Elves are constantly twisting the narrative about themselves, despite all the stories of how awful they are, people struggle to remember them that way. Grandma always said elves were… terrific.

Nobody said the wolf was good, he’s just announced that violence can be used to claim property. That’s not exactly a good solution to wealth distribution, at best it’s a reset button, at worst it’s the path to authoritarianism.

You sent 2 messages very close together, also the second is empty. Is your script broken?

Also a programmer.

A weak theory, but Poland being one of a handful of countries with a reasonable claim to “inventing” the computer probably helps, mostly indirectly. When deciding to invest in tech education things like that can make a big difference by stoking some national pride. The UK has absolutely benefited from Turing’s legacy keeping us involved in tech (despite everything).

The camera bump sure isn’t going away for a folding phone. cameras have fundamental volume requirements to maintain quality, if they don’t think they can justify making the normal iPhone thick enough to enclose the camera then there’s no way in hell they’ll think the folding phones doubled width can include it, if anything you’d expect it to be more prominent on a folding model

I mean, Mother Nature is exactly that kind of cruel when left to her own devices. Human society is supposed to be better, though playgrounds usually aren’t much better.

Is poor? No. Fits vaguely into a poor stereotype or cultural corner? All the time.

Comic holding a mirror, discussing men and women behaving the same.

yeah but women are the same too!

Maybe the mechanic was doing their part for the planet by hiding that no exhaust would work, instead offering an expensive option to retain catalytic function, or the billboard.

Notosans all the things everywhere? It’s a shame, but font users have an ethical duty to not pay these scumbags anything

Wow, it really is just unrelenting tasteless 90s jokes.

I think I read that the issue is relatively new thanks to a software update (speculation in another thread, so questionable veracity). So perhaps a change that wasn’t flawed by itself but by bad luck combined with this radiation sensitivity to make the issue significant.

But also solar flares are kind of rare, especially on the stronger end, so easy to imagine bug reliant on them sitting idle for years.

Maybe a uk thing, not a specific brand, but all fish fingers are fish fingers, if I heard someone call them fish sticks I’d understand, but I’d have to mentally translate to fish fingers.

I understand now you’re focused on an academic definition in the game theory sense, personally I don’t think this has much utility in considering actual games, but I’ll acknowledge that by that definition you’re probably correct. I suspect by that most “AIs” in games wouldn’t pass the bar of counting as an agent, even generous definitions that would accept a flow chart would probably concider most AIs to be part of the game state rather than another player (eg the nazi soldiers in wolfenstein aren’t playing to win, they’re set dressing for you to kill). The opponents in Civ are more likely to count as agents perhaps.

AIs in games are just flow charts, that’s almost universally true, almost nobody has put an actual maximiser in a game. But I suppose maybe that counts if you’re feeling very generous.

The map in pressure wash simulator is certainly not dynamic as you describe, I was speaking a little sarcastically, but you could call it asynchronous gameplay, it was crafted by the developer anticipating your play. but no, it cannot respond to the players actual decisions.

Depends if you define game ais as “agents”, otherwise your definition of game only allows multiplayer games.

Or you could say the opposing agent in powerwash simulator is the map itself, their “win condition” is overwhelming you with dirt and hiding it in weird places.

As someone who hates multiplayer games (minus coop games I play with friends, but coop breaks your definition too) I am bemused to discover I have never actually played games except maybe back as a kid when I played goldeneye and the couple times I might have played lol or similar before concluding it was crap 😄

Maybe a better definition of “game” is needed. I suspect the underlying point you’re trying to make is that this game requires no skill and is therefore little more than a Skinner box, that’s a valid criticism in my book.

I largely agree, software patents are a joke for sure.

FPS games are the same, just repeated finding and clicking on things.

Rectangle is obviously the standard shape of phone and had been since before mobile phones basically.

Rounding of corners is standard engineering practice, sharp edges are a weak point, rounding them off increases the overall strength.

What is described is not aesthetics or ornamentation, it’s an engineering imperative obvious in airplane windows, car windows, diaries (many have their corners rounded anticipating wear and tear), pockets (many pockets are rounded off instead of sharply square to prevent the corner failing).

Apple could perhaps argue nobody had rounded the corners as much as they did in earlier phones, without further altering the design beyond a rectangle. But that shouldn’t give them such a wide patent, a narrow patent on the specific shape would be sufficient.

Another way to put this. If the shape you’re trying to patent has a css property dedicated to it (corner-radius) it may not be sufficiently specific.

I mean… “would you love me if I was a worm?” was a textbook meme.

And then there’s the fact that “meme” really means “an idea shared by humans that survives by a process reminiscent of natural selection”, so yeah, all comics shared on here are competing memes, by the original definition.