And definitely!

Sure, but care or not they can both certainly influence development on your favorite IP. Having the knowledge to be able to exploit this exploitive practice is not the same as supporting it or agreeing with its existence, just simple acknowledgement of your ability to influence outcomes of which in this case I’d suggest picking the one that is forever in your own personal favor.

That does unfortunately and irrefutably occur. It’s not every case, but it is sadly likely a majority.

There is a genuine downside, in that launch numbers are what most gaming publishers pay attention to most closely when deciding to greenlight expansions and sequels, but generally there are far more reasons to wait and know what you’re getting than to take the dive early and blind.

Annoying as well. Goodluck convincing anyone to change it.

I think I might’ve come across incorrectly when I said cultural decay. I mean to convey the consequences of a cultures effect on politics. For example wars, pollution, or nuclear weapons. I think you’d have trouble denying those have effects that are inherently social and require civic cooperation to prevent. Doing otherwise seems to me to actually objectively be a problem, assuming you value living. That’s actually what I meant about laziness as well, that we’re less invested in the core responsibilities that now exist with how advanced our technology and societies have become.

I agree you can’t force anyone, that’s not freedom, but I also feel and fear we may be past the point where inspiration can handle the challenges. FDR never had nuclear war looming, the interconnected and chaotic nature of social media to contend with, or a bevy of other modern factors like llms that I get the gut feeling are insurmontable. I’d like to be convinced otherwise instead of subscribing to apathy but I feel like I’m living through the dawn of a new age.

Fair and reasonable. I just don’t see a large force that would lead the current us in that direction naturally, and if I did I feel like I’d have more hope for a stable tomorrow.

Not saying this is the correct route, but I do see the cultural decay, foreign influence, and complete lack of civic duty causing massive political failures in the US in real-time as we grow lazier, less interested, and more content. Any idea how we account for that in a reasonable fashion?

Lore accurate

Caving to the idea that there are two sides instead of a brevity of political choices that are constantly suppressed is major defeatist energy in the same way that’s depicted in this comic.

It lives on in the halls of financial mainframes, next to his uncle Cobal.

No cap. That’s what it’s there for bud, glad you enjoy it. ✊ Just remember this when a pal is suffering from eye searing whiteness and requests a dark mode haha.

I’m happy for the wife. This likely voids their prénup, assuming they included standard clauses.

Fair, I was trying to be cheeky and here you are shutting me up with a compiler level “nope”. Take your +1.

Are you sure? From what I can tell there’s a 5 in 6 chance of catastrophic failure.

About to be 6.0000001% when my Kubuntu download finishes. I’m finally taking the dive boys, linux on main here we go.

The year of the linux phone is almost upon us…

To be fair to bottles, they cité that even their hosting costs are usually barely covered, so I imagine it’s running on a pretty lean/Foss dev budget already.

Unscheduled home upgrade time ;)

Why would they do the thing they do on the box, the website, in a little packet, and over the phone?..