Sounds a little disappointing. It sounds like they didn’t quality test the quest system and they put too much “open world” in their non-open world game. I find I get bored with open world games because I’ve always had a style of doing every possible side-quest before a main quest. This worked for older RPGs, but in…

Baseball’s not boring! —-

Reminds me of the college football overtime debate in one key way - it fundamentally changes the strategy of the game. The college football overtime is exciting, and I do love it, but it’s not really football anymore. Your strategy is different in the last 25 yards than the first 25 yards.

Exactly, when my team travels west for a road trip, the games start at 10:00 EST anyways. These time slots are always an awkward compromise.

The Netherlands is only 78% dutch, and 6% other European. Canada is 77% European. The US is ~74% White, so we’re more diverse, but not by that much.

Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that comparison. Possibly we could see that in the variance of happiness ratings from the US. Skimming the paper it looks about the same as most European countries, but that could be caused by sample sizes. Also it would depend on having a sample that was geographically representative…

I didn’t equate its diversity level. I suggested, anecdotally, that it’s not 100% Finnish.

You’re welcome. - but I don’t think I mentioned correlation or causation at all. At any rate, to be clear, yes a multiple linear regression is a correlational technique. In no way can this data alone be used for causal inferences.

Yeah, it depends on how much the game offloads onto your processor and how effectively it uses your 4 cores.

I’m not sure you read that data accurately. The first list is only based on langauge (where New Zealand is 142 of 215), and the second list has three separate categories (language, ethnicity and religion), and is in alphabetical order. You’ll find at the New Zealand page, that it’s 74% European. The United States is…

I took a look at the full report. Seems other “stereotypically homogenous” nations aren’t so highly rated, like Japan (#50, 98% Japanese), whereas more diverse countries are, like Austira (#13, ~80% Austrian).

Yes, and Finland has a substantial population of Swedish speakers as a minority. Oh and the Lapps. Don’t forget them. Finland is not as homogenous as you think it is.

I was just looking this report over. So here are a couple of my thoughts:

All that money that could go into education, healthcare, science, arts, oh right, and the coast guard.

For a long while, I was embarassed to call myself a gamer when growing up. Then I learned not to be embarrassed about what I’m passionate about.

I knew her special was coming out, but not exactly when. When I saw it on Netflix with one star, I knew exactly why it had one star. This made me want to watch it immediately and not just add it to my list.

Interesting point. But after seeing Fox News, I’m not sure that’s entirely a bad thing. Then again, if Trump was in charge of 90% of the media, that would also be scary.

Fair point. Although, he was actually in charge of the country, not a ceremonial figure head. Do we plan out a secret news alert system for it?

Ok, I admit, this does not put me in the best light, but I literally laughed outloud reading this.

My mother’s IRA dropped 33% in value during the 2008 crash.