Regulatory policy for customer protection. The "stop killing games" initiative raises good points: make games playable in perpetuity and clearly state if you are only renting a license, rather than buying.
The fact that 80% of the planet can’t buy it directly from valve means that there will always be a scalping market.
I think it's moronic to rely on scalping. This is a large market share that any competitor worth their money should be ready to jump on. It doesn't take an MBA to slap together PC components, install SteamOS or Bazzite and sell an unofficial knock-off "console". The global memory shortage being maybe the only serious obstacle.
Absolutely not. Scalpers thrive on scarcity (artificial or otherwise) which is why they make sure to hoard everything they can so that no one else can buy it from official channels. They bring no convenience, they are just parasites who make everything worse.
They already use AI for trading, just not LLM like ChatGPT.
Can you even trademark a made-up name if you're not the creator?
What about IR LED strips to flood the cameras with light?
So you (and Nintendo apparently) have no proof of plagiarism and switched to speculations. Noted.
Obviously they mean that in a digital-only world, consoles are not worth it and gamers should just switch to PC.
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Regulatory policy for customer protection. The "stop killing games" initiative raises good points: make games playable in perpetuity and clearly state if you are only renting a license, rather than buying.
No, they are saying that you have 100 times more resources, so you could do it if you really wanted.
I'm curious if this also counts as a war crime.
I think it's moronic to rely on scalping. This is a large market share that any competitor worth their money should be ready to jump on. It doesn't take an MBA to slap together PC components, install SteamOS or Bazzite and sell an unofficial knock-off "console". The global memory shortage being maybe the only serious obstacle.
Absolutely not. Scalpers thrive on scarcity (artificial or otherwise) which is why they make sure to hoard everything they can so that no one else can buy it from official channels. They bring no convenience, they are just parasites who make everything worse.
It's bait, or satire. Unsure which one.
I blame the onion for being too close to reality recently. They should adjust for to the absurdity inflation.
Maybe because until recent years corporations didn't hoard the world computation power to run glorified chatbots.
You sound so confident that I can't tell if you are genuinely stupid, you are trolling or a dollar bill actually weights around one gram.
And there lies the problem with US.
Not exactly the same, but some metro trains are unmanned. I suspect they are more likely to be remotely driven, though.
It was also used in medical implants, since it's a pretty inert material ( was, because nowadays there are better biocompatible materials).
It's not the developers who enshittify games, it's the suits.
Qwen 3.6 is already out? Damn, I swear I switched to 3.5 not even a month ago.