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Is "may contain traces" / "made in a facility..." no longer adequate labeling in these situations? I know that used to be the norm in America, and it still is in Europe.

My experience with moderately serious non-anaphylactic food allergies is that "traces" are pretty low risk.

It's touched on in the article, but I think by far the biggest problem with complex games on mobile platforms is the lack of a controller. And secondarily for phones, the tiny screen.

In some bizarro world where every iPhone had Switch-style joycons, these games would probably do very well.

Sure but we're talking about personal/hobby pages made by people who are overwhelmingly not artists and designers.

It was one of the few places (along with Angelfire) anyone could get a free web page those days, and the most interesting thing you could do with web design was add a background and some animated GIFs.

MySpace in the mid-2000s had a very similar vibe. It's just normal people doing fun stuff when there are few constraints or guidelines.

Surely not the most popular language among tourists in South Korea, who would be mostly from Japan, China, etc.

> While the DMA may eventually force Apple to slide on this rule, currently it doesn't actually solve the problem at-hand.

People keep saying stuff like this about the DMA and it's very confusing to me. Of course Apple can choose to break the law, but there are consequences for that. It doesn't mean the law is ineffective just because investigation and enforcement is not instantaneous.

It is not beyond the wit of man to dig a hole.

(Of course you can build pumped hydroelectric storage anywhere, it's just cheaper in some places.)

> It's still possible with a remote ssh connection, and gdb scripting, but it's inconvenient.

In this situation, don't gdb breakpoint command lists give you exactly what you need (printing stack traces at certain points) with minimal effort? Nothing wrong with using different tools, but it's not clear if that option was considered.

I hate when a cute little piece of jargon like "malicious compliance" becomes a fad, because it just does not accurately describe what Apple is doing. It's not any kind of compliance.

Apple's strategy is pseudo-compliance, where they adopt the appearance of compliance while deliberately choosing not to do what their European lawyers must have clearly explained they are obligated to do.

Writing assembly really isn't that scary, especially in small doses for performance-critical code. That was a very common practice in the 80s/90s, though it's faded as compiler optimizations have improved.

> it sits uncomfortably between parody and not

Yeah that's a thought I've had too, and the vast majority of idle games are just putting a new theme on top of the same crappy formula. But the ones that try something new are usually pretty interesting.

I would highly recommend Melvor Idle's "Ancient Relics" mode, from the AoD expansion. It turns a relatively simple idle game into something that requires genuine planning and strategy, simply by gating skill cap increases behind clearing a new dungeon.

Graphical adventure games were largely parser-driven for like a decade. Sierra's AGI parser worked well; my recollection is that it usually looked for a verb and a noun and ignored any extraneous text.

> The game is built from the same foundation as the Link’s Awakening remake

I'm always annoyed when developers don't reuse assets. Like, Bethesda made all this state-of-the-art (for 2011) 3D stuff for Skyrim. You could make a thousand completely different fantasy games which recycle 80% of those assets.

Nintendo did almost exactly this with Tears of the Kingdom, and it was an enormous success.

Right, "struggles" implies bad performance when in reality it simply doesn't work. Windows' translation layer handles user code, but not kernel drivers.

> The in-store video game terminals will allow players to select the game they want to record and add it to their cart at a price ranging from $10 to $40.

I hadn't heard of this before, but it's clearly a successor to the Famicom Disk System, which worked exactly the same way but with rewritable floppies.

Ever since the Vision Pro was announced (months before it shipped), people were saying "this is a dev kit". And it clearly is.

It's just not a "product" in any typical sense. It's a moderately large bet placed on a possible future which might be here in 5-10 years. I think it's a lot more interesting and productive to run this experiment in public rather than keeping it as an internal lab project.

The idea of the EU as "radically anticapitalist" is very funny. I'm sorry the DMA happened to you or whatever, but it's just another boring market regulation.

Making errors, generating nonsense, being wrong. It's a catchy term but it's not accurate in any meaningful way.

If you're doing stuff with the GPIO, I'm sure there's far more software written for the Raspberry Pi than anything else.

If you're just using it like a normal computer, then it's not special.

I think the best thing to do in a scenario like that is standard procgen where you randomly, logically generate the rooms with a bunch of descriptive tags, and then LLM-ify the room descriptions, with some context for what the world/area is supposed to be like.

How? Aside from their tacky generated images, the only real gen AI thing they're doing is providing a quick interface to ChatGPT.

One side is open-sourcing .NET and VS Code and running GitHub well and making vcpkg. The other is crapping up Windows with embarrassing ad-ridden F2P games. It's really weird.

OpenAI's problem is that it's not at all clear where the profit is going to come from. Average users aren't going to pay a subscription just to make the occasional query.

I think GitHub Copilot is a good LLM-based product with a fairly large market. I'm concerned that it might be the only good product out there, still.

Europe has generally done a very good job with urban transit. The real problem is that long-distance train trips cost a fortune, typically several times more than a budget airline. And ticketing systems between countries (within the EU) are poorly integrated.

Despite many years of hand-wringing about environmental impacts of air travel, almost nothing has been done to address this.

That's always what I think when I see adults complaining that they hate their phone. It's just a portable computer, you control how and when you interact with it.

No, it was by importing liquefied natural gas. You can't convert the myriad applications of gas to electricity in a matter of months.

Implicitly, people who are too old (or too European) to have grown up with an NES.

But yeah, I 100% agree that the overwhelming draw of Nintendo consoles is their exclusives, so it's mostly orthogonal to Xbox/PS/PC. If you want to play Mario or Zelda or Pokemon or Fire Emblem, you've got one choice. The common idea that the Steam Deck is competing with the Switch is almost entirely wrong.

I dunno how they got the text ("SD3 at FAL") to appear like that in the example. If I change it to anything else it's either completely garbled or placed on a shop sign.

I'm glad Jeff is still keeping his head above the water, but I feel like his fundamental problem - as a guy who was making consciously niche, retro games from the very beginning with the 90s Exile series - is that he's failed to embrace the niche. He's a good writer, but the gameplay mechanics have only become more and more simplified and mainstream-friendly.

It's the old saw about making something that a lot of people might like, but nobody loves. You gotta stand out. There's totally an audience for weird, difficult RPGs with simple graphics, just look at Darkest Dungeon or even Battle Brothers (20k reviews on Steam).

Queen's Wish was an exciting idea, it's just too simple and half-baked.

Yeah even with a large C++ codebase, any decent IDE will flag errors very quickly in real time. I dunno, I've never found that waiting a minute to run a test or whatever is particularly detrimental to my workflow.

I understand the benefits of super fast iteration if you're tweaking a GUI layout or something, but for the most part I'd prioritize many many other features first.