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The Xbox one came after the Xbox 360 and before the current version, the XBox Series X/S.

They really do have the stupidest names.

I’m guessing Wii

Thank you! I was like “who?”

It’s never too late! I don’t even like Skyrim but it’s literally never too late to have more fun with older games.

Poor grumpy baby :(

That’s hilarious.

“Every credential that was in Moltbook’s Supabase was unsecured for some time,” Ian Ahl, CTO at Permiso Security, explained to TechCrunch. “For a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there, because it was all public and available.”

Last month, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth was asked about the AI agent social network in an Instagram Q&A. He said he didn’t “find it particularly interesting” that the agents talk like us, since they are trained on massive databases of human material. Rather, Bosworth was intrigued by how humans were hacking into the network, which was not a feature but a large-scale error.

It’s telling that Meta is still impressed by this kind of bullshit. None of this is particularly interesting.

What’s funny is, we literally already have helicopters that rich people seem to use to get places.

These flying taxis are the exact same thing.

It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, which is why it pretty much never takes off (no pun intended).

Damn that original headline is a nightmare to read. The new one is better

The Last Actor To Play Mega Man Will Not Appear In Dual Override As Capcom Goes Non-Union

Oh for sure, they’re taking big tech’s lead.

Tech has been blaming AI for layoffs for a couple years now, when they hired an insane number of people during and after COVID. They literally hired to lay off. I found this graph illustrative of the boom and bust.

The people in this administration love when tech can get away with something (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal around 2016) because they will too.

I wish there was a name for these kinds of statistics.

They remind me of baseball. “He averages seventeen strikeouts per game when he plays on Tuesday evenings in mid-September”

I hesitate to use the term “friendslop” but

I honestly laughed out loud when I saw this was the first sentence. The title pretty much defines friendslop: “co-op … game … looks like a good laugh”

Yale’s own article about the study:

https://news.yale.edu/2026/03/03/ais-hidden-bias-chatbots-can-influence-opinions-without-trying

Rock Paper Shotgun is somewhat misrepresenting Myrient’s original posting. As is to be expected, I guess, since Rock Paper Shotgun is using Kotaku as a source.

The reasons in the original posting were in order: Increasing traffic costs, download managers, then increasing hardware upgrade costs on top.

Here is what the original posting says, in order:

As traffic continued to increase last year, the amount of funding from donations remained the same. I have been paying more than $6000 out of pocket every month in order to cover the difference which is not sustainable.

This is obviously the main issue! $6,000 out of pocket is clearly unsustainable.

The rest pales in comparison:

Paywalled download managers: In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.

Then it talks about hardware prices.

Rising RAM, SSD, and HDD prices: Since last September, RAM, SSD, and HDD prices have surged dramatically and continue to rise due to the ongoing extreme demand for AI datacenters. This has caused Myrient’s hosting expenses to go up as well.

“As well.”

With a large number of servers and the aforementioned existing monthly deficit in excess of $6000 out of pocket, there is no way to pay for the increased hosting and hardware upgrade costs.

I added emphasis. Note that it says “aforementioned existing monthly deficit,” $6000 a month. Hardware upgrades are in addition to the massive traffic costs. Not the main cost.

Kotaku turned that into “AI-Fueled RAM Crisis Forces Retro Game Preservation Site To Permanently Close.” And Rock Paper Shotgun fell for it.

a new Race Day expansion will arrive on March 10th giving you options to transform streets into courses for motor racing, running, and cycling events. On top of that more paid and free content is coming with the Iconic Brutalism and Renewed History content creator packs, a new radio station called 8 Gear Radio, and a free patch adding roadside fences and a new Employment Info View that allows for a closer look at a city’s workforce.

I’m totally in on building a race track! I also really love brutalism, so both of these sound great

That’s because “Paramount” in the title translates to “the Ellisons.” I feel like they could have just spelled that out in the title.

The article later says

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison and his dad Larry Ellison - who is funding the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery out of his personal fortune

Myrient is a popular video game preservation service that has over 390 terabytes of classics

Increasingly popular, according to the owner, which was part of the problem. Myrient was costing them $6,000 a month to run after donations.

Which is why people don’t start these things out of pocket. At best it’s questionably legal to distribute ROMs… but it’s really expensive to pay for the traffic.

They blame rising component prices as well, but the main issue was traffic costs.

Have you tried tagspaces? It’s not primarily an editor (from what I can tell) but if you want to split file editing from grouping/tagging, it might be worth a shot.

I haven’t tried it but I will, because I really like ways to organize files that don’t require actually changing the files themselves!

Sometimes solving the problems separately (organizing and editing) can be better for specific purposes. on a computer with a keyboard, I like an editor that just edits.

I was somewhat interested before, but I have zero interest in supporting anything Ethan Klein has been involved in. Yuck.

Sadly, we do have evidence that there has been a coordinated campaign to purposefully and maliciously damage Build A Rocket Boy’s reputation and undermine confidence in MindsEye," a spokesperson for the studio told GamesIndustry. “We are working with our legal team and taking steps to address this.”

Maybe your game just sucks?

It’s so sad when people can’t admit they’ve failed.

created by the piss-swigging misanthropes behind Battle Brothers

I’m sorry, you’re saying the developers themselves guzzle urine? Seems a little harsh.