> Try to own them like farm animals.
Jesus christ, I hope you are never in a position of any significant power
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Jesus christ, I hope you are never in a position of any significant power
One reason is that playing the emulated version is a better experience. Why would you play Breath of the Wild at 900p/30fps, when you can play it at 4k/60fps AND have all the customizability of running it on a PC.
Emulators illustrate that Nintendo forces you to buy an outdated tablet to play an intentionally hamstrung version of their game, so that once you are bought in to the hardware, you are more likely to buy more of their games.
As soon as you can do something like `desktopManager.cosmic.enable = true`(like you can for KDE and Gnome) I'm immediately switching to Cosmic!
I just wish we all directly and willingly funded things that were good.
This would completely alienate Firefox's core userbase.
> i have ideas on how to implement unblockable ads using traditional means
If a way to serve unblockable ads existed, it would already be implemented and widely used
All the other games built in the same engine by the same studio are released on Xbox and PC.
Their "hobby" saves huge corporations large amounts of money. I don't understand how it's not obvious that they should chip in comparatively small amounts of money to make sure that the project stays updated and secure.
Why bother funding open source at all, it's not like it's the foundation of the entire worlds infrastructure or anything.
I'm just barely young enough to be a zoomer, so maybe my view will be interesting. From my perspective my ability to find "good" music is better than it ever would have been in the past.
I find music suggestions from forums, review sites, subreddits, friends, online people I follow, etc. Then I can immediately listen to it with no effort or expense. I found my favorite album of all time from a random comment someone left on an internet thread.
To me the idea of having to wait until a local radio station played a song, and then make a leap of faith on purchasing the album seems like such a worse experience.
Similarly, in terms of creating music, it has never been easier to learn, create and distribute your own music. The rise of the internet has made it so much easier to find a niche communities of people making incredibly diverse and experimental music together.
In my mind, streaming sites have two roles and do a very good job at both:
- make all music as accessible as possible
- suggest music for people who want to "passively" listen to music, which is how the average person has always listened to music (and that's a completely legitimate thing to want and enjoy)
I see a lot of "the death of cinema", "the death of music", "the death of video games" takes around, and I can't help but feel like these views come from people who have lost track of where the "niche" communities has moved on to and then feel despair when to them it looks like the "mainstream" is all that exists.
It would definitely impact my view of the company as an investor.
It's an emulator for consoles (wii and gamecube) and games that you cannot buy from Nintendo
On one hand, I think that personalized OSS AIs are the future from a pure utility perspective, and it will inevitably be "more fun" for them to have personalities. I also think that if someone is deriving joy from something and not harming anyone else, who I am to judge them.
On the other, I've already found myself asking ChatGPT questions that I would have asked on a forum/discord or even a colleague, it already is removing human interactions from my life. The internet has become a dark showcase of what a lack of human interaction, especially with people of opposing ideas, can result in and this kind of tech will obviously exacerbate this.
My perception has been the opposite. The distros that I see people using are Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch. I use NixOS and Gnome is the recommended DE.
Gnome has sane defaults and in my experience does actually "just work" on a surprisingly wide variety of modern hardware.
E.g. Imagine a player jumps and bumps into a light source in a simple game: We add an up force to the player object, when it bumps into the light source we calculate the collision of the two shapes and calculate the resultant forces, move the player and light, and then recalculate the light of the scene for that frame.
In a complex game: We designed the inverse kinematics system to position the feet without the idea that a player would ever leave the ground, we don't have any more mocap studio time so we don't have a jump animation, the characters hair physics look really weird if we just apply an upwards force so we need to code a work around for that, if the player bumps into the light we can't move it because we have to precalculate the lighting at compile time, etc. Better to just not let the character jump.