Share the pain, make them hand-write everything. 😉

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/college-professors-turn-back-to-blue-books-to-combat-chatgpt/492450

Never been a fan, but it’s basically a modern day RPG. Roll it to the future and you get Cyberpunk 2077.

My daughter in law worked at that facility for a year as a manager and noted multiple OSHA violations. Doesn’t sound like much changed…

Google Drive has the same problem, and while you CAN report individual content and users as spam, it doesn’t block them from creating a new user and doing it again.

There was a huge kerfluffle at NeurIPS last year involving statements about China, so they were already walking a fine line:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/15/neurips-keynote-speaker-apologizes-for-reference-to-chinese-student/

https://isg.beel.org/blog/2024/12/16/chatgpt-on-rosalind-picards-allegedly-racist-slide-at-neurips-2024-keynote/

Apologies all around:

https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/neurips-apology-moving-forward/

https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2024/PicardStatement

https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2024/StatementOnInclusivity

I found BOTW just interminably boring. I never even really started the game because it just felt empty. “Go anywhere! Do anything!” Yeah, but there’s nowhere interesting to go and nothing interesting to do.

ONE KITTY TREAT! A HA HA!
TWO! TWO KITTY TREATS! A HA HA!

You raise an interesting question, and it does seem there is a purpose for them even if nobody actually uses them.

From the Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Swiss_franc

"Switzerland is unusual among affluent countries in that it used to expire its banknotes; the Swiss National Bank has declared several older series of banknotes to be no longer legal tender some time after introducing newer series.[2] Notes from these “recalled” series could be exchanged for still-valid notes at the National Bank for up to 20 years after the date of recall, after which the notes lost all value. When recalled series become valueless, the National Bank transfers an amount of money equal to the sum of the now-worthless notes to a state-run last-resort disaster insurance fund, the Swiss Fund for Aid in Cases of Uninsurable Damage by Natural Forces.[3] In June 2019, the Swiss parliament passed a bill that removed the twenty-year time limit. Effective 1 January 2020, all banknotes starting from the sixth series issued in 1976 as well as any future series remain valid and can be exchanged for current notes indefinitely.[2][3][4][5]

In April 2021, the Swiss National Bank announced that it was recalling its eighth series of banknotes issued between 1995 and 1998; the series was replaced by the ninth series launched between 2016 and 2019.[6] In May 2021, the old banknotes lost their status as legal tender and are no longer valid for payments.[6]"

I’d think if Scotland is successful in gaining independence, that would be the official end.

Steam Deck is plenty, I wouldn’t want to try “real” gaming on a phone.

Fun fact: Zapp Brannigan’s design is based on a 60’s comic book character “Magnus: Robot Fighter”:

If they told you work from home is no longer allowed, then yes, they are paying you to be on premises.

If they are paying you to be on premises, so if you are “on duty” so to speak.

Hours you would normally be working.

If you’re on the clock, they have an obligation to keep you as safe as possible, same as like in a fire drill where they have everyone leave the building.

I was released from major invasive surgery on 2/23 and had a bleeding event that night followed by a 2nd event where the bleeding had stopped.

So I gave the details to chat gpt to see if there was a concern and it went HAM mode. “Call 911! This is not a ‘best of three’ thing! You could bleed out! Call 911!”

I did not call 911, the bleeding stayed stopped, I’m fine.

They actually wanted to release SOONER. They wanted to do the whole shadow drop at the game awards and go “AVAILABLE NOW!” But it wasn’t ready yet. 😥

Then they went dead silent until the launch a few weeks later.

But that would give players a sense of, gasp, ownership! Can’t have that!

https://thegamepost.com/sony-cracks-down-concord-custom-servers-dmca-takedowns/

Hard to do that when you decimate the staff.

Michael Pachter is, was, and always will be a complete idiot. Back in the PS2 era he stated that it was no big deal if Sony sold out in North America, they could just move units over from Europe… ignoring the fact that both the video and electricity standards don’t match.

$700 isn’t a “death sentence”, know how we know this?

ROG Xbox Ally X - $1000
PS5 Pro - $750
Xbox Series X - $650
ROG Xbox Ally - $600
PS5 - $550
Steam Deck - $550
Xbox Series S - $450

If Valve REALLY wanted to break people’s brains, they would release a “Supply your own RAM and storage” version for $399.

Some reviewers are just stupid people. I remember seeing a review of a game where they continually complained about the camera… the camera that was 100% player controlled on the right stick.

Did they just, not once, ever, try to move the camera? Yeah, that would be a bad experience in a 3rd person game…