What if I told you that remasters aren’t solely or even mainly targeted at existing fans of the game who, yes, may be familiar with community mods and source ports?

They’re also - perhaps primarily - for people who are otherwise interested in playing the game but don’t want to piss about with extra downloads, patches, and config files. Especially on console.

There are no hacks available for Switch 2 so far.

The technology isn’t the problem, the companies are. All the things you listed are issues, but they are all also solved if you look slightly harder.

There are free video services that you can watch from anywhere, not to mention self-hosted VOD for all your definitely-legitimately-acquired media.

You can get video doorbells that aren’t from Ring or Google and link them to fully private systems like Home Assistant.

… okay there’s no solution for McDonald’s prices if you want McD’s, but - at least here in the UK - delivery bags are sealed so you can in fact tell if someone has eaten your fries.

Anyway, my point is you shouldn’t feel bad for imagining a cool future. We do get to live in that future, but we also have to be judicious about who we trust to deliver it.

And sometimes they lay off all the developers, too!

Did you actually read the article or are you just kneejerk griping based on the title?

It’s a quote from an individual developer - an audio designer - talking about their experiences during Bungie’s layoffs, hence the reference to ‘unrealistic constraints’, but for some reason you seem to be taking it as an opportunity to air your grievances with the overall creative direction?

Maybe you didn’t mean it that way, but I can’t stand it when ‘fans’ lash out at developers as if they’ve been personally wronged. Remember the human.

Two reasons:

• Active multiplayer: Yes this is kind of a chicken and egg situation, but people who play online multiplayer want to play the version of the game with the largest community of active players.
• Roster updates: If you’re a fan of a sports team, you probably want to play using their current active roster. Yes, fan updates are sometimes available for older titles but the latest release will have updated face scans etc.

Nintendo has always been litigious. I don’t understand this myth that they used to be wholesome and friendly in the good old days.

They sued Atari for making NES games. They sued Galoob for making the Game Genie. They sued Blockbuster for renting their games.

Kirby the character is literally named after Nintendo’s lawyer John Kirby.

Absolutely! I saw a talk at Develop last year from some of the Farming Simulator team, and they said a huge chunk of their audience are farmers.

Tons of pilots play flight simulators. I believe the same also applies to Euro/American Truck Simulator, based on the community discussions I’ve seen. I’d be surprised if the same wasn’t true for train sims too.

FYI you can access and download iCloud photos on a computer, which might help your wife transfer them without using her phone.

Which? argues that a customer who would have theoretically paid £1.99 for the service but was not able to do so because the actual £2.99 price was unaffordable suffered a £1 loss, even though the customer paid nothing.

Maybe you have to be a lawyer to understand this, because to me it sounds like complete nonsense.

Yep, CotEditor is fantastic - solo dev and they’re very careful to follow the actual macOS interface guidelines, so it looks and feels native throughout.

Ah, one of the dozen people who actually liked the original Steam controller! A rare sight indeed.

I’m willing to bet it’s people seeing an ‘AI bad’ headline, upvoting, and moving on without reading.

I don’t like AI either but the hivemind on the fediverse is just as bad as back on Reddit sometimes.

I’m not certain. That might fall under falsely implying endorsement, which is one of the few exceptions.

Fun fact: there’s no general concept of image/likeness rights in the UK, and photographers own the full copyright of any photos they take.

There are other laws that come into play if you were in a private place or if your likeness is used to falsely imply endorsement, but otherwise if someone takes your photo in public they can do whatever they want with it.

(Obvious disclaimer that I’m not a lawyer but the above is my understanding of the law.)

Exactly. If Epic released a $99 controller that required EGS running to work people would be up in arms.

Because it’s a service using cloud AI. Processing text uses tokens, tokens cost money, hence the subscription fee.

It’s a dumb app - deliberately so - but it costs money to run and a one-off payment won’t cut it if people start using it to modify hundreds or thousands of emails.

Not too jaded - game devs receive huge amounts of abuse as it is. There is zero desire to make it easier.

No, the users are definitely also criminals.

IWF is a UK organisation