subignition

If there’s a silver lining here it’s that you can wait until there are enough interesting games to justify a purchase. If the switch 2’s lifecycle is comparably long as the original Switch’s, that backlog ain’t going anywhere.

You cannot forbid forking a public GitHub repository, per their terms of service

There are SO MANY parents that are not willing to teach and monitor their kids online safety. I would even say most parents don’t take that responsibility themselves.

I think the hardware has a lot of promise, but it’s fair to say that at this very instant there aren’t many exclusives to justify it if you aren’t excited about Mario Kart.

If you have a backlog of Switch games, or you have favorites you’re frequently playing on Switch, the improved processing power and loading times could be attractive, even if your games don’t have resolution/framerate patches. For example, Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition loads battles in a snap, and doesn’t have any framerate issues during gameplay anymore (although it is still capped at like 30 FPS in cutscenes, sadly.)

There’s a couple other neat things about it, but likely not too relevant to anyone who’s on the fence about the console.

Oh this is awesome. I can see so many cool applications for this in wearable electronics and custom form factor batteries. I hope their research into improving the voltage pays off.

They already offer a subscription service. And on top of that they have not-so-microtransactions in their shop.

The rarest human resource there is: good management.

Even though it’s a corporate spokesperson, they wouldn’t have requested anonymity if they were allowed to talk about it…

Some nerd probably wanted to be able to say they literally decimated their management teams

Israel is probably the contractor that does the dirty work for the others.

Having done it for a living for a few months, you cannot possibly imagine how bad it gets.

No, seriously. I already had very little faith in humanity going in, and thought I’d seen the worst the internet had to offer. Scraping the actual bottom of the barrel is difficult to even describe. I had to force a stunned sense of humor about it to detach myself a bit as a coping mechanism.

Honestly, as long as the collision lets you walk over it smoothly without getting caught in the gap between the terrain and the object, I think this is fine. Having it flush or overlapping would probably lead to z-fighting or other weird collision bugs.

If they were any more inbred, they’d be a sandwich.

if they really cared about intellectual property rights, this would be OPT-IN.

Was that supposed to speak to some part of my comment…?

It seems like a complete non sequitur to me.

I am WAY too unqualified to understand any of the technical stuff, so I’ll be waiting to hear thoughts from experts on this one. It looks like if there are no major flaws in it this is a great thing for the platform overall.

I am a bit out of the loop in terms of RDBMS history, what do you mean by MySQL refugees?

If functionality exists in the client app, there’s nothing to be done to stop someone from bypassing checks.

Looking into it further this looks like it’s an API between the backend of a service and Google though. That would be difficult to defeat, but you could probably spoof the identity of the requesting device with enough effort

It’s not like dedicated people aren’t going to be able to just patch out the calls to this API from the apps themselves…

This feels like yet another attempt at DRM that is doing more harm than help.

Damn, you’re living in the future. I’m still stuck using three shells.