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by account42 1mo ago
Companies will just release "new" products and discontinue the old ones faster than you can see that they are bad.
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by account42 1mo ago
Jokes on them - any indication of that just means I will wait for the heavily discounted complete edition down the line.
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by account42 1mo ago
Most players seem to be powerless against FOMO so this doesn't seem to be a major problem for the industry. And lately they have taken to just selling new editions of old games. Digital distribution already pretty much killed the secon
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by account42 1mo ago
Some games. Others even increased in price, e.g. Gothic.
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by account42 1mo ago
Why do you expect digital items with zero marginal cost to follow inflation? The market is much larger so fixed development costs can be spread out between many more players.
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by account42 1mo ago
This misses the quality control aspect. Just because two items come out the same production line doesn't mean they have the same quality.
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by account42 1mo ago
That's just the middle class disappearing. I'm sure you can still pay experts to get you actual quality with enough money.
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by account42 1mo ago
Perhaps selling a company should mean the trademarks are lost. After all, the entire point of trade marks is to protect consumers.
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by account42 1mo ago
I agree that we shouldn't treat humans worse than animals but one important factor here is that humans are much better at expressing themselves when their body badly reacts to some food. Animals often lack the ability to tell you that
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by account42 1mo ago
And that's before you get into whether selling something as food which is low quality enough to make dogs sick is ethical at any price. It's not like only dogs who would otherwise go unfed will end up eating it.
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by account42 1mo ago
A better solution would be for them to just pre-open the books so you don't need complex rituals to read them.
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by account42 1mo ago
Without an early Z test that would still do all the same calculations only to discard the fragment when it would be written to the frame buffer.
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by account42 1mo ago
It's extremely dystopian. This will result where you need an Apple or other big tech device in order for anyone to believe you.
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by account42 1mo ago
That's why you punish people doing $100B in damages (or even something that comes close to doing that much damage) harshly enough that no one even thinks of doing that.
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by account42 1mo ago
Protests are much less effective if they can just be ignored. At the very least "lost productivity" is a very abstract harm and not something that endangers human lives directly.
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by account42 1mo ago
You need at least two bits to represent the states true, false and file_not_found.
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by account42 1mo ago
Yes and what is or isn't preserved is pretty arbitrary too.
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by account42 1mo ago
Emojis are not a good solution here anyway (or anywhere where you care about the glyph appearance rather than the meaning) because their presentation isn't fixed.
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by account42 1mo ago
So the gas prices are all in their heads put there by Russian trolls, as are the other government policies that affect them?
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by account42 1mo ago
It's almost as if food security is much more important than most other jobs.
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by account42 1mo ago
If it was a Russian weapon (which is the most likely explanation) then it was the result of them meddling where they shouldn't be - either by supplying separatists with military equipment or by being there themselves, i.e. a part of th
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by account42 1mo ago
Why those conflicts exist is actually very relevant when those responsible for them keep using "wawawa russians" as a diversion to avoid doing anything about the issues. If both my local politicians and foreign countries are worki
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by account42 1mo ago
Calling them incompetent gives them the benefit of the doubt which they do not deserve.
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by account42 1mo ago
Let's say I pay someone to punch you int the face every day. Then one day when you punch me in the face do I have a right to complain?
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by account42 1mo ago
Well yes technically countries can just attack others. In practice they need to justify those attacks to their allies and populace if they want to maintain the status quo with them. That's where "they started it, we're only d
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by account42 1mo ago
That does seem to be the definition that many people base their use of that word on.
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by account42 1mo ago
The crusades were not fighting imaginary enemies and much of the territory was relatively recently conquered by the muslims they were fighting.
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by account42 1mo ago
That argument would necessitate treating them like children rather than adults who can think and choose for themselves. I don't think this is a healthy approach that would work out well at all.
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by account42 1mo ago
These missionaries don't come in with an army. Its more often small families or a couple of individual vs entire villages of natives and the "conversion" is done via talking, persistence and kindness rather than by force. &gt
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by account42 1mo ago
Complaining that they give money to people you don't like is not a good look when you want them to give money to people you do like.

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