I started Trails in the Sky on PSP and haven’t been able to stop playing trails games since. Not the best in the series, but definitely where you want to start.

It’s too late for Apple to close off macOS (and they’ve tried), so I think the goggles are meant to replace it altogether with an inherently closed platform. I hope Apple ends up having to open that platform up as well before it’s too late.

I’m probably just getting pessimistic with age, but corporations just see dollar signs with subscriptions and reduced expenses with digital distribution. Then they will outlive you and me.

It may be objectively better for players to have physical copies of their games installed on hardware they have dominion over, but we are unlikely to be around to prove that to our great grandkids. We can’t even guarantee even our own children will care enough to try to tell theirs. I’m almost certain owning physical copies of digital content is going to be for niche hobbyists in the future.

As inclined I am to agree with you on a personal level, kids these days are trained to think games just come with MTX, and all bonus content in a game that isn’t a loot box is just paid DLC. All Microsoft has to do is just make this the easiest way to get Xbox games, keep it going long enough, and people eventually won’t know any better or even care anymore. Then they ratchet up the price to make it feel like they’re still profiting from console sales as well.

Japanese people love their handhelds. I suspect it had a bigger impact than others think.

I honestly wonder if the advertising industry is just a house of cards, with everyone so far up their own asses that they couldn’t possibly realize how much energy, resources, and dignity is just getting wasted.

I can’t help but feel sorry for whoever thought their “targeted advertising” worked when I just accidentally picked up my tablet and clumsily landed a finger on a banner, or let an entire video ad play because I was preoccupied and not physically able to skip it. The only ads I genuinely pay attention to are the promotional newsletters I actually sign up for out of legitimate interest from those sites, not out of pride or anything, it’s just the only instance where actually find myself interested in what’s being advertised. Everything else out there in the “targeted” web is just white noise to me, and people think it’s a gold mine.

Yeah, I might be an idiot on this, but imo Nintendo and whoever judged this case have committed a far more egregious crime. Nothing Bowser did hurt a single soul anywhere near as much as Nintendo and that judge has decided to hurt him in retaliation. Some numbers were slightly less high as some people might speculate they could have been. That’s it. Fuck Nintendo. Fuck their inhumanity and the same of their judge.

I would argue this is exactly why this article is not pointless. If AI is not for fact finding, people need to be made aware of that.

The PS4 allowed people to choose between frame rate and graphical prowess. The PS4 Pro basically eliminated the necessity to choose. We’re seeing games on PS5 that give you similar options, so I assume a PS5 Pro will also render those preferences unnecessary.

Is having ray tracing at 60FPS important enough for you to wait? Furthermore, do you have patience if PS5 pros are hard to come by for the first 3-6 months of availability?

Well how about consent at the very least?

Monster Hunter World, again. Had been playing Sunbreak together until a friend wanted to prove world was the better game for some stupid reason. I genuinely like both, but SB was so much better for multiplayer.

Oh. Well then I guess that just makes it completely okay for ads to just be in games now. Good thing you cleared that up.

Absolutley! Even more “interesting-ly” than that straw-man of yours, friend! ;)

FYI, calling out Apple’s anti-competitive bs is not at all a problem. In fact, many Apple users are plenty happy to do that themselves. The problem is with how haters behave toward the users of Apple products, rather than the company itself.

My reply was meant to bring attention to the behavior of some community members, not Apple the company. Sorry if there was a misunderstanding.

Feel free to not buy Apple products if you don’t like them. It’s your choice and I really don’t care.

Sweet!

I’d say the cult Apple haters are generally more toxic in their language and aggressive in gate-keeping.

Agreed. If it’s a big patent troll against a startup, I get the criticism. Apple’s a big corporation with a lot of clout that can easily be abused. I think it’s best that the courts are handling this.

Times where I’ve found myself pleased with my smart watch:

• Keeping discreet timers.
• Discreet taps on the wrist when a delivery is arriving or someone important is trying to call me.
• Quick replying to texts from my SO.
• Pinging my misplaced phone.
• Directions to places via cryptic taps on my wrist (and having a little map if I want to check).
• Remote camera view-finder and shutter button for group photos where everyone can be in them.
• Having a money conversion calculator on my wrist when traveling.
• Audio controls from my wrist. (Really nice if you like walking around without a phone in front of you.)
• Paying through a subway turn-style with a tap from my wrist instead of needing to dig something out of my pockets.
• Keeping track of my health, which I wouldn’t have otherwise.
• Less general dependency on my phone itself, resulting in better battery life.

Not saying you should or shouldn’t get one. These are just reasons I’ve found myself happy with mine.

I think this is the way to go. Rather than paying every random app a subscription to jerry-rig AI into their programming somehow, I’d like to have my own personal, and private, AI that plugs into a framework that each app offers. I’d also like to be able to purchase curated extensions to privately enhance my own AI.

I will be surprised if the DLC isn’t paid this time around.