I’m not downvoting, but the fact that kernel malware games don’t work is a feature to me. It would be a full time job to keep from installing anything that demands obscene access for no legitimate reason on Windows. “It doesn’t work” is way easier.

Pretty much everything else on Steam works without effort.

There have been games that showed hints of stuff you could get to, but I think BOTW was the first major open world game that actually universally followed that rule and didn’t have invisible walls all over the place.

Like Skyrim there was a lot you could “climb” by abusing the mechanics and spamming jumps until you got lucky, and everything existed in that sense. But it was glitches, not part of the mechanics. BOTW having points of interest almost entirely discovered visually was unique.

I would say the defining characteristic that sets Breath of the Wild apart from its contemporaries is its “chemistry engine”, as they call it.

It’s traversal. The interactions were cool, but mostly about the puzzles.

What BOTW changed was how exploration works. You see a landmark in the distance, start moving towards it, and figure out how to get there. There’s nothing you see that isn’t part of the traversal system. There are no invisible walls. Some things are absurdly high to climb, some things are slippery, etc, but everything you struggle to traverse is clearly a product of the systems the game uses and makes sense.

(The problem was none of that exploration got you anywhere interesting, but the core element of “everything you see is a destination” is the thing about BOTW that was groundbreaking.)

If they were free on demand for people who asked with their purchase:

None of the people who need them would get them.

Most of the ones that did get handed out would still be to people who never used them.

That’s what they actually did if you read the article. They don’t pass through the eyes the same when you’re on a keyboard now.

Because freedom.

Windows is one OS, with limited ability to customize. Mac is one OS, with limited ability to customize.

Linux, as a core concept, is hundreds of OSes that anyone can customize any of, at will, to meet their requirements. Different versions of Linux diverge because different people/projects want different things.

PS4 Pro was still obscenely underpowered. Jaguar was terrible at PS4’s original launch, and the boost on the Pro was marginal because it was still the same terrible underlying design.

Going into the PS5 pro, everyone projected this pricing, because it’s actually modern hardware and their costs have went up instead of down.

You should do your research on how wake words work. They literally are only capable of identifying the selected words and they do an obscene amount of training to do so efficiently, because actually processing all the audio your phone is exposed to can’t possibly be done in a reasonable way.

I don’t think it’s worth it, especially if you already own a PS5.

But what did people think it was going to cost?

He’s talking about PS plus.

The “12 month plan” is meaningfully less expensive than a year of paying monthly, so he’s using the cheapest option if you want to play online games (excluding sales, at least).

That’s not my point. Most games do install fine from the disk.

He’s talking about playing from the disk, too, and that’s a problem.

They still have to install.

Disks are too slow.

It’s not “complexity”.

It’s that end users have no interest in paying for individual songs.

Choose between:

Entirely fabricated

or

On their own hardware, that isn’t a smartphone, because they don’t make them.

Both iOS and Android make it abundantly clear when your mic is hot and when apps have access to it. It’s not possible to listen undetected.

RCS is the new MMS. It’s the official “text message” replacement.

It’s shit and until the standard becomes not shit, messages between Android and iMessage are still going to suck. Almost all the stuff people think is RCS are the proprietary Google extensions that only work through Google’s servers.

But they’re supporting it because it’s the next iteration of “texting” carrier wise.

No, it’s not. “Your phone is listening to you” is an idiotic myth.

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The entire thing is completely off topic and doesn’t even sort of make any point you tried to make anywhere in the thread.

Play isn’t relevant in any way to the discussion.

You understand the difference between fiction and pretending fiction is reality?

Because normal people don’t put random shit in their oven to check for?