CosmoNova

Which perfectly exposes the problems of showing AI slob to people who try to learn and extend their horizons.

On one hand that's catastrophic and an insult to the art world and art history. On the other hand it's unsurprising. Does anyone expect google to show relevant top results in this day and age?

I can't think of a way for this to be legal in the EU by any capacity. I really don't. They're essentially claiming they own your likeness just by using their app and I really doubt it's that simple. It's kind of like asking for your first born in a readme.txt of a github script. Just because you write something ridiculous doesn't mean it's legal.

That's definitely just a spin-off. It's an entirely different genre of game and was never intended to be sequel. Same goes for the choose-your-own-adventure one.

And it's definitely worth the money! Just odd. I fully expected them to develop Minecraft 2 and 3 years ago to cash in and overwork some of the basics but that didn't happen for better or worse, but probably better. It remains to be a truly unique game till this day.

Minecraft is also the only base game I know with a retail price that keeps going up instead of down. Quite bizarre if you think about it.

Not "if" but "when". They have you and million others on the hook and already plan their next step to extract more money from you.

The article could be from 2022 and I'd be as unsurprised as I am now.

I'm doubtful of their GaaS promise after they already added premium skins to the game via twitch drops last month. Time will tell, but I know the gaming industry a little too well to just take their word for it.

I got premium

Don't expect things to improve after happily paying consecutive ransoms.

The US really is a special case even within just America and really cannot be compared to today's refugee hotspots like Europe at all. For starters, US culture is very young and mostly made up of invaders and migrants. There is very little native culture still there as it has been assimilated for hundreds of years, mostly by Europeans. On top of that, there have been heavy crackdowns on migrant cultures as well, making it anything but the organically grown culture it often claims to be. And as such I think it is a bad example of how unchecked mass migration can work because it didn't work for the natives and it didn't happen for the modern US. It does show that strong migration can lead to great success, though it's still far less densely populated than Europe even now so a direct comparison is still difficult.

Phones are becoming the new wallets to the point we need something slimmer to pay with soon again.