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  • Meanwhile in my games PCs regularly never buy or upgrade equipment because nobody wants to waste time in session (good!) but also refuse to just do stuff through discord during the rest of the week (bad!).

  • Never, so long as people like them are writing the laws. Morally-speaking, always has been.

    To be clear, I'm not just referring to UAE people, but also every member of congress/parliament in every country which has climate denial as state policy, which includes the US, Canada, etc.

  • The solution is as follows: the entire party rolls against a DC (typically passive perception though it could just be opposed), and so long as half of the party (round up) succeeds, you are sufficiently stealthy. Realistic? Not necessarily, but it lets a stealthy player do something without having to go off on their own and get killed.

  • A couple of structural and ideological problems at Valve lead to this. First, the company's "flat" organization where people work on what they want means that unless somebody wants to volunteer to mod Steam communities (which no sane person would), they won't bother. Further, even if someone wanted to mod Steam, they'd have to consider that it might be damaging to their career because "I remove racists and nazis from Steam" isn't going to get the same kind of good performance reviews that some big sexy project will (even if it never releases).

    Second, the leadership are rich white libertarians. They don't care what their users say or do because of nonsense

    beliefs so long as they keep making money. The only thing that might get them to take action would be if this kind of thing became a big scandalous news story, because at that point it might be viewed as a threat to their bottom line, but that never happened with the child gambling so it's still unlikely.

  • The US (and all of their allies) are in favor of wealth redistribution to the ultra-wealthy, so predatory practices like this will never be stopped unless there is a sufficiently organized and pissed off mass movement calling for it. Researchers are a tiny group, so it won't happen.

  • Former North Dakota Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner told The Associated Press he was saddened and disappointed by the indictment. “Here’s a situation where a man was a public servant and did a lot of positive things for the state of North Dakota, and now, I don’t know what’s going to come of this thing, but this really neutralizes all the good”

    Wall

    Holmberg was reimbursed roughly $126,000 for nearly 70 out-of-state trips from 2013 through mid-April 2022 to places that included four dozen U.S. cities, as well as Canada, Puerto Rico and several European countries, according to an AP review of his travel records.

    State-funded pedophilia.