top notch exploration, and the story was just the right amount.

lol

Is there really any other reaction?

I read that to mean it’s a digital download only and not a physical copy in stores, but didn’t put much thought into it.

This only sorta works for today and if your friends never share images or videos online. The ever-increasing amount of people taking pictures and filming and posting them online means the day is quickly approaching where you could be identified and tracked through other people’s content, security & surveillance cameras, etc.

If stores start adopting the tracking used at Walmart and the Amazon biometric data, social media will be the last of your worries.

I didn’t dig too much into it, but my guess would be no.

Even if you could verify, it’s still an ethical grey area as it’s taking works they paid photographers to generate new works potentially without crediting the original photographers? Their own website tells people they have to credit the original photographer, and I’d be surprised if the AI lists all the works it used to create it.

arguably no?

Though Getty did introduce their new AI today that was only trained on images they own the copyright to. Arguably, still not ethical, but at least it’s things they own the data for.

Ahh, Google’s tried and true method of throwing a million half-baked features to people before promptly cancelling them all. This will definitely work for them.

Great list - these are all worth checking out. Some of these games I spent way too much time playing.

I think Ultima 7 is probably one of the best RPGs of the 90s. Ultima 6 might have been the first to ‘clutter your entire world with junk’ game, but was both beautiful and massive for its time (though 7 did everything better).

It’s hard to go wrong with most of the classic Sierra games, though the text entry ones are in a special difficulty level of their own. King’s Quest series. Conquests of Camelot was enjoyable. Colonel’s bequest. Space quest series.

The Kyrandia games were enjoyable but I played them not too long ago.

I remember enjoy star trek 25th anniversary.

Just a guess, but I would suspect it’s because it’s one of the few game genre’s that has a nationality tied to it and it probably feels like a box they can’t escape – just because of where they’re from.

To them, it’s just their own spin on an RPG. No matter how much they change to make it appeal to a broader audience, they’re always going to be a JRPG, which feels very limiting. It’s always going to be “it’s an amazing RPG if you like JRPGs”, which to someone making the game probably makes you feel less than. No other country has that.

It’s similar to splitting k-pop or even j-pop out. TO people making the music, they probably just want to be considered on a world stage as great pop music. Not just K-pop album of the year.

Even if people here don’t mean it negatively, doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like a shitty box to people. We rarely apply the same sort of boxes to things from other countries. You don’t hear Abba or Robyn are the best S-pop artists of the last 50 years.

This isn’t that strange for a number of open source projects. I don’t know Godot’s specifics, but lots of folks are willing to toss a few bucks via patreon or other sources. They keep a list of donors who don’t mind being named in the source code, and it includes a few companies that make monthly donations. I’m sure they get a number of grants like this one from Epic.

There’s a number of mastodon servers where people pay donate monthly to them.

Thanks! I updated the post and title.

That’s a decent start, but you need a browser that’s resistant to fingerprinting through some plugins and something like ublock origin that will block all embedded content. At some point, it may require you to use a phone number, and at that point you may have a problem. If you avoid that, one of the biggest threats are the facebook and related meta content placed on other pages around the internet. The pixel is one aspect, but almost any facebook content can still track you across sites. These are easily blocked with a decent adblocker and probably privacybadger too.

I know lots of folks will disagree, but I’d care less about Facebook tracking you as they mostly only care about serving you ads and making content suggestions to keep you on the platform to view more ads. Facebook has never served me a relevant ad, and even with a lot of use still can’t recommend things I’m interested in. Data leaks and sharing is a concern, but that’s a concern with every site. I think when it comes to privacy, there’s far bigger concerns.

They’ve run out of scenarios, but the brand must go on.

Oh yeah, they’re probably not waiting months for something to come back. Companies know what’s popular, so they tend to stagger those. So people will not cancel if they know next month or the month after is going to be something they want to play.

If you’re only interested in one or two games, you’ll just buy those (until they stop letting us buy games and force us to rent them).

Yeah, people definitely wait. Don’t have any stats, but I hear people talking about it all the time with regards to streaming services.

THe service does pay for on-loan games, but that’s not a reason to rotate. They’re paying regardless. THey rotate to try and keep things fresh so people don’t cancel.

I don’t think this benefits anyone but Ubisoft.

I think the CMA was concerned about microsoft cornering the cloud gaming market with the acquisition, so granting Ubisoft rights to stream these games alleviated their concerns.

I’m not sure why this was their concern though

that’s part of every subscription business plan, sadly. The rotation helps keep subscriptions up longer as people have to wait for things to cycle back around.

who tf subscribes to this?

I’d bet mastodon saw an increase, but i haven’t seen the numbers.

It’s also hard to get a good count since it’s not centralized. So whatever numbers we do see, could be wildly underreported.

The named email says Abbott’s teams are working to “verify and confirm compatibility”, so it’s unclear if this is an actual issue or just a precaution over what they think could be an issue.