GreenMartian

The owls have been a constant source of smiles round here. This requires near-zero effort, so it's literally the least we could do to give back!

!lemmySilver

Ooh. Sites. I was tired and actually read it as another word that starts and ends with "s".

And the headline still made sense... "Of course he does. Him and many of his supporters."

If you eat them with the skin on, you'll have so much testosterone that people will elect you to lead your country.

the latter I do not trust.

Am I reading the article wrong? Is it not a good thing that they refused to comply with the hostile anti-encryption law?

Aussie here. We keep corner spiders too. In fact, Bazza is looking at me right now from his cozy corner in the loo.

We try to keep the huntsmen (the huntswomen and huntschildren too) outside, as they freak our city-dwelling friends out.

OKAY, BUT WHY ARE WE SCREAMING AT EACH OTHER?

I'm not disagreeing, but Steam went out of their way to support Linux because they needed to, when they first dipped their toes in selling hardware (Steam Machine, circa 2013 I think).

GOG had no incentive to do so when Linux gaming was such a small slice of their pie. And now that it's growing fast, they still have no incentive to do so, because third parties are already doing the work for them.

At the end of the day, we gamers are still the beneficiaries of the immense effort of CDPR, Valve, and the whole open source community.

The user figures are strongly impacted by the closing of Microsoft's acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard

I was sceptical of the 500m figure for Xbox (even if we include Xbox on Windows); but it makes sense if they include Battle.net figures I guess..

My impression from looking at how the likes of Temu and Shein are raking in billions is that, people are perfectly happy with cheap leas-than-mediocre slop.

Forza Horizon, on the other hand, are actually quite fun.

I had some fun with Bing AI..

Draw me an illustration of the following. A lady with pink, long flowy hair holding up a blank sign. She is wearing an off-white silky gown. The background are some pastel coloured pink lilies, and sky in the colour of pastel blue, yellow, and green.

Sign should be above her head. The lady has Caucasian features.

She should have a face that looks angry and determined to right a wrong. Also, use some bold outlines.

Sure, it doesn't exactly have character like the one in the OP.

But I also put almost no effort in prompting (less than a minute). And Bing (Dall-E) isn't exactly the pinnacle of image generation AI. And the whole tech will only get better by time.

The problem is that it doesn't even have to be "very good"; the majority of people are entirely happy with "good enough". It's not hard to imagine how the whole thing will threaten and disrupt so many industries.