According to the article at least, that is essentially what they did. But their model was based on earlier years when there was higher projected growth, so the budgets were set too high as a result.
Personally, as long as the final installment in the FF7 Remake trilogy is made with the same budget as the first two and ends on a satisfying note, I’ll be happy. A good ending gives the trilogy as a whole have more lifetime sales than it would if part 3 makes the first two less good in retrospect, i.e. the Mass Effect 3 effect.
I will just agree to disagree on that front. Playing casually, I clocked over 100 hours on the 2nd game, which is more time than it took me to complete the original full game on PS1. I enjoyed basically every minute of time played (save for one particular mini-game that I didn’t care for), so I’d say I got a good value out of it for the cost. It is also hard to say that it is a cash grab when it provides a much fuller experience than most AAA games these days seem to have.
Basically, I don’t hate it any more than I hate the fact that The Lord of the Rings is three separate movies; it’s not like The Hobbit.
I would say in one sense yes, because typically property being bequeathed follows different customs than property being sold for profit.
But the point in this case is that your Steam library is not even “property” to begin with, it is a contract that becomes invalid when one of the parties (the customer) dies.
I am assuming “automated” crafting is crafting without input from the player. I think macro crafting, where you still manually press the macros for each craft, is different.
A number of family members who shared a meal of bear meat that one of the family members had harvested earlier were subsequently infected with brain worms, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Maybe a bit lower, but I’d hesitate to say “far lower”. Rail would reduce the demand for very short (hour or less) flights, and that’s why countries like France have banned such flights entirely. But even in countries with very developed rail, the cost of rail travel often ends up more than the cost of flying for medium to long distances. That was my experience in China, which has plenty of rail options, but everyone loves to use Japan as the example to follow for “ideal rail”, so I’ll look at Japan to compare.
According to Japan Rail, a 1-way bullet train ticket from Tokyo to Kyoto is about ¥8,000, plus either a roughly ¥5,000 (reserved) or ¥6,000 (non-reserved) surcharge, so you’re looking at ¥26,000 round trip, taking about 3 hours each way. Or, going to Japan Airlines, you can fly round trip from Tokyo to Kyoto and back for about ¥13,000, taking 1.5 hours each way. I was able to find cheaper flights listed on Google Flights as well.
Despite supposedly having a very robust, very comfortable rail experience in Japan, flying is half the time and half the price. I don’t know if that’s a result of government subsidies supporting air travel over rail travel or what, but to me it seems hard to compete.
The only difference is that you can apparently just waltz up to a train station in Tokyo and buy a ticket day-of, no security to get through and no checked baggage to worry about, but I can’t imagine such spur-of-the-moment travel over such distances is the norm.
Sounds believable, particularly when Geek Squad itself is basically a scam.
“Before you leave with your new overpriced laptop, would you like to pay an extra $200 for one of our underpaid kids fresh out of high school to Google problems for you for a year?”
Anyone who falls for that is likely to fall for whatever else happens to them with technology.
Not to mention that servers who don’t make enough in tips will just get fired. Or for the few places where you can’t fire an employee without cause, they’ll be given fewer and fewer hours, to the point where the wages becomes completely unlivable and they have no choice but to quit.
The employer has to make up the difference in wages for the employee, but now you’ve added a financial incentive to get rid of said employee because they end up costing you more than ones who earn more tips.
This situation is often completely outside of the server’s control.
A viral video shows people singing racist lyrics and performing Nazi salutes at a club on the northern German island of Sylt. The club has condemned the incident...
Right, but what I am suggesting is that laws should be worded to criminalize any sexualized depiction of children, not just ones with a real victim. It is no longer as simple to prove a photograph or video is actual CSAM with a real victim, making it easier for real abuse to avoid detection.
Why is that? I’d consider this equivalent to the (justified) banning of Nazi imagery in countries like Germany, Austria, Norway, Australia, etc.
No one is harmed by a piece of paper or cloth with a symbol on it, but harm happens because of the symbol’s implications.
“Authorized” AI-generated or illustrated depictions of CSAM validate the sexualization of children in general, and should not be permitted, in my opinion. If it enables real CSAM to continue, then AI-generated content is not victimless, and therefore I don’t think these hypothetical individuals going to prison for it are necessarily innocent.
I think you’re painting a false equivalency. This isn’t about surveillance or incitement or any other pre-crime hypotheticals, but simply adjusting what material is considered infringing in light of new developments which can prevent justice from being carried out on actual cases of abuse.
How do you prove what is fictional versus what is real? Unless there is some way to determine with near 100% certainty that a given image or video is AI generated and not real, or even that an AI generated image wasn’t trained on real images of abuse, you invite scenarios where real images of abuse get passed off as “fictional content” and make it easier for predators to victimize more children.
I guess we disagree on the criteria for innocent. I don’t see possession of such images as an innocent act, especially now that it is impossible to verify what is real or fake.
Well, you don’t hear many people decrying the places that already have. Canada many US states, parts of Europe too have outlawed sexual imagery of children, real or fake.
I am just proposing that that should be the standard approach going forward, for the sole fact that the fake stuff is identical to the real stuff and real stuff can be used to make more convincing “fake” stuff.
When Samsung last updated One UI several months ago, myself and many other Samsung users (and Pixel users on Android 14 as well, judging by the replies) encountered a bug where swiping posts closed showed only a black background until fully closed, after which the content one would expect to see would appear....
Yeah, I ended up installing that to bring back my previous swipe gestures.
I like button navigation, but I don’t like having the buttons on the screen at all times where they’ll eventually burn in, so just being able to swipe where the buttons otherwise would be was working for me.
I tried to switch to the new gesture mode they implemented, but having the entire left and right sides of my screen get turned into a back button, preventing me from swiping the edges of my device to open and close menus like I was used to, was just too inconvenient.
GoodLock brought me back to how things were and I’m happy it exists, but the only drawback is that it doesn’t seem to support long pressing the home button to bring up Google Assistant. Or rather, that Google Assistant no longer supports that mode of being called, opting for Circle to Search instead, which GoodLock can’t call up either.
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/19999900...
Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets (gameworldobserver.com)
You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will (www.pcgamer.com)
FFXIV Purity Test (forms.gle)
Hey I got 79/100! Not bad I would say. 😅...
Math Rule (discuss.tchncs.de)
What even is this?
What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory?
New Ghost in the Shell TV anime series announced for 2026 (www.youtube.com)
It’s tentatively titled The Ghost In The Shell. To be produced by Science SARU, if that means anything to you....
Family members infected with brain worms after eating undercooked bear meat (www.cbsnews.com)
A number of family members who shared a meal of bear meat that one of the family members had harvested earlier were subsequently infected with brain worms, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
U.S. screens record 2.95 million airline passengers in single day (www.nbcnews.com)
The TSA said Friday’s travel broke a record set in November of nearly 2.91 million air passengers screened....
RIP Kabosu :/ (lemmy.today)
Best Buy, Geek Squad most impersonated for scams in 2023 (www.theregister.com)
Here’s a Tip: Tips are Not Always Gratuity (cepr.net)
CEPR.net
American couple doing missionary work killed by gangs in Haiti, wife is daughter of Missouri rep. (www.nbcnews.com)
The most well-funded campaign in US history (midwest.social)
German police investigate 'racist' video on vacation island (www.dw.com)
A viral video shows people singing racist lyrics and performing Nazi salutes at a club on the northern German island of Sylt. The club has condemned the incident...
also you don't need to worry about this unless you buy a fancy Copilot Plus PC rule (lemmy.cafe)
“CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM,” DOJ says after rare arrest (arstechnica.com)
Fixed(?): Black screen when swiping post closed bug resolved after Samsung's One UI 6.1 update
When Samsung last updated One UI several months ago, myself and many other Samsung users (and Pixel users on Android 14 as well, judging by the replies) encountered a bug where swiping posts closed showed only a black background until fully closed, after which the content one would expect to see would appear....