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I think a lot of the hating on Gamepass is justified, but I've just gotta say as a partially blind gamer it has been a godsend for me.

I used to struggle with whether or not to buy a game every single time because in most cases there is no way from descriptions and reviews for me to know how any given game will work with my vision and fine/gross motor impairment.

With gamepass I can try things and if I can't play it? I move on and try something else.

Kinda sad that we can't find some middle ground between making games accessible for disabled folks without bankrupting developers and ultimately hurting consumers.

I think pretty much anyone would agree that pervasive public transit with pervasive coverage and short wait times would be pretty much ideal.

I hate to be cynical but I can't see us getting there any time soon in the US. Mainstream American culture is so delusional about the idea that we're all RUGGED INDIVIDUALISTS that the idea of touching people is utterly repugnant.

I would love to dream of a world where this could happen, and maybe I should stop dreaming about self driving cars and start dreaming about this instead :)

Meanwhile, public transit everywhere in the US besides Manhattan is utterly abysmal and even in cities like Boston where public transit is decent-ish most people who can drive do.

Those who can't either take a taxi/Lyft if they can afford it, and if they can't afford it they suffer. It's the American Way.

They certainly can if it's a passion project! :)

This project just warms the cockles of my nerdy old heart :)

Bringing a crappy CRAPPY old protocol to life with awesome, secure, new 100% FLOSS technology so boatloads of homegrown art and culture can be saved?

YES PLEASE! :)

Hey would you be willing to pass the site you found this on so we can all studiously avoid it? :)

This sounds awesome. Wishlisted!

Yeah I can't get too all fired about this honestly. I think llms and the like could be a great tool in a game designer's belt provided it's used well.

And you CAN use it well. Don't believe the hype. If you're a programmer or designer, play with this stuff yourself, preferably using open source models run on your own machine (it's falling off a log easy now with tools like Ollama, even have AMD GPU support these days!).

Of course AI generated drivel is corrosive and horrible, and we should consistently downvote it and educate people about it so it stops being profitable.

For an alternative and erudite take on why all this AI generated crap may not actually spell doom, give this a read if you feel like it.

Couldn't agree more.

For what it's worth I think Brett Cannon wrote one of the best posts ever on the social contract of open source and how Not To Be That Guy :)

https://snarky.ca/the-social-contract-of-open-source/

Should be required reading IMO for anyone ever on Github :P

The crafting of titles is a tricky thing :) Sure, you could say that the title should read "Python 3.13's code base will have the addition of support for a JIT" or similar, but at the end of the day, does this distinction actually matter so long as the article contains the important bits in an accurate way?

I guess what I'm saying is that we're in subjective territory here and to my mind, I've seen WAY more egregious examples of misleading utter click bait titles.

Interesting assertion, but is it really?

The Linux kernel is a single software product produced by a single entity and ultimately controlled by a small cadre of highly trusted people.