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Nintendo’s unbeatable advantage will always be its first-party games, but the Switch 2 — a device rumored to be a fairly light improvement over its predecessor — doesn’t quite feel like it’ll be as culturally dominant as the Switch was in 2017.

That remains to be seen. Back in 2016-2017, every gaming media was skeptical that the Switch would be anywhere near as much of a success like the DS or the GameBoy had been, or if it was going to be another failure like the Wii U.

Why buy a game on PS5 when you can get it on Steam and have access to it on any number of devices?

That has been one of the arguments for PC gaming in a long time, but it never quite reached the console players' mindset. Not to mention that, despite its dominance in game distribution, Valve and the Steam brand are nowhere near as recognizable as any of the other 'big 3'. The Steam Deck may have sold a few million copies (four or five from what I hear?), but it's nowhere near the hundreds of millions of Switches, even in sale pace nowadays. I can't see it take less than a decade for that mindset to start changing change and competitors and regulation to get interested, and even that's an optimistic estimate.

Still, it's good to hear the platform exlusivity walls are finally breaking down.

That's some title gore and a half. They apologized for baning people who were flagged as cheaters for using 'compatibility layers' (clearly Wine/Proton) and unbanned them.

I'd argue it's not useless, rather, it would remove any financial incentive for these companies to sink who knows how much into training AI. By putting them on the public domain, they would loose their competitve advantage over other cloud providers who could exploit it all the same, all the while not disturbing the current usage of AI.

Now, I do agree that destroying it would be even better, but I fear something like that would face too much force back by the parts of civil society who do use AI.

Wait, wasn't he the one who mandated musicians should not be credited for their tracks in Falcom games?

Does that mean that this policy could be repelled?

Heavy recommendation for Portal: Revolutions. It's one of those super fun storied Portal 2 mods like Stories: Mel, if you like this kind of thing!

The abortion one is nearing the necessary support. Otherwise, they have a list of initiatives they've already answered.

Lots of really cool stuff there, sad to see that not all of them get traction troughout the EU (tax the rich my beloved :( )

2 ans ? Tu oublies les élections législatives de l'année prochaine lors de la nouvelle dissolution. Aucun parti ne veut paraitre "faible" ou "comprométant" par rapport au soutien de leur base, car ça pourait leur éclater à la figure pendant la campagne.

Les centristes sont conscients que aujourd'hui, le groupe dont l'unité est la plus fragile, c'est eux. Aux élections législatives de cete année, sans le front republicain, il n'y aurait pas eux de bloc centriste. S'allier avec le NFP pour former un gouvernement ne ferait que les rendre plus légitime comme "la seule alternative au RN". S'allier au RN, à l'inverse, ferait à 100% exploser leur coalition, et donnerait à tous les membres du NFP une balle gratuite du genre "Macron = RN".

Bref, tout le monde joue un jeu de dupe pour ne pas gouverner et apparaitre légitime pour 2025. Et en vérité, si Macron était malin, il nomerais Lucie Castets et la laisserais se casser la geule toute seule avec une motion de censure imédiate pour renforcer sa position. C'est pas comme si il en avait quoi que soit à foutre de la stabilité de notre régime ou de l'inflation aux vue de tout ce qui s'est passé ces dernières années.

Yeah, I don't see the NFP (left alliance) collapsing over this. Both them and the RN rn only has the ~~2027~~ 2025 elections in their mind and want to break the current stalemate by dismantling the centrist coalition, one way or the other.

The socialists have zero interest in breaking away from the NFP with whom they've only been gaining legitimacy to join Macron's sinking ship.

What options does that actually leave? Well, Macron could play coy and the clock by nominating Barnier again (or someone worse, like Manuel Vals, or a member of Cioti (right-far)'s party, which would be the biggest insult to the elections in our history) until he can dissolve the parliement again... or he could resign.

The next weeks aren't going to be fun.

You'd be suprised. A few years back in France, there were trials on hate speech involving death threats, and the 13 people who were brought in court were aged between 18 and 31.

And I remember and article (though was unable to find it again), that spoke about the many groups of 60+ y.o. people that spewed a lot of hate speech and death threats on Facebook.

À mettre en relation avec un article du Monde qui vient de qortir aujourd'hui :

« Le dilemme » : faut-il quitter X ?

Yikes. 59% des français trouvent que la police n'a pas assez de pouvoir ? 44% qu'il devrait y avoir une 'préférence nationale' (???) à l'emploi ?

Le cordon sanitaire entre le camp du président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, et l’extrême droite n’a jamais semblé si friable. Près d’un sympathisant sur deux (47 %) de la coalition présidentielle adhère aux constats faits par Marine Le Pen, sans forcément adhérer aux solutions. Ce chiffre était seulement de 29 % chez les sympathisants de Renaissance, le parti présidentiel, en 2023.

Ah, là voila d'où vient l'augmentation. +18% des electeurs macronistent tolèrent le RN.

Les sondés sont désormais 39 % à considérer le Nouveau Front populaire (NFP) comme la principale force d’opposition au gouvernement de Michel Barnier, contre 34 % qui désignent le RN. Signe d’un possible trouble chez les électeurs lepénistes : un quart d’entre eux considèrent que le NFP représente la première opposition au gouvernement.

Bon au moins il y a ça. C'est quand même fou que 34% considèrent encore le RN dans l'opposition alors qu'ils auraient pu faire tomber ce gouvernement dès qu'ils le voulaient.

Quelle horreur.