Blackbird (the Beatles, not the alter bridge one)

I fully expect that they will release ai-doctored body cam footage

With their BRAND NEW car too

I am definitely not on epic side here, but the reason they had to pay for exclusivity for games is because valve doesn’t allow any games on steam to be sold cheaper elsewhere. Which developers follow because steam brings in a lot of revenue.

Without that, epic could try to compete with steam (and its extra features) by offering lower prices, and letting the consumer make the choice of features vs price.

But valve policies effectively make it impossible for any new marketplace to compete.

I don’t know if valve are or aren’t abusing their monopolistic position. I am not a lawyer and i don’t have a horse in the race.

I was just answering to someone who said “if you don’t like valve policies, dont publish your games there”, which would be true for a normal business, but specifically not true of a monopoly, which steam is, unquestionably

Epic can do things much more freely, because they dont hold a monopoly on pc games

There are laws that say that abusing a monopoly is illegal. Steam is objectively a monopoly in pc games. Sure, you don’t have to use it, but it is basically impossible for indie developers to make a living without it.

Now, the question is if valve’s actions are actually abusing the monopoly, or normal business practices.

I think your timing is wrong. AI exploded after the staying at home was over.

ChatGPT was released on Nov 30, 2022, and that is the point when AI came into mainstream (even if gpt 3 or midjourney had been available already). By that point, stay at home restrictions had been gone by about a year, if not a bit more. For reference, the fifa world cup, with full attendance, started 10 days before

funnily, the same as -40 C

It is because Obama got it before. It is not that deep

yes, but the article is about the embarrasing public transit in the us

ironically, she is right. ICE is domestic terrorism

Yeah, if I don’t care about correctness, i can just make it up myself

NYC has the largest jewish commiunity outside israel, many of which anti-zionists, and it shows how people of different faiths can co-live peacefully, so you can see why isreal wants to influence our politics

not during his inaguration speech, which seems to be the photo. the only thing related to transit he mentioned was free and fast buses

I understand what it is trying to say, but i don’t think kids this day are glued to the tv. It is more on phone and ipads

He doesn’t even live in the city

Wikipedia is still doing good

Which is why there has been some push to undermine it lately. I have noticed ai bro calling it deprecated by chatgpt, or musk’s grokipedia

a lot of those are more limitations of renting more than limitations of an apartment. if you own your place, you can put things on the wall, paint, and change appliances. also, you can definetely make a lot of changes in the space even when renting an apartment, even hang things on the wall, but you might need to cover the holes when leaving.

and there are HOA that would also limit what you can do with your property and put on your yard as well, so, while it is shitty, even owning a house doesn’t mean that you get the freedom to do what you want.

living in an apartment is definetely not for everyone, but it has advantanges (and disadvantages) over living in a house.

2 acres 30 minute from town is just not a realistic expectation, unless by town you mean a small rural town. even most suburbs are at least 1 hour drive away from downtowns.

apartments are a real solution to a lot of environmental and financial problems, and offer a higher quality of life for particular areas (mostly access to culture and socializing). it is ok not to value those things and prefering a more rural place, but then you should expect to be giving away a lot of the benefits of living in a city. the (orders of magnitue) higher cost of land in cities over rural areas should tell you that a lot of people actually want to live there, and while access to job opportunities is one of the factors, a lot of it is the cultural benefits of cities.

and regarding aparments benefiting the wealthy class, i have no idea where you are coming from. obviously there is a big cost of living crisis, and city living is not expect from that, but car dependance benefits the wealthy class much more than walkable apartment life, which is why the US has been pushing for suburbs and car dependance for the last 80 years.

While Hades, Hollow Knight, and Celeste being both owned and published by the same company are not indie.

if your definiton of inide exclude Hades, Hollow Knight and Celeste because they are independent i have to say that it is a very bad definiton of what an indie game is.

personally, if a game has enough budget to hire Charlie Cox or Andy Serkins, it probably should not be in an indie award ceremony