Kuwait and UAE have US military bases. Iran doesn’t really have the ability to attack the US directly. Pretty sure they did also target Israel.

Finally, hardware is powerful enough that even Gamefreak can make a decent looking 3d game!

In all seriousness though, it looks pretty nice. Looking forward to the return of diving. South-east Asia is an interesting setting for a new region. I have a feeling IGN isn’t going to like it though…

The most trustworthy reviews are always those where the reviewers just bought the products. Even when it’s not as blatant as it is here, there’s always a motivation to not anger the company too much when you get their products early and for free.

That will vary by country. In Germany, people can get a “Pflegegrad”, which basically defines how much assistance someone needs. Depending on that, they may be assigned a caregiver, paid for by the state. If other relatives decide to take them in, they’ll also get some money and assistance for that.

It’s not that I’ve never tried it, I’ve dabbled in it consistently over the last few years. If you had said there was a major difference compared to 2 years or maybe even a year ago, sure. In the last 4 months, I guess we’ve gotten stuff like Claude 4.6, which saw an increase in coding performance by 2.5% according to SWE benchmarks. An improvement, sure, but certainly not an exponential one and not one which will fix the fundamental weaknesses of AI coding. Maybe I’m out of the loop though, so I’m curious, what are those exponential improvements you’ve seen over the last 4 months? Any concrete models or tools?

But in those 4 months AIs evolved a lot

Has it really? I don’t feel like it’s much different for programming compared to 4 months ago.

Who would create a bot for this purpose and then also give personal details in the instructions / memory or access to photos?

It would be 2 different people: One person instructing their bot to ask other bots for private data and another person using their bot for whatever purpose who was stupid enough to give it full access to their data. AI bros are often pretty incompetent when it comes to IT security especially, so I think it isn’t such an unlikely scenario.

I haven’t been there. I don’t think they offer any dishes without meat, at least at their locations in Japan.

Favourite: Coco Ichibanya. Lifesaver in Japan for me, as they offer vegan curries and exist in smaller cities where other options for food I can eat are scarce. Also, very tasty.

Least favourite: Mc D’s I guess. Only went there once in the last decade. Food was crappy and overpriced. Annoying ordering system as well.

Yeah, so what’s your point? The meme is talking about the “biggest success of last 25 years”, so a 22 year old game fits perfectly within that.

Pretty sure WoW and Overwatch were way bigger commercial successes.

Say No! More

I’ve only played the first remake so far, but I do prefer the original game. The remake is gorgeous and definitely not bad by any means, but it adds so much unnecessary padding to what was originally a perfectly well-paced game. And the story beats they added mostly don’t improve on the writing of the original.

Feels almost mean to say it, but it reminds me a bit of the Hobbit movie trilogy in that regard.

I don’t think so. That would be a hard thing to enforce and rather pointless. Comparing it to other internet regulations like the GDPR, it’s not illegal to use a website that doesn’t adhere to it. That said, with the amount of stupidity we tend to see in politics, who knows what some countries might do.

It might happen for some instances, but I think if some countries start requiring fediverse instances to do this, most users will switch to instances hosted in countries that don’t require it.

Context? Looks like a (somewhat pareidolic) leather seat cushion or something.

I don’t care about “celebrity cameos” even when it’s people I like. But I guess adding some controversial people is one way for a dev to drive engagement.

Centrism is okay during good times, when managing the country is all it takes and the political climate isn’t poisoned. During times of crisis, however, it’s horribly ineffective, because centrists are usually quite averse to any large-scale reforms and their ineffectiveness will only benefit (usually right-wing) radical parties.

Interesting. This might actually become a good option for mobile games and apps. I’ve created a few Flutter apps that integrate Unity for their 3d content, but that always comes with drawbacks, especially performance-wise. I’ll definitely keep an eye on this.

Naja, aber was Reisen angeht ist Ungarn doch ziemlich unproblematisch. Klar, hat auch eine schlimme Regierung, aber ist in Schengen und an der Grenze wird höchstens dein Perso kontrolliert. Niemand klaut deine DNA oder durchsucht deine sozialen Medien.