Maybe hire better protection partners?

Damage control from the PR team shouldn’t be allowed to fix this. Publicly name the “protection partner,” publicly end their contract, apologize, and develop a transparency plan going forward.

Lesson learned: Never sell any of your company if you want to remain in control of it.

Sounds like elements of the old MUD “Sindome” along with Logan’s Run and Robocop

Ya think?

Now I have no idea what you’re talking about.

History? Have you looked at the wealth sequestered in churches?

It’s a common expression, especially in the US South. And what gives you the idea that Christians are banned from having wealth?

Nvidia and their Chinese customers had to see this coming. Wonder if they’ll also be fined for trying to circumvent the export ban?

I’m surprised Intel hasn’t gotten into the planned obsolescence game yet

Judging from this post, they just figured it out.

Short of buying the IP catalog, Microsoft seems to be doing right here.

Tomshardware is a blog, not journalism. It seems to be a generally credible blog (passes the CRAAP test), but it’s still just a blog.

That said, sadly, I have to agree about the general state of almost all US-based “journalism” these days. About 90% of headlines today would have gotten the editor fired on the spot in my newsroom. That was a point of strong disagreement between me and the station manager, and It’s one of the major reasons that I left the field.

Misleading headline. This improvement was only the best video encoding result. Most relevant improvements were in the 7-17% range. Still an improvement, but not so spectacular.

The Cask of Amontillado?

So there isn’t actually a problem with GIMP.

Owned up to the mistake, then suggested alternatives while they were finishing Maps, which had been rushed due to the launch of Android and Jobs not wanting a competitor’s CEO sitting on Apple’s board.

I have no idea what you’re on about messaging. I can use it just fine.

Messages simply cannot be removed from their context and retain their meaning. According to Paul McCartney, as you say, this is simply a song about opposites.

I say yes
You say no
You say stop
And I say go, go, go….

Nobody’s perfect.

I don’t know of any MMS problem, but I also don’t generally text outside of iMessages. Maps was a cockup, and Apple owned it.

Firefox will let you whitelist sites that are allowed to your location. Just whitelist those sites. Or use a search engine that doesn’t respect privacy, say Google or StartPage.

That may be a feature of DDG. In respecting privacy, it may be ignoring your location. Since I never let sites have access to location data if I can prevent it, I don’t know.

I haven’t noticed it appearing unasked in internet search results, and I never use the desktop search except for on-device queries.

I don’t think Spaz is thinking at all. That was how Reddit imploded.

DuckDuckGo is my default search tool. It’s great.

And slow down search even more?

I’m sure they are. But they haven’t yet. And after this, they might at least borrow a page from Apple and make sure it works first.

Wow, I haven’t used Lynx since the 90s. Admittedly, a text-only browser is an attractive idea.

It’s an interesting concept. But right now, Google Search is the best argument in favor of Bing.

I’m not planning to switch from DuckDuckGo, but then I wasn’t planning to switch from Google either. Glad to know that Bing is a good alternative — if I feel like trusting Microsoft.

Did anyone actually try to read this article? It’s gibberish.

I mean, some game studios consult child psychologists and lawyers to better implement addictive gambling-like mechanics without being liable for that.

For example? They couldn’t consult child psychologists for this purpose. It would be an ethics violation of the highest order and would get any license revoked.

Media does impact the consumer…

What kind of media? Evidence?

But violent games that do reach the market and aren’t dead on arrival are mild in that and can only supplement other, more real problems like mental health issues, trauma, neglect, bullying. And in 99.9% cases it’s just an excuse to push them under the carpet. Like, from drawing a line to what makes older demographics cause daily mass shootings. Not videogames, not even guns mostly, but the environment and culture as a whole.

Again, videogames simply do not influence social behavior. It’s difficult to find credible non-biased research, but here are a couple of relatively recent articles:

• Tear, Morgan J., and Mark Nielsen. “Failure to Demonstrate That Playing Violent Video Games Diminishes Prosocial Behavior.” PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 7, July 2013, pp. 1–7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068382.
• Goodson, Simon, et al. “Violent Video Games and the P300: No Evidence to Support the Neural Desensitization Hypothesis.” CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 48–55. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2020.0029

What “older demographics”? “Daily mass shootings”? Where do you live?

All that said, environment does seem to impact social behavior. It’s likely a much stronger influence than a recreational activity.

What evidence links video games to violent thinking? I’m unaware of any.

That question aside, there’s simply no evidence that gaming impacts behavior, which as you suggest is the major interest here.

One thing I wish we could ban are opportunistic suits from hungry law firms that are just hoping that these companies will settle rather than fight an obviously frivolous suit. This is an insult to the civil legal system

Agreed on all points.

game studios consult child psychologists and lawyers to better implement addictive gambling-like mechanics without being liable

For example?

Video games do not promote violence according to any modern ethical research on the question.

I can’t imagine the pain of these families, and I’d want to lash out at any available target, too. They might even get lucky and have a settlement offer from Activision rather dragging everyone through a trial. But if this even makes it into a courtroom, I would bet that it will ultimately go nowhere. There’s just no credible evidence to support the claim.

Unbelievable. Just bloody unbelievable.

There’s something to be said for knowing when you’re in the wrong role and fixing it rather than doubling down.

Do we actually care what anyone who’s still posting on Reddit thinks?

I mean, it seems pretty clear to me. Nice simple language. Clearly defined common terms. Not much room for misunderstanding or miscommunication.

Unless this is a very peculiar way to spell “We got caught with our pants down.”

Sorry if I have that wrong. I’m not on Steam. That was the gist of one of the articles.

I didn’t play Marathon when it was first released due to life making other demands. But I’ve enjoyed it immensely in the last several years. Old school is my thing, it seems. :)

I think that’s the point of the article. Bungie arranged to use Aleph One’s code for the free Steam version. It’s just another avenue to introduce the game to new players.