I would expect any professional to have more than a cursory understanding of a major new development that materially impacts that profession.

I don’t have any skin in the game right now - school is well in the rearview for me personally and I’m not in the education field - but I was thinking just the other day about how to handle ChatGPT and similar tools in that environment.

The way it’s implemented here, with a timed trial of the full game, would just result in a completely valid save file for the game that a user could start from if they eventually make a purchase.

Great point - especially considering that with some games on PC it’s possible to burn through a good portion of the 2 hour return window simply getting the game settings dialed in so that you can determine if you like it.

This is another great example of something that seems like it should be straightforward, but presents a lot of non-obvious confounding variables. Others have laid out some of the specifics, but it’s worth just thinking back on existing instances of hugs in games - or really any physical intimacy. Unless there are very…

If there’s a rabid bear mauling a Nazi, I can understand that the bear is dangerous and should be put down. I’m still gonna enjoy watching it maul the Nazi.

“In all, companies collecting less data is a net good.” Collecting and storing less irrelevant data is a net good. It’s a vital distinction.

One of the problems is that we don’t teach ethics anymore. Not really. We need to teach not just ethics, but the history of ethical theories as well as the underlying philosophies. At the same time, sociology needs to be introduced earlier and presented alongside the other “hard” sciences.

That’s interesting - I know this is reaching back, but do you recall why they charged so much for Myst? Was it simply because the game happened to capture the zeitgeist and therefore they could, or did they at least provide a practical reason to excuse it?

Yeah, it’s definitely expanded, but it hasn’t expanded consistently across the medium. Some genres and franchises have seen exponential growth, while others are practically nonexistent. Larger than in the 90's? Perhaps, but certainly not sustainably so.

Some do, sure. When FF3 came out in the 90's it cost $80. Some new games cost $10 today, too.

That’s kind of the problem - the $60 isn’t more than enough. That’s why so many games need to sell additional content. It’s not always about nickel-and-diming customers, sometimes it is the only way for a game to actually be profitable.

I understand the doomerism - it’s been part of gaming for decades - but “bleed us dry” is a bit dramatic. Things get more expensive to make, but the $60 you drop on a game today is worth much less, in real terms, than the $50 you’d have dropped in the 90's.

Sadly not surprising. People have a very skewed view of the relative difficulty of any task they may have a passing familiarity with.

Great points. Even as the technology improves and you’re able to get more performance per Watt, it’s still a fundamentally higher power draw if you want to be able to use the full capabilities of the system. If not - if you’re going to understandably limit the power draw in order to maintain somewhat reasonable…

It’s possible that “mortality” is a typo and it was meant to be “morality,” which would make more sense in the context of the article and in society more generally. Obesity as a shorthand for some personal or moral failing has been present in culture for a very, very long time.

It’s great to see capable hardware in this form factor at this price point. Like the Deck, this is something that you can use to play games on the go, but that can also be docked with a keyboard and monitor to function as a useful general purpose computer.

Did we just... did we just have a polite and reasonable disagreement on a Kotaku thread, that ended amicably? Is this even allowed?

But semantics deals with meaning, and these models have no understanding of meaning. If they did have a semantic understanding of “such and such bad thing” then this wouldn’t be the kind of problem it is.

It doesn’t know what recipes for napalm look like semantically. It has a model that can determine what the most likely collection of elements will be in order to craft what would probably be a response to the input. It doesn’t “know” anything about those elements or that content other than what is encoded by the…