Did you just step out of a time machine? Their sales haven’t had games for ages now. Last one was the monster game, iirc.*

*Oh, there was the Saliens in 2018, too, but that was like a one-off.

Did a non-teacher, government official scold you directly? No? Ok, not the same thing then.

New humans cost money, and might not obey their corporate overlords.

Calling out usernames is so damn annoying. At best it’s a distraction from the content, particularly if it’s a serious story like this one. At worst it encourages other idiots to come up with the most obnoxious name they can so they can garner attention.

It’s a study by a US organization. Why would it have access to information about Canadian territory? Also…what does an open border have to do with anything? Do you expect either country to be able to block those sorts of things?

Fucking Bucky Barnes is playing Trump? Never would’ve expected that in a million years. This timeline is bizzaro.

PeopleMakeGames has a two part series on Valve that’s pretty interesting. The second part (here) dives into the structure of the company. It does have a bit of an angle, fwiw, so if you’d prefer something more objective, it might not be a great watch. Personally I think the issues they bring up are valid, but figured I’d mention it.

I’ve never understood why people so often keep the two separated. Like, if you already believe in a god, why not interpret things like physics and chemistry as how your god set the world up to run? I totally get that religion is complex and divisive, but at an individual level, it seems like such an easy “problem” to resolve.

More like returning. This was the old model of Hollywood, where studios owned pretty much every layer of the process.

Gonna find out real quick that Apple is more important to people than Twitter.

All of that also being known as…normalization.

To be clear, it’s never warranted. It’s just some cultures that have normalized the practice for certain services. Companies should always fully pay their employees. Full stop.

The Twitter Watches Alex Tonight Show.

Yikes. I’ve never read Asterix and Obelix, but did they really make (I assume) the only black character a straight up knuckle-dragging gorilla imitation? 😬

More like “And I hope you learned not to trust the wellbeing and education of the children entrusted to you to a program that’s not capable of doing either.”

They absolutely do exist. The GOP built their base on cobbling those voters together into one force. As long as they make empty gestures to their variety of issues, their SIVs keep in line no matter what other horrid shit they do. It’s taken a much more sinister bent, lately, but the core is still there.

Dems have the reverse issue - voters declaring they won’t support them if they don’t address one issue, with the biggest and latest being the invasion of Palestine. There are absolutely voters out there that will ignore the rest of the good things done by their candidate, or worse, ignore how things will just get worse without them, all because of one little grievance. Dems have always had a bit of a purity test problem, but it’s multiplied into a much bigger problem this cycle.

And all this said, I’m not dismissing your point that division is a serious issue, but not working together because of these singular issues is a big part of the problem.

You’re either misinterpreting the criticism or talking to people that don’t know wtf they’re talking about. Neither mean single issue dems aren’t a problem.

If Twitch’s little experiment is anything to go by, it already is.

Data on a HDD or SSD (without DRM) is also physical media, and much more flexible. No need to expend more plastic locking data onto a dying format.

I remember when llms were used to simulate subreddits as a singular entity leading to pretty funny results. Wish we could’ve put a pin in it there.