It tells a lot about current state of "games journalism" that such a ridiculous claim is turned into an article. One has to be completely ignorant to not have noticed how "digital only" prices, especially for the not-newest games, have been way higher than for on-disc games, for many many years already.

... to place mines on boats (with AFAIR modest success), Russia succeeded in training Jellyfish to sabotage western energy infrastructure. How diabolical!

Extending on the flat earth theory, we should start a movement proclaiming that the Universe is only 1-dimensional. We could call ours the "string theory".

Just take a look who "HateAid" are, whom they are financed by, and what political opinions they campaign for, and you'll see this "anti big bad corporation while turning a blind eye to every other form of surveillance" campaign is exactly what you would expect from such organization.

I would be the last to state anything positive about Meta or "AI glasses"-wearers, but this anti-free-speech organization is the last I would trust to be acting on people's behalf.

It is not the player who is dying in this game.

At least he got the honor for being banned for something posted after having been able to post before. Last time I created an account at a mildly interesting forum, when I wanted to write a very first post I immediately got a message that the account was banned "because something-something you must be a bot". Before anything was posted. I did not bother to appeal or follow up with such nonsense.

Until they get rejected by an art school.

... and we have no idea what will be the consequences for mankind as a whole. It's like a billion people deciding that walking is too tiresome and start to sit in electric wheelchairs all day, just for the thinking functions instead of the motor functions. I see no chance that people will limit their use of outsourced thinking tools to a reasonable amount that will leave their own thinking organ in working condition. The few that may continue to do their own thinking will be regarded as strange freaks, or even a "danger to society".

Yes, according to https://idiocracy.wtf/ we are at 75% in that category.

Unlikely, people would not believe any human could be smarter than the artificial stupidity they got so accustomed to. Essentially the one thing Idiocracy was unable to predict was the rise of artificial stupidity.

Yes, according to https://idiocracy.wtf/ we are at 75% in that category.

Because those investors are all super humble altruists who do not want anyone to miss out on the glorious mountains of money they will make in profit from those investments. Quick, give them all you have to multiply your money!

And I have a really hard time to understand why other people would want those closed source Adware/Malware/Spyware things distributed on inferior "app stores" like Google's.

... but other than toying around with such tool, I cannot see any real use case.

I guess next up is a phone where whatever number you dial, the number will be used as a seed for a randomly generated AI "personality" to talk to.

And of course you can extend that concept to live TV (with unlimited number of channels) as well, if you really want to burn through "tokens" at maximum speed.

Erich, is that you? I knew you didn't really die earlier this year, but just went on a trip with some Aliens in a flying saucer...

Technically, that is probably true. But remember that even for the Covid-19 shots, "mRNA-printing" was deemed too expensive, so each iteration of the mRNA based Covid-19 vaccines was mass-produced in a more conventional way using microbes... and so the "adapted" versions all arrived at the market at times when the variants they targeted were already way past their maximum.

I doubt that for a generic flu shot this will be different, and apart from the economics & competition situation of the mRNA vaccine, this also means that for a more realistic measurement of its effectiveness we would need to wait for statistics from a population that has been vaccinated with such a mass-produced mRNA vaccine at the time when this actually becomes available.