Implying they don’t keep copies of ROMs for their own games?

Even worse, though, the attack discussed in the article doesn’t REQUIRE the TV be connected to the internet, only to a Windows machine that has an internet connection.

Grocery stores definitely sell them. They’ll usually have an aisle, or part of one, dedicated to frozen meals. Can’t speak too much about their popularity, though. I myself don’t of anyone who uses them, so I’d wager they’re pretty niche in popularity, at least around where I live.

I would say all of the reasons you list are viable.

Metroid: Dread. Awful controls, and REALLY awful late-game bosses. Sucks, cause there’s otherwise a lot to love about it.

Nine Sols. With only one exception, every boss started with a good, fun, design, and then felt compelled to escalate to the point that all the fun was ruined, and then keep going. Again, really sucks, cause there’s a ton to love about it.

My guess would be that it’s geard towards bugfixes. If a consumer discovers and fixes a bug in the original source, they’re obliged to push it back upstream, or at least publish it so others can. Vut they still get the freedom of MIT to add new closed-source features or work it into a larger-scale closed-source project.

It’s not a PvP game, so “getting outgunned” isn’t really a concern. I ceetainly had fun with my time with it, without ever getting any of the DLC (except for Big Bank, maybe? I can’t remember if that was a DLC or not). But had had a friend group to play with. YMMV.

I’d always assumed most cams are pirated by the projectionist, or other employee.

Nah, not bullshit. Just doesn’t do them without remote human control. That falls under “features to he introduced at a later date.”

Sherlock Homes.

Surplus wind power hoists 35-ton blocks cast from recycled concrete and industrial aggregate toward the top.

Using recycled concrete seems be a solid mitigation for the environmental concern. The world’s got no shortage of scrap concrete.

PlayStation has announced that they will stop producing physical releases, soon, and I believe they’ve said the PS6 will have no disc drive at all.

No idea how Rockstar fits in.

They’re about to get a BIG bump in usership, when Manivest V2 goes dark.

You’re not alone. This is actually my recommendation to anyone who hasn’t played it, when the topic of Tunic comes up: Just turn on No-Fail mode for the bosses. They’re all horribly unbalanced, and not worth your effort. And they’re absolutely NOT what makes the game great.

Yup. They talked during the leadup to Space Age that all those big new systems are setup specifically to be generic, for the sake of future modding.

Goddamnit. Rsync, of all things.

Me personally, I thought the combat was pretty ass. Boss combat, in particular. Like they played Dark Souls and their takeaway was “Okay, so to make good combat, you need to make it SUPER difficult, and then give them a dodge roll.” REALLY put a damper on the experience as a whole, which is a shame, because every other aspect of that game is FANTASTIC.

If you haven’t played it, do yourself a favor and just be ready to turn on assist mode or no-death mode for the bosses.

Yup.

Krafton lost. They’ve been ordered to restore at least one of the three leads of the project to his prior position, and give him full control over the project. The latest marketing material for the game has had Krafton labeling removed.

At this point, the only thing you’re doing for Krafton by buying Subnautica 2 is guaranteeing they have to pay out the $250 million bonus that they were trying to avoid in the first place.

Works largely the same as reddit, just smaller and more distributed.

The go-to analogy is e-mail. You pick a particular e-mail provider, say gmail.com or yahoo.com, and create your account there, but that doesn’t stop you from sending messages to anyone with any other provider, or them sending messages to you. In the fediverse/lemmyverse/whatever, same thing, you create an account on whatever server/instance you feel like, and use that to see posts and messages from any other server/instance in the network.

Occasionally, you might hear the term “federation” which is the process of different servers/instances syncing their content with each other. It’s not foolproof, and sometimes doesn’t work properly. But generally, you won’t have to care about the nuts and bolts of the protocol.

I have two main conplaints about shorts, myself, the end result of which is that I prefer to just never see them in my feed, ever.

1. Most shorts that pop up for me are literally just clips from longer form videos I’ve already seen, or are already on my Watch Later list. And there’s SO damn many of them. Those types of shorts are purely clutter.

2. The other type of shorts I see most often are just aping the tiktok format, characterized by being extremely shallow and low-effort, as well as having the INFURIATING tendency to be over-edited for length trimming. You know the type of editing I mean, the one where the creator apparently thinks that even pausing to BREATHE between words or thoughts is too much downtime in the video. I find it insulting that TikTok and now YouTube have normalized the idea that creators should be so overwhelmingly desperate to capture every moment of your attention. Plus, it’s pretty well understood by now that feeding your attention that heavily is wildly unhealthy for your brain.