That’s the new normal for internet search results, not a concerted effort by big erythritol…

I’ve had to reset my password after logging into nexus after long absence twice now. Both times because of a data breach. Really looking forward to their new age verification system and how it involves showing them my ID.

Ha! Good one!

Die Schuld für diesen Blödsinn trägt ja wohl weiterhin die US Regierung und deren Lakaien. Natürlich ist das aktuell eine grundsätzlich schlechte Idee dort einzureisen, aber ich habe wenig Verständnis für die Kommentare die hier großkotzig ihren Empathiemangel in die Welt tragen, nur weil sie selber keinerlei bestehende Beziehungen zu diesem Land haben. Man könnte meinen der Umgang der USA mit ausländischen Staatsbürgern sei so gerechtfertigt: “trifft ja eh nur die Idioten” denkt sich so jemand vielleicht…

Wow, einfach Freunde in einem Land mit einer problematischen Regierung besucht und dann auch noch versucht einen Geburtstag zu feiern. Ganz schön frech! Da hat sie wirklich alles verdient was ihr passiert und ist definitiv auch selbst schuld daran.

Of course. I’m literally shaking with pure rage.

Most gamers don’t specifically follow gaming news or keep up with all the latest scandals (of which there are too many to keep up with in any case), but they will notice if the nostalgia project they’ve been looking forward to is suddenly gone.

Here’s hoping that those stolen signals were able to be recovered and returned to their rightful owners. 🙏

You have no idea how the people complaining about video game prices spend their money. You just disagree with them and make shit up apparently.

1992 was a very different time with very different market conditions and consumer behaviour for video games. Games used to have a much greater perceived entertainment value, despite their relatively small development budgets compared with today. They were also entirely physical media and renting was still a very common way to play them. From what I remember, it wasn’t the most financially accessible hobby either. Most of my friends growing up didn’t have permanent access to their own gaming console and not everyone that did had all the latest games. Nowadays, the gaming market is completely saturated with high quality titles, most of which are fairly cheap as well if you don’t buy them on release.

In any case: Super Mario Bros 3 came out in 1988 and released 1990 and 1991 for the US and Europe respectively. It also didn’t cost $59 and your inflation calculation seems off…

None of them are right. Two thirds are looking in the wrong direction and the males facial expression is the exact opposite of the original photo.

There’s a Super Smash Bros Brawl fanfiction with over 4.1 million words. It used to hold some kind of unofficial record for the longest piece of english fiction, but I think there’s longer ones out there now.

This leads to the same kind of erosion of free and open source software as Google taking down projects like youtube-dl on GitHub. The emulator code contains nothing illegal, neither does the developer community, but that’s exactly what Nintendo is targeting, because it’s the most effective way to shut down any project. The way Nintendo handles these cases is the problem and they have never cared if something is actually completely legal if they want it gone enough, like modding, romhacking or uploading videos of gameplay. At this point they’ve burnt so much goodwill that I’m hoestly surprised there are still people left willing to insist that Nintendo only goes after actual piracy.

“0b” is a prefix for binary number literals (at least in C++, probably other languages too). So in decimal that would be the number 2.

That doesn’t explain the “luddite” part, I feel.

Some kind of new replicant detection method?

It would certainly help if the GitHub code search wasn’t utter garbage.

The whole premise of this discussion was about technological progress and growth going by your initial comment. That means refining existing models and training new ones, which is going to cost a lot of energy. The way this industry is going, even privacy conscious usage of open source models will contribute to the insane energy usage by creating demand and popularizing the technology.

Do we really need to grow our energy consumption as a society by such a disproportionate amount?