Unfortunately until they are no longer “vital infrastructure” to governments, they will just get bailed out. I guess the best we can hope for is they disappear into obscurity as just another corporate software package that could easily be replaced by a spreadsheet.

Nah, the fake trees are getting better at blending into the forest.

This images has some tells that is was generated, it’s possible some post clean up was done but when’s the last time you’ve seen a mug with two handles? I’ll admit those do exists, so it could be the artist’s choice. On the painting on the book case, splitting the mouse’s head in half is also certainly a choice…

Looking at the “game” it self, someone else mentioned the mouse doesn’t fit in the tunnels. The gaps are inconsistent as well, some areas of the map are inaccessible, regardless of the characters Sir. The big cheeses are all different, and some of the cheese dots go over the green walls. Those aren’t mistakes someone would make by hand, especially considering the amount of detail in the rest of the image. If it was a kid’s doodle, I’d be a bit more forgiving.

AI is getting better, it’s hard to tell what is and what isn’t AI at a glance, especially when a human cleans up some of the obvious mistakes. These days you really have to scrutinize an image on the technical details/logic of it to decide.

Ooo so wiping data is destruction of property now? That means data is property.

Let’s apply that to Microsoft for the times their updates wiped user data, to apple when you take the phone in for a screen repair and they “had” to wipe your data, to Sony for deleting movie collections, and all the data collectors for stealing property…

Or plan your kitchen remodel to not have that stupid corner.

For all we know that kid was kidnapped and forced to wear a costume to make it less obvious.

We can speculate a million terrible things, or we can choose to say “aww” that’s cute and move on.

Ashamed and arrested for assault. Being a “gaurd” doesn’t give you right to grab someone and coerces them into stripping.

That can be read both as intended, and as if congress has the debate every spring and fall. Both of which are true.

No please don’t. We will get 0% of the profits and 100% of the debt/consequences slowly paid out to mystery accounts with taxes that could have been spent on proper heathcare 100 times over.

That would explain why my computer freezes so often.

So Harry is just Hermione’s tool.

My issue with it is the complete lack of transparency in the spyware. It would be better if we were actually told about the spyware and the data it sends is accessible to us. But right now we have no idea what they’re sending, how any of it affects our insurance rates, and have no way to dispute anything resulting from it.

Really? Its pretty common. Less common than nsfw, but still. Guess you’re one of today’s lucky ten thousand.

r/eyebleach was a great place to go after stumbling on a nsfl post. I wonder if there is a Lemmy equivalent… Gonna go check.

Found a few communities, most only have a few posts, this one has the most at 32.

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What’s the difference between malware and windows?

Malware is well maintained by its developers.

And how do you give away a digital game?

You might not sell games, but other people do especially if they don’t like a game.

Now the game just sits in a virtual library unplayed. If there was a way to sell, or loan, a game license to a friend or something, that’d be cool.

Woah, slow down there pal. Don’t cha know, seeing articles makes a copy in your brain which is piracy.

Yeah, flash certainly wouldn’t work for actually running the game, but it would work great for a 1 time distribution/transfer method to the game to a pic/console’s drive.

They could just use a flash drive to distribute the game. Copy the game to the local drive…and wait, that’s how PC gaming works.

The appeal of CDs, or game cartridges, was the ability to load a game and immediately start playing (well after the loading screen as everything loaded into ram) and you could play the game on other consoles (bring game to friend or resell it). To recreate that, most games would have to be shipped on a 256gb ssd so the game can just load from that on any computer. I have a feeling that’s not the best business strategy right now

The issue is that someone else holds the key to your license. They can revoke it at any time, with 0 meaningful consequences.

We must now provide our own physical media to store the game…which in principle is fine and makes more sense than a game disk. However, the reliance on corporations to not fuck you over is the issue.

Archiving all your games is easier than said done too. To properly “keep” every game, you’ll need a lot of high-capacity storage devices. Going by common file backup strategy, we need to store at least 3 copies, ideally 1 off site somehow. That’s going to add up quick.

And hopefully your game is DRM free and doesn’t try to phone home looking for a valid license on a deprecated server.

Next update? No, it’s re-enabled automatically when ever you have an important conversation, that way you can’t forget to turn it back on!

I hate what google has become.