But why pay all those programmers when all they had to do from the beginning was a simple

#include “ai.h”

Don’t worry, though. It’s not in development hell, it’s going to be a AAAAA game, and that takes time.

“Two popular games with little else in common can be shoehorned into my pet narrative” is a bad title, though.

99% of gamers knew this years ago.

It’s always been a race to gobble up the handful of whales that keep the mobile game industry alive. Now add hundreds more desktop and console games to that list. Sure, there are lots of people that will happily spend thousands of dollars on any shitty game, but once you’ve got the entire industry spending billions fighting over those players, the well runs dry eventually.

It would arguably take less effort to write a more general ban on apps and companies sharing, selling, and aggregating data on users than one specifically carving out foreign-owned companies.

Not doing that makes it clear this isn’t a “first step.” This is a blanket approval of the practice, but with “election year, China bad” thrown in.

Yes, any government access to user data can, and will, be mis-used, including Tik Tok. Opposing this bill isn’t an approval of Bytedance, it’s an opposition to the process.

Sketchy Chinese data brokers: 👎
Sketchy US data brokers:👍

Signed, Congress.

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They’d do it in 60 hours if there were oil in Gaza.

Samsung did have a major problem early last year, but it seems to be limited to a run of products with a specific firmware.

It’s Sony, so they’ll advertise Linux support, then pull it with a firmware update in 3-4 years.

And then when these games continue to flop critically, and never reach the player count they forecast, it’s the developers’ fault and layoffs abound.

Putin uses Reverse Psychology!

It’s not very effective.

The last guy to be president during a world war was elected four times, therefore…

It’s all about publishing something, even if it’s hollow click bait.

You can tell by the way he is.

With frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.

Russian scrap metal

Hey, that’s modern, cutting-edge Russian scrap metal to you, comrade.

“Sure, we haven’t kept any of the 1,000 previous promises, but this time is different. Trust me, bro.”

Pure speculation: of the people who don’t like Epic, maybe 25% are legitimate, principled objections to their business practices. The rest are split evenly between people who just want to manage their entire library on a single platform, and folks just going along for the hate-ride because it seems like the “safe” position to take.

From a technical stance, Steam and GOG are superior platforms (for different reasons). For equal-price purchases, I can’t think of a single reason to choose Epic over other options. But claiming a game for free? That doesn’t make anyone a bad person.

It’s not in any of the articles, but in dropbox forums:

The Third-Party AI features are not available to everyone yet. The features are in alpha and are only available to customers on Dropbox Professional, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, and some customers on Dropbox Standard and Advanced.

If you’re on a Basic, Plus or Family account, or you’re part of one of the other groups that don’t yet have access, the Third-Party AI features won’t be available to you.