It really looks like Microsoft made the worst call with their Series S compatibility mandate. Now games come out so late that as an Xbox owner, you’re automatically a Patient Gamer, without the upsides. That is, if a port is released at all.
These days you can play games like Death Stranding more than half a year earlier on your iPhone.
Can I ask where the material difference is to a game that requires a Day 1 patch download to work? With a Game Key Card, that patch is simply very large. You can still sell the game, just like a standard cartridge. And the Switch cartridges never had infinite shelf life to begin with, so they’re not suitable for archival either.
I went to the HSBC Main Building, rode up the escalator to the retail banking department, and, after some waiting time, asked one exceptionally well dressed clerk for a simple checking account. Mostly, I wanted one because it makes paying for things easier in some specific corner cases. (Fortunately, 95% of the time you’ll be fine with just your Octopus card and any old contactless credit or debit card from wherever you’re from.)
After clarifying I wouldn’t be drawing a HK salary or taking profits from investments in HK securities, the very polite agent let me know that her company wasn’t terribly interested in accommodating me.
I think that’s fair, because there’s like at least half a dozen reasons this business relationship could go bad, and not a lot of upside for the bank. I wasn’t devastated or anything; I was pretty much just curious if it was possible at all, and under which circumstances.
When I went to ICBC in China a week later, I walked out of there with an account and a debit card in my name. Chinese banks just have a lot less abuse to deal with, I’d imagine.
Cool. But, how much better is this than just getting an IC card and pay-as-you-go?
This was me at HSBC in Hong Kong.
Granted, I neither live nor pay taxes there, so… fair
Autists will also die if a wooden stake is driven through the heart.
As they are also vulnerable to silver bullets, maybe autists are werewolves, too?
That’s pretty interesting. Do you happen to have any introductory material to that topic?
I mean, it might even have applications outside of running a techno-communist nation state. For example, for designing economic simulation game mechanics.
Utilization of models begets training of more models.
Kinda like CSAM.
I open new browser tabs and type into a pastebin.
Pastery going login-only majorly screwed me over; now I use GitHub gists.
It’s a gross approximation, but…
Your desktop or laptop computer is probably toast, your phone probably isn’t.
Once a mail server gets hold of your mail, it can basically do whatever it wants with it, including forwarding it to FAANG MXes, HTTP POSTing it to the NSA or publishing it on Pastebin. This is one of the reasons why we push for end-to-end encryption, there can be no confidentiality or integrity otherwise.
Anti-abuse measures such as this are generally designed to not provide that kind of feedback. The website developer is modeled to be an adversary, and you don’t volunteer valuable information on what has worked against your countermeasures, and what hasn’t, to your designated enemy.
Session disables forward secrecy for no reason.
Personally, I assume it’s a honeypot.
The Switch catalog was limited in no small part because the device just couldn’t give acceptable performance for a lot of contemporary cross-platform games. That, of course, didn’t matter for first-party titles.
Switch 2 performance is projected to end up somewhere around a base PS4, with better GPU but somewhat diminished CPU. However, it’s going to have more memory than the Xbox Series S that teams had trouble porting their games to.
The Switch 2 might benefit a lot from this generation’s extended cross-gen period. Add that to franchises like Fire Emblem, Metroid, Mario, Mario Kart, Pikmin and Zelda, and the average consumer is going to think of Steam as the “limited” platform.
A lot of conjecture, and maybe Switch 2 will turn out to be a monumental flop. I’m cautiously optimistic.
By the way, the old, selective policy that Nintendo exercised is pretty much a thing of the past. Just browse through the eShop for three minutes.
IIUC the end goal, for any fusion reactor, is to heat up water and drive a steam turbine.
Imagine you could drive a steam turbine at zero cost. What happens if just keeping that turbine running costs more in upkeep than e.g. solar panels do overall?
Is there really much of an economic case for infinite energy on demand (and that is if fusion can be made to work in not just the base load case) if we have infinite energy at home already?
32-track digital audio workstations became widely available in 1996, paving the way for all-digital audio recording, editing and mastering in more settings than ever before. Supposedly, 1999 saw the first No. 1 hit produced entirely in the digital domain. Almost anything released before that timespan would have been subject to information loss either at recording, or later during post-production.
So I’d say, “before 1996” counts as “oldies” since all we have left from that time is low quality analog material anyway.
To the same effect, any video game console without a digital video/audio output could be considered “retro”. By that definition, a PlayStation 2 would be retro, but an original Game Boy wouldn’t, because its display is driven digitally…
Two necessary components for friendship are extended presence and shared struggle.
That is, you need to be around the same set of people for a non-trivial amount of time. Relationships need time to form.
But that is not enough. Just being around people doesn’t tell you much about them, or tells them much about you. There’s no basis to bond over. You need to experience the same hardship as someone else.
In 1v1 games, that’s surely harder but not impossible, if you’re e.g. struggling to improve yourself, or trying to succeed in spite of the game being a bit shitty. Try thinking of a shared objective. Only ever wanting to defeat others is ultimately alienating.
According to my mom, the calcium off her teeth.
“My dentition was so great, but then you came.”
With Genshin being as popular as it is, expect the next Zelda to become a Gacha-fueled live service game, with drip-fed narrative and piecemeal dungeons.
As long as that doesn’t happen, I’d say we’re still okay.
Income tax doesn’t do anything to the 1%. You have unrealized gains, and borrow against your assets? You owe zero tax.
A wealth tax, or income tax on yet unrealized gains, would be better. Of course, that comes with its own set of issues. But, I don’t think they are insurmountable.