https://xkcd.com/903/

The word “al” means “the” in Arabic - for example, “al jazeera” means “the island”. And a lower case L looks like a capital i, so “AI” is visually indistinguishable from “Al”. So the joke is that people who try to shoehorn Artificial Intelligence into everything look like they’re speaking in Arabic.

I might have tried it once when I was a kid but it’s not as effective as a fingernail so once was enough.

It’s happening, but for Hollywood.

“Wide assortment” would be my guess.

They’re not competing for the same slice of the pie, though. Microsoft isn’t trying to take Nintendo’s customers because Nintendo’s customers want very specific things that Microsoft isn’t really offering. For example, Nintendo caters extensively to parents who want a safe space for their kids to play online. The Switch doesn’t even SUPPORT voice chat without the aid of a separate smartphone. Xbox Live is notoriously the opposite of that, because they focus on teens and young adults, who Sony are also targeting. Basically Nintendo sells to a very specific market, and the other platforms sell to “everybody else”.

By contrast, in the 90s Sega was SPECIFICALLY trying to steal customers from Nintendo.

Nintendo aren’t in the console war anymore and have’t been since the gamecube. Nintendo consoles sell on the strength of Nintendo’s first party titles, of which they have many. Nobody else can use their IPs, so that’s their USP and as a result they don’t need to compete with anyone on graphical capability or processing power. It’s its own market.

The money saved will pay for one dev, or two if you cheap out

In principle I agree. The problem is that there are countries which don’t care about respecting law and if you kill AI in the West, all that will happen is the West will get left behind.

Well, yes. It’s no use just paying and not actually downloading it, for obvious reasons but also for the reasons I assume you mean, whereby once you have the files you’re no longer reliant on GOG to keep them available.

Just buy your games on GOG. No DRM

Remember that MAGA can’t empathize with someone unless they identify with that person. To MAGA, the struggles of immigrants are unimportant so focusing on them is targeting the wrong audience if we want to change minds.

More Americans need to watch The Grapes of Wrath.

“A red is any son-of-a-bitch that wants thirty cents an hour when we’re payin’ twenty-five!”

I assume that’s a reference to the intro screen to Mario 64 where you can pull and deform Mario’d face.

I can’t understand the filing. Did Llama not pay James Earl Jones’s estate?