I’m taking issue with the “got too big” part.

Nintendo are patent trolls, but I think we all know why they’re going after Palworld and it won’t be about confirmation screens.

Got too big?

I haven’t heard anyone mention this since like a month after it came out. It’s down to 20k players from like two million in January.

https://steamcharts.com/app/1623730

This is just Nintendo’s standard glacial pace. We’ve had ROM sites up for a decade before they were taken down. No doubt some team of lawyers have been collecting a gargantuan hourly rate while putting together all the images of Palworld NPCs and how they’re blatant Pokemon rip-offs.

And they’re not wrong, exactly. There’s a lot of Pokemon rip-off games about. Digimon, Yokai Watch, Temtem, etc. But only Palworld has had me see the screenshots and go “they’re Pokemon”. Even Aldi don’t advertise their frosted flakes with a cartoon tiger in a red neckerchief. There are lines, and when you step over them lawyers tend to get involved.

Obviously saw how well it worked in the UK when we fucked our public housing up too.

Surprised Reagan didn’t cotton on to that one.

There’s a bunch of newspapers already with the option between pay for privacy plus or accept tracking.

Fortunately there’s a third option which is leave the site and never come back.

Plus most of the sites will ask you again after a period of time. Until you say yes. After that they can strangely remember your choice.

Are they not already at war with Hezbollah?

They’ve been killing each other pretty much non stop for 40 years.

What’s that if not a war?

GDPR is a start, but we need to actually ban it, not just annoy people until they click Accept at the 20th popup of that tantalising offer to share your details with 1473 trusted data partners.

And all the CIA ones.

And then block all cookies and tracking.

Still rocking an i5-8400 and a 1060. It’s fine for FFXIV and most other games.

Until GPU prices come down, the CPU is the least of my worries. I’ll play anything that needs decent hardware on my PS5.

If you’re not running the latest games it really doesn’t matter at all.

If this carries on, we’ll have exploding semaphore flags by the end of the week.

Yeah, tone it down you Baby Murdering, Paedophillic, Freedom Haters!

Otherwise who knows what our followers will be driven to do when we insinuate they should?

The problem with money being involved is it’s an invitation to spam crap everywhere.

One of my relatives has recently taken up “AI travel videos” and “AI cute videos” as a “hobby”. No doubt based on the first thing that came up when I searched for those things, a video titled “make $10,000 a month spamming up YouTube with your AI slop”.

Oh, and it needs you to buy the AI slop generating tools that they happen to sell. How convenient!

I mean, this also happened with broadcast TV, where we suddenly went from like 4 channels filled with programs and things competing for space, to 200 channels, where the rush was on to fill the gaps between the adverts as cheaply as possible with reality show tat. And that’s all YouTube is now.

I agree, but it’s still a step up from dropping a laser guided bomb on a 10 storey apartment building because somebody in Hamas might be there.

Depending on his wife’s level of patience, I give this guy at most two years before he gets divorce papers in the post.

That should go well, since the Secret Service are renowned for having a good sense of humour about this sort of thing.

Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History

The point of Insta would seem to be the opposite of that. To splatter your inane life before the world in the hopes of becoming a viral millionaire influencer.

That was apparently a JSON handling bug.

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

Both?

I mean I’m no fan of Israel, but Hezbollah ain’t exactly the Red Cross.

And everyone knows that can’t be amended.