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There was a C-tier PS2 game called Airblade that was basically that

Counterpoint: what if older societies already put in place censorship laws that were so successful, they effectively scrubbed any cultural memory of similar "works"?

Perhaps we should write our rules based on what we want in the future rather than what our ancestors did?

Do Europeans use metrinomes now?

Yes, Twilight Princess. Snowpeak.

Although this image in particle might be from Hyrule Historia?

I fell into both.

Bought Skyrim on PS3 a few months after it came out. Had an absolute blast and it immediately became a favorite for my wife and me. The load times were terrible and there were bugs, but the bugs were usually just funny visual glitches. The DLC came out and was fantastic - I still wish they released more.

Eventually built a new gaming PC. My wife really wanted to try the earlier ES games so we bought the physical PC pack with all of them in it. The load times were way better with an SSD. The graphics and frame rate were way better. At that point patches had fixed a lot of the bugs.

I tried some mods and found that most of them aren't even worth the time it takes to browse for. 80% are just adding softcore porn that ruins the aesthetic. Another % are shit posts like replacing dragons with a model of Thomas the Tank Engine or replacing bears with Shrek- funny for maybe 30 seconds but not worth actually playing. 5% are other weapons that are just overpowered. The I'd guess about 4% are decent UI and graphics mods, some of which have since been rendered obsolete by newer editions. Probably <1% is actually good new content that I'd want to play, but even most of that isn't as good as the base game.

It's a similar situation with tabletop homebrew. Everyone and their mother thinks they have some great ideas, but in practice they usually aren't as fun as the main product. It's hard to compete with a corporation spending millions of dollars to pay people to work things out.

Add in how annoying it is to mod and how, even without any updates, it tends to break things. Skyrim has a reputation for being a broken and buggy game, but in my experience on multiple platforms (I eventually got the Switch and PS4 versions too lol) it's really pretty solid. Back in the day when it was common to see posts complaining about how buggy the game was, 90% of the time you could dig into it and find that the OP was using a crap ton of mods.

I would strongly disagree that modding was a major selling point considering that it released for consoles without mods for the same price.

A company fares to continue providing support and free updates at the same time other companies are shutting down servers and pulling games out of people's libraries, yet haters still find ways to complain.

Most baking doesn't require the precision of weighing. They are rough proportions, not an exact science.

An experienced baker, or really any kind of chef, will learn over time to make minor adjustments based on a lot of stuff. Maybe a bit less sugar, to taste. Maybe a difference in the brand or exact type of ingredient compared to what you're used to. Maybe it's a particularly dry day and you need to add more moisture to the dough.

If it's something I have a lot of experience with I don't even bother with measuring at all, just eyeball it.

Don't call yourself a FromSoft fan if you haven't gotten the platinum in The Adventures of Cookie and Cream

There's a large swath of what Gene Wilder might call "the common clay of the new west" who vote purely on who can appear to be the toughest. It's like some pack behavior of exerting dominance that you'd see in animals.

Uneducated, usually rural people who like Trump because "he tells it like it is" or "he's a boss who knows how to lead", when in reality he just constantly makes shit up and runs his businesses into the ground.

I think these people will see Biden's remarks and Trump getting upset at them and view it as a sign that Biden is "tougher" than Trump. Which is dumb, but if it means a more progressive government and avoiding the regression under Trunk I'll take it.

For a long time I've argued that there needs to be stronger language differences between physiological addiction and psychological addiction, especially in non-academic discourse. Academic papers usually define their terms pretty well, and often use terms like "habit forming" or "dependency" instead of addiction.

A lot of work has been done to remove the stigma of addiction to shift the blame from the individual to the product, and I have no objections at all to that for physiological addiction. Nicotine, alcohol, opioids, etc.

The problem is that zealots have co-opted that model to try to ban anything they don't want other people to be able to enjoy. Comic books, television, videogames, marijuana, pornography- all of these have had the word "addiction" attached in news media without solid scientific evidence of physiological addiction. At the same time, you can find case studies of individuals with mental health disorders who get addicted to literally anything.. I'm not saying there are not individuals who don't have problems with these things, but a lot of the effort into stigmatizing and restricting these seems to have ulterior motives. It's parents who don't want to teach their children about responsibility and discipline. It's religious zealots trying to push their worldviews on others. It's large corporations trying to gain market share by attacking competing industries. In some cases like "sex addiction" it's used to try to excuse or justify criminal behavior and portray abusers as victims. It's notable that efforts usually go to just banning and shaming these things rather than helping the alleged "victims". At the same time, efforts at harm reduction for physiological addiction seems to be constantly undermined.

With all of that being said, there is a separate issue that applies to this case- consumer protection. History has clearly demonstrated that without regulation and enforcement, corporations will engage in all manner of activity to screw over every stakeholder (consumers, vendors, employees, lenders, etc) in order to enrich ownership.

Looking at videogames in particular, there are definitely marketing practices and pricing structures that need to be banned. I just hate this idea that "videogames = bad" when the real issue is corporate greed, and a lot of these issues apply to other industries too.

Maybe in crazy but I preferred both ME and Vista over XP.

Vista's only real problem was that it was resource intensive and people tried to put it on older hardware that could technically run it, but not well. Which understandably caused a bad experience for a lot of people. My experience was on a new laptop that was designed with Vista in mind, and it was fine.

ME allegedly had a bunch of stability issues. Maybe i was just too young to notice, but I don't remember having problems with it as a kid. I was really disappointed when we "upgraded" to XP and lost most of the UI customization options. The rounded blue bars were so bland and boring.

Lemmy simply hasn't been enough content. I still use Lemmy (obviously, I'm here) but I also supplement with other places.

For example, I used to enjoy the sub for one of my favorite sports teams. A lot of posts tended to be articles from the same handful of news outlets. Now instead of reading through Reddit I just have that website up and routinely check for new articles.

I use the Google News app occasionally. It usually sucks.

I also use Instagram a lot more. I only reluctantly downloaded it and created an account because my wife and a few friends wanted to send me things. Then I used it more when my band released an EP as a way to promote that. For pure entertainment rather than informational purposes, I usually go to Lemmy first and exhaust what is good quickly, then go to Instagram after.

I know it sucks. I don't like having an app from Meta on my phone. I know it can become an unhealthy habit. But I also drink and eat junk food, so there you go.

He was one of the key figures in the corporatization of NASCAR.

I think there's some debate among fans as to how much of that was him as opposed to him just driving and leaving the business to other people and being okay with his face and signature getting plastered everywhere.

These memes go hard though so I don't care that much

You're right about one thing: making things up and projecting things into strangers is unfortunately common

How do you know what they want? Seems like you're just projecting onto millions of individual households.

As a millennial that does own my own home, I'll chime in and say houses are absolutely not affordable these days.

My wife and I put off getting married and out all of our money towards buying a home less than 10 years ago. A shitty 100 year old house in a rough neighborhood of a rust belt city. Terrible school district, but we were hoping to at least break the rent cycle and be in position to upgrade later on.

My career has gone better than expected, but the housing market is absolutely insane. The house I got for $85k now estimates over $165k, and that's not even factoring in the home improvements we've done. Completely given up on ever having kids and pretty much given up on ever moving. We did everything right, followed the rules, and had pretty good luck. No major car accidents, no layoffs, no medical bankruptcy. Generally disciplined in our spending (I'm an accountant). The closest we've had to vacation in 15 years was a 2-day mid-week trip to Cleveland to see a band play. The only bad luck was neither of us were born into wealth.

If you only own and live in one home at a time it doesn't matter a ton how the market is doing at any given moment. Low prices mean I get less for my house, but I can upgrade more cheaply. High prices means I'll get more cash, but buying a new house costs more. There's relatively minor differences to things like taxes and insurance, and you could dive into the math for exact examples, but for the most part it's a pretty minor consideration as long as you have a house to sell and will need to buy a replacement. The people most affected by housing price changes are people who have 0 houses and people who are looking to sell without buying (owners converting to renters, retirees, landlords cashing out, estates, etc).

Or maybe because in most places with jobs it's illegal to build anything else.

"Playable" is doing a lot of work.

Don't get me wrong: I've played through games with it and it's really great. But there's a ton of glitches and games that don't play well. In another 5 or 10 years (hopefully I've upgraded my hardware by then) it'll probably be great. But today it's reserved for enthusiasts who enjoy tinkering with settings or playing less demanding games.