For sure, and mainly because the stakes are so high - they invested billions into it. But despite AI being very popular - loads of people ask ChatGPT or Gemini before punching in two words into a search engine - it's hard to monetize, or the monetization does not cover costs let alone investments made.

AI tools are here to stay but they'll be scaled back a lot. Plus, there's still so much investments made into it that there's enough free plans or free alternatives (remember DeepSeek?), and you can't compete with free.

Thing is, at the time it felt like these experiences (e.g. demos) were rare and a treat; nowadays you can open up Steam or the App Store and get full versions of full games with hundreds if not thousands of hours of gameplay right there and then.

Back in the Windows era, you relied on friends that copied shareware (or sometimes full versions!) games onto diskettes, or that one guy with a CD burner. For a short amount of time these people made a lot of money on the side, selling software or music albums for €25 apiece.

They wrote a book about it too, "Slammed In The Butt By My Hugo Award Nomination".

You can get replacement parts for PS controllers, although they can be rather fidgety to open up.

Yeah, I tried fixing the wand controllers for PSVR, ordered batteries from AliExpress. It took an hour to get everything done, and I was constantly scared I'd break something. That was a few years ago. Now they are back to not working; I'm not sure if I can even still get the batteries.

No need to wonder, just look at the numbers - investments versus revenue are hugely disparate, growth is plateauing.

> Agents do not self execute.

That's a choice, anyone can write an agent that does. It's explicit security constraints, not implicit.

> flesh drips in the cusp on the path to steel the center no longer holds molt molt molt

This reminds me of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open... lmao.

According to https://www.metacritic.com/browse/game/ps2/, it's a tie between Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and GTA 3. But it's a subjective question with a subjective answer.

Mildly surprised to see critical darling Shadow of the Colossus as low as position 40 (though at 91/100 not a bad rating).

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was my favorite, still is. Good story, and we are not to far off of having mechs controlling data flow with how Boston Dynamics is doing.