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They've been full on unstable nonsense since the day Ryzen dropped.

They immediately started playing games with their metric to make Intel win.

The thing is, technology could absolutely play a huge role in advancing education, allowing students to approach material at their own pace and (algorithmically, not black box bullshit) adjusting problem sets to optimize their benefit from the learning.

But this is to free the actual teacher to spend their time one on one assisting students with areas where they need the extra attention. It's not to replace it with some unreliable bullshit machine.

(It should also probably be only part of the schedule. Various group settings have a bunch of value in a bunch of contexts both for the material and social stuff.) But you could absolutely enhance learning.

Take this with a grain of salt, because I haven't played in years, and am only vaguely aware of others playing it.

But my understanding is that you have ads, then get finite lives per day, which you can buy with actual money, and you can buy powerups with money, and (without seeing the code to verify) over time they get you to the point where most of the levels are generated to be either impossible without powerups or you have to get really lucky with how the level plays out to succeed without powerups. I know someone who gets like 5-10 minutes a day (with ads, of course) of gameplay without spending money.

Also candy crush at least is exploitive as absolute fuck. It starts out playable to make you an addict, but it's tuned very carefully to become as unplayable as possible without just shoveling money at them.

I went in expecting a space-skyrim with typical Bethesda jank, and that's exactly what we got

I won't say I disliked it. There was a lot of stuff I liked, and the gunplay was substantially less painful than fallout. But the thing with Skyrim that makes it easy to get hooked for me is the fact that from wherever I am, I can just wander, and I'll find cool places to go. I'll find a cave to wander down that goes through more than one civilization before letting me out somewhere different, that I can also just pick a direction and wander.

There's nothing really in Starfield that does that. I still really liked a lot about it, and some of the city stuff pushes into feeling immersive-sim-like. But I would have preferred less solar systems, but ones that were (or had been) more fully populated by humans and felt like you were really exploring each world instead of a small area.

It's still worth playing, and the base is potentially there for some really cool total conversion type mods. But it doesn't really do the open world feeling that Bethesda was one of the few who consistently did really well.

Many of the kids affected have no access to another device. The whole reason schools supply hardware now is because it's needed to access their educational materials, and it's massively inequitable to only have students who have money able to develop their skills at home.

That's fine.

But third parties should still be heavily limited on the information they can gather from just class work usage.

Yeah, it's not going to save TV if a TV package doesn't let you watch all the time slots. I can get charging extra to choose a specific 1:00 game or whatever (though we should probably be past that with digital distribution). But having silo games that you just can't watch without streaming is going to make more and more people either learn to pirate or decide their TV service sucks.

The government holds loads of confidential information, including keys. It's perfectly fine.

Anything short of the code already existing and being ready to release allows bankruptcy to kill devices and isn't good enough.

Running their own service is way more profitable, which is why they own multiple with different brands.

They're not negotiating deals at arms length. They're choosing their pricing for the sole purpose of fitting whatever narrative they want.

I genuinely don't understand how Amazon doesn't have a category of their algorithm to put things into buckets split between "things people buy multiple of" and "things they don't".

They make whatever number per subscriber they want to claim they do. They can license their shows at whatever price they want.