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You're right. It is a matter of perspective though. For the actual players, absolutely. It's always better to have self hosted matches and control the content yourself. But even in my example above, Overwatch could not sustain itself as a studio on the buy-once model, even with loot boxes. I still think they're doing it wrong and it fucking sucks, but the buy-once model lead to a developmentally dead game for a few years.

From game dev perspective, having a model that makes money over time allows the game to continue being updated without investment from outside sources.

Nobody ever accused Republicans of being smart

Well yeah. Games that are inherently multi-player and not split screen and feature an aspect of matchmaking are obviously fine to be always online games as a service.

Although personally the games-as-a-service model is something I avoid even in those. Overwatch was made objectively worse when it went from the buy-once model to the pay-once-a-season-or-you-dont-get-the-new-hero model. Mauga is completely busted right now and every new introduction of a hero since 2 launched has felt exactly like this-- busted while paid-only players have access and then fixed after the free players get a chance.

It's the model. Squeezing money out of players is slowly killing even multi-player games like Overwatch.

It's completely and utterly unacceptable for single player games.

Dominions (Dominions 6 just came out, but it's an iterative game so try 4 or 5 first)

So it's like civilization and battle simulator had a baby, where armies are managed by the unit and there are simulated battles of thousands.

But all the civs are loosely based on different existing mythologies and there's a crazy complex magic system

Oh, and you get to create a god that you can totally battle with.

If you like civ-like games, it's a really unique and satisfying twist on the genre with an incredible amount of sheer depth.

Oh this is a neat game I'll just build this little gun turret and oh my god 14 hours have passed

You might be experiencing anhedonia. Talk to a doctor, bro

The other guy linked the answer, but I'm going to explain it anyway:

In the US, companies have the freedom to bribe lobby our congress members by giving them money that's totally unrelated to their vote you guys. The reasoning behind that being ok is that the congress official in question is still technically free to vote however they choose despite the money given to them. The reason lobbying works is the threat that the congress person might not get that money next time if they vote against that company's interests.

Just so you all know, because our congress members make a government salary of about 150k-250k/year, it's surprisingly cheap (from a rich company perspective) to lobby them, with lots of payments being in the low thousands. So for obscenely wealthy companies (like intuit), it's much cheaper to pay just enough guys off to kill a movement than for them to suffer the actual consequences of that movement.

In this case, intuit's entire business model depends on American taxes seeming like this mysterious and unapproachable thing that Americans have to pay a third party for in order to not get thrown in jail by the IRS. And given that intuit (and companies like H&R block) rake in billions each year, it's comparatively pennies to pay off congress officials to keep it that way.

-> 'Merica

That's because woke really just means "when I don't like societal pressure to be a better person because it validates other people I hate for no reason"

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Francis Wilhoit

They are exercising the out group to appease their base, nothing more. When they can't target trans people anymore, they will move on to someone else.

In this thread: People who don't like a genre of game, criticizing games for being that genre

Lincoln would not recognize the current republican party as his own. He'd call them pretenders and go back to chopping trees in the woods.

Unfortunately Texas has a really large chunk of US oil reserves. I don't see the US letting the actual land of Texas go, let alone giving it to Mexico.

The Dollop did a podcast on Jade Helm as it was happening. Definitely recommend listening to that one if you like American history podcasts. It's episode 100 I believe

Dude had a chance to defend himself in the first trial and really thought "if I don't go they can't prosecute me" was going to work. Like an ostrich burying his head.

This is the man that held the presidency for 4 years.

I don't know why we can't just have the fees come on a deferred basis

The other guy already said it but I'm going to reiterate for emphasis:

Banks are not your friends. Banks (in the US) exist as for-profit businesses to make money off of you

Edit for clarity: The main way banks make money off of you is by investing the actual cash you give them and agreeing to cover your day to day costs of living. Since the vast majority of people prefer to have a positive bank balance and possibly a savings, it works out that the banks always have money to invest.

It stands to reason that anyone with a negative balance is actively infringing their strategy to invest excess money, so why wouldn't they charge them? It's all business.

Good men like Jon don't seek that kind of power. They don't want it. That's why it's only ever assholes that get it.

You have to step on people to make it up the ladder as a politician. Jon Stewart is not that man.

Go watch the show VEEP and look at literally any character that has some amount of power. It's a pretty good look at the kind of person you have to be at that level of government.

To a racist, there's no good colored man. The governor is appealing to the racists that make up a good chunk of his base.

Always have. They want money, not fans

Answer: This very company in the ruling legally pays our politicians to sway their votes on such matters in a process called lobbying. We could have free, automatically filed taxes like the rest of the developed world, but then intuit wouldn't be able to exploit us for money.

So yeah. "Democracy" and capitalism.

I know I'm going to be in the minority here, but I've been on a carbonated flavored water kick for a few years after I realized sugar was killing me. It was a two fold realization that I just really enjoy the fizz and not the sugar.

That said, Polar seltzer-ade with lemon or lime juice is just 🤌 if you're into carbonated waters