Underwaterbob @ Underwaterbob @lemm.ee

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I was thinking something more like a sci-fi, existential horror film where Harrier is the only force preventing the utter ruination of the universe by an endless horde of Lovecraftian monsters, and his loneliness and indestructibility drives him to extremes, but the Iron Man-esque angle could work, too.

That no-limbed motivational speaker guy is set!

I am so ready for a Space Harrier movie.

Well, the guy you are responding to is maybe only thinking of people whose hearing is diminished in some manner. Not people whose hearing is otherwise incapacitated through something like tinnitus or like the other poster in here who has auditory dyslexia. Both of whom may be inconvenienced by headphones or earbuds and have an easier time with speaker phone than those options. Maybe try to explain how you think they are being insensitive or lacking empathy rather than just accusing them of such without explanation.

Which may be the case, but being immediately dismissive like you are isn't exactly going to get them on your side now, is it?

I've hated him since Lost. Possibly even Alias. Stupid mystery box bullcrap, Yeah, some unresolved mystery is fine. Your entire show shouldn't revolve around boatloads of them being insufficiently explained.

It's amateurish that their store advertised games to me that were unavailable to me. I'm no code whiz, but it can't be that hard to chuck in an if (region == false) then !advertise; Valve and GOG don't seem to have any problems with that.

I have no issue with them giving away free games. Too bad that and the paid exclusives don't earn them a loyal customer base. Maybe if they'd put more effort into their store. Like maybe not advertising region locked games to regions where they're not available.

Didn't they go into the past and bring her to a different timeline in a later episode of the show or something? Or was that just her alter-ego from another dimension?

Right before the show really took off, too. Oopsy!

GOG is great. I have an account and have bought a few games there when I think of it. I just wish they had Souls games.

Humble isn't trying to compete with Steam or Epic, and they don't engage in the anti-consumer practice of paying off developers for exclusive access to games.

I'm aware of the complexities of software development. If Epic seriously wanted to compete with Steam, they really should have tried harder to provide a better service instead of trying to buy loyalty through free games and exclusivity contracts.

I don't doubt it, but I've been a pretty regular user since 2009, and I've never had a game advertised to me on the front page that wasn't available in my region. In fact, there are games I want that I know aren't available on Steam here, and the only way to get to the Steam page for them is by using a proxy or VPN. I definitely can't buy them with my account. It seems pretty amateurish of Epic to advertise unavailable games and to even let me click "buy" before telling me I can't buy it. Maybe they've fixed that by now, but whatever. The paid exclusivity bullcrap showed me where their priorities lie.

Where I live, I've had to shovel snow precisely once in the past four years. Last year, we had almost none at all.

I don't think I've ever seen a good recommend in those "What sub-$100 purchase changed your life?" threads. No, I don't need a garlic smasher or a water pick.

I was up for a Steam competitor. I signed up for the Epic store a few years back. Tried to get the first free game. It wasn't available in my region despite being plastered all over the store in my region. The exact same thing happened the next month. Both of those games were available on Steam in my region at some pretty low prices by then.

Then, Epic started paying for exclusivity, making games not available in my region at all. I had at least deleted their stupid app by then anyway. Fuck Epic entirely.

I could reliably get through this level by switching out turtles when they got low on health. My problem was that then I was in the next level with a bunch of nearly-dead turtles. I never did beat the whole game until years later when I could use an emulator and save states.

I fucking swear I see this mistake every single day these days. Does no one know the difference between less and fewer anymore?!?

Can't talk about great, old country without mentioning John Prine and of course Johnny Cash. There really is a lot of it.

John Wyndham's The Chrysalids turned me into a going-on-thirty-years sci-fi reading machine. Thankfully, I did not take the ending to heart and have since realized the horribly hypocritical mess it is. Still, a great book.

Good thing we're also filling the sea with plastic. Maybe by the time the polar ice caps are gone, we can replace coastal land with large plastic flotillas.