otp Now • 50%
Makes sense to you. To me, it seems like they want a monopoly.
otp Now • 14%
They aren't just beating the competition by being better.
They're beating the competition because they don't allow developers to sell games cheaper than on Steam if they want to sell on Steam. And they have the market share to be able to make it financial suicide for a developer/publisher to not put their game on Steam.
"You can sell your game anywhere as long as it's cheapest here" smells a lot like a monopoly.
otp Now • 9%
Is the point not that they have a near monopoly in the modern PC gaming space?
It's virtually a requirement for developers who release games on PC to release their game on Steam. From what I recall, developers must also follow requirements set out by Valve regarding what they are allowed to price their game on other platforms.
otp Now • 8%
I love buying Nintendo games for my PC
otp Now • 100%
You might not need to empty out your car to get it fixed.
I've fixed some cars that are between "hoarder" and "they probably live in here". It's not the most pleasant thing, but it's possible.
otp Now • 100%
It's a lot easier to access ChatGPT than it is to access a flying car
otp Now • 100%
To me, this is like how "The Mid-West" is in central/Eastern USA, and "The Middle East" is not actually anywhere near the Mid-West, but in Western Asia.
Arbitrary phrases that sound like they would have concrete/objective definitions in relation to one another, but are actually defined by culture, history, and however the person using them interprets them, lol
otp Now • 100%
But the default stress towards the end of the question is what makes it a question.
You can move the stress to another word for emphasis on yes-no questions, too, similarly removing the "rising intonation" that makes a question.
E.g., "Do you want any cheese^?" vs. "Do you WANT any cheese?" (Falling intonation after "want")
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It stops mattering once it starts...
- Putting at risk populations beyond the individual at question
- Bringing back deadly infectious diseases that were nearing extinction (at least in the developed world)
Weird of you to have gone through their comment history and see what phrases they've used though.
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The problem is that everyone has a different definition of "rich". I think OC has a good definition.
I'm not personally a fan of "middle-class" meaning "has about as much money as me, or as much money as I'd like to have", or "anybody who has to work for a living, but doesn't need to use a food bank".
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They seem to have a rise-drop, at least when I say them.
"How old are you?" is interesting because the rise is on the third-last word ("old"). But "How old is your daughter?" has the rise in the first syllable of daughter.
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FF1 probably has the most remakes of any game in the series, and I believe Stranger of Paradise is a modern retelling of the original's story. Not at all a remake though.
FF1 doesn't really lend itself to FF7-style remake treatment, though. The Pixel Remaster is the most recent remake of FF1.
otp Now • 100%
And that it was curated by an AI model, so there's no human to blame!
otp Now • 100%
It is a lot, haha
What do you mean by "remake the original"?
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And the winters are too short to kill off the ticks now.
But we still get way too much snow at once occasionally. But it doesn't stay for Christmas.
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The maximum score is being banned from online communities? Some people get arrested and locked up for years for their perversions.
otp Now • 100%
Before OP's edit, mostly yes. But women are welcome to participate.
After OP's edit, no, he's looking for some nonsense like MGTOW or some incel stuff.
otp Now • 100%
Lmao, you're right. I really tried to find the answer myself rather than asking! Ahaha
otp Now • 95%
For those wondering, FTA doesn't mean "Free Trade Agreement" or "Fuck The Asshole", but "Forgot To Add".
otp Now • 87%
I'm skeptical whether it was really a bug or not, but I could definitely see how it could've been just a bug given the description in the OP. Could've also been a "happy accident" they were hoping nobody would complain about.
I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource. It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure. But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference). What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...
I used to be able to press the microphone button on my home screen and say "Start 5-minute timer" and it would start the timer. Now, when I do that, it does a Google search for "Start 5-minute timer". How do I get that functionality back? I don't want to open an app, and I don't want to use a number pad or anything to enter the number. EDIT: Thank you! I went into the Gestures section of Settings, and now I can long-press the power button to get the desired behaviour. This might even be more convenient than tapping the mic icon!
1. Tap search button on the bottom. 2. Search like normal for communities with the search term. Results returned like normal. 3. Clicking the unfilled heart (to subscribe) results in the error presented in the attached screenshot. 4. The back button (Android) doesn't work. App must be force-closed. 5. The subscribing action was successful; discovered on reboot. 6. Repeating the steps, but instead of the unfilled heart, clicking on the community successfully navigates to the community. 7. This didn't happen before. 8. I might be one update behind current as of Mar 18
Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point) Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10! I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things. I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically"). I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain. Anyone know any others?
I've got a fairly new 14tb Seagate Expansion. It works fine, and I've been using it for a month and a bit. I don't know how long it's been doing this, but the power supply is making a very faint alarm sound. The power supply is plugged into a Belkin surge protector powered on and with the "protected" status light lit, and it is plugged into an outlet. The HDD is currently not plugged in to a computer. It's not a beep or electricity. It's a distinct weewooweewoo. I couldn't even determine the source until I pressed my ear against it. Googling just points me towards typical "my HDD is making a sound, how long do I have until it dies", but nothing pointed me to the alarm sound from the power supply. I'll check again if it makes the alarm in other conditions, but in the meanwhile, I was hoping someone here might know something. Thanks in advance! EDIT: The sound only happens when... - Power adapter is plugged into the HDD, AND the outlet - HDD is NOT plugged into the computer. Plugging it into the computer stops the noise from the power adapter.
Due to personal circumstances, I haven't had much time for gaming in the last year. I did have a couple of months in the summer with some free evenings though, so I dumped a bunch of time into Pokemon Violet, and I also completed Super Mario Sunshine, spending several hours getting those last few shines and blue coins after leaving the game at ~85% completed back in 2022. Other than those 2 games, I hadn't really played much of anything on the Switch. My year in review said I put a ton of hours into Pokemon Violet, single-digit hours into F-Zero 99, and less than 1 hour into NES online. No mention of Super Mario 3D All-Stars. I was wondering why it didn't count. But then I realized that these year-in-review things are not a nice service or gift to subscribers... they're ADS that they intend people to share with their friends to get their friends to buy more games. (What's a better review than "Your best friend played this game for 200h last year"?) Since SM3DAS isn't available in the shop, it'd be useless to advertise that game. So maybe Nintendo is excluding it from their calculations... Can anyone else confirm or deny this? Did anyone have any delisted games make their year-in-review? Or am I just going to need to spend a ton of time 100%ing Super Mario Galaxy in 2024, and only play 2 other games on my Switch? Lmao
I know money can't buy happiness blahblahblah. Do they do gift exchanges at all? Do they ask for anything? They have enough money that they could get anything made or done for them at a moment's notice. Like having ChatGPT, but for services. Ridiculous things we couldn't imagine. Anyone have any insight into general trends along those lines?