Seppo if they’re trying to be derogatory. Otherwise it’s just yank.

People grow more conservative when they have something to conserve. Also because they’re wanker and weren’t raised right.

Taiwan has “nukes” they have missiles they claim can reach and breach the Three Gorges Dam. It’s like an environmentally friendly nuke!

The door lock I can understand for safety reasons. Bricking the whole thing because one part broke is lazy programming.

The hypocrite removes videos and other content at the behest of his other authoritarian buddies. Like in Turkey. If you ask me, safety should’ve just blocked and banned twitter from Australia.

James Stephanie Sterling after she started doing the stupid “ad spots” in videos for pogs and other memorabilia. They aren’t real ads, but they were so damned obnoxious.

Lucy Pyre after she stopped doing FFXIV videos and went full on brainrotted degenerate.

They may not have to maximise profits but the shareholders will question every decision that doesn’t maximise profits so the result is the same. That’s why activist investors that push companies to more ethical behaviour are important.

And the tankies on lemmy wonder why those of us with Chinese descent don’t like mainlanders. This. This is why.

The MC Fatwa from /r/warcollege needs to be brought over to Lemmy.

No mercy for the heretical Millennium Challenge posters. If you’re credulously posting this as an example of how Iranian motorcycle messengers driving ICBM equipped rowboats can beat carriers, you really need to do more reading on this topic. The faithful are commanded to shun these individuals and we will send them from our lands, inshallah.

Van Riper was told to cut that shit out because he basically cheated. His “motorcycle couriers” operated exactly like radio communications, transmitting orders instantly with no loss or disruption. The US fleet was placed miles offshore by the simulation because of peacetime shipping lanes instead of at standoff range like in a real conflict. His “missile boats” were a bunch of fishing boats and yachts carrying AShM larger than the boats themselves. He blanketed paratrooper LZs with chemical weapons because he knew where they were dropping ahead of time.

Then after being told to stop, he went crying to the media instead.

Parasites running unregulated hotels driving the smaller operators to list on airbnb as well.

Lost a lot of my hobby subs and spend more time posting political crap now.

Oh they were on Reddit. Before I left, you could find them on ChapoTrapHouse. After the Ukraine War kicked off, you could see them all over world news, Ukraine, noncredibledefense, credibledefence, and the various war update subs.

The use case is being a buzzword they can use to scam cryptobros and the gullible.

I’d argue that if you never played, then getting one of those packages would actually make you play worse than someone who’s played from the start.

FFXIV.

Not sure about ESO and SWTOR. I know WoW has the token market that technically counts as turning money into power by selling tokens and buying clears.

The game started as the musings of an old gm/qc/dev from Asheron’s Call. The early days of the game were more like a sandbox for the dev and the players. He was throwing different systems at the wall to see what stuck with the players. I remember it being full of place holder assets and jank.

But unlike g-sync and freesync, FSR2 isn’t good enough to match DLSS3 yet.

If twitchthots and onlyfans have taught us anything, it’s that thirsty nerds will buy anything at any price from a pretty face.

People keep saying they don’t deliver but they have been delivering. The game gets a new build every quarter with updates and new content. Players are still technically playing a development build so it’s full of bugs and only limited to one star system but that one star system is huge with 4 planets, 7 stations and lots of points of interest.

If you’re into the anime aesthetic: Nier Automata, Atelier series, and Recettear. I think FFXIII is fun but people would argue otherwise.