Pretty suspect about these numbers, given that before this ban wave about 78% of the steam player count for TF2 was bots (source). So this wouldn't be a doubling of human players, but about a 10x increase. It's possible... But to me this looks like a bunch more bots being spun up and evading the new ban measures.

Sometimes the intent is to make the reader pay more attention to a sentence, but I suspect the real issue is that your reading comprehension isn't as strong as you think it is, and that you've decided to plant your feet and declare any sentence that you don't immediately parse as "bad writing".

I'm sure people are going to ask the AI "translate this text into a reading level that is just ahead of mine so I still improve"

Except the simplified versions are made by humans who can preserve the flavor of the language and the important meanings, unlike this tool which is like replacing the Mona Lisa with text that says "woman sitting".

You improve reading comprehension (like any skill) by challenging yourself. The AI text would only be a challenge for a brand new English learner.

Are you talking about some other book? Because the text in the image is extremely normal modern English.

Linguists aren't behavioral psychologists or K-12 educators. Being challenged by unfamiliar language is an incredibly important experience in developing reading comprehension. It's not that a bigger vocabulary makes you smarter, it's that the process of understanding more complex language helps you both understand and formulate more complex ideas.

This could be useful if the information in the text is what you need, say a reference work or a historical account that you just need the facts from.

It's a hideous mockery of art and creativity to use it on a novel, and completely destroys the author's intent and the artistic impact of any passage. I can only imagine how dull and grey the experience of reading a whole book like this would be; like a meal made of sawdust and glue.

If they're well written they don't lack clarity. It's just complex sentence construction. It might require a more deliberate reading, but it doesn't make the meaning ambiguous.

No one talks about land usage for solar either. Which is a real shame, because with some relatively minor redesigns solar plants can be integrated into the ecosystem without causing massive damage, instead of what usually happens which is just clear-cutting a huge field and destroying any plant and animal life there.

That's absurd. You don't need to understand the inner workings of the kernel to know what a root account is. If you're regularly encouraging people to install a new OS when you aren't even confident in their ability to understand what a root account is, you're not doing them any favors.

He's very clearly trolling, the vast majority of PC games are playable on Deck, including the vast majority of the most well-reviewed games ever.

I legit cannot remember the last time I got a virus pirating a game. Probably in the Limewire days, ~20+ years ago.

I love taking my whole gaming pc setup with me to go visit my parents or take a flight, or just lugging it out to the porch for a nice evening of outdoor gaming.

If you're installing an OS you should absolutely understand what the root account is. That's like buying a car without understanding the concept of keys.

Not if your bartender is properly trained and not a lazy piece of shit.

ER uses anti-cheat...

The base game already had some pretty badly designed fights that rely on deceptive animations and timing for their difficulty, and the DLC really triples down on that. The more games they make the more bullshit the fights get. I like a challenging fight, but when you have to die to a boss 20-30 times just to see all of their attacks, and the attacks are designed to not be legible the first time you see them... It's just not very fun game design. I think FROM is a victim of their own success and this is the inevitable result of constantly trying to one-up the last hardest flight in the series. At a certain point it stops being rewarding and just becomes a grind.

It's not that the dlc is harder per se, it's that builds which could handle endgame content fairly easily are getting one- and two-shot by the first bosses in the DLC. They clearly overturned the DLC, whether intentionally to pad the playtime or not, and most players will need to respec or grind for several levels to stand a chance. I'm still getting one-shot by certain attacks with 75 vigor and fairly heavy armor.

I also think the design of many of the boss fights are mechanically unfair, but that was the case in the base game too. I love these games, but the more they make the more they trend toward bosses with 10+ hit strings with many fake endings, deliberate delays, and unreadable animations, basically requiring dozens of attempts to learn the attacks before you have a prayer of properly responding to them all. I'm still going to complete this DLC but it's making me miss the more honest bosses of the older games in the series.

I mean, I definitely think it's not ideal and there's room for improvement and social pressure for Mozilla to change its priorities, but I also don't think it's any reason to abandon the project. The reality is that a modern web browser is too massive of a project for a non-commercial entity to reasonably develop and keep updated, and Mozilla is the only such entity that's even remotely got its heart in the right place.