Yeah, to rephrase my post the other way around, buying a console and just a few games is only really possible because it is carried by people who don’t carefully weigh if that is a financially sound decision.

Probably very few among the people who carefully weighed which system gives them the better bang for their buck.

Even if it can’t tell how much load you put on your system because that is a complex interaction of various bottlenecks, it would at least be nice if they labelled which settings are likely to contribute to the CPU, CPU, RAM, VRAM,… bottlenecks.

Those are individual games though, console games are just much more expensive on average. There isn’t as much available on the cheaper end of the market.

People are less likely to own a TV already these days though than they used to be so the price calculation for consoles favors them a lot less if you take that into account. Not to mention that console games tend to be more expensive than PC games, especially indie PC games now that triple A is more of a warning label than an indicator of quality.

The idea itself of tracking everything everyone does has been awful since long before the internet even existed.

Thank you, this is the kind of context I was thinking of but I must have missed that particular story in the news.

Context?

only the first 10 are fun.

Or worse, a game where everyone keeps telling you that you need to put in 100 hours before it is fun.

Copyright has always been a stupid law in the digital age. Copying is an essential part of many processes. The focus on individual copies has been nonsense for decades when the real focus even for those short term licenses (and I agree with you there) should be who is allowed to use the content and for what purpose (e.g. public showing to large crowds might be more expensive than common friend or family groups at home). Also, pretty much anything about copy protection is complete nonsense in the current laws.

We also desperately need to prevent companies from using that monopoly to prevent older works from being available by having the copyright and not publishing the work anymore since this is killing our cultural history.

Honestly, if they all stopped trying to get more money or power at the point where they have all the women and luxuries they could ever want it would be a vast improvement over the status quo at this point.

They all operate under the same laws in any given area. And neither respect your privacy if not forced by laws that are actually enforced.

I bet many of the engineers did and then their management told them that they have to do it anyway.

One assumes they have to come up with some sort of strategy to keep players like me on a pvp only game.

And that strategy was to allow you to play against bots on purpose and with your knowledge. It has been around for as long as bots have been.

Who says that they would argue that they are not harmful anywhere else? Remember, the bible used to be only read by priests in Latin and interpreted to the masses and many governments would love to have less transparency as you can see in their opposition to freedom of information type initiatives.

And most of those are probably warehouse and delivery workers.

If they addressed the general problem it would also affect US social media platforms and they want to continue doing that when American companies do it.

Yeah, they would just say that those public domain works or open source repositories teach minors undesirable knowledge of some sort or compete with commercial software vendors and/or entertainment providers.

Probably wouldn’t sound at all since it would likely collapse under its own weight considering how soft gold is.

Technically finding all the planes is super-easy if there are zero planes.