TheGalacticVoid @ TheGalacticVoid @lemm.ee

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The point is that your wife is in the minority. The vast majority of people wouldn't consider torrenting, let alone *arrs. People with a greater willingness to tinker and learn technical stuff are the ones who'll consider it, and that group is overwhelmingly composed of men as of right now.

So people with IRAs should be punished for using an investment vehicle that actually allows them to retire?

What's stopping you from replacing the battery?

You can find VGA in all sorts of colors.

And if someone's having an emergency?

Texas, US. We called it Elementary (optional Pre-K, required K through 5), Middle (6 through 8), and High (9 through 12). They're called Primary and Secondary when filling out forms or legal documents.

What about when the shape is similar? What does IT have to do then?

I was aware of a lot of the stuff you mentioned and it's all valid, but literally, what other choice do they have than to fix the game? Start a new game from scratch? If their YouTube video is accurate then they've been developing this game for several years already. They can't fall back to CS1 because its player count completely tanked as well. Their options seem to be: 1. Completely die, or 2. Finish CS2 and then add content like they did with CS1.

You should also consider Paradox's recent history. They planned to release 3 broken games in the 2nd half of 2023. 1 released and was immediately written off, the 2nd was delayed, and the 3rd was Cities: Skylines II, which sold at least 1 mil. It's pretty clear that Paradox greenlit CS2 because it's a successful series that would offset their other losses, and there is no way they'll let it die.

For CS2 I get the buyer's remorse, but it not having potential? Are you ok?

Paradox almost always follows the pattern of launching a meh game that eventually gets good after DLC and free updates. CS1 was similar in that regard, and I have no doubt that CS2 will follow that same path. Yes, zoning tiles are wack. Yes, there is content missing from CS1. Yes, the simulation needs work. Yes, there were bugs at launch and there are still bugs even if there are fewer. Why does that mean that the game will be completely dead in a year? After playing both games over the past few months, I genuinely had more fun with CS2 and its missing content than CS1 with all of its content. The only things I really miss from CS1 are the music packs, the scenarios, the more devastating natural disasters, and the overall financial difficulty.

To play devil's advocate, some mods lurk on other subreddits to preemptively ban people they don't like. It could be that they're talking about a mod like u/awkwardtheturtle who modded like half the site.

Opinion of what? Who's worse?

There should be an epilepsy warning on this before the thing even starts

Your take on Reddit's API changes genuinely suck since it was a complete 180 in policy with no middle ground and tons of disrespect from Reddit's higher-ups.

That being said, I agree with your principles. Companies and people make decisions based on the cards they're dealt with. Oftentimes, those cards are dealt by other people with their own deck of cards. Somewhere down this chain, you can find a company or person who purposefully dealt a bad hand to the next guy in the chain out of greed, spite, or even incompetence. You really can't get mad over the last guy in the chain because they can't change the decision made by someone 10 layers before them.

Netflix would lose that lawsuit almost immediately.

EDIT: To explain further, it literally doesn't matter if Netflix has copies of that media. If Netflix loses the rights to distribute that media, they can't distribute that media. If Netflix continued to distribute said media, they would not have a case in US courts. When people in the US buy physical media, they only receive a license (intangible) and a copy of the media. With some exceptions, people have to adhere to the terms of that license. Even if ripping for personal use is allowed, you can't buy a DVD, rip it, and then pass the DVD to a friend to keep because you transfer your license to use that media onto a friend.

Prices might be different since I'm in the US.

I just got a G502 Lightspeed for about $60 refurbished on eBay. You can probably find a wired version for about $20 used or refurbished. There's also the G305 or the M720 Triathlon. The Logitech G mice are better for gaming due to the higher polling rates but are still great for productivity. The M series have some good features (i.e. the M720 can be switched between 3 devices) but have a polling rate of only 125 Hz. Both have decent software, but the M series will be simpler to use.

Maybe it's not even the stock market, but the laws surrounding it. To the best of my knowledge, a company's primary legal obligation is to maximize shareholder value. Ethics and maintenance seem to be secondary as a result. There needs to be legal ways or more incentives for companies to be satisfied with their progress and seek stability/maintenance, and keep their stock price stable.

People wouldn't care nearly as much about password sharing crackdowns and random limitations if Netflix had a complete content library. Netflix with their originals aren't going to match Disney's decades-long catalog of content regardless of how much money they pour into it. Tack on Paramount, NBC, and Warner Bros, and that task becomes impossible. Piracy came back because people couldn't get the content they wanted on Netflix or Hulu, and they couldn't get that content because producers got super greedy.

Tbf, a lot of the problem is from content producers making their own platforms

That's a fair opinion. I usually don't listen to albums, even for creators I like, so it didn't really click that her most famous works might not be why people like her.

That being said, there were a few (probably cherrypicked) clips of her concerts where she said something "inspirational" (or quirky?), and her fans go absolutely insane, and to me it just sounds like the most mundane stuff you could say. So until I listen to her stuff I'll keep my existing impression.

It is for the listeners, but only the group of listeners that create the most money.