To me, the most unrealistic part of that ad is not the edge to edge displays, or the holograms emanating from them, or the overall inefficiency of it all, but rather just that you could never have a place that full of screens without ads being everywhere.

I remember first watching that video on my first smartphone and thinking “When will they ever make a phone without bezels?” And now they pretty much have, but my experience was not some artistic interface full of aesthetically pleasing data and art. It was a YouTube video completely surrounded by ad content.

Tech news tells me that this measure ended up getting postponed. Not defeated, just postponed.

I’m sure it’ll end up back on the table when they think it has a better chance of passing.

I love Wingspan as a board game to play with friends. Not sure how well that really translates to a digital medium like a game console, but I like the calming aesthetics it seems to have.

I as of this very minute just got the alert that it was back up (and yes, it did also ask you to not call in to check)

Right as a big heat wave kicks off, too.

When I saw the message come up on my phone, all I could think was how glad I was to not be whoever is responsible for the outage, because people are likely going to die from this and I’d never want that on my conscience.

This was the surprise of the Direct for me. Beautiful style, and the gameplay seems very reminiscent of Ori, which I loved.

Paywall

Fair, but not-shitty companies eventually become shitty companies in almost every circumstance. I hate making the argument that someone is fine because they only hurt a few people compared to the guy who hurts lots.

Sadly, I don’t think there’s any way this goes to court. Opinion on genocide is not a protected class, and as long as it’s not a protected class, a company in the US can decide not to hire you for essentially any reason.

Well, it’s not siding with Microsoft, it is Microsoft. This is a Microsoft game.

Companies are never your friend.

Valve is like any other company. They’re as good as your money is good.

Is that in American dollars?

If those 300 games were even US $70 each which is exceedingly generous, you’d only scratch $21,000 as the cost of everything. Unless Steam was literally giving you $180,000+ for using their store, you’ve not saved hundreds of thousands.

Unless you’re referring to hundreds of thousands of pennies.

He only can get one more term

Until the corrupt Supreme Court decides to adopt the “unconstitutional constitutional amendment” doctrine and gets rid of that pesky 22nd amendment.

Moot point though because the old fuck will probably die before a third term is even on the table.

If your mad it’s you’re own fault

I don’t think any company would want to keep a separate auth system if they can help it, though. No one wants to spend resources maintaining redundant account systems and interfaces between them when they have the option to consolidate.

But I suppose I just don’t see why there had to be a deadline at all. They know the email addresses associated to the original accounts, so there should just be a database they can reference to check if that email address has an unmigrated account and prompt to convert when next they log in. This is beyond “I don’t want to maintain two account systems,” it’s “Let’s just throw away this old table of email addresses so we can make more room on our servers for telemetry data.”

If they offered you 20,000 more than what you expected, might be you are underselling your actual worth and could have negotiated for more.

Some wear crop tops though

This used to be me when I used to work at a grocery store and I would go on break.

Then I learned how much sugar the industrially produced loaves that pass for baguettes in the US contain.

Ignorance is truly bliss. And about 1300 calories.

That sounds like a more ideal compromise, though I am not sure if even that is without its own set of issues.

Basically, athletic performance falls on the same gradient as masculinity. The more masculine your body is, the more capable you are as an athlete on average. If you are a trans woman taking T blockers/estrogen supplements, your body becomes more feminine, but in turn you lose much of that athletic capability.

So hypothetically, if I am a trans woman and an athlete, where I am paid based on how well I do, am I incentivised to not take T blockers/estrogen supplements, or take them in more limited doses, in order to be a more capable athlete? Basically, am I forced to compromise my gender identity for a better paycheck?

We could force every trans athlete to undergo lab work before every match to make sure their T levels are within a certain threshold, but then is that someone’s fault if their body is not being as responsive to the medication they’re taking, and now they’re out a job? Not to mention how that would basically force their medical history to be public knowledge.

I’m not sure I’m comfortable inviting these sorts of scenarios to occur, to be honest.

I bet I’ve played a lot more of them than you have.

It took me a while to realize that I wasn’t having fun with Skyrim, and I thought it wasn’t as good as Oblivion. The games weren’t getting any better, just prettier. The writing and worldbuilding was getting objectively worse, too.

Morrowind is the only one I keep going back to, it’s the only one that has some semblance of soul.