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The word consumer is so demeaning

It should be, and it is accurate in this case.

Apparently the announcement was made in stealth mode.

People hated him because he spoke the truth.

Stupid feathered overachiever!

The comment was so close to being comedy gold by being about people conflating two differenr groups as is often the case with discrimination.

I’m so sick of action rpgs including crafting or an endless list of slightly different weapons. Give me a small mix of situational weapons at most and let the gameplay be how difficulty works.

While additional cosmetic options can add variety and personal expression to the game

I guess if bragging about spending extra money to advertise for some company is personal expression, sure.

It is kinda interesting how the actual drones used in warfare look like what a movie studio would make as a mock up for the stylish drone they would use in a movie. Bare bones structure to keep it light, no aerodynamics, just the necessary moving parts and tacked on parts they need to make it work.

Slava Ukraine!

Can’t those both be true at the same time?

Yes, but actually no.

If a system exists to serve a purpose but does something else it is broken. People may consider completely changing the system into something new to be fixing it, but those who think it needs to be destroyed don’t want the chance of problematic parts of the existing system to be carried over or may even think it doesn’t need to exist in the first place.

Let’s take the FBI. It fucking sucks for minorities because it has always been a shitty, racist, and bigoted organization. Sure, it occasionally enforces civil rights and handles federal crimes, but it is absolutely rotten to the core. Some people might think that firing everyone but keeping the structure could fix it by replacing the horrible people, but it is likely any reform will retain some level of shittyness because continuing to exist means the underlying structure and culture is likely to hang around because it is the same literal agency. Others might want to destroy it by eliminating it by name and replacing it with a new agency that enforces federal laws or maybe they don’t want it at all and want other agencies to handle enforcement on their own. The latter will most likely result in some of the old shitty FBI staff to be hired into either of those outcomes due to having experience, but the idea is that destroying is significant enough that there is a chance that the next time around we might avoid the same mistakes.

A more relatable example might be an old bike. Is it worth trying to repair when the underlying structure is worn out or is a replacement that achieves the same things more likely to have a better outcome. Or maybe you don’t even need a bike because you moved somewhere you can easily walk everywhere and you have other options for exercise.

The mainstream media will report that Trump said prices are lower, and not actually point out that he is a lying liar.

The best part is that Trump will not bring down the price of groceries.

Unattainable achievements aren’t achievments, they are lies.

Some might be extremely difficult or tedious though.

It’s like in the movies where a sailing ship’s crew throws stuff overboard to lighten the load.

It is likely that they were stable before seal training. But decades of high stress training and dangerous missions while being fed a diet of jingist propaganda to justify the risk will have some side effects.

An article about Joker 2 has the novelty factor of bombing as a sequel to Joker, which was a massive hit. They will got a lot more views on any one of those five Joker 2 articles than they will from multiple articles about a game nobody heard about.

More views = more money. It doesn’t matter whether something is more ‘worthy’ or not.

My point is mostky about people’s expectations and that people who want news on games probably aren’t interested in gaming articles from papers/major news sites and companies in general aren’t looking to advertise on gaming articles in the same way that makers of fashion would want to advertise in the theater section.

I really like this post btw, I never really thought about how sparse reporting on games is outside of dedicated sites.

That has more to do with New York having a thriving theater scene and a NY newpaper promoting a local thing that is popular with its readership and the companies that pay for advertising. It is something that sets NY apart from a lot of other locations, even if theater is pretty common in most areas.

Kind of a chicken and egg when it comes to games, since readers won’t be expecting games news in mainstream sources they don’t dedicate resources to writing the articles. That makes business sense because most people who are looking for game news already have a number of web sites to choose from.

John Carter didn’t get that much attention either, and what it did was mostly about the leadership changes in Disney tanking the advertising and not about the movie itself.

At one point I decided to get all the cars that I didn’t already have and used the auction house to get what was left. While i got most in under a week, there were still two cars that took a couple more weeks to find available even at 20 mil when checking twice a day.

Holy hell the interface is so terrible, and probably contributes to even more bots than if it was fairly straightforward to use. Car names aren’t consistent with the list of cars, there was no ‘cars not owned’ filter, and the nine buttons to place a bid plus the delay every time anything happened including being outbid made trying to get a deal nearly impossible.

Oooh, it has been a while since I started avoiding large chunks and forgot that one.