Nintendo doesn't want you playing games that don't make them money.

In any situation where they eventually lose copyright, they would prefer that the game be unrunnable, so that you will have no ability to play that old free game instead of buying a new game to play.

They don't want old games to be cheaper either. They want you to pay top dollar (to them) for any game you play.

So your proposal runs contrary to their incentives.

Huh. I didn't know they only take 18%. Though, admittedly, I also didn't know they had no way for users to review the games. I just assumed they would, as it seems like a key element to such a store. I guess Steam spoiled me.

Oh well, you have given me yet another reason to continue not using the Epic Game Store.

I think it's a good move and long overdue. Steam needs real competition in the market. Though I don't see much reason why I would choose the Epic games store over steam, especially given that my steam library is already overflowing with games I bought on sale and have barely found time to play.

I guess some more Epic store exclusives would help. And if Epic bucked the cartel and undercut that whopping 30% that Steam charges to sell through their store, they could attract some real talent.

"Return of the Return of the Living Dead" ?

Yeah, they'll recruit outrageously popular AIs to draw crowds at the cinema.

Go ahead and ruin every movie plot ever.

A lot of responses to my post have said something similar to yours: "Google can track you anyway."

Well that's fine, because I wasn't trying to "be anonymous" so much as "get clean search results." And this method is working. I have seen what search results look like when I am signed in to a Google account and my current search is "tainted" by past searches. And after de-googling my life (and using this clear-cookies technique while not being signed in) I am seeing much cleaner search results that are focused only on my present search term.

So it seems to be working, even if Google has a full search history on me.

But as always, your mileage may vary.

Why not hold the actual violators responsible rather than the infrastructure operators?

And only after their day in court.

I have one of my installed browsers set to clear cookies and stuff every time I close it. This way, whenever I go to YouTube, it has no idea who I am or what other videos I have watched in the past. The results I get are purely a function of the search terms, with no interference from a recommendation algorithm.

That's how I protect myself from this effect. I highly recommend it to anyone who is concerned.

Of course, Facebook does the same thing, putting all of its users in little echo-chambers that only show it news articles that reinforce what they already believe, creating an illusion of worldwide agreement with them, and giving their opinions a feel of objective truth. My solution to that is: don't use Facebook.

Anyway, if these recommendation algorithms became outright illegal in these contexts, I wouldn't shed a tear. I don't mind them for something like Amazon that wants to know how old your kid is so it can recommend gifts that are age-appropriate or whatever. It's a bit creepy but actually useful and doesn't seem to have this side effect. Not so in the case of information feeds.

BATMAN WITH a BONER!!! I never thought of that!

...happen again.

Voters get really mad at a party and hand control to the opposite party. And there is much rejoicing. Then the new party turns out to be just as bad but in different ways, gets voters really mad, and the vote swings to the other party. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Of course, Republicans and Democrats alike hate to hear this, because each thinks their own party is right about everything and the other party is wrong about everything, and insists that the voters handed the vote to the other party not because they had legitimate reason to be angry, but because they are all moral reprobates and complete morons.

So, yeah, both sides.

Your statement is false. Gemini will still contradict itself even today. I have asked it questions and gotten contradictory answers as recently as this week.

Usually the contradictory answers won't show up until you start a new chat asking the same questions in a different way. Though it has happened a few times that it contradicts itself in follow-up questions in the same chat.

It has also very confidently given me answers that are patently false. Sometimes when I ask for citations, it cites reddit, of all places, as an authority of truth.

Gemini as a generic chatbot is still this bad, even today.

Some sources are reporting that not all relevant scientists agree that it has been "confirmed".

At this point we should probably be saying "claimed".

He said previously that he would move to Israel if team red lost.

Too bad about that TACO thing.

I liked Clinton's "entrance to Liberace's bathroom" better.