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That's only true if you compare game sales to movie box office revenues, and music sales (which have shrunk considerably since they peaked in the 1990s). Once you account for home video sales, streaming, theme park revenues, and merchandise sales, the movie industry dwarfs the gaming industry. Once you account for artist tour and merchandise sales, the music industry dwarfs the gaming industry.

Ars Technica also has a pretty detailed write-up of the attack. That was pretty crazy.

And it's also a reminder that, if you are running for some high-profile political office or are working for someone who is running for that office, you should enable lockdown mode on your iPhone/iPad/Mac. Lockdown mode wouldn't have stopped what happened to John Podesta in 2016, but it would've stopped this attack.

Yes.

Whisky will allow you to run Windows apps, including most games, on a Mac without needing a VM or Boot Camp. It's basically a front end to Apple's Game Porting Toolkit, which requires Sonoma, so Whisky also requires Sonoma.

And while most games work well, games with a launcher will most likely fail, as will games that use kernel-level anti-cheat or some other DRM on top of Steam's. Steam works well with Whisky, but Epic's store doesn't work for some reason.

With Whisky. It requires macOS Sonoma, which launches next week.

I only bought the Steam Deck so I could play Windows games without having to give money to Microsoft, or pirate Windows. I'd much rather play games on macOS, but unfortunately, there are way too many games that don't run on macOS (or used to run, but don't anymore).

Now that Apple has their own Windows compatibility layer in the form of the Game Porting Toolkit, I don't use my Steam Deck as much as I did.

I'll give the console version a go. I just wished the console version supported the keyboard & mouse. The Windows version supports the keyboard and mouse, but the Windows version has a binding arbitration clause in its EULA that is not present in the console version, so I won't buy the Windows version.

It's most likely licensing, plus the live service functionality. People are saying on Steam that the post-launch content won't work without the live service functionality.

How would they plan to do that? Foreign investment in Japanese companies is heavily regulated, much more than it is regulated in the Americas or Europe.

All mobile phones use radios; if they didn't, then they wouldn't work as wireless phones. There are country-specific regulations on the power and radio frequencies used by these phones, so they don't generate excessive heat or ionize, both of which (but especially ionization) would be bad.

Contrary to what the health influencers on Instagram say, commercially available mobile phones have zero effect on human health. That said, apparently the iPhone 12 was caught violating France's limit on how much power its radio was using. How it took them years to notice is not mentioned anywhere.

The only turn-based Final Fantasy games were I, II, III, and X. All other games, except for XV, XVI, and Stranger of Paradise, use a global cooldown.

FF XVI isn't even an RPG; it's an action-RPG; it's like Stranger of Paradise, but it's much easier.

And while the PS5 was supply-constrained for about two years, the chip shortage that constrained the supply ended a while back, so anyone can get a PS5 now without having to watch for drops or winning the PS Direct lottery.

Why? They got so badly burned on OpenGL, with the committee dragging their feet & releasing compromised designs while Direct3D became a lot better, that they should've stuck with QuickDraw 3D back in the aughts.

Unless the developer opted out of allowing their iOS app(s) to run in macOS, which, unfortunately, many top games did. And of the games that were made available, there are those that only have touch controls, which are awkward at best and impossible at worst on macOS.

Steam Link: yes; there's an app for that.

Emulators: the tvOS App Store doesn't allow them, but you can weasel around that if you have a Mac, and install the developer tools, so you can build and deploy apps directly to the TV. Emulators for iOS will also work on tvOS, unless they depend on WebKit to run.

Not anymore. The PS3 would tell everyone on the PSN what you were doing at the time, including running streaming apps. They put a stop to that, and improved the PSN ID privacy settings, on the PS4 and PS5.

It's amazing how Batman Forever predicted the then-future of television, up to and including most people trading in security/privacy for convenience.

It does, but they're mostly computer monitors. You can use a computer monitor as a TV for streaming media; the catch is most of them don't have internal speakers or ATSC/DVB/etc. tuners for over-the-air TV.

Also, have you tried the Apple TV? It's a set-top box that isn't horrendous, and it only phones home for software updates + optional integration with Apple's cloud services (iCloud). It doesn't spy on its users.

Apple. Their own processors have both GPUs and AI accelerators. But for some reason, the industry refuses to use them.

Actually, the Constitution requires that POTUS candidates must be natural-born citizens, which doesn't necessarily mean they have to have been born in the US:

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

The 14th Amendment does say all people born in the US are automatically citizens, but you can also be a natural-born citizen if you were born abroad but at least one of your parents is/was a citizen at the time of your birth. That's how, for instance, Ted Cruz was able to run for POTUS in 2016 even though he was born in Canada.