In a perfect world we would be divesting from car dependency as quickly as possible. Every policy move we make should be made with the intent that less people need to own a car. But no lawmakers actually agree with that position. They are content for us to pave the world and watch it boil.

These are all great questions to ask your supervisor when you start. “What time do most people here usually start their workday?” is a super common question for people starting at a salaried position.

I once saw someone say of the first Overwatch that if you have a thriving rule34 community before your game is even out, you are doing something exceptional in terms of PR. Blizzard had an incredibly enthusiastic fanbase and squandered all of that goodwill out of greed.

_____ = New Vegas

It’s not arbitrary. Guns and violence are okay because America wants to normalize them joining the army and using them for their imperialism.

In fact one of the main points of the article is that Montreal has been building faster than population growth and housing is still drastically going up in price.

That’s because Montreal doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s maybe the only city in Canada with a remotely good approach to urbanism, and as a result one of the most affordable cities to buy housing in Canada. So there is added demand for Montreal real estate from the rest of the country, which contributes to rising prices.

Building more density in well-designed, walkable neighbourhoods is absolutely part of the answer.

We need to make it so that there are about as many homes as people who need homes. Right now the numbers are wildly out of wack. The reason prices won’t go down is because the government is resistant to opening the floodgates of density (as you said, because too many of their constituents are homeowners).

If we just abolished single family zoning and said anyone can build dense housing anywhere that is residentially zoned, we’d have affordable housing within a few years. Zoning is an artificial bottleneck on the supply of housing. Imagine if every shitty carbrained suburb suddenly could house 2x or 3x as many people! But then of course we would need to make them a bit less carbrained by introducing more walkability, better public transit, and more mixed use. That can all be done gradually by relaxing zoning restrictions.

That’s still good though. If there are people willing to move into those luxury places, they are probably freeing up some other capacity, and so on. More supply is never bad. As long as they are building in density, it will help with housing affordability.

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It’s kind of wild that the game went from being 4 months away, to a year away, to cancelled. I was very willing to believe they just needed more time. I’m used to thinking that if a game is at the point where the studio is advertising it for release in a few months, it’s impossible that the project would get completely shitcanned. Why were they advertising it and putting up a steam store page if it was still so up in the air?

Again, mostly just parroting what I’ve seen others say, but my understanding is that they relaxed the restriction around when COVID started, though in the eyes of the law that’s not really a good reason to break that particular rule.

I respect the scepticism though, definitely take everything I’m saying with a huge grain of salt.

I’m mostly just parroting what others have said, I’m not a lawyer. But my understanding is that online book lending is supposed to be limited to a discrete number of lendees at a time, just like the books at a physical library. IA knew this and yet decided to remove restrictions so that more people could borrow books than they were allowed to lend out at once.

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I wouldn’t give it a free pass if it ruined the gameplay and would have been easier for them not to implement.

You’d need the conversations to be highly constrained in order to not break the game. Currently there are too many ways of “jailbreaking” LLMs. It was too much of a scope creep for a game which was already biting off a lot more than most studios could chew.

It’s a shame. But based on what I saw about it, it looked like maybe they had some delusions about using LLMs for character dialogue, which seems like an insanely complex feature to build into an already complex game.

Lol yeah, my phone’s swipe typing did it to me. That’s what I get for not reading my stuff before hitting post.

I love IA, but everything I’ve read about this case makes it sound like they are in the wrong here. The law is pretty clear on how lending books is supposed to work, they were fully aware of that because they used to follow the law, and then at some point they randomly decided to ignore the law.

I really hope they aren’t choosing this hill to die on. It would be a huge loss for humanity if they collapsed.

Man waits 3 months to see his girlfriend, you won’t believe what happens next!

She was out of town for work for a couple of months, we saw each other one time since she got back. Then before we could see eachother again, she came down with COVID and I got fucking pneumonia. So we have to wait a bit before seeing each other until we’re both healthy.

The bit about the game telling you how to refund it was hilarious