moving around in “peaceful” should be ok as a playground for learning the controls.

This reminded me immediately of The Coffee Machine short story published last year. Reality manages to be stranger and weirder than fiction.

And centralization solves this how? The other social networks are giving more checkmarks to grifters and scammers than they are giving them to honest people because, spoiler alert, con artists are very good at both building a following and paying bribes.

For $666 they could afford to ship a SD Card and an USB card reader.

It’s basically the same thing as gambling but with less regulations and social stigma. It’s not going to get better if no one does anything - and it’s not going to be the unregulated casinos cosplaying as gaming studios that will do it.

It should be forbidden to even refer to it as buying (I think some places already have laws for that), and they should also be forced to put a big disclaimer every time stating the game might become unavailable at any moment if it has things like DRM or core online functions.

It’s exactly because we live in capitalism that, as consumers, we need to punish greedy behaviour.

Other big companies offer bigger free upgrades for years without demanding more money from who already bought game (Minecraft says hi), indie developers have less sources of revenue and lots of them still offer updates for longer than even a console life cycle - and neither are tying the updates to buying a brand new console.

Because nothing helps a struggling economy like legalized nepotism.

Just for reference in case someone needs it, Nintendo is “offering” free joycon replacements in North and South America, most of Europe (EU+EFTA+UK), Australia, and New Zealand.

It’s inevitable for ads supported social media.

They need to keep you “engaged” to show you more ads, and the most effective way to do it is to foster conflict.

You underestimate how much interface and algorithms impact how people interact with eachother.

They published some interesting mobile ones. And then figure out the crappy slop based on their TV shows actually does better, so they are going all-in on that.

They can’t close the kernel. They already distribute Android with proprietary software - for example Google Play services and DRM services.

Just don’t release the game in the US and Japan.

It’s almost like LLMs aren’t capable of understanding or something. /s

Antennapod and not depending on the whims of whatever a CEO feels like today.

The game is Caravan Stories, and it’s only mentioned in the 3rd paragraph, with the rest of the article being SEO bait. I hope any reporter writing articles like this steps on a Lego with a foot, trips, and steps on a British power plug with the other the foot at least once a week.

Please do. I want to train an AI on Disney movies. (Dear Disney lawyers please take the bait)

All of the above and more? There’s always the risk of something falling through the cracks, so the more layers of security measures you add/can afford the better.