Hey folks, I been in a dead zone for a week so I left this hanging but I wanted to mention I really enjoyed reading all the replies.

I also have both... and while this is a sort of subjective discussion, there are some things that I can point out that are objectively different.

First, carts. A game cartridge is a physical thing that is sort of just... it’s a game. That thing is the game. You put the game in the console, and you play the game. It’s…

students would only be allowed to use the names and pronouns assigned to them at birth

See, I think that’s a much more interesting and compelling argument than a lot of what I’m seeing. Corporate control of these algorithms could, in fact, be a very big Thing that we’ll have to contend with - similar to Monsanto’s abuse of the patent system absolutely skullfucking farmers and muddying the waters around…

Less money per order, more money overall because they sell my info. 

“she lauded the chain’s installation of self-ordering kiosks and called them ‘one of our highest margin channels.’”

Can these tools be used in bad ways to rip off and steal from artists? Yeah, absolutely. And that sucks, but it’s hardly some fault of the software. Art builds upon itself - Michael Kutsche’s art is also an amalgamation of different peoples’ styles. If these algorithms are straight-up copy/pasting chunks of someone’s…

The megachain fast casuals are using it, from what I understand it’s quite helpful for work lunches where check splitting is the norm.

I walked in to a Taco Bell the other day, saw one of these things and walked right out.

They just installed these at our local McD’s. I refuse to use them. Not only do I prefer to deal with a human and not have to learn yet another user interface, those touch screens are gross germ factories.

I stayed at a Hyatt recently this summer as a stop-over during a longer trip. Couldn’t order room service or even see the menu without downloading their stupid World Of Hyatt phone app, which I then couldn’t activate, because apparently I was automatically signed up for some other “Hyatt” rewards program when I stayed…

That Pew poll is a depressing picture for unpartnered men, although “25-54" might not be that useful as an age range (the median age for first marriage for men is something like 30 years old now, meaning that you’d expect the 25-54 range to be skewed by the >50% of men below 30 who are not married). 

This is why it always cracks me up when manosphere guys try to use fear tactics on women, and tell us we’re useless without a man and need to lock one down quickly before we “hit the wall.” It’s such obvious fear-based projection. Finding a man is as easy as falling off a chair for most women. Men are the ones in…

Ah, okay, that’s the sort of thing I was lumping under “incidental success”. Sometimes the worst time to try to organize action against a game is when it has new content coming out.

Says the company that’s hoovering up the major developers on North America to do this exact same crap.

I mean, isn’t that the whole point of buying exclusivity?

I’m not going to talk about if the practice of buying exclusivity is right or wrong but I’m pretty sure that if you want something exclusive, you don’t want said product to end up on competitor platforms.

Isn’t this just more or less the usual exclusivity stuff though? I’m sure Microsoft would love it if all that went away and everything was on game pass at all times without them needing to pay for it. But if Microsoft is allowed to pay a developer to have their thing on game pass at release, shouldn’t Sony be allowed…

You are REALLY stuck on this point and I can’t figure out why.

It doesn’t matter that he tried to direct it.  Process servers do whatever they feel they have to do to serve.  There’s nothing Jason could have done here.

I can demand my X be served with papers by a midget riding a Shetland pony. That does not mean the server is obligated to do so. They are obligated to serve in any manner the law allows.

This is off-topic, but there are so many things going on in that picture.