And the few people left with the ability to clean up the mess will make bank.

USA

We have laws to protect children

Hahaha, good one.

we need laws that hit hard companies that don’t respect people (and other companies)'s rights.

In the US? That’s not going to happen. The US is run by corporations.

Now Epic can finally install their own payment system, bypassing Apple’s parental controls, and little Timmy can just enter the details from mommy’s credit card when Epic gets him addicted to gambling loot boxes.

Such a win for consumers.

Anyway, back then it wasn’t considered the job of the programming language to hold the hand of the aspiring developer as it is common today.

But that’s exactly what it’s doing by trying to figure out what the developer meant. ‘“11” + 1’, should cause the compiler to tell the developer to to fuck themselves.

This you?

Don’t treat it like an action game, treat it like a rhythm game.

Data communication speeds have always been in bits/second. No marketing teams involved, it’s just the most logical way.

The lack of braces in python code makes it quite difficult to read for someone who’s used to languages that use braces.

Antitheist

Yep.

You’re welcome.

In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies

Taste like crab, talk like people.

Same on iOS

Bumble’s new verification feature lets users submit a picture of a government-issued ID to authenticate their identity

ID verification using a picture taken of the ID is practically worthless. It is trivial to fake.

How is it a retcon? The use of giga- as a prefix for 10⁹ has been in use as part of the metric system since 1960. I don’t think anyone in the fledgeling computer industry was talking about giga- or mega- anything at that time. The use of mega- as a prefix for 10⁶ has been in use since 1873, over 60 years before Claude Shannon even came up with the concept of a digital computer.

if anything, the use of mega- and giga- to mean 1024 is a retcon over previous usage.

Gotta love people who don’t want to take a vaccine that was designed by the absolute top experts in the field and extensively tested, but have no problem popping pills some grifter on the interweb sold them.

Exactly. That’s why I personally don’t mind buying digital games on PC, because the PC is an open platform. If Valve decides to drop the ball and sell every game for double the price or something, I can still get and copy games via other means on my Steam Deck

That’s not how it works at all. Valve doesn’t set the prices in their store, the publishers do. Valve just takes a cut of whatever the publisher decides to charge. If a publisher for a game decides to double the price for a game, why would they do so only on Steam and not on every other store that game is sold?

Why would Sony care about GameStop’s share price?

They don’t. They care about their games being on the shelves because that’s where grandma is going to pick up a game for Billy’s birthday.

PC is cheaper because nobody has a monopoly on digital games so stores need to run sales to attract customers.

PSN has sales just like the stores for PC games, there’s no difference there. The difference is that the non-sale price on PC is lower.

You also seem to be under the impression that digital stores work like physical ones, where the store buys their wares from a distributer and then decides at what price to sell it to the consumer, maybe even at a loss when they want to clear inventory. This is not how digital sales work.

Digital stores operate according to what’s known as the ‘agency model’. They don’t set the price of the products, they just take a cut of the sale. The prices are set by the publishers. Even sales work that way, the stores don’t determine the sales price, instead they go to the publishers and say “we’re going to do a sales event, want to join in?”.

For each individual game, the publisher of that game has a monopoly. There is absolutely zero competition between stores on individual games because they do not have any control over the pricing of games in the first place. The publisher set the price for each store.

You don’t have to believe me, just look at the price for PC games which are already digital-only.