Not to blow my own trumpet, but I was able to memorise basic type relationships as a small child!

That is a summing-up of the criticism that I’ve seen a few times though: they refuse to accept that their players grow up and only ever aim the games at youngsters, difficulty-wise.

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I don’t think OP was being particularly serious. There is a real issue though, the programs being made expand to use the resources available - devices are more powerful so developers can choose to be lazy and rely on the faster hardware rather than coding more efficiently.

Without knowing what these “product limitations” actually are then I think we’re just arguing hypotheticals

They gave the Heroic Launcher devs an affiliate link, so while they don’t really support Linux they at least approve of it

If they hadn’t thought of the idea until say a year ago then it’s not like they can go back in time or recall everyone’s phones to install a piece of hardware

You can still have that experience, you just have to sacrifice the large touchscreen, ability to run modern apps and websites, and everything else that makes it a smartphone.

I remember that being the “feature” which really highlighted the dumbing-down of the game. Work things out for yourself? Look them up? Remember what you’ve learned? No, we’ve solved the puzzle for you, don’t worry.

My bet is that “Linux” covers such a wide range of distros that they don’t want to unintentionally imply that they support every weird and wonderful setup

Libel if it’s in print, slander if you say it in person

The prototype scans open tabs locally, suggests topical names, and auto-bundles related pages. Because all processing happens on the user’s computer, the company says, neither raw content nor behavioral signals are uploaded to the cloud.

“AI” is just a buzzword, this isn’t chatbot nonsense as far as I can tell.

As with all offers like this Amazon are hoping that it causes people who weren’t subscribed before to stat paying them regularly, and posts like this are kind of giving them free advertising.

It’s similar to recommending something like reward credit cards (where you can make money off them as long as you pay them off in full and never pay any interest), if you’re sensible enough with your money then you can get a freebie but the provider is looking to profit off you messing up or forgetting.

Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their name and customer base.

As I post whenever someone complains about them not being free in !freegames@feddit.uk: you can sign up for a free trial of prime, claim the thirty or so games currently available, cancel, and keep all the games forever without having to give a penny to Amazon.

Resist the FOMO, don’t buy a game just because it’s brand new and they paid for enough marketing that everyone’s talking about it. Go through your backlog, replay your favourites, find some cheap indies or second hand classic or free giveaways. Nobody can force you to pay through the nose for games and there’s more choice than ever before!

I don’t think anyone’s claiming it’s difficult, it’s just more of a risk. If you’re the investor calling the shots with your big bag of money do you choose a new idea which might be great but people might not like, or to rehash an existing idea that already has fans who will buy more of the same? The decision is entirely financial.

So…dev stumbles, fans harass, and the project is dead.

Goodbye Winlator…for now?

Ugh, another amazing one-person project killed by harassment. The internet makes it so trivial to bombard someone with hate-mail, and I doubt many of us have been through the “media training” necessary to deal with it. I only have the tiniest of projects going and if the people I thought I was making a nice thing for suddenly turned on me then I think I’d be saying “fuck it then” too.

You can do a call in a group chat, right?

In the traditional sense of losing about 10% of its users? Seems about right.