No it’s like praising a dealer that will buy back some drugs as well as sell them.

The casino is honest about what they do compared to say Genshin Impact.

Valve has one for the few lootbox systems that you can actually get value back out of outside the game. While they deserve all the same criticism of every lootbox game, they probably also deserve some praise for that.

Generative AI is by definition non deterministic.

Procedural generation is theoretically deterministic, but it’s a fairly minor distinction.

I don’t think AI code generation is going to be a revolution anytime soon, but AI voice and AI image generation is likely going to stay.

GoG doesn’t have a lot of new games for one. It’s still copyright violation to distribute the game to others as well. It’s generally easier to just buy the game from GoG than find a link to download the game. You could get the files from a friend and that could work for a few games, but paying gets more convenient if your library is bigger than your hard drive.

There’s levels to it. True quality isn’t worth it, absolute garbage costs a lot though. Some level that mostly works is the sweet spot.

Fable 1 was the best one in the series.

These cops are functionallly bullies, it they realized there was real danger it would stop them. They’ve been avoiding anything actually dangerous for a reason. They might be able to call in a swat team for assistance, but it would destroy their ability to do widespread raids if there was legitimate fear for their own safety.

If even a quarter of those doors had someone returning buck shot this would probably be the last ice raid like that.

No one gets paid except Congress until the shutdown ends. Then everyone else gets back pay.

Indie games are overrated, it’s still mostly crap. I don’t blame people for waiting for absurd popularity to bring actually good titles to the surface. It’s still the same general problem, I have a the time for maybe 5 games per year, and that has to compete with my existing backlog, favorites and new titles. I’m not risking that time on Indie or AAA titles without some good evidence it’s worth it.

It’s generally illegal to conceal carry in a bar, especially if drinking.

It is to a very high standard. There’s been 14k games released this year alone which would be a .01% miss rate for malware games. If you compare against all games to account for updates that add malware after submission it’s basically 0 at .000001%

Malware creation and detection are billion dollar industries playing an eternal cat and mouse game with each other. These programs don’t just instantly try to steal every file the second they run.

Steam does scan for malware, which is why this is news. It’s notable that a game got through that was malware. You haven’t heard about other stores because it’s not worth the effort in targeting them. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most stores use the same vendor for malware scanning.

This seems way too hostile to valve for what this really was.

Based on the teachers I’ve talked to education stopped completely during Covid.

Honestly you aren’t missing much, the game gets old once the story really starts. The exploration of the castle is fun, but the surrounding area and combat are lackluster.