People buy stuff for the image. Apple has cultivated a certain image with its branding that people are attracted to and buy their products because of it. I've heard it described as "People don't buy what you make but what you are." The image and brand of the company is often why people buy from them. Apple produces products for cool hip people, not the stuffy old guys in suits! You're a cool person, right?
Something being expensive is often part of the image. People like to pretend they're rich and the more expensive all their stuff is the more they can project that image. It can also be self validation. Owning expensive products can someone feel better about their lives.
If an instance admin stickies a post it'll show up at the top of all your feeds (unless you sort by "top").
However, I checked lemm.ee and it doesn't have any stickied posts, but it does have a month old post stuck at the top of "all". Comments in the thread are complaining about it. I see lemm.ee is using the newest version of Lemmy (v0.19.10) so maybe it's a new bug?
One day humanity would end because the president of Turkmenistan got into an argument with the president of Uzbekistan over where the imaginary line that separates the countries is drawn on maps.
Twitter is filled with porn and racism but still has payment processing and ads. 4chan has payment processing. I don't think this is a universal truth. It's more like some sites purposefully chose to have strict guidelines for whatever reasons.
While I'm all for spray painting a Musk company because he's a dick, I'm not sure spray painting an electric car company to protest inaction on climate change makes a whole lot of sense.
I have a relative that, while working as a police detective specializing in fraud, lost a lot of money in a Ponzi scheme. It was his belief that he would always be able to tell if something was a scam that sunk him. Definitely embarrassing, but it always reminds me that anyone can be scammed by the right offer.
I first played it on a 5 year old computer and could barely get 10 fps on the lowest settings. I upgraded knowing that pretty much every other game now is wanting crazy hardware to run. I now have a very expensive top of the line rig that can run the game on max settings with a silky smooth 40 fps...which seems to be the max anyone can get even in benchmarking videos. I haven't played this patch so not sure if that's fixed yet.
Other than the ridiculous hardware requirements, the game is very much like all the other STALKER games. You wander around dreary forests and swamps completing quests or searching for items. If you liked the other games you'll like this one.
Annoying parts for me have been all the walking and the mutants being bullet sponges. Walking takes up a lot of game time and I wish there was an option for fast travel. I know not everyone would want that but I'd personally like the choice. Sometimes I just want to get back to the settlement to trade my loot and don't want to spend 20 minutes walking through an empty forest. I often run from mutants when I can because it'll take 100 rounds to kill one and they don't drop any loot.
People buy stuff for the image. Apple has cultivated a certain image with its branding that people are attracted to and buy their products because of it. I've heard it described as "People don't buy what you make but what you are." The image and brand of the company is often why people buy from them. Apple produces products for cool hip people, not the stuffy old guys in suits! You're a cool person, right?
Something being expensive is often part of the image. People like to pretend they're rich and the more expensive all their stuff is the more they can project that image. It can also be self validation. Owning expensive products can someone feel better about their lives.