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New humans cost money, and might not obey their corporate overlords.

Gonna find out real quick that Apple is more important to people than Twitter.

If Twitch’s little experiment is anything to go by, it already is.

I dunno. I just don’t see it as a big problem, I guess. Just because it has some useless stuff attached doesn’t mean it’s a scam or something, as long as the artbook and music is accessible and are considered worth the price.

Also, looking at the pack, the “dlc” is 4 whole cosmetics. If it’s considered a scam without those, then it should be considered a scam with them.

I mean…is it? I don’t really get what to be upset about here. If it were really DLC sans game, then yeah, that’d be ridiculous, but if people want to buy these things, why not? And $10 for both seems like a decent price, tbh.

On the one hand, games have stayed the same price for a long time, well below the rate of inflation.

On the other, wages have also stayed well below inflation for a long time. I don’t expect they’ll see the growth they want when a game purchase takes a larger and larger bite out of someone’s paycheck.

Oh no! Wait, I don’t use that shit because of shit like this.

FFs took a huge paycheck of blood money that they could’ve easily turned down. They’re in it too.

Don’t blame him because he’s just “making money”? Might as well not blame the execs with that logic. They’re also just making money, right?

Unless I’m misunderstanding it myself, fixed term means they had a set period of time that’s not up for renewal. Ergo, when the term runs out, that’s it. There’s no chance of delinquency because there’s no additional payments.

“Fixed Term” does not mean “delinquent”. It just means there’s a hard cut off. All I know is the snippet you posted, though, so maybe there’s more to the situation.

That’s not what I got out of that at all. It looks more like an errant setting made the account expire automatically after some amount of time, triggering the wipe.

Addiction isn’t about fun.

Games aren’t ferraris. Get out of here with that. Just because you want the billion dollar games to cost $10 doesn’t mean games are out of reach for everyone. Between free-to-play games and the ocean of indie games available online, gaming has never been more accessible.

The reason older people are gaming is because they’re the first generation to have grown up with games as a thing. 55 year olds were children when the Atari came out. They’ve grown up with it. Why would they stop just because they’re older?

Even saying they’re guessing is wrong, as that implies intention. LLMs aren’t trying to give an answer, let alone a correct answer. They just put words together.

It wouldn’t be anything specific. The disclaimers would just be overbroad stuff like “Please verify this answer. Google is not responsible for anything. Blah blah blah.”

The Sims but you churn through characters like popcorn.

and the first thing they tell us is “don’t worry, the data’s fine”, rather than anything about the human.

I do agree it would have been significantly more considerate to mention that the person is ok first, but I feel like you’re confusing data storage (ie something they’re collecting) with data processing (ie how the device operates). The data in question is the latter. In other words, they are explaining that the problems are being accounted for so that the device can still function in the human it’s attached to.

My dude, that’s not even the same user. Get a grip.

Fwiw, I’m not being serious. Just a bit of wordplay. Added a pic to be a bit more clear ;)