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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terror-911-deaths-afghanistan-iraq/

Give it time? No, I think any military/tech advanced country would do the "retribution" as deterrent for that short lived celebration of terror act. The only thing that stopped massive scale wars between economic powers are that they do it in proxy wars and flex their muscle at the cost of people and lives that aren't their own. Even if they are directly involved, see above, they aren't shy away from just "use" their citizens as long as it achieve the political/military goals, while the arms dealers enjoy their record profits and funds worth them retiring for probably another couple thousand years for their offsprings. No matter how moral high ground people likes to pretend they are when they are not involved, we are not creature that thinks logically when things could have been prevented at much earlier stages.

The smart and logical flees and avoid physical and violent conflicts like war because there are no logic reasoning with it. Yes there is logic of how to defeat or kill enemies or drain their supply, economic etc as the people behind flexing their manipulation power, but there are no logic on how to prevent more killings as the war started. Cause those would needed to be done way before the war started.

The senseless death from any big scale conflict can be attributed back to mostly, guess who, yes, us everyday citizens. You gave those political figures power to decide when and how they send people to kill and die. From both side, regardless of the death tolls and how atrocious one side is killing another.

I am not even touch the topics why the hate or bigotry is in place so they hate each other already before the conflict started. I am just assuming that most won't care or if you do care you already did the homework.

I think so but I also feel that the arena/duel can feature a bit more variety of high level enemies that uses different weapon types. I really miss when some of the duel that the enemy use things that are not blade and wish they could be extended more even onto say archer based boss, or ninja style boss, etc. (I guess the legends/raid type of boss may have more variety but I don't really like that rng loot drop grinding part so I skipped the whole thing. )

Oh, yeah, yes I did, if someone offer the coins. Like my classmates. But you know what, once I get over that phase, I simply refuse to go together since I realize it's a waste of time and money. Many early arcade have that "unfair" part to eat your tokens by design, you don't get through those by simply dumping more money and get more practice in. Like I said, you need limited useful resource, like money in your total control to really drill that experience in. If I was given allowance to blow in arcade AND still get toys, ice cream, whatever snack, soda drink etc, then for sure I am not learning that opportunity cost lesson. It is very early on I was told, you get this X amount per week, but parents are not going to buy my any of those. Best they could do is if I get good grades and they 50% match to get some toy I really wanted. So I'd have to save my allowance to do it. Pretty nice trick to do to children but very effective. They are also busy working so I can understand pretty early that the allowance is a means to train me to become more independent, so I can cover that responsibility to buy food etc for my younger siblings. It also helped greatly to manage my money after I am on my own in university dorm.

Brain circuitry evolves with practice and doing the value assessment with proper rewards, that's why some 5yo can run a shop or do grocery shopping for parents. (And not blowing the money on candies). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA_AUMxSZUM examples that I found, it's a show but it dates back way longer before internet even is a thing. They do those out of necessity since that's how most post war kids grow up so that's how they teach their kids. There are much older shows if you can find source, and I bet India or say pretty much any country without proper child labor law you will see children running stuff for parents. It is part of their reality and they simply learn early on that wasting money on [insert gambling or wasteful spending] is simply not an option. They might starve if they make mistakes like those.

So what we do in modern resource abundance world? We create and craft the situation and train our kids to adapt, early and with proper rewards. Independence is a hard thing to train for sure, and western law(say much accompany with 12yo or older if you are younger) basically make it a bit harder if your neighbor would call cops if your kid just leave your side by 50 meters.(I am joking but I guess some might actually do it.)

The basic "error" for these data mine company is not how they estimate, it's that their source data is already not accurate. Ie, when they determine revenue, they are using how many new games claimed during that period of time from source like steamdb/steamspy, probably have per region information. But steam are not the only platform that are selling steam keys, and use Steam figures "only" is significant but not accurate as there are still other platforms on PC that still takes significant chunk of the market. (ie. EGS, GOG, HumbleBundle, itch.io, key reseller: GMG, CDKEY, etc.) If your game published and selling on many platform, chance are about 5~15% could come from those secondary platforms depending on how they run seasonal sales. Thus, the key redeemed on steam does not mean it's always the steam price at the time.

That and revenue not including mtx or IAP is ridiculous in claiming recent gaming trend or consumer behavior. If you have access to some internal financial reports from company that publish wide variety of games, say EA or Sony's game division then you get a bigger picture and it's easier to extrapolate from those data. For example, The Final is smashing the F2P shooter currently and not even showing up in this report for the hit game in 2024, it's revenue is pretty much guaranteed to be top ranker for 2024.

you can already experience that on bing search. Sometimes I have to use edge to visit sites that fail if you tried to use VPN. (some bank site did) And then I forgot I am using edge and put search words on the address bar thus showing the "ai assisted result" on the top. You then have to scroll down to actually find what's useful. (Or alt-tab back to firefox and search with ddg again. )

modern compromise is putting a "FN" key on the right side while keeping the windows key on the left side cause the TKL or mini layout lacks quick access to many function keys.

I am deeply disappointed since Ryozo didn't show any new footage. :/

take a very big fistful of salt when reading those data mining firms. They might have paid access to dbs from steamspy or steamdb but as we all know they are not accurate reflection of actual sales etc, only steam and the developers has those data from their analytics.

They are trying to sell you charts and predictions, they are not there to provide accurate information if you read the charts or * carefully.

LOL, most followed in a prediction chart, they don't even know you can buy follow/wishlist as marketing strategy.

Believe it or not I had that and the logitech ones. The index/middle finger track ball is a bit less precise due to how our fingers are built and it's a pita to clean them for both the ball and the rolling axis and the housing(since it's a concave shape). Eventually I caved to the modern censor mouse since no cleaning is required. (well, except those pads adhesive attracting dust etc. )

Fadden said China doesn't respect its own rhetoric on international scientific cooperation.

"There's another principle involved here. In international relations it's called reciprocity — that if we allow them to do x, they should allow us to do x," he said.

"If you look into what the Chinese allow, I think you'll find that very few westerners are allowed to study at Chinese universities looking into those 10 or 15 categories I'm looking at."

This pretty much sums up all the reasons. Don't get me wrong, China have some of the brightest scientist and researcher in the world, simply because distribution is a thing. It's much easier to get real talented people in pretty much any thing given huge enough population and if you direct your resource properly. You can say that their reliance on those odd approach might have killed their own innovation, cause talented people are still people, they can give up or trying to survive in their own way when the env do not give their best support and chance to shine.

So I guess you basically defeat your own argument in the first paragraph. Digital money transaction are traceable, up to the point it left that currency system, say bitcoin to USD, and then someone else withdraw that USD as cash, after it become cash then you just know who has it last. All the off shore tricks are using "legal" method to transfer large amount of money or offset the cost to make their balance sheet look like they don't need to pay more tax. They don't ship aircraft full of cash to anywhere. This is why they want to form the tax treaty alliance so every government gets their fair share of tax cuts.

Do you know how hard it is to freeze someone's accounts so they can't function normally? Even the Fed, CRA can't really do that without court due process. You said no one hoard cash in any significant amount, it's only in first world where bank system is very trusted and reliable from abuse, that's why. If you check any in other 3rd world country with flaky government or authoritarian, they hoard cash in USD etc. The moment any government official touches any "dissidents" account without proper process you are asking for trouble for people to lose trust in that whole bank system. They have to announce it ahead of time, pass the act, run the whole deal to then freeze about 200 accounts. (from CBC article.)

And lastly, as with online misinformation campaign, despite a joke on our "very tolerant" gov that ignores proper protest process, those are not normal protests, and if it's allowed to run protest without check, then you are asking foreign influence to just throw money on you until you bent. Or like running some social test on how effective to use money to influence political decision through non-official channel. Can the gov do no wrong, nope, I don't think so. But at least in the west, they are treading a lot more carefully even with the power they have at hand. Similar to bank system, they can only wield it to not break majority trust, and politicians like their power like addicts like their drugs.

I actually put in an order for hall effect stick/trigger controller from amazon, hopefully it's as good as it gets reviewed by internet people. (should arrived later today, a GameSir T4 Cyclone Pro.(I don't really intent to use it wirelessly but still got the pro version for the mechanical switch face button.)

If this one is good I will phase out using official branded drifting prone controllers from my setups.

It's crazy during my research, how much worse the C/P is to use official controllers shown in the video reviews. And they aren't going to cost you that much anyway. (the top wireless many function stacked controller is probably slightly over 100, if you can wait and buy from aliexpress then it's usually < 100.) Compare to Xbox Elite/or DualSense Edge, it's no brainer. No wonder they want to wreck the 3rd party controllers, they are no where near in terms of quality/features competition, likely 2-3x more expensive, and will be broken quickly if you are heavy user.

nah, I don't buy this. Maybe I am more cynical and critical but putting too much trust in government or good will of corporation is just asking for trouble. People are responsible for the government decision they elected, and guess who the reps think their "boss" are? There are plenty of sell out examples around the world where good intention legislation ended up just have a couple terms that really cushion up their corp buddies.

This might sound like a "universally" good propose, but does the "ban violence game" sound familiar? Does "yep, this life style does not sound healthy, just ban everything that's not healthy or not productive, like just make all the decision for me." actually better? Are we as society just lose the ability to tell your own children that "this is stupid, why would anyone wants to spend money on that other than consider it a donation to support the devs"?

sorry, no, I am simply asking those parents to just play with their kids and teach them what is good and what is bad, like old times. If you like to bubble wrap your kids that's fine, eventually they will come to the real world and with way less protection and less people to guide them. You are talking like these type of thing does not require training at all? You pass age of 18 or 20 and now you are suddenly immune to bad sales tricks?

My younger age a period of my allowance dump was in the arcades, eventually I found that it does absolutely not justify the money I put in. I'd rather save those and buy a mecha or whatever other toys that are fun and can be played in many different ways, instead of a couple hours of "let me beat this game". Because, money is very limited and I obviously aren't raised by a arcade owner. That's my learning experience, I am still glad that even with very limited allowance, I get to experience that and learn early on. Cause "well, you just spend your allowance on arcade game, you should save some money for the ice cream," while me watching my younger sibling eating their ice cream. Every little bit of experience goes a long way.

And yes, there are a portion that are more vulnerable then others simply they lack the brain circuit or wiring to stop that feedback loop, and catching them early is better than catching it late.

It's quite different though.

PSN:

• you get access to the "claimed" monthly free games as long as you have subscription
• you can't download or keep playing the "claimed" games if your subscription expired.
• those claimed game will shown as "in library" and can't be purchased even if there is a on-going sale.
• if you paid for a plus member extra bonus discount game, it's still yours if your sub expired.

Epic:

• you can download the game and keep them somewhere, as long as the auth token can verify you own the game and not expired. (similar to Steam I think the token is valid for a week if your internet goes out. it will ask you to go into offline mode as well. )
• this works for both free game they gave out and the one you paid for with money.

I don't know how the higher tier of PSN and GamePass works regarding the access of game you "played".

No, PSN once you claim a "free" game you can't buy them even if they are on sale. You have to cancel sub, wait until sale, buy the game.

just change if you have said mod.

A person said something does not mean it's "facts", I am actually asking you to show me "the" facts, which you dodge and refused. Does that mean you just claim something baseless as facts? That falls under the category of misinformation.

A literal government entity found enough evidence

Well, let's stop right here, I am gonna assume I missed something, would you care enough and point me to an article that have links to such "evidence"? You are making a claim again that I didn't read anywhere, potentially missed or forgotten. Or are you suggesting that there must be some evidence to back this decision, without actually know if it exist or not? Does that mean the banning of abortion also have some "evidence" to support it? As they must be passed by a government entity.

AND, back to the topic, did you even read the links I provided? It literally says they will reconsider the terms and seek public comments, from a authoritarian government making a billions blunder announcement. They have did this so many times and back paddles because of the damage it did in the past as well. So are you saying they are caving because of billionaire pressure? Of all people but Xi? Dang, wouldn't that be hilarious? A communist dictator with science backed evidence caved under capitalist demands? WOW, look at that, such a lose of face and I hope the institute that suggest such idea and allow the announcement still exists next year.

Sorry I am enjoying this good laugh a bit much.

I care enough to keep wasting my time typing back, even though I know you don't have the integrity to find such article/publication to back you claims.

well, look at that simple finger pointing argument tech. As an adult you can do better.

Let me copy something I typed a bit earlier to a different guy that copied almost the same strat you use but less cursing. "Abuse means you are in a position where the victim can’t or don’t know how to say no to your malpractice." Let's see what my kid currently can ask me to stop:

• humming, whistling, that make noise he caused since his youtube video stuck in my head
• get one vegetable out of his plate and replace with a different kind he can take.
• if he had enough tickling quota and asked me to stop any time.
• right I forgot you don't care about my kid, maybe I should also stop here.

Any person without the addiction trait can just stop, the time it takes to get there varied by which part of distribution you fall on. As gamer we simply do so because:

• there are newer better ones out there
• you burned out grinding or simply tired of that price gouging shit throwing at you, you learn to identify those sales pitch and not get involved next time
• you run out of money? you are in therapy? regain your self control after properly follow instruction to separate out access to available fund by a trusted 3rd party?
• you simply don't like the game loop, that's what happened to me with MMO boom, I tried a couple and none of them attracted me.

Disclaimer: I probably have really high tolerance because of Monster Hunter, the OG rng drop action rpg where you hunt the same monster for 3 chances of 1% drop per hunt. My understanding of probability and other game mechanics to keep you there really thanks to this game. Where you burn time instead of money.

Gacha game itself is not an abusive practice, we have establish that cause the widely available statistics from many other existing industries(gacha eggs, trading cards, lottery, etc) I've mentioned before. If you don't like the game you simply stop playing. If you liked the game so much and can not stop playing, you might need to seek therapy as you fall under that group in distribution as "highly susceptible". And if you are a addict victim yourself, hating/banning all those that traps people like you does not solve the fundamental issues, including cursing and painting a internet stranger as some type of "enabler" or putting your words in my mouth, I am not going to repeat those.

I did not say it has to be free game for that to happen, but because free game relies on mtx and other mechanics to survive so they must have something else in game to get revenue. Actually, even free games are going away from that practice cause most people learn. Sharing knowledge is a great thing, people break down how much money you need to spend to get something or how many hours you need to grind in Diablo 4 for stuff pretty much less than one month after launch. They helped so many people before they fall into that "grinding pit". Any seasoned player will look for those before they even dip their hands in a game because of sunken cost fallacy, "I need to keep playing cause I invest so much time/money in this game already", instead of focus on "does playing the game is still fun?"

This is not coming to everything, let me show you a couple top selling game in last stretch of 2023(after Sep):

• Baldur's Gate
• Starfield
• Cyberpunk(the DLC update and bundle)
• Alan Wake II
• Spiderman II
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder

The games that receives really well but I don't have sales data:

• Robocop
• Lie of P, Lords of fallen (Souls like)
• The Talos Principle 2
• Avatar

What about other games that aren't even on my radar? Well, I don't care.

Like I mentioned, you do your thing, push for regulation, do your best and I'd hate to tell you that it doesn't work if you put that energy toward me instead of, say, running for legislation rep. As an adult you should know about this by now, I hope you learn and improve and push for your ideal society. Just like I learn a couple new words from your post even though it's just useless efforts to try get me upset about something baseless.

Such poor display of integrity eh? Who has the burden to show stuff backing their claims? Right, the person that make the claims.

China does China shit to make Xi look nice and cause a stock market dip and then "might" loosen up the regulation. Unlike you, I include source:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-regulator-earnestly-study-public-concerns-over-draft-video-gaming-rules-2023-12-23/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/23/china-considers-revising-gaming-rules-after-tech-giants-lose-billions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-25/china-is-softening-stance-on-gaming-after-80-billion-rout

It's the same strategy politicians used here, it's the same type of thought process to trigger down vote without using brain cell to process we see here: "Think of the children, XXXX is bad."

Yes, I did, long before this news articles, before I even have kids. As neuroscience is part of my core interests. I don't religiously read or follow publications, not in that industry, but those related that posted on reddit or show up in my science curated youtube feed(which recently gone to shit because of generative contents) I just like to check and read about them. I saw nothing like you guys claimed. You have to show me otherwise to back up your claim. Or change topic like others and say this is abuse.

Yes, there is, it's called knowledge and understand the mechanics. Remember the experiment that nice well people can just "follow the order" and torture their subject? If you are not aware, you may learn something new today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Oh, and abuse means you are in a position where the victim can't or don't know how to say no to your malpractice. My kid tells me to stop humming all the time cause his youtube music stuck in my head and I have obliged every time he said so, you know, trust building from young that he can refuse and stop things he doesn't like.