You really have to press your advantage to prevent them from thinking about that

Do you…think Hisense is in charge of releasing those? Or TechRadar?

First, Epic, now Oracle.

I’m never gonna get another job in software, am I?

Edit: I physically let out a cry of pain after reading possibly 10,000 engineers of varying seniority had been fired (incident was reported on LinkedIn and judged based on the dip in Oracle’s internal Slack membership count).

Yeah, I should just start trying to move into a new field, huh.

I played the demo of the first game but I had never played a Souls game before, so I couldn’t properly compare even though I had some dissonant vibes with the combat pacing.

Glad they made enough to continue working.

That is a really cool idea. I think the problem is it’s just a bit too niche. A good portion of the people intrigued by the narrative and world-building might get stymied by the travel simulation (I’m envisioning both flying and sailing) and the simulation nerds might just skip past the text and story to get back into flying.

It’s certainly something that an indie dev has to shoulder for pure passion of seeing an idea come into the world, and that requires an idea that grabs you. Targeting it as an underserved market will only backfire.

Assuming you aren’t from Ukraine, how much did Ukraine impact your daily life/touch your daily awareness before it became a battlefield? Countries shouldn’t gain more respect just because they’re incorporated as a country, especially when it’s halfway across the world.

(Researched, via Wikipedia and WorldPopulationReview) Missouri has a population of 6.3 million and total land area of ~178K km; larger in size than countries like Greece and Hungary, and more populous than countries like Denmark and Finland and Ireland. So it should be less regarded than any of those countries because it remains a state?

My stance is: either you should believe any population center of a reasonably large size/population density is worth memorizing or you should just memorize the ones relatively important to you.

There are probably distinct provinces in Canada and China outperforming many countries, so why should they exist on a lower tier than a “country”, just because they were persuaded or “persuaded” to incorporate into something larger?

That’s probably true.

Just like I suspect most Europeans couldn’t point out Mississippi or Missouri or Missachetts on the map.

Or even know that “Missachetts” isn’t a real state.

Maybe it’s a US/EU difference, where EU people wanted to be more specific. I was responding to the incorrect claim that nobody uses the the term “eurojank”.

I wonder if they’re really huffing the shit they’re spewing? How much are they getting paid?

While I commiserate with people not wanting to be “typecast” like the other dev complaining about the term JRPG, I’ve never parsed the terms as boxing in devs to their location. “JRPG” and “eurojank” are posthoc titles describing where the collection of features coalesced. Just like Expedition 33 is a JRPG, despite japanese RPGs pioneering the feature set and aesthetic back in the 90s.

“Eurojank” is more aesthetic and ‘vibe’ than genre features though.

I’ve literally never seen anyone call it “slavjank”

Having lots of money earned does not make a person bad.

They never said that. So maybe you’re disagreeing with their reasoning because you don’t know what it is.

They say billionaires are bad because they have a lot of money and don’t use it to help people. This isn’t even talking about billionaire who engage in actually/actively morally wrong deeds to acquire money.

If you produce a product so excellent that consumers give you 1 billion dollars ($1.000.000.000) in pure profit, there would be no problem if you kept a nest egg to ensure your livelihood and then used the rest to provide aid where it’s needed. You would still be a bad person for sitting on it, instead of spreading it to help people that aren’t well off. A person can live very well on $300K pretty much anywhere in the world: that means $999,700,000 is not materially improving your life and you are hoarding it for no good reason.

Why are they booing you, you’re right?

Turret’s “serious” comment said that you claimed people should know about/have awareness of that Flesch-Kincaid reading level as a determinant of literacy…but you never said that.

I will admit I had to go back and actually read both comments because I tend to tune out long comments (many long comments are slavering diatribes not fit to store in any memory, long-term nor short). Maybe that’s what’s happened here.

Vis a vis, the nudes inclusion: on the first – and a very honest – level, I’m just uninterested. Eastern Europe puts out a lot of porn, so I can pretty much picture the equipment she’s working with.

But, on a more enlightened level, looking at her nude in response to her opinion feels like commentary on the worth of women tying to their sexual availaibility.

She sucks, and not just because she sucks for pay.

Or maybe…they’re too transparent.

I don’t think it was ever shown as a “good idea”. Wasn’t it put up as a bread and circuses thing to placate the civic population from real problems, while the government did Very Bad Things?

Yeah, if you kill a guy and brag about it, their next-of-kin just has to nurse that grudge until next Purge.

I would think insurance would just change policy to void claims from Purge Day. There’s no way they’re accepting life insurance claims for a day with insane amounts of murder.

…why not just “magister” and avoid a word that already has very strong, current connotations with fantasy?

Was this fucker on Epstein’s island or something? Why is he gargling sack, and why has no one told him it’s a bad idea to do it to Israel?