In reality it means jack shit, it’s corporatespeak at its most vapid

Apparently lenient enough ones that they’re gathering tax refugees. And I’m not even one to point fingers, we’re sloppy enough about this in Norway.

To a degree this really did happen in Norway. But, the whiny, parasitic, sanctimoniously hypocritical little shits that took their ball and fucked off to Switzerland (incidentally: thanks, Switzerland, both ironically and… not) were still only a tiny proportion of the income from that same specific kind of wealth tax. The media just put the usual level of disproportionate focus on it, because the most blatantly scummy of the filthy rich have it so bad, poor dudes.

If it did, the knee jerk reaction would be to find some other instance

With no horse in the race, I think it’s just a reaction to seeing your name everywhere. The fedv genuinely isn’t that used to activity and everyone is understandably suspicious in the Age of Slop. I’d like to say that maybe if you proved your humanity blah blah blah, but realistically that wouldn’t be anywhere near enough

What, would it have been any more staggering if I said quintillion?

To a degree, yes, how do you build that list otherwise? Most “communities” are duds with no activity. And poor support for aggregating even identically named communities across instances means all of this is a real chore. And how do you even find the relevant ones anyway? I keep whining about discoverability on here but that’s just because it sucks

Unfortunately the fact that you need 400 billion fucking things blocked to make this place less annoying… means that it is annoying. Bot accounts and communities that already exist fifty thousand other fucking places with no activity are way too trivial to spin up

There’s never any exact lines. As with every term, especially in gaming, people will mean different things by it and may or may not implicitly assume people agree - except when arguing about it for ever and ever and ever. While nobody changes their mind at any point.

On something like Steam it’s a tag, which gives you limited information about the game. Not necessarily based on the literal reading, but what other stuff has/doesn’t have the same tag. And that’ll be inconsistent across storefronts, reviewers, individual players and all that stuff too.

Sort of, yes, but we have additional parties and a different way of doing things. While we do classically have two dominant parties sniping at each other, it’s genuinely more diverse, arguably a better representative of “the people’s will”. Unfortunately the people’s will is stupid high on right wing populism right now, so it’s not really a great example of the benefits. If nothing else it’s blissfully boring over here. (cough mostly cough)

I suppose you could stretch the US metaphor and say the Conservatives and " Progress " Party (said polybigots) are roughly like different wings/eras of the GOP or something. PP (hhehe) actively imitating/flirting with Trump style bs and more traditional GOP garbage before that, Conservatives being somewhat better at masking and profiling themselves as “responsible”, which haha, shocker, means giving the rich all they want.

Amen to that. For -ly in English, it’s a reasonably good bet it’s an adverb and will still be something if you lop it off, but in this day and age it seems like you shouldn’t need to. For starters it’s not always as obvious, and it’s an extra pointless click which people used to care about.

Well no. No, not quite like in America, thankfully.

Yeah. We like to pretend we give the slightest shit about the environment whenever the “left” (center center center center right) is in power, the actual left never gets any significant power, and whenever it’s Conservatives or the Racist Climate Denier Party there’s not even any pretense.

The profit stuff is genuinely shady but they sure aren’t just going for those. They’ve DMCA’d rom hacks and stuff that just weren’t doing anything like that

They don’t necessarily bother with older stuff. The focus is to (unethically) mess with the stuff that is currently hurting their bottom line, which is why retro only occasionally gets shafted when they repack a 20 year old game, unadapted in an emulator, for twenty bucks. Although, rom hacks also get routinely fucked for whatever reason. That stuff can’t even be making any monetary difference, so I’m assuming they just choose to be dipshits as a goal in itself.

Nintendo could not physically give less of a shit what is legal and not, they slap people with lawyers and then win even when they don’t have a case. They don’t need a case, they have money.

And overwhelmingly likely, in many cases. And then, pretending it’s all sunshine and rainbows means setting yourself up for an extra helping of disappointment later.

The problem with trying to force yourself to believe you’re wrong about something you’re not wrong about, is that you’re not wrong about it.

After some midnight, anyway. When you say “midnight” you’re usually referring to a particular one, implied by context. Or spelled out for that matter.

The volume of updates would bring a lot of tech to its knees