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  • If you purposefully look for stuff to be mad at, you'll find it. Guy can't cook pancakes. It's a good thing PM doesn't mean Pancake Maker. Let's see the author of this article be the head of a central bank or negotiate a trade deal with the European Union.

  • I loved this game so much! You're in for a treat! Last of Us certainly has a way of making the apocalypse look gorgeous. All those reclaimed by nature cityscapes are amazing.

    If you like the scenery and gameplay of this one then you'll enjoy it in the second game too. Maybe lower your story writing expectations a bit though...

  • No. Canada has an agreement with the US that nobody entering Canada from the US will be seen as a refugee and will be deported back to the US. Vice versa is true with people entering the US from Canada.

    It's the Safe Third Country Agreement. They even have big red letters saying "yes this agreement is still in effect".

  • I can't find it on GOG's but I wouldn't be surprised if it's in most EULAs. I've seen emails saying "confidential, if you are not the intended recipient of this email you must delete it." There's no way to enforce that. Ubisoft isn't coming to your house to review the contents of your drives. I'm guessing it's to stop some loophole like "you said I can't resell your game so instead I sold my hard drive (that has the game installed on it)".

  • I know for sure Korean does this, though technically their writing system is a syllabary. Symbols representing vowel and consonants are arranged into blocks that represent a syllable.

    For example ㅈㅅ is short for 죄송합니다 meaning "I'm sorry". Talk about efficient shorthand! The first consonants of each syllable block are used to makeup the shorthand, the ending 합니다 is a polite conjugation which is ignored in shorthand. You can look up "korean texting slang" for more. It's apparently used a lot. The shorthand some might already be familiar with is ㅋㅋ which is "lol".

  • I just wanted to see if you'd actually go out of your way to fake a gimp screenshot. The guy has 17 fingers and 3 arms and the baby has 14 toes and one hand is meshing into the arm of the man. It's AI. The screenshot also doesn't have a layer for most things that would have layers like the text that says "Yoink" and for some reason the baby is half in one layer and half another. The checkered pattern in the layer view is messed up. Why would you go to such lengths to lie? Just say it's AI. It's obvious.

  • There are 14,000 games released on Steam every year. What percentage do you believe contain in-game purchases? It's quite literally just the giant AAA venture capitalist backed studios that do this. Just don't buy them.

    It's like saying if we allow AI art to continue soon there will be no more humans making art. People will always make art. People will always make games. If all the art you see is corporate slop that's a you problem.

  • I have a friend who saw one of these and said "ah that's one of those joke pictures where everyone says they can see a word even when there's no word." and that's when he found out he was colour blind.

  • Hank Green actually posted a video relevant to this yesterday. He was reading a Fox News article about a machine that can turn C02 into fuel that an internal combustion engine can use.

    He then scrolled to the comments and saw all the posts talking about climate change being a hoax. He says it would be very easy to assume the average Fox News reader is a climate change denier. If you were to ask him how many people in the US deny climate change is real, he'd guess around 50%. However, surveys have consistently shown it is less than 10%. It is a minority of people. His point was that people leaving stupid comments are not the average person, they're just really vocal, and try not to assume stupid comments are reflective of the average person's beliefs.

  • Gaben said it best when he said "piracy is a service issue, not a price issue." There is no other company that even comes close to matching Steam's services, both to consumers and developers. The industry could become a different place when he dies. I don't see any other CEO continuing to spend money to innovate and expand services rather than offer less and charge more to extract record profits.