There is absolutely no game I’d want as a key card for, but it makes even less sense for a limited edition.

The only thing a key card has over direct download is being able to give/sell it to someone. If you got a physical version of an otherwise digital-only game, specifically because you want some cool material thing to collect, you are probably not planning to sell it later.

Key card is basically the worst of both worlds.The ties to a bit of plastic to be abe to play, and the full reliance on network/servers/storage memory of a download.

I’ve never really got into FF as a series. The only ones I actually completed were just the FF3 DS remake (I barely remember anything about it) and 9 on the Switch that I got because it was the one that looked the most “fantasy” to me. It was nice, had its moments.

The rest is mostly stuff I’ve abandoned. Started XIII, got bored in the long beginning corridor, stopped playing. Never could get through FF6 either, I just can’t care about its characters and disjointed storytelling.

Everything I get from the most “Nomura” episodes by pure cultural osmosis, especially everything around FF7, tells me I won’t enjoy it.

In France, I rarely see “real world” ads for video games. Except a couple huge releases from EA or Ubisoft occasionally plastered on train station walls, but doesn’t happen a lot and it’s just like release week and nothing beyond that.

On traditional TV channels, Nintendo is still the one buying the most screen time, by far. Mostly the very mainstream stuff, lots of Mario (platformers/kart/party), Pokémon and Animal Crossing (shit, if you’d told me before 2020 that Animal Crossing would be mainstream one day, I’d have a hard time believing that, but it sure became so).

I see occasional Sony TV ads, but nowhere near as many.

They’re right, the geometry is just lying under an opaque layer of shit.

Also everyone is technically naked 100% of the time, you just can’t see it under the clothes they’re wearing.

He “fell into the trap of hallucinations”. Yeah, maybe we need to stop pretending people who ask LLM to slop their work for them are victims.

“Look, the robot found an irresistible quote, how could I not use it?!” That’s great journalism for you.

They asked copilot to slop an update for them and it tried to kill itself. Tragic, really.

Zuckerberg not caring about people’s consent is literally the core principle that lead to facebook. He must be such a proud bot daddy.

I do like all the trilogy (there’s only 3 of them right? Right).

It’s true only the first one has that classic connected world, though IMO 2 had fairly big areas with multiple paths so it felt close enough.

3’s map design was a bit weak but I liked the new gameplay around motion/pointing (though I still prefer the gamepad for 1 and 2, they were not made for pointing and the wii controls suck for those).

The game that may or may not exist made me angry. There are some decent parts, but they’re lost in an ocean of annoying shit. Especially a completely useless central area, extremely linear design, an uninteresting antagonist and cringey assholes spamming you with terrible dialogues for the full game. Fuck you, Myles MacKenzie.

Unless it’s a part of meta horizons I didn’t know about (which is very possible, I interacted about 3 minutes with it), that particular metaverse might have been some crypto/NFT bullshit rather.

This sounds like something à la “decentraland” a.k.a cryptobros trying to sell plots in a terrible empty virtual world because some day it’ll sell for bazillions dollars, trust us.

I played that on the NES long ago. I sucked at it.

Once I managed to unify England and win the game and I still have no idea how that happened and I’m sure dumb luck must have been part of it. It certainly never happened again.

I don’t live near big scaly things full of teeth, so what do I know, but making it thrash about in anger would not be my first idea.

“In a way” because to me the game’s focus is different enough that, even if they do have a lot of mechanics in common, it doesn’t feel like “Builders 3” to me.

Like, you know, The Wonderful 101 is not Okami 2.

In a way, yes, but it’s significantly better at what it kept from builders 2. DQB2 slows down to a crawl about 50 builds in, and can’t manage a tenth of that active NPC amount in an area.

It’s also designed to give you a lot more freedom. Instead of most story objectives being imposed blueprints and a tiny active building site, you’re dropped into large areas with lots of broken architecture and empty wilderness spaces, and what you do with it is your decision.

Current-generation consoles? You know you can’t put copilot on switch 2, Microsoft?

No actual date, but they said recently it was scheduled for “spring”.

I am a backer and they haven’t started surveying for platforms yet, in any case.

I am ready to believe those that allowed this law to pass were.

The great thing about asking gen AI to look for problems, is that it’s so helpful it will create new ones for you.

Like arguing for hours that if you were to remove safeguards from your code, it would become unsafe.

https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307

Oh cool, now there’s a new way of using AI to destroy the environment. Old one wasn’t deliberate enough.

would increase costs

For us? Microsoft licences aren’t exactly cheap, keep getting more expensive, and every single basic functionality is an extra.

cybersecurity risks,

Trust the megacorp with a huge target on its back that will deny any responsibility when it fucks up instead.

limit AI and cloud services

Sounds exclusively like a “you” problem.

expand government control in ways that can undermine civil liberties and enable censorship,

Sure, give that control to the US government instead.

Fuck that bullshit. Hopefully no clueless politician falls for it.

Not a company since I’m in public administration, but my structure has a few thousands workers, most of them having access in some form to the network.

They do filter our internet. I don’t give a fuck whether people consume porn with their own devices and connections. But if you can download porn, you can download anything, including malware. And a bad actor having access to data on our network would be disastrous.

Unfortunately, meta has that kind of data too. In fact hoarding private data is what their business is about. Not securing their network is criminal.