Well, that sounds not at all simple. And the premise sounds outright depressing, particularly on a metaphysical scale. Still interested though. Think we should probably be killing whoever is responsible for creating such a situation though rather than (or maybe in addition to) the demons.

Thank you. I’m part of the target demographic for BDO as a long term MMO player, and I dropped it before I could get burned. The entire game seems to be made to wring money from you, it’s full of things that are only there to inconvenience you unless you pay. It’s like they looked at P2W and went “how can we force…

Frances Townsend is still there, pardon me if I still don’t believe they’re taking this seriously.

You can absolutely reform your way out of political culture, I mean the demise of the fairness doctrine and the rise of Fox news are part of what got us here in the first place (along with Gingrich changing things like congressional scheduling).

Oh yes, like I said it’s just the most noticeable chunk. Ballot access, funding, redistricting, etc all need addressed. It’s just that we’re not killing the two party system under FPtP.

Yes well, major reform is needed to break the two party system - ranked choice is just the most noticeable chunk of that.

Per capita, Australia is doing something like thirty times better than us in caseload. I mean, they’re having issues with vaccination, but in terms of the deathtoll/cases they aren’t even close to as bad as we are right now, much less back during peak.

Sounds an awful lot like my... well, you get the idea.

Yeah, this has been a concern with my new system. It’s not particularly hot computer wise, but my system has good cooling, so on top of 80F degree days, I’m venting 70C degree air into a room with no AC.

I’ve got to be honest, my reaction to this is basically, “surprise?”, because it was dead obvious when she was hired. Then even more so from her reaction. If you weren’t expecting a response that blows past tonedeaf to unambiguously disgusting, you weren’t paying attention at this point.

Honestly, I personally like the appearance of PS1 boxes, the larger more typical game boxes we see these days bug me. They’re needlessly drawn out and flimsy.

I can respect that response, they identified a problem and fixed it before it could become more of one. Honestly compared to how most devs handle this kind of thing, it’s outright refreshing as a response.

Yeah, no. While I’m pissed at quite a few people for this because it was eminently preventable (there was some deliberate underestimates for cost cutting on launch demand) the shortage itself isn’t from AIBs at all anyways and most of the bad behavior lies elsewhere. The creation of new fabs is incredibly slow (the…

Ignoring that much backstory to make that? Clearly creative. Making a story that toes the line of coherence just enough to keep reminding you of how bad it was took work too!

Honestly, I haven’t played in ages (last time, I had a few items left to cap, but at that point one required extensive repeated buying from a merchant), but I’ve got to comment on how Warframe stands head and shoulders above other MMOs in both gameplay and time to cap. It’s crazy how much is there.

None. The answer is none. Frankly I think they may have confused the purpose of cord cutting. Further, while sale prices have absolutely skyrocketed, it’s still a better bargain to buy on sale anyways.

Yeah, this was my reaction too - remember by the time Persona 5 was announced, people thought it’d been so long they were nervous. This would actually be somewhat slow, even for a AAA.

I actually have a copy of that, nice to know it’s that valuable, I didn’t actually think of my PS2 collection. Honestly I mostly tend to think of my PS1 games as the valuable ones.

Was going to say that contrastingly the price of my JRPG collection had gone down, then I went and checked Suikoden II prices and apparently they’re back up around where they were again. Honestly, I don’t have much in packaging or the like, but I do have quite a few rare games. None of the ultra rare stuff, but a lot…

I’m dubious on this. Total home energy use only supposedly accounts for 10.9% of carbon emissions, and video gaming supposedly only accounts for 2.5% of that (from OurWorldInData and a study on video game carbon footprints that’s paywall locked supposedly from The Computer Games Journal). What you’re talking about is…