Sure, they've got money from all the good will they're soaking up, but at some point that good will and money will dry up...
If/when they finally do release a game, it's now got to not just compare to a whole full genre of games, it's got to be better than them in order to get that good will back.
Exactly. Star Citizen has been in development so long that not only have other developers already had the chance to jump in ahead of them, the genre's brimming with games now!
They had such an advantage going into this, how do you fuck up a golden ticket so badly??
The free market isn't going to solve this problem. It isn't profitable to solve climate change.
This is where Governments are meant to step in, to serve the best interests of the people... instead they're too busy bickering over bullshit, and giving themselves and their cronies handouts.
The local editors can improve the quality of the translated articles, adding or modifying parts to appeal Spanish-speaking audience.
That assumes those local editors will be given any time to take on that extra workload of sorting through whatever translational errors the AI has done.
Even if an AI accurately translates the article text word for wrord, literal translation does not often equal accurate translation.
Putting a backdoor onto people's phones to bypass encryption and forcing them to upload photos of themselves doesn't do shit to keep them safe. If anything it endangers them!
And for what exactly?? Do they not think that criminals will just find other ways to communicate, just like they always have? Are they that desperate to catch the stragglers left behind? This will literally only hurt the common folk just trying to get on with their lives, nobody else, just like every other mass surveillance law.
What?? You mean there's more to translating media than scraping together the literaltranslation of one language to another and calling it done??
Nah, those Spanish folks will totally get all the English idioms and phrasing they've likely never heard of, and will totally not be confused over the piss poor machine translation effort
Oh absolutely. There's always going to be disconnects between what the player knows/remembers, and what their PC should, but I mean intervening more when a player exceedingly defying their PC's common sense.
Like in this example, both the player and PC know what this scepter does, both are aware they're standing rather near it. As a wizard, the PC is likely more than wise and intelligent enough to come to the conclusion that casting destruction magic here would be bad.
But because the player isn't physically there, and isn't familiar with magic in the way a wizard would be, there is a disconnect in common sense.
Of course it varies by game and GM, but in this scenario I wouldn't believe it a bad thing for the GM to give a little nudge to the player that what they're suggesting to do is life-threateningly stupid, given their PC would've likely done the same if they could hear their player speak.
Wouldn't it be great if they could stop playing chicken with people's lives...
They treat it like a game because it's not them that suffer at the end, it's the gov employees at the bottom living paycheck to paycheck who get screwed over when their check doesn't come in because of a House dick measuring contest.
It does make sense. Players aren't their PCs, they don't see the world as their PC does, so things that would be obvious from their PC's perspective aren't necessarily from the player's. That disconnect means there are bound to be times when players do stupid stuff their PC wouldn't actually do, so a nudge from the GM can set them straight
Damn man, if that's what you took from my reply, then you really aren't bothering yourself.
I was pointing out that in cherrypicking for your noun definitions, you failed to mention the significantly more adjective definitions they stood next to.
It is quite clear looking at the source of your definitions that it is (as I said) "first and foremost" an adjective, so @somas is more or less correct calling it an adjective.
As I said before, the noun use is mostly academic, and not something you'd use in a casual setting, unless you were actually trying to be creepy or demeaning.
I'd argue you're the one running your own mouth here considering how many threads you've been told to sit down in, but you really just refuse to let go of your Skinner moment and think maybe, just maybe, you're out of touch.
Not weirder than calling them female - I'd just call the women anyways, but I can tell you I'd for sure rather be thought an oddball than a creep, which is what you'll get referring to women as females
Not the guy you're replying to, but it seems you've missed the rather large part before the noun entry in that dictionary of your's:
female, adjective
a (1) : of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs
(2) botany : having or producing only pistils or pistillate flowers a female holly female inflorescences
b: having a gender identity that is the opposite of male
c: made up of usually adult members of the female sex : consisting of females
the female workforce
d: characteristic of girls, women, or the female sex : exhibiting femaleness
composed for female voices
e: designed for or typically used by girls or women
f: engaged in or exercised by girls or women
g: having a quality (such as small size or delicacy of sound) sometimes associated with the female sex
It's an adjective first and foremost.
While it can be used as a noun, this is in a mostly academic sense. Outside of that it's normally associated with incels and sexism.
Get over yourself and stop trying to make it a thing when it's not. If you want to be unique, there are plenty of other terms to call women that they be half as weirded out/offended by: lady, lass, bird, gal, and girl just to count a few.
Not the guy you were replying to, but if you genuinely believe woman don't think it's weird being referred to as females (noun, not adjective) then I really have wonder how many women you've spoken to
As a noun, I.e. like what that OP is doing, that's is weird and is phrasung normally associated with incels and sexism.
It's not like there aren't other nouns to use. If woman and lady are just too normal for you, even lass, bird, girl, or gal would be less weird to say.
OP chose the weirdest, easiest to take offence to phrasing they could. They fucked around and found out.
As an adjective, i.e. female athlete, sure it ain't.
As a noun, I.e. that female, that's weird and normally associated with incels and sexism.
It's not like there aren't other words to use. If woman and lady are just too normal for you, even lass, bird, girl, or gal would be less weird to say.
I ain't gonna tell you to touch grass, I'm gonna tell you to chat to some women and see where calling them females gets you.
Exactly. I'd bet good money most people don't get enjoyment out of job hopping, but it's almost necessary these days because companies have become increasingly disloyal and stingy towards employees.
If companies would just offer decent raises, meaningful career progression, and two-way loyalty, I'd bet most folks wouldn't job hop at all!
Sure, they've got money from all the good will they're soaking up, but at some point that good will and money will dry up...
If/when they finally do release a game, it's now got to not just compare to a whole full genre of games, it's got to be better than them in order to get that good will back.