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Massively fucking creepy though it is, I feel like I should point out that this isn’t actually accurate:

I think that some of the people asking for an extra “easy mode” are underestimating the additional work that would involve — QA especially would be hugely increased, since you’d need to do another complete playthrough for each additional difficulty level. Then there’s all the extra UI you need, and all the back-end

A WRONG TURN THEYLL PUMP THE BREAKS

If shooting a deer drops meat, why not shooting a man?

Nonsense, the purpose of a rogue-lite is not to die. The fact that acquiring this skill often involves dying is neither here nor there. And your weird assertion that only plot constitutes substance is bizarre. A good rogue-lite or rogue-like has a depth of systems and interactions which gives it at least as much

The Stadia controller, which is optional, connects to Google’s streaming data centers directly over wifi, for limiting latency.

Some men can, actually, but you go with that casual trans erasure!

I think it’s also relevant that just about everyone likes to think they’re one of the ones who would survive and thrive if society collapsed.

Oh oh! Cosplay as a Phantom Thief and then steal a bunch of antique Noh theatre masks!

stimulants are illegal in Japan

“subjecting children to the irreversible trauma of the worst kind of racism that ever existed on earth” 

Two 20s for a 10? :-S

Ah yes, “looking at facebook images”... of graphic deaths, injuries, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse... So much easier than giving someone tragic news over the phone.

Not playing audio from steam pipes is a worse outcome for the end user than being entirely unplayable? No.

This was a great series, and an excellent illustration of the extent to which the internet has become a monopoly.

I remember going to a convention a while back which had at least three Kiritos wandering around, and by far the best of the bunch was the black dude who’d done his alternate costume from when he was in the Knights of the Blood Oath.

I think you, and the other chap here who talks about “pandering to the paranoid” are reading more into this than is intended. Kashmir isn’t “worrying” that a coffee shop uses Windows POS, or about AWS providing webhosting, nor are any of these articles full of scaremongering about “BUT WHAT IF THEY’RE MONITORING ME

Yeah, but you’re also saying “is it a quality or a safety issue? or both?” and then saying “Dresser thinks that sometimes, it’s the latter” (the latter being “safety” or possibly “both”) and then quoting them as saying it’s about quality, which is most definitely in no sense the latter.

Care to address why so many news outlets cheerfully print the f-slur in full but not the n-slur, while you’re talking about inequalities in how bigotry is addressed?