Low quality PC to console ports have always existed (and vice versa for that matter.) Define broken - crashing your console?

I'm a game programmer, 20 years in the industry shipping dozens of games across the entire history of consoles starting from the PS2/GC era up to and including the consoles of today. Take it from me, the fact that console hardware is fixed ensures the experience of running games designed to push hardware to their functional limits is far more stable/hassle free.

If you don't wanna play games that do that, then this might not be as big of an issue. But the fixed hardware of a console simply cannot be discounted. Valve is not stupid for making a "verified on our console" program. The console platforms spend OODLEs of money ensuring that console games are by and large rock solid. (Counter examples not welcome, I'm just saying in comparison to the arbitrary hardware landscape of the Windows PC install base)

Also console OSes are designed for their main purpose - turn it on, play the game, stop playing the game whenever you like, come back to the game whenever you like. They're optimized towards that experience in a way that a general purpose PC struggles to do (admittedly Steam's big picture mode is pretty good, but you can't totally handwave away the fact that Windows is running in the background)

I'm not against gaming PCs, I have a nice one, it's my main daily game driver. (Also have a PS5, because I'm not only a developer, I'm also a customer!)

When you buy your ticket, you can just specify that you're disabled and that you need a paper ticket as a special accomodation. After all, they already have these questions for people who need other accomodations (for wheelchairs or food). It shouldn't be too hard to add one more to the list.

And for the passengers that don't have the foresight to check that box when they buy the ticket, I'll bet Ryan Air will be more than happy to supply a paper ticket for an extra $75 fee per boarding pass (or per leg of the journey).

Yeah, but in actual war (like Ukraine is finding out), flexibility matters. There are absolutely cells of Ukrainian engineers 3D-printing parts as they respond to our evolving understanding of drone warfare with innovative solutions.

Moreover, standardization is a long recognized enabler of industrial warfare... good standards let militaries flexibly source parts and share equipment, simplifying logistics. Letting military contractors obstruct that is our corruption... it's strategical stupid for a military that wants to be effective.

The goal is probably to bilk crypto investors from prosperous countries. While third world peoples are being exploited in some intangible sense, the main point is to use them to inflate the user count. It's bullshit because typically such users immediately cash out the meager compensation they were given for scanning their eyeball and cease any further usage of the coin.

will allow them to keep the hype going for another five years or so

And maybe by that time, Tesla will actually have full self-driving cars.

It will a provide a better point of reference, due to shared experiences. For example, what happens if the third or fourth generation of space-faring humans start having genetic issues caused by the increased radiation in space? If we see that happening to us, we will better understand when it happens to other species.

You are demonstrating a perspective that is pretty terrestrial-centric.

Shackleton was able to explore Antarctica because it was relatively easy to return (with "relatively" being comparable to, say, returning from the moon or Mars).

At some point in the evolution of human exploration, we are going to visit places that are so far away from Earth that ferrying materials back and forth will be simply infeasible. At that point, we'll need to learn how to exploit resources that are local to the destinations we visit.

I think Jonathan Coulton made a song about Elon Musk's venture on this area

there are 5 billion Roblox accounts created

5 billion more accounts than you have brain cells, apparently

Was the cop in a backwards baseball cap carrying a skateboard and asking "fellow youths" where to get drinks?

And in terms of the median they're not wrong...

The problem is the government folks assume they are the exception to the rule

There's a typo in the headline. It's supposed to read "Microsoft Forms Superintelligence Team Under AI Chef Suleyman 'To Serve Humanity'".

Dick, and Bush II, hated that damned buffoon Trump. I always thought his daughter was supporting him, not the other way around.

Microsoft purposefully screws up every other Windows release, so that the subsequent release can be hailed as a massive improvement.