s12
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- Comment on It's always there 21 hours ago:
I dislike cheese.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 4 days ago:
If you’re going that far; just ban gendered pronouns altogether.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 4 days ago:
“But my reality is how it’s always been” - Torys
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 4 days ago:
The bot was even joining in on discussion about the bot. We’re long past the Turing test.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 4 days ago:
www.google.com/search?q=gpt4-chan
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 5 days ago:
I got this:
Certainly! This classic river crossing puzzle involves a bit of strategic thinking. Here’s a step-by-step solution:
The man takes the goat across the river and leaves it on the other side.
He then returns alone to the original side to get the boat.
Now, he crosses the river again, but this time he leaves the goat and takes nothing with him.
He goes back to the original side, picks up the goat, and crosses the river one last time.
This way, both the man and the goat are safely on the other side of the river. The key is to never leave the goat unattended where it could be harmed or cause harm. Enjoy the puzzle-solving! 🐐🚣When asked to use fewer steps:
Apologies for the confusion. The puzzle you’re referring to is a variation of the “river crossing” problem. The traditional version includes a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage, but in your version, it seems we only have a man and a goat. The solution with the fewest steps would be:
The man takes the goat across the river and leaves it on the other side.
He then returns alone to the original side.
This ensures that both the man and the goat are safely on the other side of the river, and it’s done in the fewest steps possible. If there were more characters or items involved, the solution would require additional steps to ensure everyone and everything crosses safely without any harm. - Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 1 week ago:
Fully agree.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps an advantage could be that people could try again using “software” and making some other tweaks. I think you’re only supposed to make a petition for one subject once.
If there is a second attempt using “software” then you can campaign to the older people who may then better understand, as well as the people who are already interested in games.
Making it about software might then make the idea of public demonstrations seem less silly.
Not too sure though.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
I guess the petition committee only has the significant power to request information for their response.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
For people who might not have seen the acronym before.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Nah.
The devs that don’t do that would stand out a ton.
Plenty of meaning to me.Non-permanent games would be easier to identify, so plenty of devs would add an end of life plan just to stand out.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe “leave” could have been a better word than “keep”?
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
IMO (In My Opinion), that would be a good thing.
Knowing is better than not knowing.
It would also give devs who want to let you keep your games a way to stand out.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Because a game is not a chair, nor is it a DVD.
It’s still a product though. Besides I believe DVDs can contain software data as well as video data. Many of the older game discs were probably DVDs of some kind/
Any piece of software requires periodic maintenance to keep it functional as operating systems, drivers etc. run away from it in compatibility. Demanding that any game developer spends money in perpetuity to keep a game “playable” is completely absurd which anyone understands if they just think about it for a second.
I thought this too at first, but you could easily keep an outdated device offline to avoid the need to update it and keep it secure. Besides, compatibility layers exist (WINE, Proton, etc).
What do you suggest should be done for example if World of Warcraft is permanently shut down, should Blizzard be forced to release the entire source code? Should they be forced to spend man hours to release something publicly that was never meant to be released? Should they be forced to document it?
I don’t know much about that game, but I think the guy said that that game was subscription rather than purchase, so I reckon that specific game probably made it sufficiently clear that you weren’t buying it. For other games where that is infeasible; do the same. … or whatever they feasibly can.
When you buy a game that requires a connection to play, you’re not even buying a game, you’re buying a service.
Then they should make that clear.
If you don’t want to agree to the terms that probably already outline this pretty clearly, don’t buy the game.
I do strongly agree with that. Sadly though, many people just don’t know what they’re getting into. By the time they do, they’re already hooked on the series. It wouldn’t be as bad if the terms were clearer.
As nice as it would be to force companies to open source their code when they stop selling it, it will never happen because there are too many implications that are completely untenable, one of which is trademarks.
Releasing closed source server binaries, or even just not being allowed to go after people who make their own server when no official one is available would be a step forward though.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Or perhaps more importantly; aren’t irrevocable.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Having to make it clear that their services would be great.
It would make people more informed about what they’re getting, and give games that the devs intend to be sold and kept a way to stand out as such.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that providing never-ending service is likely practical.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Why is that unreasonable?
If I buy a chair or a dvd, I can expect to last as long as I don’t break it or let it degrade too much.
The only things that seem to make this apply to software are planed hardware obsolescence, and needing to connect to the company’s server with no option to host your own.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Kinda why I still think it would have been a good idea for it to refer to software in general.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
Good idea.
Edited. - Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 2 weeks ago:
About what I was expecting.
Kinda hoping for it to reach the debate milestone, but its growth seems to have slowed. Still plenty of time for that to change though. It’s still in the first month I believe.
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- Comment on They just suffered a sudden death, that's all 2 months ago:
Oh! I thought this was that story about the pilot getting blamed the first time one of their planes nose dived into the ocean. Or was that a different company?
- Comment on Let's discuss the 3ds family? 2 months ago:
Fond memories of the Street Pass games and RPG maker FES.
- Comment on It's Your turn 4 months ago:
No.
I suppose the literate duck is like the black swan.
- Comment on It's Your turn 4 months ago:
That duck probably can’t read, so it won’t know it’s the meme.
- Comment on The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide, the EFF says 9 months ago:
Ok. What do I/We have to do to stop this?