This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it's usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking "how did this ever work!?"
I know this is just a shitpost, but the key question is what kind of monster is doing the attacking. Mindless beast? It'll attack whatever's nearest. Vaguely competent humanoid? They'll probably focus on the guy in his pyjamas who's raining death from his fingertips over the one in armour thicker than their head.
That's the thing, for many Windows users it has been giving you a good time for years. Windows 10 was actually pretty nice to use when it came out; it's life has been a classic death-by-a-thousand-cuts of becoming spyware, but the users are so used to it they aren't aware that their delicious drug isn't giving the same high and is now fucking them up.
I usually just put it in sleep mode which is fine when I'm playing regularly, but if I don't play for more than a week or so then I'll find out the battery has died.
Sleep if you want to pause mid-game, power off if you're organised enough to know you won't be playing for a few days!
Is "AI" just a meaningless buzzword? Like, is there actually anything in common between this hurricane tool, the LLM chatbots, and the image-generation stuff?
Good news! I'll often pick up random indies from itch.io and nothing kills my enthusiasm like on-screen buttons being the only controls. It was fine when I was emulating pokémon over a decade ago, but for anything where you need passable reactions it's just not a good experience. Touchscreen controls are for when you want to be looking at what you're clicking, if you're looking elsewhere then you need physical buttons so you can feel where you're clicking.
Because we, the techies, are a tiny minority. There are billions of comparatively clueless users who can apparently easily be scammed into installing malware. Governments and banks will be exerting significant pressure on Google to make their phones "secure", and they can actually threaten them. I don't see this as some grand conspiracy to destroy the hobbyist scene, Google just doesn't care about the individual.
We've had a thousand "what if the Nazis won WW2" alternate histories, are there any good stories or thought experiments covering what would happen if the Mongols conquered Europe?
Don't go for a whole guide, pick something smaller like all the recipes or a map of Dry Dry Desert (two things I remember printing off back in the day!)
This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it's usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking "how did this ever work!?"