The safety argument has merit, in so much as it prevents arbitrary apps from injecting things that cost real money in deceptive ways such that users spend money without realizing it, or that the payment method steals their personal information.

Yeah, pretty much all of the legal scholarship on the topic I’ve read has pretty clearly come down on the side of “it’s totally within Apple’s rights to do this, and isn’t anti-competitive (in the legal sense) at all.”

Remember that a vote is a share, not a person. A major investor could represent tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of votes by themselves.

I had totally forgotten about the dialog skip issue. I definitely accidentally skipped some important dialog that way on more than one occasion when I would forget that skip really meant skip, not just “next line.”

If you can get Vampyr for a reasonable price (or if it’s still on GamePass), it’s absolutely worth playing. The worldbuilding and story are pretty good even if the ending stumbles a bit, and the actual moment to moment gameplay is quite enjoyable. It was quite buggy on launch, but has been improved significantly. If…

I mean, 500,000 viewers would be ~0.5 on the Neilson rating scale. To put that into context, that’s the same viewership as the Adult Swim block averages, and Turner saw fit to make an entire TV station based around that. It’s certainly not prime-time on major network worthy, but it’s certainly not “nothing.”

Ah, I hadn’t realized that bench gave you a double-bladed if you didn’t already have one. By the time I found it I had already unlocked the DB the “normal” way :)

Well, in fairness, it is important, it’s just not climbable. It’s an elevator that needs to be unlocked from below, which you can’t do until much later in the game. Despite Dathomir being unlocked for travel to after the first major event in the game, you can’t actually do anything there until you’ve cleared literally…

Yeah, it’s an elevator. The problem with Dathomire in general is that you can access it well before you can actually _do_ most of the things required to progress. However, the starting area teases you with visible meditation points, and poorly designed shortcuts that lead from that meditation point back to where you…

Right. “Since” generally implies continuity. I’m not arguing that the phrasing is grammatically incorrect (it’s not), just that it’s not usually how that phrase is used (at least in my experience), and probably lead to the OP’s confusion.

The SEGA nod is great, but I hope that isn’t the final output, because the Etc doesn’t seem to use the same staggered kerning that the other entries do, where as the More version did. Once seen, can’t unsee. It might be simply because with 3 chars instead of 4 there’s not an obvious point to insert the stagger, but it…

Man, whoever sits in the right hand passenger seat better be extremely friendly with the driver, given your elbow is gonna be in their crotch the whole time. Rolling down the window might get you a citation in some states :p

That’s why I said “I think it misses the point of a car like this” ;) As you say, Murray didn’t set out to make a “maximally engaging car,” he set out to make a better F1, which would be the fastest car on the planet while maintaining analog engagement with the experience. Anything else wouldn’t have been the point of…

I think its a word choice thing. “From the outset” is what I would generally use when the thing is in a state, and always has been. “In the beginning” or something would be what I would use for “the thing used to be in this state, but maybe changed.” But I am not a professional writer, so I differ to your judgement…

It’s also just the perfect symbol for that car: Seduces you with its sweet signing voice and drop dead looks. Then eats you alive.

I think the OP’s point was “you don’t need a car with that power to weight ratio because you cannot use it on the street.” I don’t think the point was to have a smaller engine with the same power. It was to have just straight up less power, so that you could go 8/10ths at road-legal speeds for longer than 1 second.

Yeah, even a basic filter/sort by effect class option for charms would have been a godsend. I did the same thing you did, basically left specked for tanking at all times and just swapped armor, except for the 1v1 big boss duels where I’d respec a couple charms for dueling (no reason to keep health-for-kills and…

I think his point was “it makes it feel more game-y to be able to do that, because you couldn’t actually swap gear mid sword swing like that, so I’m against making it easier to do mid combat at least.”

They actually have a neutral density and polarizing filter in the screencap mode. It’s pretty amazing how much control they give you. It’s basically a fully fledged photography simulator. You can control focal length (expressed in mm@35mm-film equiv), aperture (as f-stop), and various filter settings, plus some…