Gotta love going full bonfire in the middle of a crowded town over something totally stupid and inconsequential just to make a point.

The 40 motes for udon soup thing is weirdly accurate.

As a person who cares about the gaming ecosystem, I think it would be really healthy for Microsoft to not have full market dominance.

They’re busy making studio acquisitions which are gradually centralizing the market, which could become very problematic if they start taking anticompetitive approaches to distribution.

More people on Linux means more pressure for software availability on Linux, and if people can just move over relatively easily that prevents Microsoft from going full corpo-digital-prison-hellscape.

That looks delicious! Is there a sauce on the pork?

EVE has been combating bots for years, optimal gameplay is often relatively simple to automate. I’m not sure they’ll be all that disruptive.

(and the time it would take to implement data collection for a learning model is unlikely to be spent by anyone, for how much effort it would be considering the questionable gains over ‘dumb’ bots)

I was reflexively mad reading the start of this comment but by the end you had me 100% sold on your analysis.