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This is absolutely crazy. Luigi is not uncommon italian first name, as well as obviously a game name and a pizza brand. Reddit is rediculous.

Its interesting - the article has taken one view of this as the the target being Palestinian children.

However reading this, the target actually seems to he the “prank” victims. Young people are goading older israelis into showing how angry, biased and racist they are when asked to help Palestinian children, and then sharing that and laughing at them?

It feels like Israeli children are mocking Israeli adults. Its a bit crass but the targets aren’t really Palestinian children. If anything its showing just how racist Israeli adults are.

Of course there is also the disturbing element of Israeli children seeing this all as just a joke, and not seeming to care about what this means about their parents and the country they live in. To see people get so viscerally angry when asked to help starving children is shocking yet I don’t think the Israeli youth seem atnall disrtubed by how hateful the people they’re talking to really are.

One thing Phil Spencer does not seem to care about is emulation. There are already Xbox and PlayStation emulators that allow access to more of both platforms back catalogues than any of the current generation consoles are capable of…

Xbox could build cloud based emulators off the open source tools already available and make their entire Xbox back catalogue accessible to current users to stream. They could help improve the tools to ensure greater and greater compatibility for titles and then it would be there forever.

The reason it doesn’t happen is money. They dont see money in game preservation so they dont bother beyond a few big name nostalgia hits. Muse AI isn’t about game preservation, its about game development - they’re just pissing around with game preservation to feed it content as a punt on the future for it somehow making game development cheaper.

AI can make Shakespeare BETTER! Like it can put it in modern text speak, and shorten it down to fit in a 30 second tiktok, plus give space for ad breaks and temu product placement. AI will help enhance user engagement with Shakespeare and also leverage new monetisation options and cross platform synergies.

All we have to do is let people copyright AI made content because ultimately it wasn’t Shakespeare that did the hard work, it was the AI tech Bros who transformed it into a modern content meme and raised 3rd quarter profits for everyone!

Yeah, instead game preservation is being solved by abandonware and copyright infringement.

Legal open source software is doing the heavy lifting, and then torrenting is sharing by he files. But there is a huge risk as there is no safety net to preserve the niche and unpopular games.

The game publishers and broken copyright laws are blocks to preservation but fortunately people are just doing it anyway. And the more the big companies push against it (including targeting emulation systems for current systems) the more they push it underground and out of any control they might have had. Typical greed and stupidity.

Not a US citizen.

But from European experience, new parties build from the base upwards. Local politics is where the opportunity us. So first aim is winning seats on town and city councils, then once established in peoples minds as a viable party, target state assemblies, and later aim for national government.

Its in large part about making best use of resources. Big parties put all their money into national politics, so they’re weak at the local level. New parties can focus their more limited resources locally and out compete the big parties, winning seats.

The only way to reform the US system ispribably to go state by state winning power and forcing through reform to that states districting and rules on splitting electoral college votes. No one has succeeded so far but its feasible - 1/3 of voters dont vote, and there are plenty of Dem and Rep voters who only vote their way due to refusing to vote for the opponent rather positively voting for the party.

Starting locally also neuters the nonsense you see around elections that you “have to vote dem and criticising dems is supporting reps”. The dems and reps have the system sewnnup between them as its a completely binary choice. Biden was a terrible candidate for this election but voices against him were shot down until it was too late because of the mad group think that develops in a 2 party state.

The alternative route is fine a huge personality and buuld a national party around them. However from European politics weve seen that basically means populist domineering politicians, and the parties are unstable - they build fragment and rebuild. Look at UKIP, Brexit Party and now Reform Partyin the UK, or the numerous parties Berlesconi led in Italy. It can work and be disruptive but I think such parties are very risky. Its a bit like taking a punt on another Trump like personality rather than fixing the actual problem with politics of unrepresentative parties.

I’d target local politics in progressive leaning areas in any states. That basically means the big cities and towns across the US - and it doesn’t matter of the state is “republican” or “democrat”. Breakthroughs could happen in either state - the big parties are taking their voters and holds on the system for granted. If you find issues that resonate with voters that can trump old party loyalties.

I’d also say for me there is a clear area to be campaigning on: the threat of automation and AI, and it all being in the hands of billionaires. The future is that technology replacing people in work - so the threat to peoples income, well being and freedom only to benefit the wealthy should be a message that would cut through. If a party were focused and only talked about that issue (and tried to stay out of contentious social issues like abortion) it could cut through. Elon Musk and theother tech Bros are offering plenty of opportunities to be a focus for voter anger.

Its like how jobs were “outsourced” overseas at the expense of American workers. Well now jobs are going to be outsourced to machines and where does that leave american workers? The big parties are not talking about this, and I don’t think mainstream politicians even grasp that this is a huge looming threat to voters globally.

The article totally misses the big intervening step between Skyrim/old Bioware and the failure of Starfield/Dragon Age: CDProjectRED.

While those studios largely just made “more of the same”, CDPR made Witcher 3 and then Cyberpunk 2077. Both games are way better narrative experiences and pushed RPG forward. Starfield looks very dated in comparison to both, and Dragon Age failed to capture to magic. Baldur’s Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 are successes because they also bring strong narratives and emotional connections to the stories.

Starfield would have been huge if it had been released soon after Skyrim. But now it just looks old fashioned, and I think the “wide as an ocean, as deep as a puddle” analogy is good for Starfield. Meanwhile Witcher 3 - which is 10 years old! - has quests and storylines with choices and emotional impact. BG3 and KC:D2 are heirs to Witcher 3.

You have a bizarre notion of “privacy”. Have you read the terms and conditions, and privacy policies of Brave, Opera and Vivaldi? Have you read Firefox’s?

Mozilla have also made clear the data licensing terms:

UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.

And the term that has been causing such concern:

You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

A lot of the posts on social media about this is just noise and overreaction. They’re making explicit something that has been implicit for decades and is exactly the same with other browsers (and if anything more murky and opaque)

Edit: and if the concern is the AI chatbot stuff (which is optional) then Brave has the same kind of stuff in its privacy policy alongside a myriad of other commerical uses of your data.