leveling up your build periodically from a randomly selected set of options

The bosses are also randomly selected

Those are neat and trendy features, but I don’t see how they make it anything like Rogue or its ilk.

These days when people say roguelike they just mean a game that divides its gameplay into short, disconnected runs instead of one long, continuous save. It unfortunately has nothing to do with whether a game is anything like Rogue.

you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle

No. Fuck that. My PC has a headphone jack, and I use it. I don’t have a bunch of extra USB-C ports on the front of my computer. Modern phones have plenty of spaces for headphone jacks. They could put it there, they just don’t want to.

That’s great and all but I’m not switching to Bluetooth headphones and I’m definitely not going to fiddle around with dongles every time I switch between listening on my phone and my PC. Phones are gigantic anyways; let my have my headphone jack. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all these smartphone manufacturers that ditched the old standard will happily sell you shiny expensive disposable wireless earbuds.

Even in the page given as an example here there are two speech bubbles that are pushing their boundaries.

They’re just excited because it’s kind of like they released Skyrim again and they haven’t had their fix in a while.

Maybe the reality is that 80-90% of their programmers actively use tools like Github Copilot and the CEO got really excited about what that might mean. I mean, how could he possibly measure this?

The problem is if the user asks the AI a question about the language they’re learning they’ll often get confident bullshit as the response and they won’t know it’s wrong because they’re still learning.

Yeah I dropped that one entirely.

Eh. I haven’t listened so much lately anyways since Chris started obsessing over Crypto.

It’s important to not allow “perfect” to become the enemy of “good”.

I use apps that aren’t available in my region for language study, so this could end up being a real problem for me.