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by MrMember 7y ago
Crate Entertainment, makers of Grim Dawn, still appear to be independent at least.
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by MrMember 7y ago
That does seem to be the case. The "big" announcement at last year's Blizzcon was a Chinese free to play mobile game with a Diablo skin.
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by MrMember 7y ago
Riding a motorcycle has made me a better driver in general. On a bike my full concentration is on making sure I don't die. Constantly running through scenarios. What do I do if the car in front of me slams on their brakes? What if the
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by MrMember 7y ago
Based on the title I was expecting something akin to winning the lottery. Working 15 hour days for years to build a successful company from the ground up and selling it isn't what I think of when I think "overnight millionaire.&qu
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by MrMember 7y ago
I had one CS professor that was just awful as a teacher. She was, as far as I know, universally disliked by the entire class. We also did end of year teacher evaluations and I'm sure she got eviscerated, and I'm sure it wasn'
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by MrMember 7y ago
A while ago I started getting advertisements for Prime for Students interrupting every checkout. I graduated nearly a decade ago. Though I did recently start grad school and I did in fact sign up for Prime so maybe Amazon knew before I did.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I can only laugh when I think about mining bitcoin when it was ~$15. I could get 0.1 BTC per day out of my GPU. Not much then, but if I had managed to hold it to today that's $1000 per day. I didn't hold it, obviously, but it&#x27
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by MrMember 7y ago
Between the service fragmenting, hostile UX, and price increases I had no issue going back to piracy. I don't have a problem paying for content, but when it's significantly easier and more user friendly to just download what I wan
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by MrMember 7y ago
If you want more of that check out Curb Your Enthusiasm if you haven't already. Most episodes follow a similar formula, several interleaving stories that join up at the end of the episode in some outlandish way, usually at the expense
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by MrMember 7y ago
I really enjoyed Rodney Mullen's autobiography. He talked about how when he was a kid he would get home from school and skateboard for six hours. Every single day. Trying new things, inventing tricks that nobody else could do. And then
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by MrMember 7y ago
In college I worked at the computer support desk for students. Certain models of HP laptops were notorious for the wifi module failing, conveniently just outside of the warranty period. I would never trust HP hardware.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I don't really trust any lock to keep out someone determined. At least a mechanical lock won't send who knows what data for who knows what purpose to the manufacturer.
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by MrMember 7y ago
Dev related questions are one of the few times I still use Google over DDG. Maybe it's because I do a lot of searches for fairly basic concepts when learning something new but a relevant SO result is almost always in the top three.
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by MrMember 7y ago
That would be ideal to me. Devices and services should be very clear on what personal information they are collecting and how it's being shared, and all data collection should be opt out by default.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I just checked and they detect private browsing in mobile Firefox so I assume the same is true for desktop.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I have the same issue. My complex installed very bright lights outside my window so I put up blackout curtains. It's great for sleeping but in the morning I have no clue what time of day it is, and I miss that "gentle wakeup"
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by MrMember 7y ago
Very true. As an example, Bioware made a lot of good games 10-20 years ago. I don't know how many of those people still work at Bioware, but I would guess it's not very many.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I strip the DRM from all the books I "buy" from Audible and Amazon. It's an imperfect solution, since I'm still giving them money for DRM encumbered media, but I can live with that.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I feel like I'm in bizarro world. It opens with: >At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. We design our products to protect users’ personal data, and we are constantly working to strengthen those protections. And
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by MrMember 7y ago
As time goes on I feel more and more like this is the case. Not just in Windows, but in any application, power users are a minority. There's also the issue with power users generally turning off as much telemetry as possible. To Micros
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by MrMember 7y ago
Not even nostalgia could get me to play it. Just think about what running five man instances was like in vanilla. Find a group in chat. Run to the instance (which can take like half an hour if you're far away). Wait another half hour f
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by MrMember 7y ago
Activision/Blizzard like to pretend Diablo and Starcraft don't exist for some reason. Diablo 3 is one of the best selling games of all time, yet the next Diablo game is a free to play mobile game developed by a Chinese company kno
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by MrMember 7y ago
> It took about 200-300 matches, which became 40-60 active online chats, which became 12-18 in-person dates, to find the woman who became my wife. So about a 6% match to date ratio. Stats like those make me not even want to try. Wow.
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by MrMember 7y ago
There was an Android "game" with leaderboards that had you throw your phone as high as you could into the air. I don't think it lasted long.
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by MrMember 7y ago
They spent too much money and Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean and not enough on "general" voice actors. There are like five people voicing the hundreds of characters in the game.
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by MrMember 7y ago
A popular Twitch streamer filmed himself in a public bathroom where children were present. He got a one week ban.
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by MrMember 7y ago
It's pretty great for US soccer fans (almost all MLS and Serie A matches for $5 a month is a steal) but it's definitely lacking otherwise.
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by MrMember 7y ago
If you're still invested in something that can lose 50% of its value when you're retired, you should rethink your investments.
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by MrMember 7y ago
They'll even let you pilot it!
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by MrMember 7y ago
I don't understand how they're still committing to shipping in Q3. From the last monthly update it doesn't look like they're all that close to a final release.

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