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Also enjoy the ride but don't expect we'll ever get a resolution for that story.

Oo boy, no they didn't.

Beyond Good and Evil is a nice game, made by Michel Ancel's team (the original guy behind Rayman and much later fucking Rabbids at Ubisoft) around 2003 for 6th gen. It's a quite decent sort of Zelda-esque action/exploration game with good characters, humour, a bit of short alternate gameplay phases like stealth, boat races, etc.

It's a bit short, but the time it lasts is very enjoyable. And then first problem, it doesn't really end. It needs a sequel, badly. And unfortunately the game doesn't seem to have been a huge success commercially.

So a small group of dedicated fans waits for a sequel announcement, that doesn't come for a long time. After a couple years, a video trailer "leaks" randomly showing the two protagonists on a... road trip? Maybe? And basically nothing else. It's enough to get people excited though.

Mostly radio silence for a looong time, fast forward to E3 2017, and big announcement at E3 on Ubisoft's stage with Michel Ancel and company. No, we didn't abandon the BG&E 2 project. Except now it's sort of a procedural, planet-wide multiplayer oriented game. A prequel too, with different characters. Also we're making a weird collaborative contest thing where you people submit art to us and we're including it into the game.

It was awkward. It looked nothing like the first game was, and it wasn't a sequel. Fans of the first game are like, where are my tiny but carefully crafted world and Zelda-like dungeons? When will we finally know what happens to the guys whose story we began 15 years before? Why is this turning into "generic Ubisoft game #47"?

None of that mattered, since we're in 2024 and that game still doesn't exist.

So yeah, fond memories for the OG, but mostly a huge disappointment.

A freaking Dragon Quest 3 remake needs a performance mode so you can prioritize frame rate? On a PS5?

Sims 3 tried to approximate that, though in reality Sims that you couldn't see around at the moment had a very simple alternate simulation instead of the full sim for those you were watching.

The illusion mostly worked and you technically had a full seamless small town you could visit and interact directly with.

Sims 3 was also an unstable nightmare, but it was made for what is now 15-year-old hardware and, I assume, held together with shoestrings.

They got rid of the seamless part in 4, instead splitting the world in tiny groups of a couple buildings each, meaning even EA probably thought the open town was too much trouble. Too bad because the separate blocks are a lot more boring too... Like most of the Sims 4 really.

Anyway, no matter from which parts of the world it's trained, we're talking about 2024 Facebook content. We've seen what Reddit does to an AI.

Can't wait for meta's cultured AI to share its wisdom with us.

EU cultural values include resisting against corporations doing whatever they want with our data. Let's see meta try to reflect those.

At the beginning of Smash Bros Ultimate, some people jokingly tried to make "Smush" a thing (since the previous, fourth game, officially Super Smash Bros for 3DS/for Wii U, was often referred to as Sm4sh for short).

Beneficial AGI Summit

Oh good, they're the ones who want a nice AI overlord.

It would absolutely be a privacy concern if someone without the rights to access this data could access it from the computer.

My understanding is that it's the same account logged on both devices. Computers are multi-users devices. No technology ever would protect your secret stuff from someone you've just shared your personal account with.

It's a problem that deletion is not perfectly synchronized, yes. It certainly is a privacy risk because an unauthorized intruder could find them. But in this particular case, there's no intrusion. The wife just had normal access to these messages in the first place.

revealed his secret to someone else

I generally don't like Apple, but I think crying about privacy violation because someone you're willingly sharing your account with saw your stuff is not reasonable.

Je savais même pas qu'il y avait un JT sur Arte perso.

A friend of mine once showed me that he played Ark on the Switch. At that point I didn't even know there was a Switch port, and I was wondering how playable it could be.

Ten minutes in : holy hell what a mess.