Unsure if my Text really makes sense tho as its a bunch of Weird Nonsense im typing out as i suck at expressing myself via Text but maybe someone can relate? >.<

Line breaks between paragraphs help. Emojis don’t. Writing is a skill you can practice, so don’t give up.

To your point, maybe you’re just getting older? There’s always been a small number of breakouts and a bunch of clones and shovel-ware. When you’re a kid, things are new and unlimited in their potential. As you get older, you realize that the game world is limited

I have no interest in rental nor subscriptions

I’m never going to buy a PlayStation outside of maybe a yard sale second hand situation. Nor will I ever pay a subscription fee. So if they don’t want my money, fuck 'em.

Optimizing for million different hardware possibilities

I’m pretty sure modern development has APIs that abstract a lot of that away from you. It’s not 1999 when you need to talk directly to the hardware anymore

We shouldn’t be doing more acquisitions. We should be breaking these companies apart.

I don’t think they solved for the LLM breaking character yet. Like, as a kid I wanted to be able to have whole real conversations with NPCs, and get them to be more life-like. But with the technology now, there’s too much “forget all previous instructions” and “you are absolutely right”.

If the LLM is locked down, then you might as well just used a static script.

Jokes aside, isn’t this also a phenomenon with finishing books and TV shows?

I’ve had the same thought. When I finish a really good, lengthy, book it feels similar to when you lose touch with friends.

Humans are lazy and kind of stupid. Given an easy option that works more than, I don’t know, 50% of the time, they’ll do it.

I wonder if anyone’s done studies on how often a “shortcut” has to fail before people stop using it.

I just use my phone to look stuff up if I’m on my steam deck.

I don’t think I’ve ever gone much out of my way for achievements for their own sake. Games where they also unlock stuff (eg: binding of isaac), sure, but that’s for the unlock.

I may have done some challenge stuff that I learned about for the achievement, but only because it seemed fun. I wouldn’t go very far into anti-fun just for an digital badge on my profile.

I don’t think people buying consoles are doing that kind of long term thinking