This is honestly a trash article. It can be summarized as:
"Microsoft, a trillion dollar corporation that makes around $150 billion in pure profit, every single year, is tempering expectations around AI, BUT then why are they still investing $12B dollars in it, that makes no sense!".
Like, they're tempering expectations around AGI revolutionizing the economy, not saying AI is trash and theres no value whatsoever in it.
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Why aren't the data brokers being charged with accessory to murder?
Writing stuff down with pen and paper is an objectively better way to remember things then digital files, also way more secure unless you really, really know what you're doing.
Well if you're going to give them another shot, you should try the Outer Wilds.
Much less abstract puzzle solving, and it tells quite a good narrative (no combat).
You don't have to like it, but out of curiosity, why is this different from a 90s point and click adventure? Isn't Myst and Riven and stuff basically this, but first person and without combat?
Because I was thinking of being a mystified child staring at Myst on my friend's computer more than once while playing Tunic.
It never clikced with me moment to moment and the self-congratulatory aren't-we-smart information discovery stuff just doesn't work for me in most cases (this applies to Fez and The Witness, too).
I think the word you're looking for is "puzzle".
It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help
Did it?
It's not, that's a you and your partner thing. Healthy relationships have space for independence and personal hobbies in them.
A significant other should not prevent you from enjoying your hobbies.
Most of the people I know who don't have kids and 'don't have time for gaming' in reality just have a significant other who looks down on gaming and makes them feel bad about it when they do.
I don't disagree with your conclusions about cheering on violence and what it begets, but I will just point out that if you're going by the sequel logic then the shooting of Brian Thompson was the 5th movie in the series, with the first four being assassinated Democrat state representatives.
It also ignores the literal hundreds of movies and documentaries that have been made where American Insurance companies kills thousands and cause enormous amounts of suffering, just so that they can turn an even higher profit.
I still don't agree with political assassination, but starting the narrative with the assassination of Brian Thompson is pretty arbitrary if the storyline is so broad that this is the sequel.