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Cake day: January 9th, 2026

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  • Edit: Summary: Rant about RetroAchievements being online only.

    I love the idea of RetroAchievements and I used it in the past. But I do not like that the games basically becomes online only titles, if I want keep playing with achievements. Even more so on a handheld, but I also used it on a desktop PC. The moment you lose internet, no achievements can be unlocked. I had those moments (even for longer period of time like days) and I didn’t want continue playing the roleplaying game, because I could miss the achievement. Then I looked what games I could play and decided to play a system where achievements aren’t supported. That was the moment when it hit me. From that day I stopped using it and now I can play whatever I want, whenever I want.

    They have their reasons why they don’t want to have offline functionality. But I wish one could setup an offline account that will not interfere with their leaderboards, because they don’t want you to cheat. Yes, that’s the reason… And in fact, if you cheat, you get banned from leaderboards and can still earn achievements; you just can’t participate in the leaderboards. So I do not understand why this cannot be build as a legitimate normal functionality, if they can track it!


  • The difference of a private chat with an Ai to a public question on Stack Overflow (or any forum for that matter) is, that on Stack Overflow multiple persons can read and comment. Answers often iterate and fact check if someone hallucinates, because so many eyes sees it. If the answers are helpful is something everyone has to decide themselves, but the principle of an open platform being very useful is undeniable.

    Compare this to your private Ai chatbot. Only one person sees the answer and if something hallucinated is in there or the quality of the answer is not good, then you might not know. And those Ai bots are controlled by the few big corporations, maybe a little less if you use a custom offline bot, but they are probably not as good as the big models. That’s why this is a bad trend. I think the open and user controlled Stack Overflow was a better approach, by principle.








  • “Apple” (the company) has trademarks such as the word “Apple”. And it only works in context of computers. Competitors in example can’t name themselves “Apple”, but you can have in a different buisness than computers a name that contains “Apple”, such as “Apple Hill Cider” or “Apple Leisure Group”. That would not violate the trademark. Trademarks are only a problem if its in the same business.

    Wrestling is not videogames (although there are videogames of it) and therefore cannot be confused with a videogame. So this could workout in theory.





  • There is a difference. I explain why you are dishonest and misleading. I don’t just accuse. So its based off technical reasoning and not just personally attacking without reason. You just have no arguments left and just attack personally instead basing off on reasoning. That is a huge difference.

    Unless you have good arguments, LLMs have architectural flaws in their design and need to change. And that is a factual correct statement, which I explained earlier. That has nothing to do with an opinion.