I haven’t seen any meltdowns, no. Beyond being “Space Games”, they are very different games anyway. Yes, No Man’s Sky has had a very impressive development at an impressive speed, while Star Citizen… hasn’t, but Star Citizen is aiming for a completely different scale of simulation and detail.

Political division, erosion of democracy and the continuous movement towards fascism.

It’s a thing in the UK.

I wear a helmet when riding my bicycle.

I’m child-free by choice and I think there are a lot of good reasons not to have kids that I would probably share with antinatalists. I think there should be less population growth. But radical “no-one should be born ever” antinatalism goes to far I think. IMO the whole “being born without their consent” argument doesn’t work, as the whole concept of consent doesn’t exist for a nonexistant being. In order to make any kind of choice on whether you want to exist, you need to exist first. If you make the argument that not having kids is sparing them from suffering, then you can just as easily make the argument that you’re depriving them from ever feeling love or happiness, which they “didn’t consent” to either.

That’s the original meaning of a blog. I guess platforms like Tumblr and Wordpress would qualify and can still be used for that. But the way they’re actually used by most users has shifted quite a bit from their original intention. On the fediverse, something like friendica or even mastodon could work.

As long as it’s not an insane NK-level dictatorship, yes I personally would. I’ve been to China before and talked to a few people there who were more critical about their regime than you might think and didn’t hesitate to talk about it. Of course you need to read the room and maybe not go shouting “Free Tibet” on Tiananmen square. And I wouldn’t pick any fights with nationalists either. In many countries, democratic or otherwise, there are certain topics that you probably shouldn’t bring up with strangers. But I think that it’s ultimately a beneficial thing for people from democratic countries to visit countries like China and vice versa. It contributes to mutual understanding. I personally wouldn’t hesitate to visit China again.

I totally get why the situation would be more difficult for you as a Taiwanese though. If you can’t smile and walk away if someone tries to provoke you, maybe it’s not a good idea to go.

Did you try spelling it with phonetics?

No, they have the same form factor but they do have improved read speeds over Switch 1 cards. They’re not as fast as the internal memory or MicroSD express cards though. In Mario Kart, the card takes about 20% longer to load.

You can’t sell GKC after downloading of the game, as far as I understand the system.

Then you don’t understand it correctly. GKCs aren’t locked to an account. When you’re finished with the game you can sell it to someone else and they can download and play the game just fine (as long as the Switch 2 servers are still running). You won’t be able to play it anymore after you’ve sold the card though, as it needs to be inserted to start the game. Source

For the kinds of gene therapy we currently have, it wouldn’t make that much of a difference for society, but could have a positive effect for people affected by conditions that can be treated with it. Although as I understand it, those treatments are far from perfect and do frequently have adverse effects as well.

If we’re talking the sci-fi kind of gene therapy that could stop aging, make people more intelligent etc, that would be an entirely different story. It would have massive societal ramifications and I think especially under capitalism, they wouldn’t be good. It would increase inequality by massive amounts and basically turn the rich elites into their own, genetically-superior species.

No explanation was given as to why they didn’t forgo the key card altogether and just release to the eshop only.

TBH compared to digital-only, having a GKC is still a preferrable option, as it can be sold when you’re done with the game.

I think a better option for cases like this would be a cartridge that contains the compressed game data which can be installed to the local storage, as is the case with the other consoles’ disks. But presumably the Switch 2’s OS doesn’t even have that capability right now.

Not quite the same, you can only restore those with your Steam Account. For GOG it’s just an installer for the game, which you can run and install anywhere as many times as you want, without needing any access to your account.

Also on GOG. DRM-free and presumably without the server issues.

It’s probably 80-90% of what AI image generation is used for TBH. Reddit, Deviantart and any art platform that hasn’t explicitely banned it are filled with it. Even Lemmy has quite a lot.

I don’t know if it’s mostly my own biases against AI, but I feel similarly. These images often have an odd sense of emptiness to them. Something I’ve noticed with more recent AI-generated images is that while the hands etc are now more often than not perfect, characters often have a strange sort of stare, where instead of looking at something or at each other, they look at nothing in particular. A lot of AI images are also overly shiny and glossy, which gives them an unnatural look.

I trust them to generally do their due diligence and report the truth. As with all press agencies, there will be exceptions to this and instances where journalists spread false information. In those instances, I expect them to correct their errors, which I believe they usually do. There will also always be some level of bias with any journalism, at the very least in choosing what to report on and what not to.

No soldering is required. Just disconnecting and reconnecting some pretty tiny ribbon cables.

Yes, I played it for 12 hours and quite liked it, but eventually got stuck at some bossfight and moved on to other games.

I’m not aware of any. IMO the best way to get this would probably be to mod some original joycons with hall effect sticks (quite easy to swap) and ergonomic grips.