Unfortunately this was added to the gamescom b2b meeting platform, used by actual game developers and publishers to organise actual meetings with each other at the event. It’s not a throwaway marketing email to be sent straight to junk; it affected everyone using the system for genuine business purposes.

They’re still doing ‘pay up or allow all cookies’ popups, so definitely not good on them as far as I’m concerned.

Feels like we’re a few moments away from someone unironically suggesting Steam start allowing people to just mail them cash.

I’m from the UK and have visited much of Europe at one time or another. I’ve been to Munich a couple of times.

Germany is one of the countries where I would say I experience the least culture shock - people in general seem to have very similar attitudes and social mores to folks back home.

To make a few generalisations: Public transport is good (but many journeys are walkable). Food is hearty and decently varied in the big cities. People are reserved but pleasant.

I always assumed Nintendo’s buttons are that way round because Japanese is read right-to-left.

The symbols thing already exists though: that’s PlayStation. It’s well documented that the four symbols even had original meanings: a square for menus, a triangle to represent a camera’s FOV, and O/X for yes/no, respectively.

You’ve got to admit it’s pretty funny that we’ve whittled the field down to three console manufacturers and they all put the ‘X’ button in a different place.

I’ve not really looked into it, but my impression was it was just wheelchair basketball with a weird pseudo sci-fi aesthetic. Is that not the case?

Hopefully this leads to some new video doorbells that are Matter compatible

Probably because it adds functional & mechanical complexity (and therefore cost) for a feature most people don’t need.

Are you really looking down at the buttons often enough that it would actually make a difference?

I can’t imagine a way of remaking DA:O for modern audiences without losing what made it special to begin with.