You’ve basically just described any of the Telltale games.
Visual novels with action usually limited to QTEs.
Unfortunately company is no more, so what they have out is all there is.
You’ve basically just described any of the Telltale games.
Visual novels with action usually limited to QTEs.
Unfortunately company is no more, so what they have out is all there is.
I’ve said for years that the very last power we have as consumers is the ability to turn off our internet and still be able to use our devices. That is my minimum expectation of any company.
Fridge needs an internet connection, fuck you. TV won’t work unless it’s connected to the internet, fuck you.
But most especially (and this is why I moved to Linux originally), computer needs to always be connected to the internet even if all I’m doing is opening an office program that has nothing to do online? Go fuck yourself.
The ability to unplug my ethernet cable and still be able to use 99% of my computer with the exception of email and a web browser is the absolutely most basic human right left to us.
There will always be at least one person who doesn’t.
I’ll go live in a shack in the woods cut off from humanity before I ever give Apple a dime of my money.
Meanwhile I type this on an absolutely gorgeous Motorola Edge 2023 that costs half the price of either…
The reality is that Samsung doesn’t care. They make iPhones displays for them so they make money either way.
The Extinction level meteor can’t come soon enough.
Time to pack it in and give some other microorganism a shot at the evolutionary big-leagues. Maybe they’ll do better.
Sayonara, Duolingo.
As a writer on the internet with no power to stop these companies from scraping my work, you now want to teach me using someone else’s stolen words and teach someone English using mine. Go fuck yourself.
Much of the “slider” form factor died out early for a very good reason.
The simple reality is that the more moving parts you put on something, the more parts there are to break. It’s why phones became boring rectangles, hand-held gaming devices became slightly less boring rectangles, and why physical buttons were phased out of mp3 players, phones, etc…
Physical things cause complexity. Complexity increases warranty claims.
It’s a scam. Right Wing politicians up here in Saskatchewan have been rolling on about it for at least a decade as a response to the “damn lilbural’s and their climate agenda.”
It’s not viable. It’s never been viable. It’s a through-line that they can feed their idiot followers to say “look…we aren’t bad for the environment, it’s just the left telling you we are.”