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While I agree with most of the games in this list that I know, I wouldn’t class Ostranauts as a cleaning game. It’s probably closest to Shipbreaker, at least thematically. You loot derelict spaceships, but can also deconstruct hulls and systems to add them to your own spaceship. Finding a hull with serviceable fusion engine parts is hitting the jackpot, either to sell or for your own ship. While it shares the “I’m in debt for the rest of my life” vibe it’s much easier to climb out of that hole once you understand the game.

The price of electricity in a country usually has nothing to do with whether power lines are run above or below the ground. Very often a large part of your electricity price is determined by taxes and subsidies for example. And in my country (the Netherlands) the suppliers of electricity are different companies than the ones responsible for the power network too. Like Sweden we haven’t had residential power lines running above ground for half a century or so, it’s pretty uncommon in (Western?) Europe.

Yeah they would, as multiple countries with a better standard of living than the US have already been doing it for quite a while.

The vast majority of games I play were never released on console, so there’s that too.

Matte coatings interfere with more than just contrast, they often look a little more blurry as well in my experience. But yeah, the “massively oversimplified” was there for a reason 😆.

Like Eheran said, they definitely exist: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/best/bright-room

The massively oversimplified explanation is that more reflective coatings give a better image quality as long as you don’t have reflections. Matte coatings dull the colours of the image a bit and make it a bit less sharp.

I did not expect a Guild Wars reference in my Cyberpunk content! Recently picked up GW2 again and having a blast this time, so relevant to my interests. 😂

Astounding mental gymnastics. Not that it really matters in this case, although it does demonstrate a willingness to run away from facts that are staring him in the face. It sounds like he’ll never admit he could have feelings for you too, whether that’s true or not.

Nothing, I just never browse All. Being subscribed to the right communities is enough.

JavaScript is actually a beautiful language. It’s what people have done with and to it that’s the problem.

Thing is, every time a fascist party rises to power in the EU they fuck it up spectacularly and lose the next elections. So far Meloni in Italy is the only exception, the rest have been quite pathetic.

Your post suggests you’re operating under the assumption that advertising itself is a valid activity. The example about a new small business seems totally legit.

But in reality most advertising money is spent by companies like Coca Cola, that we all already know. And they know that too, which means they know for a fact that continuing to spend money on advertising pays off.

This can only be true if advertising isn’t about awareness of your brand, but about directly influencing buying decision. In other words, it’s brainwashing.

A small business should get known through word of mouth, through endorsements in pillow-related media and communities (in this example). If their product is a good one and they get the right people talking about it, no advertising is needed to succeed as a business. Only line-must-go-up companies that are not content with what they can achieve with an honest way of doing business need advertising to sell even more crap.

IMHO it is entirely valid to reject all forms of advertising, and most of it should be outlawed. As a species we’re wasting a colossal amount of effort and energy on something that shouldn’t even be a thing.

Yeah this. Python was already popular with the early adopters, and it’s a fairly easy language to learn and use. After that it became a network effect thing: all the best tools were already written in Python so people continued to do so.

Nope, same here. Edit: in The Netherlands.

The most ridiculous thing in this image is someone calling himself “Gunther Eagleman”…

Can’t you run that one app under WINE or something? Or even a Windows VM if you really need to…

It’s a different kind of storytelling than most audiences are used to. You’re not just handed a complete story with all the details explained, you’re more along for the ride while you barely know who these people are or how things got this bad. Along the way some things become clear but many others do not. To me this feels far more realistic than most movies that are made today. And there’s some very impressive cinematography on display along the way as well, with minimal (or none? can’t remember) CGI. So yes, I’m certainly one of those people who think it’s absolutely brilliant. Should probably rewatch it again, come to think of it…

Oh man we really did not need this.

Sounds pretty fucked up to me. Normal people will just accept you for who you are, whatever that is. Well, unless you’re a serial killer or something, but as long as we’re talking about consensual sexual preferences they should stay well out of your stuff.