I believe in you.

The industry is focused on gambling addicts and micro-transactions because it’s MOST profitable; not because the alternative isn’t profitable or sustainable.

The gaming industry is in crisis. It isn’t just Microsoft laying off staff. If you want to use Valve as an example, they became the app store for PC gaming; which puts them more in line with Apple or Google in their control of their own app stores.

I think the the problem with the gaming industry is more structural instead of trapped to one company. The public won’t pay for what they say, so the gaming industry has become focused on gambling addicts since they’re the only ones who pay.

According to the spending that EU countries are doing in preparation for an American departure, it seems like the cost of defense is going up.

Sure, but there was another comment here complaining about having to spend about 5% of the GDP to make up the difference.

If NATO wasn’t a thing, the EU would have needed to create a NATO like defense apparatus internally, and that would have cost them money. Keeping America in was a great way for Europe to keep its defense costs down.

They’re scared of losing the American security guarantee and this is what it costs them to create a comparable EU guarantee.

It is a compromise because all the other options are worse.

A lot of studios want some form of DRM, so a GOG model won’t work for them. For various reasons, an offline DRM scheme is considered to be superior to an online DRM scheme.

Except that has never been Microsoft’s gaming strategy. The Xbox was developed to give PC gaming a toehold in the console market so that games in one market class could be easily ported over to the other.

As app stores became a major money maker for OS’s, the Xbox game store became a backdoor way to get an established app store on PC to eat Valve’s lunch and pull in a new revenue stream.

Physical media doesn’t work with Microsoft’s gaming strategy.

Yeah. If your company is looking that closely into your behavior, they are looking for an excuse instead of a reason.

Yes, this article isn’t. I’m talking about another study.

Initial studies have found that AI generally helps either the top performers or the bottom performers of a job/profession. If it helps the top the most, it usually means that the person has to know enough on how to use the AI tools and correct known issues. If it helps the bottom the most, switch fields since it is likely that the AI is going to push your role into whomever is cheapest.

It is the difference between objectively bad and comparatively bad.

I use stable as a relative term, but it isn’t like the number of non-white people dying goes down during periods of instability.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony stops producing Blu-ray soon.

We have the technology for the next generation of discs that could support 8k. It just happens to be that no one wants to put money into creating the standard.

Sony may not want to deal with it anymore.

There’s always Microsoft and Nintendo.

The Concert of Europe kept the continent relatively peaceful for a century, mainly by ensuring that one nation didn’t become another Napoleonic France.

Post World War II was also relatively peaceful compared to the interwar years, mainly because of the two interventionist powers trying to compete with each other. There was a lot of genocide after World War I.

It sounds like it’s going to be an eager intern answering questions that needs thought behind it before answering.

It was bad enough having people demand answers immediately after they stopped talking on Teams.

I look at the Steam Machine being a proof of concept device leading to third party development.

There is now a lot of interest in computer markers to make their own machine and Valve is more than happy if they do it at no cost to Valve.

It is more an explanation as to why the economy is doing well despite the overwhelming majority seeing flat or negative spending.