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The article basically answers its own questions in the conclusion that we've pretty much reached the 'final form' for consoles - Just like with phones.

In the early 2000's phones were all manner of wild designs with weird shapes and crazy functionality, but now we've settled on the ubiquitous black rectangle of the smartphone. So too now has the console settled on this, a single screen with buttons on the sides.

We saw the lead-up to this long ago with Nintendo's own evolving line of handhelds, and Sony's PSP and Vita, and now we've seen it on the PC side too with the Steam Deck.

Even Sony are trying to move into making their main console a handheld - the only reason Nintendo were able to get there first is they were willing to do their classic move, and go with a low-power device without much grunt, and rely on the fun-factor of the games to make it good.

Imagine if next cycle Nintendo came out with a dual screen beast, a-la the DS. These days, more and more games on consoles are cross-platform and work on all systems, with few exclusives. That doesn't work so well if your system has super unique hardware and deviates too far from the single black rectangle. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot.

I think if Nintendo do something truly off-the-wall again, it will only be because there has been some new tech shift in the market and Nintendo jump in to get first mover advantage. Like a new type of VR that works super seamlessly, or something none of us have though of yet.

But for now here we are. The ubiquitous black rectangle has arrived.

The nice thing about Gator Game was that movement felt so good and fluid. It really is just a game about jumping and climing and bouncing around like a hyper kid.

Given the game doesn't have 'combat' they really really needed to get traversal right because that's the main draw, and they succeeded in that.

I got lost a few times too, but I think they did a good job of providing mitigation for that with specific large landmarks you can see at least one of from anywhere, like the big tree, the mountain, the windmill.

I understand what the devs were trying to do by not having a map. When a map is there, especially an always-on minimap, I basically spend my whole time with my eyes glued to that tiny corner of the screen rather than actually looking at the world. So I can respect the decision to try and do without any map.

What else are you going to do, though?

If you have some particular and complicated task then sure you'd probably write a program for it in a specific high-level language. But that isn't what the shell is for.

If you've already got a bunch of apps and utilities and want to orchestrate them together to do a task, that's a good shell use case.

Or if you have a system that needs setup and install tasks doing on it to prepare for running your actual workload, that's also a task which the shell is ideally suited to.

Shell scripting always has a place, and I can't see it being made obsolete any time soon.

What the fuck are people doing

As a Brit I don't know anything about the CFPB, but let me just say they have a top-tier logo right there.

The 'spotlight' shining out from inside the C to shed light on anti-consumer shenanigans tells you instantly what the CFPB is presumably all about.

Graphical masterpiece of a logo.

Even at $100 it's a pretty reasonable time/compensation ratio, assuming you only have to spend like 10 minutes on actual performance time.

Of course there is potentially travel time and the overhead of communicating ahead of time to set up the prank.

May not be worth it if you have a full time job already.

Exactly, it's not on Nintendo to fix, this could be happening anywhere in the chain.

Could be within the stores or their suppliers, or it could be returns from end-customers.

My personal bet would be scammers buying games with cash, taking the games and then shrink-wrapping the box before returning them for a cash refund. And then they flip the cartridges on eBay or whatever.

My strategy is to not look at work emails outside work time.

You can neither attend nor be stressed about a meeting that occurs earlier than you start work, if you don't know it exists.

I'm a software developer, so I simply empathise with the position

I understand that "half caf" is supposed to be one-eye-asleep and one-eye-awake, but to me he instead gives the impression of being in that intensely pissed-off zone where he wants to drink coffee and is gagging for a full strength cup, but he's been having heart palpitations recently and his doctor advised him to cut back and he promised his wife that he would but it's Monday and there's so much fucking work to get done but there's this stupid two hour meeting and don't even fucking dare talking to me about your bullshit Karen or I'm going to fucking snap I swear to God

Would be nice to see a graph of inflation-adjusted wages at McDonalds between 2014 and now.

I don't have the data, but I doubt much of this price increase is going into worker's pockets. It's profit for CEOs and shareholders.

I was quite intrigued by the article and thinking I'd put this on my wishlist, until I saw "multiplayer", and suddenly all my interest is down the drain.

It feels like some developers are making live service games simply to chase the revenue stream, not because the specific game they are making would actually be better online.

Elephants have an image in popular culture as being 'gentle giants' - and the companies who can benefit from that image by offering elephant petting, bathing and other experiences have no reason to suggest it's anything other than perfectly safe.

Honestly, it's absolutely disgusting.

For a time my retired father was looking into buying one, but I'm super glad in retrospect now this has all come out that it didn't go through and he walked away.

These parks and the individuals who run them are intentionally scamming vulnerable people out of their entire retirement by painting a false picture that these holiday caravans are a sound investment just like owning a house, while all the while knowing fully that people will lose almost everything they put in.

While it may seem like "it" and "it's" are different forms of the same word, in reality they are completely different words

he / his

her / hers

It / its

The above are all different forms of the same words.

"it's" however is merely a shortening of "it is" and on that basis is a totally different word that (very misleadingly!) happens to sound exactly the same as "its"

EDIT:

Another way of looking at this :)

his & he's (shortening of "he is") are different words in the same way, but nobody makes the mistake of writing or saying "he's car" instead of "his car" - it's obviously wrong because the words sound different - 'hiz' and 'heez'

The same is exactly and identically true of "its" and "it's'" but those words sound the same, so the mistake comes easily.

People were upset about this because it seemed deceptive.

The first two words on the yelp page for their now-closed restaurant are "House made"

"Most of my stuff from here is made from scratch" said the owner.

So people who have that expectation in mind are clearly going to be upset when they find it was pre-made all along.

It's about honesty and expectation.

If I go to some nationwide chain restaurant then I obviously expect all their breaded chicken is coming out the freezer in bags - and that's fine because it's not deceptive.

If I go to a small restaurant which strongly implies in their wording and branding that the food is all made from scratch, then it's deceptive when it isn't.

Apostrophe is only ever possessive when used with a noun.

Example:

"There was a stick in the dog's mouth" <- correct, dog is a noun

The word "its" is not a noun, Instead it serves the same function of possessive pronouns like "his" or "hers" and like those words it is never in this usage written with an apostrophe:

"The dog had a stick in his mouth" <--correct

"The dog had a stick in its mouth" <-- correct

"The dog had a stick in it's mouth" <-- wrong

In short, the ONLY rule you need to remember is that if the word "its" is short for "it is" then it should have an apostrophe, otherwise it doesn't.

That's all. One single rule, zero exceptions.

I'm not a parent myself but I have plenty of friends who are, and of all their strategies I think my favourite is the one of encouraging children from a young age to "make good decisions"

If all children hear is "Don't do that, don't do this, don't talk to them" then ultimately and eventually they are going to rebel, just to see what happens (and I've seen that side, too.)

Kids need to learn to make decisions for themselves, and sometimes that can even mean allowing them have bad and unpleasant outcomes (in minor and non-dangerous ways)

When kids are empowered to think for themselves and also to understand consequence, I think they are much better equpped to handle anything, including weird Internet trends that can get you killed.

It's quite easy to understand, even though it's bullshit.

When the sales department has a good month and makes loads of sales, the business too has a good month. The activity of those individuals directly correlates to revenue on a month by month basis, so management are naturally going to be incentivised to give the sales team perks and bonuses as motivation.

In a given month the IT/dev department doesn't "generate" any money at all, they only cost. We know they generate value in other ways of course, because the product the sales team sell is surely built and operated by the dev team, but because the relationship is indirect management don't care to reward you.

Reward sales with nice perks -> Revenue goes up

Reward devs with nice perks -> Revenue doesn't change

So of course management doesn't see the benefit in giving more money to tech, because it doesn't seem like you get anything back.

Of course, the reality is that investment in tech will make the product and the business better and more profitable, but it takes months or years to see the impact of changes, and management has a short attention span.