Many, many PC games can be played with a controller connected to the PC's USB port. Support for HID protocol and XInput protocol is widespread.

Gaming exclusively on modern consoles on grounds that games for Linux or Windows are presumed malware means you'll probably get indie games years late or never. This is because it takes time for an indie developer to build enough of a reputation in the industry to become eligible to buy a devkit for a modern console.

Unless by consoles, you mean things like the NES and Genesis, which are still getting brand-new indie games decades after Nintendo and Sega stopped supporting them.

I'm not a die-hard fan of C++, I do prefer Rust to it if forced to choose, but my greenfield choice is C-like options. However, this Rust fanboy stuff is super off-putting. There is much more to programming than memory safety, in fact, the overwhelming majority of defects are not related to memory safety. Rust isn't a magic bullet that writes bug-free code, careless devs can write bad code in Rust. Rust can and does crash, it's not bulletproof, it just makes it harder for you to work around the compiler when it comes to memory.

Wait, VB is still around?

Also, Java needs to go the way of COBOL. Java was once a language with a lot of promise, then Struts and Springs came along and decided it would be even better with a large dollop of XML and DI on top. Everybody knows nothing is more stable and maintainable than hot-swappable runtime dependencies glued together by XML files. That's the point I relegated it to the trash pile of history.

I don't have strong opinions of C#, but I don't think it's a pretty language, largely because it carries a lot of the baggage of its time trying to out-Java Java. It reminds me of what Swift has become, a good concept that is more suited to serving its masters than relevance as a general-purpose language. I don't see C# ever overtaking C/C++/Python, but Java, sure, I don't think anybody will shed a tear that day except maybe the consulting shops seeing their cash cow lose ground.

Say your reactor has a neutron injector on a rotor. The fission fuel has started vibrating, creating a feedback loop that could cause the reaction to become unstable. Running the rotor in reverse would change the pattern of incident neutrons just enough to stop the vibration. And the way you make a rotor go the other way is by reversing the polarity of its drive current.

That's the best that I could ground this technobabble off the top of my head.

You know China has import tariffs, right? Especially on finished goods. If any company in China is making a similar product, you can expect an import duty in the range of 30%. Do you honestly think China is the lesser of two evils between the US and China? If so, you should stop drinking the Kool-Aid and read the Budapest Memorandum. The one where China signed security guarantees with Ukraine in exchange for disposing of their nuclear weapons. Oops.

They could do it like Sling, which has two basic tiers: Orange and Blue. Blue has the limited basic channels and a bunch of channels from programming providers other than Disney. Orange has limited basic and Disney, fewer channels and fewer simultaneous streams than Blue, with an "Orange & Blue" add-on tier that adds the missing channels from Blue.

Plausible subjects include either "The government's competition regulator" or "A coalition of multichannel video distributors". Which was it?

Disney requires specific channels to be at the basic tier of a multichannel video provider's offering, not a "sports" tier. Last I checked (today), multichannel IPTV provider Sling worked around this by offering two different basic plans: "Orange" with ESPN and other Disney properties and "Blue" with more channels but no Disney. Orange subscribers can add the extra Blue channels on a second "Orange & Blue" tier.

CBN operated from 1977 through 1997, showing ads starting in 1981 and taking the name The Family Channel in 1988. Beginning in 1997, CBN was reduced to a paid programming arrangement to show The 700 Club on what is now Disney's Freeform channel. There are, however, numerous other religious channels under a viewer donation arrangement like what you describe, such as EWTN. And in 2008, CBN started a second channel called CBN News, first online and then with a handful of broadcast affiliates.

If Pictionary doesn't call back to Tim Follin's soundtrack for the 1990 NES game, then it's Pictionary in name only.

In an of itself, that's a perfectly cromulant opinion to hold, but I doubt it's going to be shared by a bunch of people with Robinhood accounts paying electronically for the delivery of "freedfrom from techy surfdom". :D

Toyota makes cars that last in factories that last. They're preparing for January 2029 when the Troll-in-Chief leaves office.

Developers of iOS native apps have to know what TLS is because the App Transport Security policy of iOS requires all web APIs used by the application and controlled by its developer to use TLS since 2015.

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