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But once you have it's output, unless you already know enough to judge if it's correct or not you have to fall back to doing all those things you used the AI to avoid in order to verify what it told you.

Aren't you letting perfect be the enemy of good here? You are looking for a unicorn and likely will never find it.

They released the engines for the games minus 3rd party libraries they didn't have rights to. Working builds were available within a day of the code being released as people found copies or wrote replacements for the missing code.

So much negativity, regardless of motivation shouldn't we applaud big companies for doing the right thing and reward them? Or are we all just going to fall over ourselves to give TakeTwo our money for GTA6 after they've screwed with the community?

OpenRA is just a set of fan games though skinned to look like the originals, this code is the real deal to play the original gane content. OpenRA only has remakes of the early games too, the source release has Renegade and General/Zer Hour.

The switch itself implements the DRM and can play any official physical game without issue.

If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?

Nope, the game will work regardless of what Nintendo do, though you are right they can kick you off their online platform. That isn't them deciding what happens with your physical copy though that is them deciding who can access their servers for what ever arbitrary reason they decide. In fact if they kick you off, the only games you'll still be able to play are the physical ones.

Can I put second hand carts in my switch and play? Yes I can.

This isn't strictly true because most games do still have a playable version on the disk. What is more is that it's not as straight forward to revoke a disc, especially for passive media and the license is legally transferable due to doctrine of first sale as I understand it.

I used to be with "it". Then they change what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't "it" amd what's "it" seems wierd and scary to me. It will happen to you.

This feels like a tough one for betteridges law of headlines.