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We have a lot of non-management whom are all-in and drinking the kool-ade. I’m still highly put off for a number of reasons, but an outlier.

… why on earth would anyone want emails in their notifications to begin with?

Although insta has been making inroads, it was the default in Japan for a long time for govt info, shop notifications (bars, art galleries, you name it), as well as other customer interaction.

Counterpoint for the general case: games also have a much larger playerbase these days and manufacturing of cartridges and components can be done at much greater economies of scale. In many cases, there is no physical media manufacturing cost to a lot of the sales.

For the specific point: Gearbox/Take2 have lost all faith from me so, while I don’t generally mind some games being in that price range, there’s zero chance pitchford and his ilk are getting that from me.

literally ruin part of society

Not being able to steal something someone put a ton of time and/or money into for a couple of years without compensating them at all is ruining society… how exactly?

open source doesn’t pay my mortgage, pay back any business loans, put food on my table, etc. as the sole breadwinner in my family.

To be clear, I have contributed in a minor degree to open source and build things for fun; this is specifically about why copyright exists in certain domains. I also think it should be something more like 3-5 years max. I am a software engineer and used to work in the games industry for a number of years (though not anymore).

If I spend millions of my own money and hundreds or thousands of hours of my own time to build something, another company should not just be able to yoink that, put a coat of paint on it, and leave me with nothing to show if theirs just happens to get more popular or be advertised a little better. I don’t think the current laws are good but, absent basic income and such for everyone, I see why something should exist.

I’ve seen no evidence of this. People are clamoring for the switch 2 and talking about all they want to buy. Fuck Nintendo, but people keep giving them money so they’re going to keep doing anti-consumer shit with no sign of any government stopping them. The government isn’t going to attack one of the most beloved companies in Japan whose mascot they used at their olympics. A lot of Japanese are event against things like free, labour-of-love randomizers made for old games. People need to stop buying their shit globally if they want anything to happen.

My mom smoked until she got pregnant with me. I imagine my dad did as well, but not really sure.

In middle school, I was in learning disability class and the gifted program at the same time. In retrospect, the LD was probably just due to organizational ADHD stuff. I was first diagnosed ADHD in the early '80s, but my parents didn’t tell me until 20-something years later.

I got sent to saturday school at the high school when I was in 4th grade (which meant my mom having to cancel anything and drive me there to a place I’ve never been leaving me in complete horror) because I would finish my work and couldn’t just sit still and do nothing. My mom asked them to give me more work to do and the teacher refused.

Not particularly, but I’ve played maybe 40 minutes of pokemon in my life total so my opinion probably shouldn’t count.

More zelda like aLttP, though…

Zero interest. I don’t own anything else apple nor do I want to (I have to use a mac for work and actively despise it). I’m not even creating an account with them for something. One of the reasons I don’t have Quest either; meta gets now account from me.

As someone who owns a Kawasaki motorcycle and has been very pleased with their sales and service staff: won’t touch that thing. I don’t even know how/where one would refuel the thing; I’ve not seen hydrogen Stations anywhere here in japanJapan so far despite various automakers talking about it.

What is the execution path? What indexes are being hit? What are the keys? Can you separate things by, for example, category since dupes wouldn’t typically exist there? There are lots of potential things that might tell you more or improve performance, but this is super vague.

I borrowed one (I can’t even tell you what the make/model was) in the early 2000s. The pics were OK, but the thing took forever to save; there was no quick shooting by pressing the button again.

Not just unionizing, but getting legislation put forward and passed that protects workers’ rights.

In Japan, the barrier to firing workers is much higher than in many other places. Even layoffs for financial reasons are tough and can be challenged. This is one reason companies sit on hordes of cash here is to weather financial issues, but it also has negative economic impacts as well. That said, Nintendo are a bunch of greedy cunts IMO, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don’t get a cut).

Nah. I’d rather they make something with the size, scale, mechanics (referring for combat and such but not same abilities, etc.), and storytelling of FFVI. Optionally some fancier graphics and preferably no grinding anywhere.

A majority means they rule on their own, minority means they need to work with with some other party/parties, but that will not include the conservatives. They will have the most seats and I presume that’s what they meant by victory.

Edit: corrected a wrong term.

I hate the way it sounds but, at the same time, it is simpler and more regular.