When my 4 TB drive died ~15 years ago I thought to myself I’d just wait a few months and replace it with 8 TB for the same price. Then the floods happened.

Then prices almost were finally at that level again. And then AI started gobbling everything up.

The Gothic Remake summarises the last few beats of the story on the loading screens.

Edit: And sometimes the hero will think about his next steps when you sit down, kind of like Life is Strange, but not as elaborate.

It’s the guy in the crowd with the wonky face, right?

But the tiger mauls me when I try to clean anything!

My sweet Davey boy even has his own YouTube channel. https://youtube.com/@sweetdaveyboy

Hey, that’s my favourite gender!

Last time I tried it all the actually useful stuff was locked behind a pay wall. Plus you have to wipe your phone to install it.

Without JavaScript the AI GUIs would have to reload the whole page every time you send something.

Nah, the point is to encrypt the traffic and tell you what you are receiving really comes from example.com and not an evil third party.

Usually they make money with extended certificates where they not only offer a certificate for example.com but also certify that it belongs to Example Ltd.

Those extended certificates used to show the company name next to address bars, but I don’t think browsers do that anymore.

This guy tries to make me stay weeeee when mean internet people try to make me woooo because I duckduckgoed poorly.

Yeah, I only saw “3D illustration”.

Here are the construction bears: https://www.dreamstime.com/charming-d-illustration-featuring-two-soft-brown-teddy-bears-both-wearing-blue-hard-hats-working-together-bright-office-floor-image410049873

Here you can buy the duck: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQMX5JFC

As far as I could tell most of them were stock photos or from some etsy-like. What makes xou think they’re AI? It’s really not that hard to pose a plushy.

You done messed up A.A.I!

Often enough they are just poorly thrown together ROM collections. Often enough the worst ROM available is used. And they have numbers at the beginning of their names to sort them by whatever insane quality metric the company had, so good luck finding anything good.

I’d only buy one where you can supply your own ROMs. They are cheap enough these days.

No idea why Nintendo and Co let them do this. Sometimes they don’t contain games by the big companies. But most of the time they actually do.

These things are regularly ruled to be illegal in Germany and still many big news sites use them.

Perry the Alligator!