Haha wow, it’s so much worse than I expected.

Couldn’t find the source, but I found the original version on reddit.

I believe he was going to shoot but stopped when he saw she was a pretty woman. Here’s the scene if you want to see for yourself.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5QnhXbfZaE&t=85

I’d also say we’re well past that point. Generally from my experience, the only difference between a rogue-like and -lite is that the latter has some form of permanent progression between runs. Though, often times even that distinction is ignored.

I mean, its not about the art style, its about the gameplay loop.

I don’t even care enough to decorate my real life space so why waste the money on some pretty .png files?

Right, that was my entire point though. Different stokes for different folks. Also, I realize you’re being hyperbolic there, but things like that tend to be a lot more than just a png.

$20, 3D audio in Black Ops 6

Also also, no fucking way that’s real. That’s insane lol.

What makes something a “real” experience to you? When people buy cosmetics in the game, they’re not (generally) doing it just to own those “bits on a PC”; they’re doing it for the experience that comes with the cosmetics. Maybe their character looks pretty now and it makes them happy, maybe they can build a cool castle now and it makes them happy.

that money could be spent on having real experiences instead of some bits on a PC that you’ll lose access to within a decade

Paying for DLC and extra content is one thing, but

These two comments are contradictory. The first comment has the same issue with DLC as it does cosmetics. It sounds like you don’t really have any issue with the first comment, rather, your issue is that you don’t consider cosmetic things an experience worth spending money on. Which is fine. But you should realize that many people do find fun and enjoyment (enough that they don’t mind spending money) from things like character customization and building (among other things), which cosmetics let them do. There’s a reason the Sims is so popular.

I don’t think the issue is the word “buy”, but rather clarity on what you’re buying. Amusement parks use the word buy, but I don’t think anybody is confused that what you’re buying isn’t the whole Ferris Wheel, it’s a ticket that gives you permission to ride the Ferris Wheel. Meanwhile games tell you you’re buying a mount, when what you’re actually buying is a license that gives you access to a mount.

Does paying for a ticket to go to an amusement park or the movies or whatever mean that you wasted money on nothing? Just because you don’t permanently own something doesn’t mean you paid for literally nothing. You paid for the experience. The good times you have over the years playing a game you loved.

I mean yeah, I’m sure losing everything when the servers shut down would fucking suck, but that doesn’t invalidate the time you’ve experienced up to that point.

I don’t have the money to throw at games like that, but I do understand it.

I’m a single-issue voter. What is your plan for the psychopaths running loose and destroying our country by putting anchovies on perfectly good pizzas? This is very important.

Hint: America’s ‘literally’ and its dog-food spelling isn’t the leader.

Okay? I’m talking about American English. Everybody’s languages evolve differently based on their culture. I’m American, so American English is what I know best.

It doesn’t change magically. It changes through continuous usage and acceptance from society. That’s how language works.

Some examples. When was the last time you heard somebody say something was “awful”, as in awe inspiring? When a kid says literally, do you take them 100% seriously or do you accept that the word’s changed to be a synonym for “figuratively” among younger people? And as far as spelling is concerned, colour and color are both correct spellings, depending on where you live. Gray vs grey, acknowledgment vs acknowledgement, same thing. Or look at barbecue vs barbeque; the latter was incorrect for a very long time until the popularization of the abbreviation BBQ, after which it became a commonly accepted variant.

These things were not always correct, and yet, now they are. Society adopts and uses different meanings and spellings for words all the time. Sorry friend, you’re not the arbiter of English. It changes with or without you onboard.

Whatever you say, Sithik!

Both are correct. Language changes.

Do you say *newb when correcting people that spell it noob because the origin of the word is newbie?

https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/nyc-restaurants-use-zoom-cashiers-from-philippines/

adding that she splits tips with her manager and kitchen staff at the restaurant.

They don’t even let her keep her entire tips. The whole situation is fucked. Somebody mentioned in the article also brought up a great point…

“Today, this is a Filipino woman behind a screen, controlling a POS system — but it’s not crazy to believe that probably in the next six to twelve months, this could be an AI avatar doing all the same things,” he said.

What a shitty future we have.

Unfortunately, that really doesn’t seem to be true. YT is a monopoly, they do what they want. None of my friends use Firefox, despite me telling them that ad blockers still work on it. They could spend 3 minutes switching to Firefox and losing some of the niche features they have on Opera GX or whatever they hell they use, or they could just watch the occasional 5-second ad. They just don’t care enough. I imagine most users are more than likely like that.

For the vast, vast majority of Doom (2016) players who have never played Doom (1993), they would probably completely disagree.

I think it makes more sense to refer to the more relevant, popular, and well-known game as Doom and just refer to the other as “the original Doom” or Doom (1993). Especially since that’s what the store page does, as the other person made clear on the 2016 end, and this store page should make clear on the 1993 end.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2280/DOOM_1993/

Ooh. I might have to try this out. My pup Sophie has major social anxiety, never expected catnip to possibly help.

I don’t think she’s frowning so much as trying to give a suggestive look. It was probably somewhat hard for the artist to convey on a car. As for the headlights, like the other person said, if they were actually on the car, they would cover the face completely.

Why helldivers? I haven’t even heard that game talked about in like, over a month.

I mean, maybe it should be. Maybe the government should be paying artists instead like somebody else suggested somewhere. Idk, it’s an interesting topic. But that’s in these peoples ideal world that we clearly do not live in. I am in complete agreement that, pirating all forms of art being the morally just thing to do (like the very first commenter suggested), is very incorrect. At least in our timeline it is.