Yes I do, because my own experience of existence suggests I have it. Could that all be an illusion? Sure. But believing I don’t have free will would pretty much deny the existence of my self, which, being myself, I’m not really capable of, nor would I want to do that.

Nuclear Fusion

• Desktop PC
• Valve Index VR headset
• Company Laptop (Razer, yes seriously)
• Company Macbook Air (just for iOS Builds)
• Phone (Galaxy Flip 4)
• eBook Reader (jailbroken Kindle Oasis)
• Smart/Fitnesswatch (Garmin Instinct 2)
• Steam Deck OLED
• iPad Air G5 (with pencil, mainly for drawing)

Also a ton of older and/or rarely used devices

I believe his surname being Al Saud should indeed mean that he is part of the Saudi royal family. Although that includes everyone descended from its original founder, some 15,000 people, so he’s not necessarily close to the ruling inner circle.

Yes, Saudi Arabia’s ruling dynasty is the House of Saud.

No accounts were compromised and no accounts are threatened. The codes inside the SMS were valid for 15 minutes and are now just a meaningless assortment of random numbers.

Ghibli movies like My Neighbor Totoro or Kiki’s Delivery Service. For western productions, the How to train your Dragon series, Avatar: the last Airbender and Hilda are some that come to mind.

Eh, there is a lot of children’s entertainment that I absolutely love and that doesn’t feel meaningless to me.

Makes sense. Could be fun if it integrates a lot of elements from the game. Not sure if I’ll watch the sequel though. First one was competently made, but pretty much the definition of empty, meaningless entertainment for me.

No big deal to me, just pointing it out.

I wrote them and my AI formaliser helped me to be more passionate

Yeah, don’t do that. Your post reads very strange and artificial. A machine can’t deliver compassion.

Wonder if we’re already starting to see the impact of AI being trained on AI-generated content.

I’d be curious to see that if you have the link. The mod devs state in their FAQ that they’re not using any leaked code, but of course it’s possible that they’re lying.

That really sucks. I guess I can see why Valve is not so permissive when it comes to one of their major cash cows. But it seems like they handled this really poorly by initially signalling permission for the project and then deciding otherwise at the last minute and after years of work.

I don’t really agree that gamers should be blamed for this. Especially when it comes to lootboxes, battlepasses, gatcha etc. Those mechanics are tailor-made to exploit common psychological weaknesses in humans. The companies using these tactics and the lawmakers not stopping them should be blamed, not the people being exploited.

Going back to simple price increases, it’s not true that these always work out well for the companies or result in record sales. Remember the 3DS Ambassador program? Nintendo has already faceplanted pretty hard with their pricing strategy before. Since the Switch 2 isn’t even released, we have no idea how well the more expensive games will sell.

Switch 2 isn’t even out yet. We have no idea how the raised game prices will affect sales numbers.

As expected the industry is following Nintendo lead thanks to gamers.

What do you mean by “thanks to gamers”?

theoldnet.com has some of that and also works on really old systems and browsers.

Yeah, but I don’t think the nutters make up the full quarter of the voting population currently willing to vote for them. Lots of them are protest voters who are just vaguely “against”. Besides, I don’t think it’d be the deportations making some people reconsider, but the sheer economic stupidity of the Trump government as well as their attitude towards Europe. I fully expect Americans to be far poorer and more miserable in 2-3 years and that might do wonders to dispel the myth that the far-right could “fix the economy”.

From my European perspective:

• Countries are finally starting to push for independence from the US when it comes to defence etc
• The UK and Canada moving closer to the EU, increasing political and economic cooperation
• Brain drain from the US leading to American academics moving to Europe, bolstering our economy and research
• Hopefully seeing how fucked up the US is will eventually lead some people to reconsider voting for the far-right in Europe