In principal, you are right. The problem is that ideals don’t always survive contact with reality.

The unpopular games aren’t pirated and the popular games make enough money that piracy is a relatively insignificant variable. There are even some cases where you can draw causal links between piracy and an uptick in profits (overall).

Counterfactuals can be difficult to unpack but it is entirely possible (even…

I kind of wish they had prioritized engine optimization over IQ polish. They have come a long way but I still chug (hard frame skipping and FPS drops) in all sorts of situations on several different gaming computers with different combinations of mid-range CPU/GPUs. There are still about a bazillion post-process…

Maybe? They may have tweaked their procedural algorithms a bit but I’ve hit 5 worlds so far on my first play since NEXT and haven’t seen anything close to what is featured in this article. I think the biggest change was simply to the assets (models, textures, etc are all obviously improved).

I have no problem with this…

... an important thing to keep in mind is that you can visit like a dozen planets in a row that are rocky and (relatively) barren. It’s all very random which means it can sometimes be hard to find a biome you really fall in love with.

Horrible analogies aside...

Demographics?! Only about 13% of the women in the US are black and the ratios are generally even lower in many European nations (that an American actor is likely to visit). This means a black actor is only likely to meet 1 or 2 black women for every 10 women he meets. The actual ratio is probably a bit higher,…

There is no accounting for taste?

I think the larger problem is that a person can popularize a bit of choreography without actually being, in principal or reality, the originator of the IP.... and unless a person, regardless of skin color, aggressively captures copyright on this stuff (and defends it) then it can be hard to really profit from it.

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Costco’s annual membership fees accounts for 80 percent of Costco’s gross margin and 70 percent of its operating income.[32]

Costco’s annual membership fees accounts for 80 percent of Costco’s gross margin and 70 percent of its operating income.^[32]

Costco’s annual membership fees accounts for 80 percent of Costco’s gross margin and 70 percent of its operating income.[32]

Either way this movie has really divided people so much that you might add this to religion and politics as topics you do not talk about.

It’s pretty easy to snatch 3 words, out of context, to shore up the semblance of a point.

The article is a criticism directed at people looking to remake the film. That means Denton either lumps themselves with that group (Nick’s semi-reasonable assumption) or their whole comment is a substantively pointless what-about-ism.

Opinion(s) noted.

He made a good point that you only punched home... there is obviously ambiguity here that you are all, collaboratively, illustrating. It is a bit ironic to attempt to scold the person correcting the correction of the correction through another correction.

There was a time when people thought riding horses was just “more thrilling”. Heck... there are still a lot of people that make that claim.

The times, they are a-changin’.

The car is still held together by about 5,000 welds, but engineers concluded that some 300 were unnecessary and reprogrammed robots to assemble the steel underbody without them.

What individuals say reflects who individuals are.

We try to give each other the benefit of the doubt... in fact, we should give each other the benefit of the doubt... but that means that good people will sometimes unwittingly permit such a person to dwell among them.