And even when people do buy the exclusives on their store, what reason do they have to buy anything else there?

Just like the free games, it would work as advertising, to initially attract people that then decide their product is worth using. But it will never work for making people use their store for anything else as long as it’s as terrible as it is.

converts 60F to Celsius 60F is genuinely the most comfortablr possible temp for me lol. Even a little too warm if it’s sunny.

The irony of claiming games need to avoid political agendas, to then talk about A/B body type being “a mistake” lol

I guess it’s just the corpo pendulum swinging back from “if we include a gay character thats progressive right? Right???” to “if we include sexy characters they won’t say we’re woke right? Right???”.

Maybe some day they will understand that ultimately people just care that the game is good. Though I guess controversy is marketing, and not enough people will care to not but a game over some dumb comments to offset that.

Though while I’d never heard of the game, I certainly won’t be buying it now. But I suppose that means not shutting up didn’t lose them a sale since I wouldn’t have known it existed otherwise.

Interesting that it’s that low, the hotels I went to in japan were all above 10k jpy (~600€) for cleaning fee if you smoke in the room. It makes sense though with how persistent smoke smell can be.

I honestly don’t remember russians being any worse than other nationalities. CS players are just toxic in general and then the non russians are also often racist against russians so the permaflamewar is unsurprising. It doesn’t help that many don’t speak a word of english ofc.

Though the lack of english does seem to often lead to russian subcommunities that are just constantly hostile to the english speaking community and vice versa.

You’re probably right that it would work quite well though, bread and games and all that. Take away the games and well…

Not so fun fact: the microscopic bits of poop just spray to different places if you close the lid, but there’s just as many.

Second not so fun fact: mythbusters tested this as well and found that there’s microscopic poop bits everywhere anyway, and they will get on everything.

Some old ones do. And yes the smell before you flush is as horrible as you’d expect. The combination of diarrhea and one of those toilets made me almost throw up once.

I agree, but I think it’s just from the general cultural notion that your body is yours and you get to decide what is done with it (which then, ironically, also doesn’t apply when cultural norms are different, e.g. afaik you’re not allowed to keep your relatives ashes in your home in germany, even if they willed it).

As with many social conventions, it doesn’t really make sense (but from what I’ve seen a lot of ppl do agree with it). But it does highlight how ridiculous some of the arguments against abortion are.

Which is what ML is extremely good at. Humans too, but we can’t process data quickly enough.

I think there’d be reasonable worry about false positives though. Imagine you just have some weird playstyle (maybe due to disability) that you got really good at, so the AI classifies you as abnormal and flags you as a cheater. Much less likely when you’re looking for the software instead.

Also it’s probably just way more expensive.

I still think the real solution to cheaters has to be to legally go after the cheat sellers. The one time I would like for laws to protect some capitalist interests (since cheaters definitely hurt the bottom line of mp game publishers) it’s not happening.

I’ve noticed that my windows always takes a minute to launch when it wants to sell me on either its surveillance bullshit or force windows 11 on me. And because I don’t launch windows that often, that is basically every time. Otherwise it’s quite fast at 10-15 seconds.

Linux usually boots in around 10 seconds (including loading the DE after login), though sometimes it gets stuck for a bit after login for some reason.

It would be minus the part where the entire republican platform is unhinged far right shit so I’d judge people for that.

1 I and likely the vast majority of people have never seen stated anywhere because I prefer my sanity intact by not following everything some terf says (and I’d agree that is a better reason to not buy it, though I’d still say she’s almost a billionaire anyway so a lot of other things people do have just as bad of an impact), 2 is honestly just delusion on her part and kind of irrelevant, she would find different reasons to continue her bs.

Also to be clear saying “I think you streaming this game is morally wrong” to a creator you already watch/in other relevant contexts is of course completely fine, harrassment is not.

Me, a H-VN enjoyer: Why not both?

Which is just as bad lol. Feel free to boycott people for streaming it or giving it publicity if you truly think it matters, but personally attacking them over giving a spinoff of an already extremely famous persons work that actively disagrees with the main reason everyone hates said person a slight bit of exposure is honestly unhinged.

You probably cause more harm by buying a single product on amazon than by buying and streaming hogwarts legacy.

Based dev and I wishlistrd that game because it looks fun and I want to support them for the response alone, but I think I kind of agree with that decision, or can at least see where it’s coming from. Disliking a game for its political message seems entirely valid to me, if someone made an otherwise amazing game but the message is “hitler was great actually”, I’d like to be able to negatively review that. And since it’s not review bombing but actual individual idiots, it shouldn’t have a big impact wrt to the ratio. If anything I read a review like that and become more interested in the game. Allowing it at least keeps them honest.

Though “it has muslims” as a negative review reason still seems like it should be removed just for being racist (or if i were to give the reviewer way more benefit of the doubt than they deserve, sounding racist. I guess in theory they could just not like religions in games, but let’s be real they’d love if it were christians instead).

I would call it systemic, in fact I’d argue it’s the central flaw of capitalism (but one that imo can be mostly fixed with heavy regulation and taxes scaling to near 100% as you say).

When wealth = power, those with wealth will always attract even more wealth.

Oh don’t worry, something will fill the niche. And at that point the “too many humans” problem will have solved itself.

We’re so fucked

Many herbivore species are also opporturnistic omnivores, so it could be argued just as much that it’s about biological specialization.

The error mightve been in when the currency conversion was done, the first googlr result claims that in 1843 one pound would get you around 5 usd.

Thanks for actually doing the math, I’ve seen this float around for a while and it always felt off.

Pc players being fewer depends very much on the game, the ea sports games are notoriously console heavy to the point where often the features of the pc version were heavily outdated. Iirc battlefield’s playerbase was historically always more PC focused. And I don’t think it’s fair to complain that pc games run like shit because they don’t cap the graphics.

If you’re just gonna play a few games a year, consoles are without a doubt cheaper right now though. They also don’t have the ability to play any of the games I regularly play, but that, like the playerbase, is entirely dependent on the individual.

Still mostly only good as a guessing guideline because there’s no real system, just etymological patterns, but yea you can guess more than 33% for sure.