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Hmm to be fair with YouTube you don’t think this is now a repository of incredibly valuable resources? If YouTube went down and we lost all videos, we would be losing many important resources, from historical documentaries no longer easily found in media, to guides on woodworking.

It’s a bit scary. Once you remove the crap, it’s an incredibly valuable library resource and time capsule.

I just noticed this.

As others have mentioned the stars have been largely useless in the last little while so to be honest I’m not sure this has any impact. Even sites that try and give a rating based on fake reviews are not helpful because so many reviews are faked. The only helpful part is to try and read negative reviews.

I imagine this star fiasco is something that’s easy for browser plugins to reverse.

I would love to see AI and Machine Learning used to filter out fake reviews. This would actually be useful.

"As a Catholic community, we acknowledge the gravity of this situation and offer our on-going support to those impacted,

What does being a Catholic community have anything to do with this?

Maybe in an idiot but is that really precision joinery? It looks like simple butt joints..?

Don’t get me wrong I think it’s pretty. But precision joinery I associate with more complicated joints.

Nah this is changing.

This of course is what they said about tablets. Now people are replacing desktop or laptop workflow with tablets, or alternatively tablets are being designed with removable keyboards so the lines are blurred.

I know scientific researchers who now only travel to conferences with tablets instead of their laptops.

Finally, I predict that we’re moving to cloud computing. It’s the natural way. You VPN into a network and your computing is done on a cluster or on a central computer.

The same is already happening for gaming. People are connecting controllers and glasses like the Xreal Air to phones, then networking into a computer to play a desktop game on their phone.

Unfortunately I’m not a big fan of the chemistry in Windy’s show.

Nope! Enjoyed it, though perhaps not as much as the second. ME1 reminded me a bit of Knights of the Old Republic (and Jade Empire around the same era), which had slightly stilted dialogue and choices. It was good but it still felt cartoonish.

Apart from Jacob, who seems like a caricature, the characters and acting from ME2 seem so much more real.

Cheers I’ll remember that.

I can tell by your writing that you’re a rational person and you’ve obviously thought about things. But…I’m not sure we’re arguing about the same thing.

The point is that you would previously be able to buy a new car for say $20k or a used one for $5k. The used one might drive nearly as well as the new one, if properly maintained. So you were “saving” $15k.

The idea that brand new items can lose value to their “steady-state” value (imagine a graph that sharply descends in the first year) isn’t an absurd one.

That said, I understand that some people might value that “new feeling” and want to pay that $15k difference. Or might value their time and troubles in potentially dealing with the issues of a used car.

Of course, people are raising the issue that the market might have changed recently. I don’t really follow the pricing of new cars. I remember a few years ago hearing that the car industry was in trouble because essentially cars were lasting longer and longer and so they were unable to keep on selling the new models to suckers.

I love it. It’s funny, satiric, absurd. The man or family was very obviously aware this was absurd and did it anyways. He did it also for his kids and for a fun experience.

It’s the opposite of the kind of criticism you would level at McMansions, which is that they’re cheap displays of wealth that are excessive.

It reminds me of the shark in Oxford https://www.headington.org.uk/shark/

Have you thought carefully? Or have you not thought much about it?

I’ll give you a benefit of the doubt and pretend like you’re asking seriously rather than trolling.

One problem is that, if studios are primarily focused on maximising immediate profit, game design suffers. Games are no longer designed, for example, to have a nice finite story because finite stories mean finite cash. It’s better to design massive multiplayer games that continue to squeeze cash from players.

You already see the effects of this in 2023. Games that were created in the 80s and 90s and 00s would never be made today by big studios because they cannot maintain a constant source of profit.

The idea of “if people don’t like it then don’t play it” assumes that there is a healthy competition for game design. Have you not noticed the dearth of offline single player games?

Have you heard of the phrase “the medium is the message”? The point is that the chosen medium can shape the final outcome. As it pertains to game design, if you need to design your games so that the medium uses DLCs and other pay-as-you-play elements, this ultimately has an impact on the final artistic product. Everybody suffers because you’ve injected this into your game because everybody receives a substandard product.

I’m curious whether this comic was made by an American.

I’m a Canadian living in the UK. Both countries known for free healthcare. Both countries have struggling healthcare systems with doctor shortages, inability to get appointments, and inability to get medication. It depends where in the country you are, but there are some real problems going on over here as well.

A lot of people gong private because that’s the only way you can sometimes do things.

Still not as messed up as in the US.