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Comment The ecosystem is already poisoned (Score 2) 31

I've seen websites full of copied and made-up redundant content for years, the only thing different is that it can be created in the blink of an eye now.

Whenever I go through the results of a search (DDG), I skip those with suspicious domain names that reek of bait. I've been skipping a lot more in the last half year and the worst thing is there's too much Reddit results left over, often useless.

Comment Ah, nostalic sounds (Score 1) 22

Reading all those brand names took me back to my youthful audiophile years regularly visiting the high end audio shop to see and listen to what was new, and occasionally buying a second hand top piece of equipment and high quality recordings on CD.

That is, until I designed my own final loudspseaker system, which doesn't need high end electronics to outperform any system I had heard.

It's no wonder all those brands disappear or merge when the audio quality was already the same forty years ago. Only build quality and technical specifications make a difference.

Comment If true (Score 2) 50

Then I hope playable on the same hardware as the originals, or at least not a requerment to have a multi-gigabyte videocard to render things that won't be noticed anyway.
Besides, I think suddenly realistic graphics would break the transition between the episode 2 and 3.

Aside from this, they should bring out Alyx as a regular game as well for those of us not interested in virtual reality.

Comment Re:500 million euros ... (Score 5, Interesting) 214

Europe has lower wages, higher income taxes, higher property prices, and onerous regulations.

And good, affordable education for everyone, good, affordable healthcare for everyone, good social security for everyone, and most likely even better regulations to benefit humans and not corporations.
There's a reason why European countries do much better on the happiness scale than the USA. Personally, I didn't even want to trade Europe for the USA in my youth even if I could live in quiet, beautiful nature there.

Comment Re:"AI-powered medical chatbot could make up a stu (Score 2) 27

Just the other day my friend mentioned what happened with the mother of an emigrated US woman in Germany on some news thing. Was treated for the result of an earlier hit to the head in Germany, and later again in the USA. The bill in Germany was a few thousand euros while in the USA it came to a quarter of a million dollars in total.

This and many other examples has me thinking any USAsian saying America is the greatest country in the world needs to be sent to a psychiatrist (which is covered by insurance here) and a topography class.

Comment Pot, kettle, grill, the usual (Score 4, Interesting) 76

An industrial plan China rolled out a decade ago that was criticized by the U.S. as protectionist

And moving production to a cheap labour country is not protectionism of corporate and personal profits (greed)?
Move the knowledge to manufacture to others and they will learn from it and use it. You know, like a man and teaching how to fish and the like. Don't expect him not to sell fish to others when possible.

Comment Re:Old games (Score 1) 71

What I also look at is the quality of the game. If the studio goes on to a sequel while the old version is still full of bugs or plain code flaws, then I'm not tempted to buy it.
For example, I like city building games and have Simcity 1 to 4 and as a successor I am interested in Cities Skylines, but I've noticed fundamental flaws that won't be fixed now that they published CS II, which is also in a state of bugtesting by users.

I'd like to have the source code when a game is abandoned like this (no, just providing content DLCs without fixes is still abandoning) so I can fix it myself, even if it's written in C# *shudders*.

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