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Same. I would love to see a global societal shift towards viewing not having children as a perfectly normal thing to do.

Also the free cupholder era.

Pretty much - they're lying it would introduce huge production costs, because most people who'd repeat this argument wouldn't know they're being lied to.

Switch 2 carts are reportedly only 64GB in size and cost $16 USD per unit. Nintendo only makes one size and then game key cards. It's an artificial cap, as there's already larger SD Express cards too.

I mean, any person that tries to learn history from video games or movies alone is pretty dumb. In order for it to be entertaining, artistic liberties often need to be taken which usuaally means the final product is not historically accurate. The thing with Assassin's Creed games is that where history was involved, in the past they tried to be as accurate to real life as possible. The layouts of cities, the appearance and roles of real historic characters, etc. In more recent years they have tossed that out the window, but historic accuracy on elements not related to the assassin storyline was something Assassin's Creed prided itself on. Even still, most only have a single text screen at the very beginning that just says "this is a work of fiction." I don't know that I would call that emphasis, but it is present. I also haven't tried this mod myself, but I don't see that it would be portraying itself as real events unless it says "this is based on real events." I have always assumed that video games are a work of fiction, even if they are based on real events. If I wanted to learn more about the real events, I would do research on my own. I suppose at the end of the day more context is needed. Did Valve contact the mod author prior to takedown to request a change in the mod description to add a "work of fiction" tag and the author refused? If Valve just straight up removed it without even contacting the author, I think that is not good. I am concerned that censorship might become greater with this action. What other governments will say to Valve "remove X or Y game/mod because it is offensive or portrays real life characters or events improperly?" Ideally none, but still. I don't exactly agree with the context of this mod and entirely understand why it would be offensive, but at the same time I think that a mod author or game developer should be free to create whatever they want, without fear of censorship removing their work.

The magic word is prorated. If getting 99% of the way to something comes out to 0% of the payoff, that's fraud waiting to happen. A promise unfulfilled.

the only subscription I tolerate is taxation and internet and phone, but only because the alternative sucks.

Except others' copyrighted property is one powerful poison.

That's what I thought and picked up Empire of Sin. Mistake.

Worked on a personal game for 7 years nearly every day. Signed with a publisher and gave up on the project the following year.

Probably helps that it's a mod: so it's not making them any money anyway

Oh my house was way below the median, in my region of the country the median house price was £385k when I bought. If anything bungalows are often seen as a retirement option as well because no stairs to climb. At the same price range we could have got a terrace house, but they were in worse areas of town and the gardens much smaller. This is small (60m²) but its enough, after that I would like to have some outside space too. Which is also fairly small but its still something, the entire property is about 150m². We need more places to apply similar taxes to discourage houses being left empty. It won't fix the problem but its a step in the right direction. Rentals being left empty for long periods of time is also a problem, for both residential and commercial property. Still working remote, not sure how long I will be able to keep that but I have had to refuse orders to start commuting more than once. Compromise agreement is offered and everyone forgets about it while we continue not going into the office more than a handful of times a year. They moved the office over 50 miles away which I am using as my (quite reasonable!) justification to not go in on a regular basis. If it remained local I could cycle in more often quite happily. Yeah in my area there are not the best job opportunities, but there is at least work to be done if you want to just take any job and its not like the pay makes much difference. In the UK we have comparably good minimum wage. I am on £26k (~£13.33/h) and minimum wage gets you £12.21/hour. So even if I just switched to literally any job I wouldn't be taking much of a pay cut and its actually cheaper than taking the train each day would be as rail is really expensive here.

The problem here isn't that the games are bad, it's that people are being taken advantage off. A lot of effort goes into making these games as enticing to spend to spend money as possible, which leads to people spending more money on them than they can afford. Vulnerable people are being taken advantage off, and that's not okay.

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Yeah, it's absurd. Lots of games just warn in their licence agreement that they don't control the experience you get from user-created content and online interactions. It's all it takes for them, especially if they don't even host that content on their own servers. One line of EULA is probably enough to state the right holder is not responsible for what happens in private servers.