Probably since things have been in a gradual circle down the drain since 2019.

"Xennial" here, with Gen Alpha and Zoomer children (spanning about 15 years age gap). Started early with genX and still going with young'uns just starting school - almost spanning 3 'generations'.

I think overall, Millennials are somehow shaping up to be far better parents - the ones who are breeding - than GenX and Boomers, based on the results I'm seeing. It wasn't until about 5 years ago that I started seeing kids outside playing and riding bikes again. GenX helicopter-parented the shit out of their kids. Millennials - whether because they know better or they're simply unable to do anything about it due to increasing financial pressures - aren't doing that (to nearly the same degree). Kids are being allowed to.... be kids.

"With climate change, global population shifts, and rapid urbanisation at the forefront, sustainability will not just be a preference but an expectation."

Yawn.

They had the exact same alarmist screed 30+ years ago for the Millennials.

Maybe they should stop prognosticating doom and start doing something useful, like looking for solutions.

It's kind of disingenuous to claim the graphics are the heavy burden for these games, and that the game would've been successful if the graphics hadn't needed such a spend.

Graphics are, for the most part, just advertising and marketing. The quality of the game is almost entirely unphased by the spend on graphic quality. It should be treated as such.

Spend more time and money on making a good game and the graphics are going to matter less.

Meanwhile, I just saw that most of the top games on Steam are something like an average of 8 years old, many of them with graphics that are honestly comparable to what was possible in the 1990s and early 2000s.

They can do better, especially since a lot of these "graphics" requirements can now be automated away with AI.

Clearly it wasn't enough of a challenge for him so he found a shortcut.

What you call cheating is just a shortcut to the objective - which he appears very good at.

(And it is still kind of against the point of the game, but then, I suppose it depends on what your personal objective is, doesn't it?)

Meanwhile, there are companies out there replacing tape and spinning disk with all-flash storage options... the exist, you just don't know about them yet, apparently.

You mean like Tomb Raider?

Why is it suddenly OK to have an attractive female main character? Doesn't that set 'unrealistic expectations' or some other such tripe?

Or is it only OK when it's desecrating and replacing a male protagonist - as it is in Witcher 4? Strange, I thought only men could be witchers. That's not part of the canonical lore or anything (due to the specific mutations witchers undergo)...

Realistically, these 'parental leave' benefits were/are primarily a gender discriminatory benefit : primarily, women will take them, and hoist that burden on their male coworkers.

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but most of the AWS services aren't particularly special. There's hundreds of them, and most of them can be summarized as "devops integrations with our web UI of open source platforms". It seems they've got a very Enterprisey process once that product is released, and each new feature gets squeezed out of a rock very slowly. Past initial release of a service, very little actually seems to change, unless it's to add something which leads to you spending more money.

But what do you do for the other 5 hours of your day? If you can't find time to do your work, that sounds like a time management problem... we'll put you under review...

Don't be disingenuous.

It isn't the 45-minute training (which is, in actuality, the better part of a week of training spread out over the span of your first 6 months at Amazon, with regular 'updates'), it's the maxim to do the things in that training to perfection or suffer the consequences of termination and/or a lawsuit.

At Amazon, it's like being brainwashed into Animal Farm. You need to not only treat people equally, you've got to treat the special people with extra difference and preference. This is quite evident (and documented industry-wide, not just at Amazon/AWS!) in their hiring and promotion process, with white men being washed out in favor of the melanated and the rainbow mafia.

Did you include the energy used to fight and justify the petrodollar wars? IIRC the USD has largely propped up by the price of oil for the past 70 odd years.

Our local 'discount' theater does that. Tickets are still like $8/each, and they only get older films (so about 6 months delayed 'official' release, I think). But they often have older films and do movie nights for cult films, and things of that fashion. If I go to the theater, it's there.

The age of cinema as a significant art form - one of cultural significance - has passed.

We're ~20 years out from the era when movies were of significant artistic value. This is due to several factors, but since Netflix took over with direct-to-home DVD rentals it's been downhill ever since.

* Movie budgets have gotten pinched and funding for the kinds of movies that were possible in the 90s and early 00s (think: Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix, Braveheart, Gladiator, Donnie Darko - and many many others).
* Computers have made it increasingly easy to do special effects. This has resulted in quality story being supplanted with special effects, because it's cheaper.
* Traditional values like "good" and "bad" are politically untenable so "moralizing" films with heroes have to be stereotyped and downplayed. (Think: Marvel).
* Film production has gone international. There's now a bigger market for movies outside the US, and as such they have to appeal to international sensibilities.

There are many others, but those are the big ones I've seen, and why anything worth watching tends to be in a long format show variation anymore. It's been years since I've seen a movie I even want to watch. As someone who went to school for film, this is really disheartening.

Nah, you're out of your mind.

You can get an AMD NUC type box for $350 that'll blow the latest Xbox/PS platforms out of the water at half the cost and be a capable desktop computer. Hell, you'll even get AI capabilities.