"Our new policy is simple: If you, an American warrior entrusted to defend this nation, believe that the flu vaccine is in your best interest, then you are free to take it; you should. But we will not force you," Hegseth said in April.
Hegseth is a profoundly stupid person who should not be entrusted to make any decisions. He should be removed from power to spend the rest of his obscured life cleaning up litter or something similarly useful.
I try to prioritize the rare thing. Friends meeting up to play Frisbee in the park? Hades2 will be here when I get back. Let's go.
But I'm also kind of a cheapskate, so if they were like "let's go to this fancy dinner and then a cocktail bar" I'd probably skip. Luckily most of my friends don't really have expensive tastes. $6 beer at the local bar, maybe a hangout where we bring $10-20 of snacks and drinks.
That's also a problem, yes. DRM free is best. I'm extremely reluctant to pay for a game I can't play offline as much as I want. (Barring MMOs and the like, I guess. Don't play a lot of those, myself)
All the wealth is being concentrated in the hands of too few people. I'm not going to buy a $120 game when my salary is down, or I'm just laid off.
I worked at a place that involved housing and maps for a while. I remember seeing one map that was a layout for a suburban housing situation. A giant cluster of single family houses along windy little paths. It looked like the bad place.
The houses at the back would have required an extensive and winding trip just to get to a main road, and then who knows how far it is from there to anything commercial. If you live there, you're not walking anywhere.
I remember being stuck for months in Phantasy Star 2 and 3. Just couldn't figure out where to go. Then one day I realized the Internet probably had answers, and discovered GameFaqs.
(If I remember where I was stuck in PS2, you had to walk to the left edge of one of the many towns. Instead of exiting to the world map, there was a little area with some buildings. They looked like all the other non interactive buildings in the town, but if you walked into the bottom of the center one, it took you to a new map. At the end of that dungeon, you had to use the seemingly useless "music" spell you could learn from the sexist piano guy in some other town. Not sure how you'd figure all that out on your own.)
Great.
I was just in another city last week that had pedestrianized some streets. It was like night and day comparing the streets for people and the next block that was cars. One was full of music, laughter, people going in and out of shops and restaurants. The other was empty save for cars whizzing by, with almost all empty shops. I should've taken a picture from the corner where you could see both, and use it as a poster for "where would you rather be?"
I believe it. But adding that barrier would mean some bad drivers wouldn't bother, and they'd get a smaller, safer, car instead.
I'm just waiting for some RTO'd workers to be told they're being mass laid off, and instead they just beat the manager to death. The irony of it only being possible because they were forced back into the office will be delicious.
It's a demand pointed out the entire capitalist hellscape, of which epic is a part, not them specifically.
Sweeney's a billionaire. He could be pushing for labor to have a bigger slice of the pie. But he won't, because he's a soulless husk.
I don't have the personal budget to buy a lot of games. Pay me more and I'll spend more. Otherwise, fuck all the way off
None of the fines for these things are enough. It should be, like, the company is nationalized. The leadership is sentenced to years of community service and barred from working in the industry for life.