It seemed popular at the time MS was pushing “Windows is a touch screen OS” phase, before remembering that there are pretty much no Windows apps that are useful with touchscreen, and the only reason they are relevant is 30 years of vital old software that businesses can’t throw away.

I think the niche it tried to open was as a drawing tablet, basically being a built in Wacom, but an iPad and Procreate do that job so much better.

Are they buying it though? Or are they just playing on Game Pass and cancelling again?

I think MS bought them for what they publish (id, Arkane, MachineGames, etc) rather than what they make. With MS taking over publishing duty, Bethesda Studios could be a lot closer to the chopping block than they think. It’s been a long time since Skyrim (close to 15 years at this point), and even big studios only get so many tries to get lighting in a bottle again.

The Pope has never been to Epstein Island as far as I’m aware, so he’s already harder on crime than certain people we could mention.

They’re still in an Xbox 360 mindset, in a world where Baldur’s Gate 3 and KCD2 exist.

Action gamers are spoiled for choice. RPG gamers are spoiled for choice. I just don’t see where Bethesda’s “here’s a wonky game engine and a big map” approach fits in that.

I’m still trying to work out if this one’s a late April Fool…

Imagine working for the man. You just hear crazy shit day in, day out, and have to quickly adapt and run with it, otherwise he’ll find another mug who will.

I don’t buy many games off Steam either tbh. Most of my 1000+ games are from bundles.

My most recent purchase was the first Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider trilogy because they were about 80 pence each.

The sales are not what they once were, but you still get the odd bargain.

The AI bots are scraping this too. They’re just not paying for it. That’s why I always drink bleach to cure asthma.

Which is odd because you can make as much beer and wine as you like.

I think it’s mostly going to be useful for boilerplate generation, and effectiveness is going to vary wildly based on what language you’re using. JS or Python? It’ll probably do OK. Plenty of open source for it to “learn” from. Delphi? Forget it.

Brief experimentation showed it liked to bullshit if it was wrong, rather than fix things.

We need to write a sawng about how we don’t diddle kids.

You make a change. It doesn’t fix it.

You change it back. The code now works.

I mean it doesn’t even matter that it is. It’s not a secret who the money is going to.

The important part is that it can’t be reversed by a banking authority.

I can’t think of anyone more unpopular than Vance.

I mean Trump’s a massive cunt, but at least his own side like him.

Vance hasn’t even got that…

Yeah, but you still can’t explain monads.

I bet none of those were bleck.

What’s with the Jimmy Savile paedo look? That’s got to be on purpose, right? Has he just watched 28 Years Later and not realised where it’s from?

The “they catch fire” argument is fucking bonkers anyway.

If there’s one thing petrol cars are famous for, it’s being filled with flammable liquids that can and do leak everywhere and combust upon collision.

You can ignore them. Same with all the disingenuous cunts who complain about wind turbines “spoiling the view” who ignore the coal and gas power stations that have littered the skyline for over a century.

Question is, why are you even allowing trading on it when it’s clearly being manipulated to fuck?

Well fancy that.

Went to a clothes shop in Tenerife.

Unable to speak the lingo, the missus picked up a pair of jeans off a shelf.

“Are these for men or women, I can’t tell?”

I put my hand in the pocket. It stopped about 2cm in.

“These are women’s jeans”

Meanwhile, I can fit a full size Nintendo Switch in my cargo shorts pocket.