Yep. The whole story to me was a textbook example of “this isn’t how this works, at all”. And the only way to prevent it is to spread stories like this far and wide so that everyone who gets a decent shot at success doesn’t do the same stuff.

What stuck out to me was:

Mochi went on to explain that momentum for Rise of Industry dropped off, so he tried to “hold it together with duct tape and 80 hours a week.” While the studio hoped patches would help, “it never stabilised,” and Mochi’s health and personal life were heavily impacted – he even faced losing his home.

There was a similar story about… I think the big asian market crash in the 90s or something, where one of the traders thought he could just buy enough stock that his action alone, the demand he “created” would stop the market from crashing and lessen the loss. But of course all he did was take all his company’s funds and threw them into a black hole.

It’s understandable as a panic reaction. But… yeah.

Back to the story, at that point, what was even the expectation of what the publisher would do? Also throw more money in? More advertising for the game that had a big moment, captured the audience that it can capture, but is not working well enough to keep that attention?

Go above and beyond the contract? Nobody will do that, that’s why the contract exists.

Anyway, I hope the dev is doing ok, I don’t mean to hate on the person and truly wish him happiness and success.

Sorry! for reasons I can’t explain, be that ad blocking or old incompatible browser or because I accidentally agreed to them already, I’m not seeing the wall.

straight up not feasible

It’s very feasible to create the law, collect the fine, and raise the price on energy sources or industrial process that require the cooling.

It’s a formality, you could do it in an afternoon. Costs a bit of ink and a piece of paper.

“But then it gets more expensive!” and “This might push corporations out of the city/country.” is the consequence the people / the government / the country have to have the balls to endure, if they want to stand by things like “having enough water” or “living on earth in the 22nd century”.

If the free market is something you believe in, you should love this, because it makes water a more scarce resource and the market will be able to find another optimal solution to that new scarcity problem.

The “Blasto!” origin story we have been waiting for, for 18 years?

I have zen and librewolf on linux and waterfox on android.

To people like this, the number in their bank account is like a scoreboard.

It’s not just that.

Besides the humanitarian work that the gates foundation does do “voluntarily”, money is agency, it is power.

There is very little argument and reason to believe that “people” and “countries” would actually be more responsible in spending it.

If there was a big, motivated, carefully planned social movement that had a solid idea and spending plan, things would be different. And such a group could also force them to give up that money to spend it on these things. But such a movement doesn’t exist.

As it stands, the idea that they would voluntarily give up money is dumb. To do what? Feed the corruption and nepo network in their country, that then will benefit only the people that are just like them, but less rich? That makes no sense.

It has to come from public pressure and equal wealth taxes.

The headline is part of the article.

It’s possible you will feel weird about being there and not enjoy it. I was to two concerts of one of my favorite bands and I just didn’t really get it and enjoy it that much, because it was in a big crowd. The “live” thing just didn’t do it for me, so my conclusion is that I just prefer music by myself.

But the mood at the event itself shouldn’t keep you out, you like what you like and if it’s a cool community, they will not gatekeep it.

My wife and I

Showing up alone would be a bit weird. With your wife, nobody should give you a second look.

They were watching it, there were some time restrictions, sometimes, and I didn’t want to play bloody games or FPS anyway, so there was never any discussion about getting or not getting them.

But I did get a gameboy at 6, which helped greatly with learning to read, because guess what, if you read slow, the story and progress is slow.

I wouldn’t say “weird”, but there were rules.

Teen was third employee of city bike safety center to die in bike crash

Ah yes. It’s not that A CAR crashed into her, it was a bike crash.

/s

Awful. Just awful that this keeps happening.

The concept makes a lot of sense and was really really cool.

I saw a playthrough and I had 3-4 problems:

• everyone seems to be better at colonizing on their own, separate from the home base, whose literal only purpose is to colonize.
• (mechanically the whole colonization thing is trivialized by mary sue story progression and deus ex machina devices)
• all the new aliens are once again roughly 2m tall humanoids
• the ending felt… very “we need setpieces” and “absolutely make it a parade of every minor character we talked to”

ME1 even had Rachni, as non-humanoid npcs, could have something like that…

(And obviously most parts of the art departments did their job well. Hilarious but not game breaking bugs were the exception to the rule. It’s 99% a direction and writing problem.)

Talk to them. Then if it keeps happening, talk to their manager.

Sometimes life happens, but if it’s consistent it’s annoying, and people have to be professional about it. If they signed up for the job and the job says the gym unlocks at 7, he better be inside at 6:30, get stuff ready and then unlock at 7.

I think mass effect is a clear contender, the ending to mass effect 2 was a bit meh, and then it really hit the fan with mass effect 3 and for those who didn’t get message, they also made mass effect andromeda.

Hard to say.

Sounds like the alternatives are to suck it up, leave the country for somewhere that isn’t the case yet, stop using the internet…

There definitely is a line where requiring nonsense is more effort than it is worth. That line has already definitely been crossed by “news media”. The quality of articles and interviews is so abysmal, that any hear say you get over three rebounds over social media is still somehow equal to the original bad source.

Social media is on the edge. I don’t expect to have a serious discussion on facebook or twitter, that’s why I don’t go there. If it’s easier to hang out in a bar near a library to hope someone worth talking to walks in or something like that. That will be the thing to do.

And also, that line will probably just never be actually crossed for internet platforms like amazon or alibaba. Shipping and ordering things online is absurdly convenient compared to go to physical locations and them needing to have the thing stocked, etc…

Most of (open source) software is already built in a way that could be taken offline completely. Internet is just a fast and easy delivery mechanism, but carrying USB sticks is extremely viable for getting code from A to B

And for entertainment, I can honestly just go back to reading books. It’s not the total information super highway, but it would be something.

The official title is a bit misleading, it says “gameplay”, but clearly what they’re showing is carefully arranged, in engine stuff.

That shoe’s sole was 12.6 inches long, which is roughly the same size as a men’s 14 in the United States, reports Live Science’s Kristina Killgrove.

That is smaller than my shoe size, those scientists have a dumb frame of reference.

Not my fault everyone else has weird and tiny feet.

We could have a neat little internet comment war about personal opinions on Qt…

But it’s the weekend and I’d rather not.

A tiny bit.

If you care about american politics and future, another “dynasty hire” is the second to last thing the country needs.

I’m pretty sure I can find fictional things immoral? Why would it be unethical to have an opinion on fictional things?

Factually, all the lines that you allow to be crossed are crossed and all lines that are collectively defended are usually not crossed. That’s culture. It’s arbitrary and not absolute.

The same way that I don’t go around killing people after playing GTA, I also don’t go around assaulting women because I played a videogame where these things happen.

Right. That’s fair and I’ll believe it.

Do you generally think there is any limit at all, in any type of media that crosses lines and shouldn’t exist? Think “liveleak” stuff from when that was around.

Or do you consider this game topic just not crossing that line?