I’ve given up because of time. I do not have that much time to game and when games started to hide better weapons and gear behind paywalls and progression systems that will take several hundreds of hours to complete, it sucks. So you’re fighting against those 14year olds who have spend an ungodly amount of time on the game and have better gear and that is not a good experience

TBH they haven’t done much to solve the problem with the switch lite. So I’m really sceptical here

And it really doesn’t help that Meta is making the most affordable headsets. I would like to try a Quest 3, I have the budget, but I really, really don’t trust them

Yeah - those microtransactions are killing the experience. You never know if the level is just hard and challenging and that you need to practice more or if it is impossibly hard and only solvable with money. Or if you suck in a multiplayer game or if it is pay to win

I fear that Skyblivion will totally get a C&D now that Bethesda is selling their own remake :(

To be honest, most other websites are not better, we are just used to them. Google? TikTok? Bing? Reddit? Yahoo? X? Twitter? ChatGPT? DuckDuckGo? XNXX?

But i am afraid of people messing up their devices and blaming me

Just to be clear: If your script messes up somebodys device, no licence in the world will keep them from blaming you ;)

Well, that’s an absolute no-go and thanks for reminding me to never buy one of their products

It makes sense that there still are physical games. There are many people with no internet or slow internet. You can gift them to your children or friends on their birthday. You can sell them/pass them on after you’ve finished the game

Yeah, they had a really good thing going on and it’s sad that it didn’t last.

And if you go out and order a drink, you might get 3 or 4 straws. Yes, it’s stupid. Yes, it doesn’t make sense. But it happens and people throw their to-go drinks into the environment after they finished them

Yeah, but it’s a quick win. Ban some single-use plastics and prevent it from getting into the oceans because it doesn’t exist. Yeah, you have to do something about the fishing nets, but there is no reason to not take those quick-wins

Why shouldn’t it be relevant? The waste is out there, is being found on our beaches and the industrial plastic waste is not swept up as often? So why would a regulation to prevent the most common plastic-items on our beaches from being there be bad?

It’s kind of crazy - those plastic Q-tips are only better if you want to totally wreck your ears and every doctor is warning against that. For every legitimate use, those paper variants work perfectly well

If it gets swept up on the shore, it’s in the ocean. So it totally makes sense to prevent it from being there.

Just FYI:

Single-use plastic products are used once, or for a short period of time, before being thrown away. Under the EU’s rules on single-use plastics, the EU is tackling the 10 single-use plastic items most commonly found on Europe’s beaches and is promoting sustainable alternatives. The 10 items are

Cotton bud sticks 
Cutlery, plates, straws and stirrers 
Balloons and sticks for balloons 
Food containers 
Cups for beverages 
Beverage containers 
Cigarette butts 
Plastic bags 
Packets and wrappers 
Wet wipes and sanitary items 

https://commission.europa.eu/news/less-plastic-waste-means-cleaner-beaches-2024-08-14_en

So yeah, nets are bad, but straws, plastic bags, cigarettes and packages are also a problem.

If this feature is unneeded, why is it then available for paying users?

Yeah - and they also don’t seem to licence the patent. They are not using it, so there is no reason to sit on it.

Just be patient. Those new GPUs are so new, expensive and rare that no game has them as target hardware. Stay on your current setup and wait until games are catching up and prices go down.

Paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06623