It is actually the best 1080p DX11 card ever made. And lots of people who bought it are still using it. Nvidia is doing everything they can to entice people to upgrade annually or to at least pay through the nose for the barest future proofing.
Yeah the only progression is in terms of gear really. There are some skills you can buy but they don't seem to matter as much as a good weapon or shield.
I played Assassin's Creed: Odyssey starting with a NG+ save I downloaded. Had a blast. Plenty of games are fun without shoehorning in a leveling system. In tabletop systems there's a different context too, usually when you pick a feat or spell it's in response to a difficulty you faced, whereas in games it's just grabbing perks.
Literally all they have to do is beat nvidia by one GB of VRAM on any card and people will go nuts. Nvidia is so afraid of making another 1080ti that even their 4090 gets like 2 less frames in Fortnite at 1080p.
Outward is definitely not for everyone, but it felt to me like playing Morrowind for the first time. Not in the dialogue or character writing but in terms of looking at a weird thing on the horizon and asking myself 'WTF IS THAT'.
People continue to be mystified by money's status as a commodity. It is only worth something if not everyone who needs it has it. The existence of the rich creates the poor. To be paid for your time is to be stolen from.
I mean it's pretty much in the title. The summary isn't part of the original article, readers of the article elsewhere had to dig for it if they misinterpreted the title.
There's also a story in the hammer and sickle itself. It was spun as a symbol of 'all workers' but its original purpose was to depict an alliance between farmers (who owned the land they worked) and the tiny population of wage earners in Russia's largest cities (who didn't even own their homes). The farmers saw no reason for the new policies so concessions had to be made.
Lenin's Russia had to leverage the state apparatus to fiercely industrialize and capitalize, effectively creating an enormous business conglomerate with a company store that encompassed nearly every product in the nation outside the black market. But with all the complacency of abject monopoly. They couldn't skip generalized capitalism, and so they created it in a way that seriously disadvantaged workers as capitalism does.
It made dungeoning take less time. If it's faster, it's cheaper. Hazing endears the group to the new member. The inconvenience of hiking out to the dungeon after getting a group together, and reforming a group after someone left because the warlock couldn't summon the tank in time to start the dungeon well before their dinner, was a shared trauma that helped the group cohese.
Old folks talk about how much better life was before tech. But it isn't just old people. Survivors of war-torn towns and cities also come to look fondly upon their times of utter strife and starvation. The circumstances made every person much less disposable (or less cheap) and so people felt more valued. I remember a news story about someone finding graffiti in a city that was rebuilt after a war, the message translated as "Times were better, when they were worse."
The biggest element you are not accounting for is time. It takes an unfathomably long amount of time for the benefits of random mutation to shape a population.
I got a razr because the zenphone got huge. What I didn't expect to love are the big bezels on the internal screen (to allow it to close) they stop the fleshy bottom of my thumb from touching the screen, an issue I've had with previous phones.
"Immigration" has never been under threat from any party. Donors on both sides need immigration to continue. The difference is one party generally likes to keep immigrants in exceptionally precarious conditions to coerce them to accept low wages. The other party makes token changes that appear raise the immigrant standard of living to something approximating the lower class with limited efficacy.
I don't agree with Zizek on everything, but in his 'debate' with that lobster Kermit guy he said something to the effect of 'China is a tragedy because it is a model for the future of governance.'
There was a green mount similar to this one they added in BFA for a large sum of gold. But they claimed to dislike how it encouraged so many people to play the market and removed it.
That's what we call it, the Wheel of Nope!