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It's run by MBAs and sociopaths who want to make a quick buck and have no interest in or respect for building anything durable, and executed by yes-men (and some women) who don't have a single neuron to question what they're doing.

I don't disagree with your views, but attacking Fabien and saying he's being disrespectful seems like a stretch to me.

I think a better way to put it is that Fabien's blog is an inspiration to anyone looking to understand computers and programming in detail while taking a history tour of old games and systems. He personally has the skill to do so and then present the interesting bits of the system in a very compelling narrative. It gives people someone/thing to look up to. To find out that part of the analysis/output was produced by an LLM crunching through the code base is a major disappointment since it removes or diminishes the human element of the work.

I came to the comment thread just for this. Casts doubt but then doesn't really justify it. I think these reviewers need to reconcile the fact that these consoles are selling out despite the price increase.

Also, Nintendo is on a sphere of its own and the comparison against the Ally is mostly irrelevant. Different kind of audience even though "both are handhelds".

I find them very annoying

I cannot tell you how many times I've punched the steering wheel. I want to find that source of beeping and rip its goddamn guts out of the system. Then I want to find who put it there and rip their guts too. I will rip their infernal existence out of this dimension.

And fuck cameras. Blatant privacy violation, how is this getting past legislation?

and you as an individual are definitely better off negotiating alone versus entire corporations.

This sounds so comical when put that way. But you still see people defending that posture even on this forum. Psyops was definitely the most effective trick. And then those corporations went beyond the bounds of private enterprise and captured government as well. If anyone has any doubt that unchecked capitalism is fundamentally at odds with democracy, they are missing the forest for the trees.

I am not fully acquainted with the details, but I would not discard (3) make e2ee illegal, at least for platforms of certain size etc. That is what the proponents ultimately want anyway. If they settle for anything else, it's because of the resistance.

The tl;dr from the post is that kernel anti-cheat presents both an attack vector for malware and a backdoor for firms. The former is already known to be exploited.

I don't know why comments here are so negative. PC gamers should be wary of installing this stuff, and PC users in general wary of attempts to lock down their computer. If game companies want a fully locked down PC, they already have one; it's called a console.

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The technological innovation still needs to be fun, though. Red Faction: Guerilla (2009) had destructible buildings to the point that they were constructed by laying down blocks in a physically correct way and letting the physics engine handle the rest, and blasting the hell out of them in the middle of open combat was incredibly fun.

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I think graphics peaked ~2015. But interaction still leaves a lot to be desired; we still have slipping and characters who can't walk stairs in AAA games to this day. Making characters more physically grounded and present seems like the obvious thing to improve to me.

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It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio.

The sheer hubris. Yes, the monopoly is not desirable for gamers because the games end up all being the same MS-dictated corporate crap. Microsoft imploding is good for everybody in the long run and we can't wait for that day.

The politicians voting for this are either thoroughly stupid or corrupt. From the linked site:

The position adopted by the Council today paves the way for providers of Internet services to resume their efforts to detect and report material on child sexual abuse to the police.

- Jim O’Callaghan, Irish Minister of Justice, Interior and Migration

Except that many of those providers are not European. Good job handling all of your citizens' data to foreign entities, Jim. Way to go, champ.

I don't know how to put it nicely, but some members of the Council need to cease operations, or be ceased.

It's the latter; Rust won't allow the int->bool coercion.

Though to be absolutely pedantic, !x is an int for x:int in C, there is no bool coercion involved; an if-statement takes an expression of any scalar value and evals to true on non-zero. Not that that helps to avoid introducing bugs anyway.