When you roll the gacha, always do your wishes one at a time. There is no benefit to rolling 10 at a time. Usually, you want to avoid duplicates and not all characters have good constellations for rolling a duplicate. It’s usually better to build a large cast of party members for different situations.

Hoyolab daily check-ins are also a tiny (but obviously free) way of getting some primogems every month. They mostly give you mora or exp books, but I think the check ins give you 60 gems a month for just checking in 18 times. 

You just save and skip, and plan which characters you’re going to pull for.

And then Disney buys Microsoft.  And then Amazon buys Disney.  And then the Vogons demolish the Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

My personal take is Mihoyo seems to navigate it surprisingly well. Why that’s surprising, well, I’m still unpacking that.

After authoritarian governments, I always associate Beijing with duck! Anyway, as an Asian American (of Chinese descent), my relationship with Chinese opera is quite different and less fraught, so it’s very interesting to read of it here. I think at the very least it’s a way of seeing the relationship between…

She pointed out how this and a number of other titles the school had were copied floppies :), but eh.

Or, you’re one of the poor bastards who can’t get vaccinated for medical reasons, and you died through no fault of your own because some selfish bastard out there infected you when they refused to vaccinate themselves to protect others.

2021 version: you died of a vaccine preventable disease because you don't understand the wealth of information at your fingertips.

I don’t know that I understand the commentary. This kind of thing is pretty standard in collecting. I mean sure, the ramen logo makes it a little dorkier than, say, a carded A New Hope Darth Vader with two lightsabers but it’s essentially the same idea. A limited run thing (in this case intentional) that’s far more…

The issue is that twitch doesn’t want to be a camgirl site. If twitch backed off its modesty guidelines then it’d be all porn within the hour. Given that anyone can start streaming without any age verification it means that twitch would also need to start investing time, energy and money in child porn prevention.

is “nudity is natural” really that dumb?

People/companies freaking out about nudity will never not be one of the single dumbest things on the planet. “Modesty” is a completely artificial concept. Humans don’t come with clothing. No other animal wears clothing. Clothing is a tool that gives us an enhanced ability to survive in harsher climates, but is not…

They don’t even allow males to show their nipples, this isn’t an equality or sexism thing. Just poor wording in the quote.

Assuming the criteria emphasized writing or story, I’d think at least a smattering of years - accounting for tastes and trends of the times - might look like this:

Telling people that a new game can be pirated isn’t journalism

The game is $80 CAD, but if someone really really wants to play it in the best possible way, they might just be better off investing that $399 console purchase into a graphics card purchase and emulating it instead. Like, Nintendo only makes around $20 in profit from each unit sold, anyway— that's a lot of money that…

Emulators are legal to download and use, however, sharing copyrighted ROMs online is illegal.

Look, the original story (which was later edited) explicitly said that players didn’t need to buy a Switch, because they could just play it on a PC emulator instead. There’s no way to do that without downloading an illegal ROM of the game.

Telling people that a new game can be pirated isn’t journalism