You're completely right. It sounds from the article like they flailed around a lot trying to figure out what that could be before settling for "do what you know."
A huge amount of time and energy wasted without a clear vision, and then they fell into the trap of trying to chase the success of other games.
I actually went with Tuxedo OS, which is based on the Ubuntu kernel but has a very noob-friendly desktop environment.
My daily driver laptop is a 12-year-old Hackintosh MBP that I've been repairing for years, but I've priced out a Tuxedo laptop for when it finally kicks the bucket. So I started dual booting Tuxedo on that as well to get my bearings.
Once I'm a little more experienced, I'm definitely interested to check out other distros! Right now it's a lot of looking up terminal commands and learning the architecture. The firmware fan control in the MacBook is shot - fans blasting at full speed due to a failed GPU temp sensor that makes the computer assume it's overheating - so I've already learned how to write to /sys/ with a custom fan control based on the working sensor in the CPU die.
It's been really fun so far. You get the sense of just having vastly greater control over the hardware at a low level and the ability to control how it functions in a way that Windows and MacOS completely obfuscate. I still have very little idea what I'm doing in the terminal, but I'm starting to pick it up.
Well Rhode Island is famously tiny so I doubt it's a problem
I mean, the screen adaptations are all disasters in themselves, so there's not a good track record there either.
Personally, I'd rather it just be left as a great animated show and to see companies stop trying to milk an IP where the show ended 17 years ago. We really don't need cash-grab mobile games, fighting games, mediocre beat-em-up games, or either of the live-action adaptations.
This is why I decided to dual-boot Ubuntu and Win10 until I'm fully comfortable on Linux. Every single thing about Win11 just makes my skin crawl.
Last week it was the news that they're eliminating methods to install the OS at all without being signed into a MS account. The degree of snooping had no plausible explanation other than for Microsoft to harvest and sell your data.
"Five had gunshot wounds to the head and at least four were shot from both back and front. According to the UNHRC report, six of the people on the flotilla showed signs of 'summary execution,', including two shot after they were severely injured."
Additional source. Standard practice for the IOF.
You didn't know that cuttlefish can derive non-trivial solutions of the Einstein field equations? They can solve all ten at once because they have ten brains.
ICE was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. 90-9 in the senate and 42 Yeas came from Dems.
That's exactly where I also put down the controller, haha. All pantheons and platinum (and path of pain - which I think might be an achievement?) was enough. All bindings is just a little more masochism than I can handle!
It took me three tries before I really got into Hollow Knight, but when it clicked, it clicked. Kind of like Dark Souls. Started that one as well a couple times and petered out, but on the next playthrough, it became one of my favorite games.
I've also used it successfully for those kinds of special cases - particularly translating complicated medical documents back and forth to Japanese due to my wife's treatment.
But I think the caution here is overreliance. Using it in a university setting, where you feed it everything you were supposed to read and understand, and having it write down all the analysis that you were meant to analyze, and what have you personally gained as a result? The article cites students who couldn't even recall what they'd "written" after submitting an assignment.
You can use it as a tool, or you can use it as a crutch. If you outsource your whole thought process to a computer, I can see the detriment.