im pretty sure almost unilaterally, every country would like the solution to near infinite energy regardless. its extremely vital if as a species, ever want to start a colony outside of earth.

the only people against it would be those in the pocket of other forms of energy monetary wise.

the steam deck sits in a pretty decent position long term because the switch 2 has roughly similar performance levels as it. so developers would have double the reason to get a game working at said performance level.

time to pull out my archaic TTL book

Steam OS at home IMO will eventually take off. Valve is already about to release the valve(pun intended) to allow 3rd party companies to bundle steam OS on their devices. given that steam os offers almost 90% of the experience of a home console, with a larger library, higher upfront cost, but a lower long term cost(cheaper games, stores don’t expire, no online subscription), the steam os will eventually become the natural competitor to the playstation(imo) to fill in Microsofts absence. PC has already been the dominant non mobile platform in spending for awhile already

not all gacha games have a pity system, and a pity system is not part of the definition of a gacha game. For example, Puzzle and Dragons, one of the first major gacha games on mobile, whose gachapon system is literally modeled off a gachapon machine, does not have a pity system. It’s not different. Having a pity system is not a requirement for being a gacha. For example, Fate Grand Order for the longest time, did not have a pity system. You would not suddenly call it a gacha game after it got a pity system, as it was already one before hand.

a gachapon, the system gacha is named after, its litterally a form of a lootbox. you know, those machines found in places where you place tokens to vend out a random goodie?

well 1 on game, the Mario kart shown was not mario kart 8 deluxe

do centrists feel the worst?

imo the metro take of windows 8 wasn’t the wrong approach for its intended market(tablets) it’s just forcing it on desktop/laptop users as well as a boneheaded decision.

They need to stop forcing windows changes for ALL users, including to the users that can’t use said features properly (as it was designed with touch screens in mind, and not everyone had touchscreens). Same idea with the more recent stuff involving Recall. not everyone has AI capable pcs, so its dumb to include the change to all users that will exist on the main branch of the OS, and would apply down the line to windows handhelds as well, who will likely not need recall as a feature as its using up resources. And im not like a person whose like fully Anti AI either, it just has its specific userbase that may need it, and there are others (like with a windows handheld case) that should not have it at all, as it is likely a detriment to battery if enabled by default.

the whole DEI inititive generally is to get people who historically underprivileged more positions at work. this however in a few instances, would lead to someone being hired because of their race, rather than skillset. Theres ongoing anti sentiment who fully believe that anything with DEI has made a company gone downhill (with basically 0 evidence, or very anecdotal evidence proving so)

Constitutionally, some claim it to be unconstitutional because of the 14th amendment that states:

“No state shall…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

as the idea of affirmative action, or DEI programs bascially give minorities a higher chance of being hired, therefore the idea is that people were not equally protected under law.

basically programs typically put Whites (and Asians in some contexts, tech jobs and universities) at a disadvantage.

personally, i think most of it is hubabaloo, and most companies know(or should know) the minimum requirement they are looking for out of an employee since most of them already want the cheapest person in the building regardless of race. I just think the argument that they wont hire the best person suited for the job a fallacy, as if they were THAT good, then they would never get passed up to fill some racial quota. No one is going around for example passing up on Jim Keller (cpu architecture guru) over a minority designer who has little experience. for the jobs that require the best, a company will look for it regardless.

its honest a boon for gamers as microsoft now actually has to spend more effort making windows betters for gamers then spending all of its effort on windows for arm and AI. one of the things windows as an OS lacks is that the handheld experience is actually trash, and the OS is a resource hog for a handheld device

it was (mostly) fine for PC. it was only absolutely abysmal if you were a console player.

For PC, although there were bugs, it wasn’t as buggy when comparing it to like a bethesda title. It just got a lot of vitrol because its of the very rare moments in time where the console version of a title was unplayable(as when something is usually unplayable, its usually the oppisite)

i mean the loot box is the gambling part, secondary market is just adding more gambling ontop of gambling, which I do agree is terrible (and honestly all items should have a single trade clause built into them but thats a seperate issue altogether) but the loot boxes at the ground level is whats causing the initial gambling addiction in the first place.

to be fair thats not only tied to gaben, but holds true for basically most free to play games, be it made in the U.S, Japan Korea, China or elsewhere.

its the main reason why for example mobile game companies are trying their hardest to avoid the 17+ rating on their respective playstores (target more kids) the same way hollywood tries to avoid getting the rated R rating.

even with the price increase, they cant realistically do it haphazardly, as the switch has a very low online subcriber rate (~20%) compared to Sony, whos rate sits closer to 80%.

just increasing the price without offering some feature of value will hurt shareholders trust in nintendo, at least in the longterm.

theres a huge subset of males in south korea(in context of where the hand gesture offensive) that find it extremely offensive. It’s very specific to south korea.

any of the tech companies that sell hardware clearly does it to try to get favor to get exemptions from possible tariffs (e.g Nvidia)

not a single mention of actual hardware changes such as RGB Microled backlighting?

they saw the money Ai GF/BF apps were making are are trying to capitalize on it

the more convenient something is, the more its going to be targetted. people are lazy to (optionally) get a vpn(depending on jurisdiction), download and watch their content.