I’m not supporting what you’re condemning. I’m just arguing that it’s not 100% black and white. I disagree with “all live service games bad.” I certainly agree that some are predatory and a problem, and the entire genre as a whole needs much more regulation.
I couldn’t really grasp spending that amount of money on a video game, even cumulatively, so no I didn’t consider it from that angle.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money. Ban the entire business model.
Is most of what I was referring to. I don’t mind things in games costing money, as long as the game itself doesn’t costs money. I also don’t mind live service games, at least in concept. They’re very rarely good games, but good examples do exist.
A lot of what I think you’re talking about is based on player trading, is it not? Maybe I don’t know the games you’re talking about. I don’t think Valve sets the prices for hats, and I don’t think DE sets prices for rivens. They’re tradeable, so a market forms. To be clear, I think paying $1000 for a hat is absolutely insane, but I also don’t see how it’s functionally different than paying an absurd amount of money for a trading card you have no intention of using.
Are there games actually asking $1000 for literally anything in-game? Not a player set price, to be clear.
I’m fine with it for f2p games. The monetization is sometimes awful in those, but it’s also sometimes perfectly fine. I just want one monetization model. Either have microtransations and ingame purchases(preferably that don’t actually effect the gameplay), or have your game cost money up front, and maybe have some DLCs. Pick one. No more $40 games with battlepasses and buyable skins.
I know my family is so used to thinking of batteries as ultra cheap and disposable that there was a lot of resistance to using rechargeables purely because of the increased cost.
An hour long battery on beard trimmers is crazy, I agree. I actually have no clue how long the battery in my beard trimmers would last because I use them for five to ten minutes and then plug them up for a week.
I disagree with the AA batteries being a negative though. If you use rechargeable batteries and make sure to have spares,
yep, fully agree. I don’t particularly care for the move to rechargeable internal batteries for literally every device. I can just cycle through a pack of rechargeable AAAs every year or so and be fine.
Yes.
It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.
porn mags would immediately disappear from shelves
Nah, dude, immediately back to sneakernet. But way more porn now.
I don’t think the issues with Concord had a single thing to do with the performance. That was basically the single way the game was fine.
The content warning is the title being ‘Content warning: gaza genocide’, you don’t need to also mark it nsfw when it isn’t nsfw. At least when it isn’t actually graphic in any way.
Besides, this isn’t the comm for lighthearted content anyways. Way too much politics here.
As for why you’re getting downvoted… it’s three people. They probably just think marking this nsfw is ridiculous, because the title is a content warning already. It also might be that people downvote anyone that says, “why am I getting downvotes!”
yes, you should be under a doctor’s care.
That’s not always an option, unfortunately, but it’s definitely accurate.
Well, generally you’re only supposed to take ~2 tablets at a time, so 10? 40 pills a day is 13,000mg of acetaminophen, or 20,000mg if they’re extra strength.
That’s, uh, bad. You’re recommended to take under 4000mg per day, so that’d be a bit over a packet? Makes sense to me.
For the record, mixing two painkillers without consulting a doctor is also usually a bad idea but way fucking less of a bad idea than taking 13000mg of tylenol in a day. Afaik, acetaminophen with other stuff is probably fine but napoxen, ibuprofen, and aspirin all work roughly the same way and shouldn’t be mixed.
I’m shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
(for whatever reason, my brain remembered this as, like, a centaur and an elf and, maybe, a goblin underneath but I think this still qualifies for genocidal eugenicism, nonetheless).
You remembered correctly, kinda. The “Magic Is Might” statue was installed later on, but during Order Of The Phoenix in the ministry there’s the ‘Fountain of Magical Brethren’. It’s a wizard and a witch that are being stared up at adoringly by a centaur, goblin, and an elf.
Which I wouldn’t call genocidal eugenicism, but it’s definitely problematic in a different way. I think I remember Dumbledore pretty explicitly calling the statue a bad thing, but I don’t remember exactly how or when.
I just went through what’s on sale, I didn’t verify the release dates or anything.
Kerbal Space Program is a great time. It’s the kind of game where it either grabs you and doesn’t let go, or you’ll drop it pretty fast.
I liked Sunless Sea, but then you really just have to give a game an Eldritch aesthetic and I’ll probably be there for it.
The Escapists is a neat game to play with some friends.
Fallout 4 has some flaws, especially if you’re a fan of the previous games, but it’s a decent game anyways.
Ah, that’s true! Anything with flavor text- red text in the description- is an exception to the normal rarities.
If it ain’t a purple I can basically guarantee it’s shit. Just keep the rarity order in mind, and you can generally assume anything that’s less rare than what you have is also worse. One of the load screens in BL1 or BL2 said When Grandma Burps Patrick Obeys- White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange. Got absolutely burnt into my brain.
But hey, if it’s stressful fair enough. I think they’re fun games, but nothing is for everyone.
It’s not like I need to do the math to figure out which gun is better and why. Find something with green arrows? Hold E to equip it immediately. If I use it for a bit and dislike it I’ll just swap back to what I was using before and mark it as junk so I sell it next time I buy ammo or fill my inventory.
The handful of statues that are actual civil war era artefacts we can keep, imo. Put them in a museum or an exhibit in a state park or something. Give it proper context, but let it exist.
The vast majority of them were built after the civil war in the jim crow era south, and those we can break into gravel and use for something fitting.
That’s one path to it, but it’s not nearly that simple.