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🎵Natalie Holloway. That angel!

Free croutons

I have thus unlocked infinite soup storage by simply storing it in a one-dimensional point. Campbell’s will pay me millions, assuming that we can figure out how to store a point with infinite mass.

You’re ablest around

Nothing’s ever gonna keep you down

I haven’t played SC, and i haven’t played Eve in a while, but here is some readily available information:

1. Eve has been in release state for 20 years.
2. Eve has an ancient dedicated player base that probably knows the game better than the devs.
3. Most old players place a priority on helping new players and keeping the game healthy.
4. You can’t walk around outside your ship.

He fortunately avoided the train, but unfortunately still owns a Tesla.

Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe

Time to cue the Fleetwood Mac

It’s mind-blowing how bad they fucked up Overwatch. All they had to do was keep the OW1 servers and progression for PvP, and sell PvE expansion packs. Expand the lore through PvE expansion packs and offer exclusive cosmetics that people can show off in PvP, but don’t stop releasing cosmetics that can be obtained through PvP gameplay.

Add on a battle pass for more exclusive cosmetics (NOT FUCKING HEROES), and bam you’ve got a stew going.

That would bring in more than enough revenue to keep the servers running and making a tidy profit for years, like TF2.

Is it predatory, though? Or are people just upset because they fell for pre-order hype, despite it being 2024 and they should know better.

Let’s not muddy the waters by comparing it to gambling. Pay-to-win (or pay-for-convenience, which, in my opinion, is the same as pay-to-win) is not gambling. It’s just shit. You’re not paying for a randomized chance at a reward. You know exactly what you’re getting.

I don’t have first-hand knowledge of the game, but from what I have seen, there are no predatory IU elements to lure vulnerable kids into stealing their mom’s credit card.

Don’t get me wrong. I think the MTX is shit. I was mildly interested in the game, but now I won’t consider it even on 75% Steam sale. Capcom won’t be getting my money, that’s my choice.

We don’t need the government involved in regulating shitty entertainment. It’s not water or electricity or healthcare. You can just not buy the thing. If you start calling for regulation of everything you don’t like, that’s how you get geriatric politicians who never played a game in their life and still call it “the Nintendo” deciding what you can and can’t have in your game.

If enough people are buying it, they’ll keep doing it whether you like it or not. So why waste your energy getting mad about it?

You already lost the fight when you start talking about “bad behavior” and “blame.” Just accept the fact that you’re not the target audience for shitty modern AAA games, and move on.

It’s OK. I’m not the target audience either. I’m not the target audience for Taylor Swift concerts, either. Does that make it “bad behavior” if I don’t like her ticket prices?

Stop getting mad about companies making money. That’s literally their purpose. There are plenty of other products out there to buy.

Stop buying this shit, and they’ll stop doing it.

That’s nice but do they hold the world record on Bowser’s Big Bean Burrito?

After $700 million you’d think we’d at least get a AAAA bloated mess

Father, who lives in the home

This is useful because you can’t just assume that the dad lives in the same house with the child. This is probably a detail from the police report that the editor thought was relevant enough to leave in.

Inside the home where the child lives

This is useful because it specifies that they are talking about the child’s home. With this being a crime story, they could also be taking about the suspect’s home, which was most likely searched after he was arrested. It is awkwardly worded because the editor probably wanted to avoid using the phrase “child’s home,” which could incorrectly imply ownership. Or, that’s just how it was worded in the police report and the editor was too lazy to fix it.

The article is using a police press release as its source. The reporter may also be looking at some official police report. Police reports are not written like news articles, and contain a lot of “legalese” phrasing, irrelevant detail, and repetition that an editor would need to rewrite and cobble together into a short news article. This doesn’t always work perfectly.

I’m not saying this is a well-written article, but there is nothing in here to indicate that it was written by AI. Just good 'ol human error.

“You might enjoy F1 racing, but I value fuel-efficient commuters more.”

We can like both things.

Is “dozens” a large amount?

Never-nudes: no

Safety flaws in aircraft production: yes

'Til we meet again, guys.