That’s the neat thing: never, because they explicitly tell you that big babble machines make mistakes and you’re responsible for any actions you take on that.

“Mom! Mom! After years of hard work and study I’ve finally managed to become a scientist.”

“That’s awesome, honey! What do you do?”

“I make bread out of stuff from dead peoples’ guts.”

“…”

“Marriage is a government sanctioned contract”

It can’t get more romantic than that. /j

(You also do not need a ring at all.)

Devs cannot just use a different platform without cutting out a huge userbase.

Most gamers I know, don’t care that much about where they get their games from. Heck, they would buy it from a dubious guy with USB sticks who is travelling on a donkey, if they had to.

Make a good game and people will follow.

I suppose the issue is rather about discoverability and getting people to learn about a game they might like. But steam is not necessarily easier in that regard. You’d still need to do some marketing to get the word around. If you’re lucky by scratching the itch of a lot of people, steam can boost sales by its trending and discovery lists, sales highlights, etc. But that’s not easy to achieve just by choosing steam as a distribution platform.

Stop using Google products. Google is evil.

That’s one of the issues I meant.

Ahem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil

We need to address a couple of issues first before making this a thing again, but in principle I think it’s a worthwhile direction.

“Alexa, pls stop spying on me. Ok? Thx.”

That would be great. Their price-to-performance ratio was unjustified anyway. Time for another or new company to step up.

Valve has gone EA?

It’s baffling how companies like Meta, Alphabet, etc. pull shit like this over and over again, or do even worse, and most people still keep using their products as if they were masochists.

Stop using Google. Google is evil.

The study is more correlation than causality. Even though they tried to be careful they did not (and can’t) account for a plethora of confounding factors, which – especially with depression – is particularly problematic.

They provide a plausible explanation for a causal pathway, but did not prove it. This provides a testable hypothesis, which is why I would read this more like “more research needed”, rather than definitive proof. I wouldn’t go as far as to say “eat an orange a day, to keep depression away”. Although it probably wouldn’t hurt to eat some more fruit, given how bad the fruit content in most people’s diet is anyway.

So this is, unfortunately, a rather sensationalist takeaway you’ve provided here, OP. But that’s the curse of how we’re doing capitalism. Even ‘top research universities’ like Harvard need to be sensationalist to attract some publicity and get their research funded.

Someone built a portal in the Minecraft dimension to throw a few over to us. /j

People forget about the other genders when it comes to the issues with smart glasses. And kids. Where is the “for the safety of our children” mob, when we need one?

Why the fuck does it share data with anti cheat and security tools?
Does it have competitive multiplayer?

You can sucessrully run a company using AI. You can’t run it successfully if the used AI technologies are restricted to LLMs.

How is Europe split? Germany is rather central. Does it Count as north or west europe? South? Probably nor east. Or is Germany divided again for this analysis? Resembling post-WWII times.

What a coincidence. Read a paper about the use of big babble machines in higher education just today and how it impairs long term knowledge retention.

In case someone is interested:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102287