Could implement torrents, which I believe is how Peertube handles it.

Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yN2H3--1aw

My apologies if I’m getting this wrong, as I don’t play Gacha games, but isn’t that worse?

It depends. I’m not sure how current loot box games handle it, but with most gacha games, there are determined odds for the prizes, so they have a “pity” system. So after a certain amount of pulls, you’re always guaranteed to get the top reward. RNG will make it so that you’ll typically pull all the way to nearly the end of that pity timer before you get the top reward, but you’ll eventually get it.

I’m not sure if traditional loot “boxes” have such a protection in place. I dunno if it’s any better or worse since they’re both pretty manipulative tactics, but it’s different.

I feel like the difference is the loot “box”, itself. Granted, I’ve not played any loot box games since Team Fortress 2, but in that game the box was an actual inventory item you could store and open whenever you wanted, and those items would always be from the same pool.

With Genshin, you’re basically just pulling from a singular, infinite loot box that rotates its reward pool. So you can’t, as a player, decide to open a Year 1 item when it’s not in the current rotation.

It’s a small difference, but I feel like that’s why we have separate terminology for “gacha” and “loot box” games.

I’m confused. I’ve played Genshin, and I don’t remember any sort of loot box system in the game. There’s a gacha system which seems to be what the article keeps referring to, but that’s very different from what I think the average user considers a “loot box”.

Was kinda hoping for specs. I like the design upgrade, though.

How is that any more hidden? Unless you already know the subdomain in the first place, the domain doesn’t really make much difference.

RedNote is seeing the largest influx of new users right now. There’s a few other TikTok-like apps that are also seeing some bumps, but RedNote is soaring.

What’s to doubt? Open your app store and look at the current top app.

“Nobody I want to follow is using it.”

By and large, the average user is a content consumer, not a creator. The consumers want to go where the creators are, but the creators won’t go where there aren’t already consumers. This will always be the biggest problem for any Fediverse platform.

A crummy commercial?!

While this is a good move, I don’t think John Mastodon was making anywhere near the kind of money to turn into the next Musk or Zuck to begin with.

It’s pretty standard when a highly-publicized murder suspect’s online profiles are discovered. Platform admins will typically disable/hide their accounts from the public while investigations/trials are ongoing. This is hardly unique to Luigi.

I dunno that the “Prime” name is that hard to get. If a couple of YouTubers can name their energy drink “Prime” and get away with it, then I imagine Microsoft wouldn’t have much trouble using it.

It’d be great if they all got together for Jonestown 2.0.

Sounds like he finally ran out of that Microsoft money.

The queer black mom AI is the one I keep seeing right-wing commentators putting on their thumbnails for their videos/articles. They’re putting more focus on the character rather than the tech, from what I’ve been seeing.

People are taking issue with the fact that the AI was black and queer, not that it wasn’t a real person in the first place. Once again, the right is angry at something that literally does not exist in real life.

It’s poorly written. The writer is all over the place. The article starts and ends with discussion about a video series from 2004 which is in no way related to the main story, the primary source is a paywalled article in Italian that we can only hope they’re translating accurately, the very first paragraph seems to suggest that there’s no proof to anything else specified in the rest of the article and immediately contradicts the headline… I feel like I learned nothing and wasted time by reading this.

ARE there actually honeypot sites being set up by Italian police? I don’t know, and apparently neither does the author.

I think for household settings, a bipedal robot may be more ideal. Homes and the furniture inside are laid out according to the way humans move. That 2-foot space between the couch and The Good Chair that you walk between 20 times a day without any issue? A wheeled robot may struggle to navigate that, and may instead have to take a longer and slower route around the couch to get past. Got stairs in your house? Don’t even get me started on trying to get a wheeled robot up the stairs. Bipedal bots would be more plug-and-play in these settings, and would require less supporting infrastructure.

But for commercial/industrial use cases, I think the mode of ambulation should be purpose-built to the task and setting.