Not really. It depends on what it is. There are entire games and items that aren’t available in the US, but make a killing in Asia.

Like, here’s Genshin Impact numbers from 2023.

On that game, the US comes in at 7th, is less than half of the top country (Japan) and is notably behind Switzerland.

For Tik Tok specifically, we can look at their annual reports.

Let’s look at average annual users per region. 682M in Asia Pacific, which does not include China. 192M in North America.

China’s numbers are 750M daily.

I don’t think most of their money comes from the US.

I was so happy I could get my cat off of Purina.

So yesterday?

Both my and my husband’s US cars already have all of the items listed as physical buttons. I don’t know that it’ll really change much.

I don’t know anyone who’s used IRC in the last fifteen years at least.

At least back when I used IRC, it wasn’t indexed either. It was just an alternative to AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo Chat.

Can you link the solicitation or grant where people can apply for this?

(Here’s a study on the liver effects.)[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549781/]

It doesn’t specifically say that fructose has a worse effect on the liver than sucrose, but it does say that fructose is 2x sweeter than glucose, which makes it more addicting, which causes you to drink more because you crave it. So I went looking up sweetness scales and fructose is also sweeter than sucrose (which is still sweeter than glucose), sometimes by a significant margin.

So if both are bad on the liver, fructose could possibly be worse because of a higher level of addiction due to sweetness level, which causes you to consume more than you might with just sucrose.

You really think there aren’t any normal streamers on Twitch?

You mean my house?

Depends what you’re into. CD sales are more than alive and well in the kpop/jpop circles and there isn’t a lot of vinyl to find there.

Indie games is really where it’s at right now.

On skimming, I’d thought it had something to do with the kpop group, BTS. They have a song called Louder than Bombs.

I don’t think that’s a bad thing on its own. Meat isn’t the only source of protein that exists and Americans probably eat too much of it.

Starting from an early age to not expect meat at every meal otherwise it’s not a meal is probably a good thing.

But if they deserved to eat, they would’ve been born into families that could feed them.

In an analog, my college degree required me to read. A lot. Like, I devoured books as a kid, but this was a lot, every week, and it was a required reading. I enjoy it, but I didn’t read after that. I’ve also heard similar experiences from my friends who went to law school, so much reading they’ve stopped reading. My husband knows several artists who go into graphic design and stop doing art in their personal time.

I just last month got back into reading. It’s been over twenty years since college and I just got the ability to read through more than a handful of pages in a book.

When something is work, you don’t necessarily want to do it in your offtime.

Outdoor festivals are likely treated a little differently than indoor ones.

I’ve been to several concerts that pour all drinks into a plastic solo cup.

I’ve only ever bought their peach tea. It was pretty tasty, but not something I would get all of the time. It was a nice alternative to other teas you find in the gas station.

I didn’t even know they sold water. I’ve only ever seen tea.

My husband loves Bejeweled Twisted. I just can’t.

I love me some match-3 games though. Doesn’t need to be bejeweled.

We got a Switch to play BotW.

I guess you had to grow up playing Zelda games after Link to the Past in order to enjoy the gameplay. Coming from other systems, it was very unintuitive, uncomfortable, and basically unplayable since we couldn’t remap the controls. Also, the world was just kind of dead?

I dunno, it was a big disappointment.

What do you need to know about the main game to play the DLCs that isn’t in the DLCs?