To me, video games compete on how much that style of game appeals to my own taste. The price is irrelevant.

I don't usually enjoy MOBA style games, competitive shooters, platformers, or other games where you do the same thing over and over again in the same play area/map. Silksong and Hollow Knight fit into this category - not my type of game at all, whether they're free or $20 or $100

I do enjoy space sims (e.g. Elite Dangerous), flight sims, online sim racing, factory builder games (e.g. Satisfactory).

I've been gaming since 1982, and have obviously played a vast range of titles over that time. Gaming is my number one hobby, and always has been.

TLDR; games are not like petrol for my car, where brands offering the same product can only compete on price.

I've spent more than 30 years of my life writing science fiction, all of which has apparently been hoovered up for AI training. I won't see a cent of any settlements or class actions as I don't live in the US, and to be honest I don't care about any of that.

I haven't written a word of fiction for five years, and I don't know if I'll ever bother again. I meet people every day who are excited about publishing 'their' novel which they 'wrote' using AI, with an AI-generated cover. Then they ask my advice on how to get it into bookstores and onto bestseller lists because they know I've done both.

My answer should be: toss that AI crap and do the hard work yourself, but I just tell them I hope their book does well.

In every printed book there's a legal notice that it's illegal to store the book in any electronic retrieval system (ie scan it). That's been around since computers were just a theory.

Also netflix, spotify, etc

I remember summer hose bans in the UK back in the seventies. Water shortages there are nothing new.

Probably dropped off a desk ornament with TWO 22k gold bars glued to the bottom.

I think Clementine was my favorite, for it showed not just his imagination and humor, but his skill.

These media companies don't realise that their own days are limited. When Joe Bloggs can use AI to create a whole TV show from a prompt, why would he pay Netflix to show him a whole TV show created from a prompt?
Publishers planning on using AI to write books 'in the style of' will also be short lived for the same reason.

This cannot be emphasized enough: Boeing lied.

I do not remember all the details right now. But in order to fit a larger engine with enough ground clearance, they had to change its thrust angle slightly. They told the FAA there were no changes that pilots needed to know about or retrain for. They lied, to airlines, to the FAA and to the public. The two crashes were due to pilots not knowing about the changes.

Nice little media server, but it's the first and last Mac I will ever buy.

I drive a 1998 Impreza WRX which I bought new. It has 170,000km on the clock (105k miles) and drives like a new car even though it's 27 years old. 15 years is nothing if you look after a vehicle and don't drive it like you stole it.

I gave up my fiction writing career about 4 years ago since everyone I met seemed to be so excited they could now 'write a book' using AI. Screw it, I thought. You want to pump out that crap, you can read that crap.

        Because I am drunk, this Independence Night,
        I watch the fireworks from far away,
        from a high hill, across the moony green
        Of lakes and other hills to the town harbor,
        Where stately illuminations are flung aloft,
        One light shattering in a hundred lights
        Minute by minute. The reason I am crying,
        Aside from only being country drunk,
        That is, may be that I have just remembered
        The sparklers, rockets, roman candles and
        so on, we used to be allowed to buy
        When I was a boy, and set off by ourselves
        At some peril to life and property.
        Our freedom to abuse our freedom thus
        Has since, I understand, been remedied
        By legislation. Now the authorities
        Arrange a perfectly safe public display
        To be watched at a distance; and now also
        The contribution of all the taxpayers
        Together makes a more spectacular
        Result than any could achieve alone
        (A few pale pinwheels, or a firecracker
        Fused at the dog's tail). It is, indeed, splendid:
        Showers of roses in the sky, fountains
        Of emeralds, and those profusely scattered zircons
        Falling and falling, flowering as they fall
        And followed distantly by a noise of thunder.
        My eyes are half-afloat in happy tears.
        God bless our Nation on a night like this,
        And bless the careful and secure officials
        Who celebrate our independence now.

I agree, it's hilariously bad at this task. Each time I've given it specific details it ignores the parameters. E.g. I gave it a date range of 1970-1975 and it suggested works from 2005. Or it makes up titles and assigns them to authors who don't even write in the genre.

Until it can admit that it doesn't know or doesn't have the data to generate an accurate response, it's no use to me.

Australian consumer protection laws override anything companies try to stick in their EULAs. I'm sure other countries like Denmark can figure out how to do the same.