So a very tiny minority of people will essentially hand control over to massively wealthy interests who will set and dictate terms, and everyone else mostly has no say. There’s a word for that kind of scenario. It’s just on the tip of my tyranny....

It’s a manifold issue. A long-lasting high concurrency of users indicates sustained, ongoing interest in the game. That means there’s substantial audience and market for continued development and support. That in turn means a higher likelihood of more DLC and expansions, etc. But Starfield isn’t showing that.…

Predators vs Ninjas!

Ramin Djawadi has done some amazing theme songs, including Game of Thrones.

And you didn’t spend any of those years living in the harshest environment in the universe! Voyager is playing *HARDCORE* survival mode.

And, oh, hey, wouldn’t you know, he’s exactly the MAGA demographic — an ignorant, arrogant, self-entitled, snobby, whiny, little white boy bitch.

Quick! Observe it so the quantum seatbelt waveform can collapse already!

That would imply that there were any ideals involved in the first place. But bigotry and intolerance aren’t ideals. They’re flaws. Gross, inexcusable, willful flaws. Because even though a person can happen into having these flaws as matter of upbringing, *keeping* them is a choice. It’s a choice to remain bigoted, to…

“...but he certainly got people excited...”

By the ‘logic’ on display here, the great turtle-stomping epidemic of the 80s caused by Super Mario Bros must have been horrific! Oh, right. That never happened. Because that’s not how this works. That’s not how ANY of this works.

When mountains and centuries of hard data contradict everything you just said, I think you’re the one in a bubble, bub.

So then no, you don’t understand the difference. You could have just said that and saved yourself a bunch of pointless keystrokes of meandering ignorance.

It’s simple. We all want to be entertained. That’s one of the most basic human drives. But for society to function, we can’t all be entertained all the time. Entertainment is limited by the resources invested in its creation and delivery. So we must also labor to produce the ‘resources’ necessary for the creation…

“...but was an unsuccessful experiment.”

Valve isn’t a publicly traded company, and one generally decent guy exercises nearly absolute authority over the platform, while his focus has never been on maximizing the profits generated by it.

Fuck with a corporation’s ‘profits’ by modding other people’s property, with their permission, of course, so they can bypass said corporation’s draconian ‘anti-piracy’ bullshit, and the law will destroy your life. Forever.

Yup. If publishers don’t respect the ownership of the media customers buy, why should customers respect publishers’ ‘ownership’ of IPs??

Chances are they’re reacting to a spectrum of light that you can’t see. I mean, you do know your wireless doorbell camera is flooding its surrounding with light, right? Wifi *IS* light. Heck, the inside of your house, even when its pitch black to you, is lit up like a Christmas tree in all kinds of different light…

And how effective has the ban on regular ol’ robocalls been? Yeah, that’s what I thought: useless. So how would banning AI-generated robocalls go any better? Exactly, it won’t. Because the people in charge don’t want it addressed. They’re either profiting off it, or indirectly in charge of it. Either case, the wolf…

You seem incredibly protective of your barely identifying tax information, when that kind of information is public domain as a matter of course in many other countries...and yours is already up for sale from data brokers anyway. So what exactly do you think, other than massive amounts of tax fraud, is accomplished by…