At least before the fall of the republic, it was apparently common for Jedi Padawans to be locked in a cave to face a trial against their deepest fear to get a Kyber Crystal to even make their lightsaber in the first place. If they failed to conquer their fear, they died.

Edit: apparently they don’t die per se, but are meant to believe they will and also if they fail, they might be stuck there. It’s weird and still not ethical

If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…

Oops, they just admitted that leadership doesn’t really DO anything.

Xbox’s strategy is unclear. Do they mean the XBOX ROG Ally or some other traditional console?

I’d argue the same, actually. It takes people to moderate people and dedicated servers make it easiest. Modern match made games could still have admins, the company needs to pay for them.

Depends on the game, really, but “relying” on anti-cheat is pretty common. Larger games tend to have teams who review cases that get flagged by the systems and players and do manual removal but these teams also tend to be quite small and unable to adequately handle the amount of cheating that occurs.

If gamers want to see cheaters less often, they need to pressure the companies to do human moderation in addition.

Just about. I did an audit and about 90% of Sony’s games eventually hit PC. The largest one which has not made the leap yet is Astro Bot.

As if Tesla stock is traded rationally…

I agree with your argument overall, but I think it would be reasonable to say they are broader-purpose computing devices now, and are not yet general-purpose. Consumers don’t have an expectation to reach for their game console to do an arbitrary thing. They generally can expect their phone or laptop to.

“There’s an app for that” just isn’t true for huge swathes of apps on almost all consoles.

I don’t have explicitly what you’re looking for as I am not a lawyer, but game consoles aren’t a general-purpose computing device (despite theoretically capable of being one if appropriately jailbroken), and as such, prior case law for PC doesn’t apply.

iOS/Android tend to be classified a general-purpose computing device because it does all the same things a PC does (or did) and more. It plays games and does banking and plays music and browses the web and displays pictures and movies, etc etc. For some, it’s their primary and only computing device.

JPEG isn’t great at storing flat-color lossless images, which is PNG’s forte.

JPEG isn’t, but JPEG-XL, on the other hand, has come into existence and has great compression while being pixel-perfect lossless as compared to PNG (among a host of other improvements).

If only it got the support it deserves (thanks Google for making that harder)

Best I’ve got for you is this

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Yes, it’s going to get worse

I have Firefox on iOS and a DNS ad blocker and it’s still hell, what am I missing?

Edit: oops my phone was somehow un-set from my DNS blocker. Looks much nicer. Still one ad at the top for an app, but far less intrusive

Universal is the reason

To be fair it looks horrendous on mobile, lots of overlays and ads

More people speak English as a second language than people speak English as a first/native language, so you’re in the majority!

You can’t just say perchance.

Took about forever but I’m glad it’s finally here

It’d be easier to side with Epic if they put really any effort at all into the Epic Games Store. I know there’s a lot of features to catch up on to be competitive to Steam, but considering they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on exclusivity, you’d think they would spend more on improving EGS.

To some extent, people will hate EGS anyway, but if they just quietly trucked along adding feature after feature, those that use it would spread the word. Instead, it largely stagnated and people kept reporting to others that it generally still sucks.

Playing catch-up takes time but at least the company that does already has an enumerated list of features to implement and can glean ideas about how to do so.