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I know of at least 1 person in this situation, but that's because he accidentally sold his house because he didn't want his neighbors to give him weird looks while he smoked in front of his house.

Someone would setup some third party tracker that identified the auto reject threshold and listed it for everyone, so people could low-ball just above it. Or devs would just set it to auto-reject below the listing prices.

Ah, the bad faith internet classic, someone who disagrees with you must not be a real person who holds an authentic viewpoint. Clearly only the things that feel right to you can only ever be things that feel right to others. You obviously should keep ignoring the voting on all the posts in this chain and other supportive comments, certainly don't get introspective.

Thanks for showing me there's no point in having further discussions with you.

Have a nice life.

I'd recommend you look up a recipe by Babish, Alton Brown or Kenji Lopez-Alt, they all usually pretty solid.

That's the neat part about it not being the only way to access a game, people can choose, if they want to buy other things, they can buy other things, but if they still like certain titles available from MS, they can still get those even outside the service. Or they can just get the subscription if it costs them less for stuff they'd support anyway. If they don't want to support MS for decisions they've made with studios, they can choose to not buy anything too, but I'm not sure how that's going to help other studios they care about within MS. And let's not pretend the studio issue is exclusively a problem with MS or game pass, it's a capitalism symptom across the industry.

As for third party contracts for making things available on game pass, those developers get to choose if the deal is good enough for them or not, they have a stake and more information than outsiders trying to play armchair executives.

Nobody's calling it a default here, the options aren't "have only game pass forever" and "game pass doesn't exist", there's plenty of room for nuance in-between. So long as game pass continues to be a value proposition for enough consumers, it'll be around, if they raise the price too much or lower the quality or offerings so that it isn't seen as a good deal, people will stop paying. Adding it to the deck would increase the value proposition.

I find it odd that an argument about giving people the power of choice is used to advocate against a choice existing.

If ever game pass is the only legal option for accessing a game, I'll happily consider revising my opinion, until then increased choices is always more consumer friendly. People should make their own personal choices about which of those options work best for themselves, and just because one option is preferred by some people, doesn't mean another can't be preferable to others.

Game Pass native on Steam Deck would be 🔥🔥🔥

You think people in California are going to be happy waking up at 3 pm, going to work at 5pm-1am, then going to sleep at 7am?

Yes, other than a 1-time adjustment, it's no less arbitrary than the current times they use.

People are angry that they get an extra hour of sleep one night and lose one another. 2 days out of the year.

They're right to, it literally causes a rise in deaths, with this that goes entirely away, so yay?

You really think you're going to sell these people on waking up at 3 pm and going to bed at 7am?

I'm not sure you'd still use am/pm, but yeah. What intrinsic negative is there? Who cares if they have to be at work at the same point relative to the local day/night cycle but it's named something else.

Working hours being 9am-5pm PST vs 9am-5pm PDT are just numbers

They also come with the baggage of dst and timezones, part of which you list below.

Maine could be in it's own time zone as far east as it really is. The idea that Michigan is in the same time zone is absurd. Michigan should be in CST. That would drop them back an hour. If you talked to someone in Michigan they probably hate DST. Their DST should be their current standard time and then they should fall back to CST if they wanted to do the DST switch thing. They would get a lot more sunlight in the morning.

Yeah, this is all dumb, so why not make all of these oddities go away.

The amount of sun is not dictated by what time we arbitrarily call it. People's scheduled times for work would vary based on location, so someone in CA who currently works 9-5 would would work like 17-3. Which would be the same as the sun coverage locally is concerned.

Different employers in areas have their own arbitrary start/stop times already, time numbers are already an arbitrary concept, if someone in CA right now is working hours based on NY, when they work relative to the sun won't change, just the numbers. The difference would be in people cold contacting others vs scheduled times. Right now if something is scheduled you have to convert it to your time, the formula for which will vary based on what time zone it is scheduled in. With this change, when reaching out to someone far away, you'd have to figure out if you're contacting them at an appropriate time for their day/night, but that's also inexact because people have different personal cycles anyway.

Working hours being 9am-5pm vs 1900-0300 are just numbers.

Isn't all of that still kinda of true regardless of the age of the subjects? If they were 18 or 30 it isn't magically better.

Revenge Porn might be a closer analogue. CSAM laws feel like they'll get loopholed somehow, like idk if can just ask the AI to make the person aged up or whatever and get away with it.

There's already TraffickCam, used to help fight sex trafficking, but could be dual purpose, idk how you get access.

"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy." ~ Guy Fawkes

Yeah... I can't blame them, the apathy is real on this one, lots of people get murdered everyday, they don't get this coverage, I don't care more because this guy was a rich CEO, feels like the media is overhyping it because the rich are scared that some folks are deciding they need to water the tree of liberty. Pretty sure this is only going to get worse as people get squeezed more and more.

I'm not blanket saying assassination is ok, but I'm also not saying I couldn't consider voting to acquit this guy for jury nullification purposes if I were on the jury.

I've literally seen a group of wild Turkeys flutterjumping around in treetops, it broke my worldview.

Personification of a cancerous anal discharge?

I just skipped the case and bought a rugged phone, Armor 21 from Ulefone was my choice for various reasons (speaker, night vision, water resistance and endoscope to name a few), but there are plenty of good ones.

ScaryGamesSquad (SGS) videos on JesseCox.

This is also a proposed wealth tax not just an income tax, the US would probably do something like tax US citizen ultimate beneficial ownership of assets held which can be traded on US exchanges, so unless someone entirely divests there isn't a legal tax avoidance strategy apart from the exit tax.

Honestly 2% on billionaires is too low imo. I'm in favor of starting lower and having a progressively increasing marginal wealth tax, like 1% on all assets over $10M, additional 1% on all assets over $100M, etc.

There are a few sections restricted to solo only, but it's not the default, the matchmaking is pretty quick for a random group and there's a variety of people always looking to form groups for different tasks. One word of warning, people move fast, until you get parkour down, you might just end up running from the start to end of a level if you join groups, they'll have completed the objectives and be waiting for you to extract.

Clans exist, and each have their own space station called a dojo that's customized by them (cost is based on size of the clan, as a solo I was able to build up and level a clan on my own).

Path of Exile.

I'd say I'm a fairly mid-tier player, get better with each season I play, the breadth of mechanics and depth of complexity is mind breaking. I've only played like 2000 hours though, I'll get it all figured out eventually... Right?