I’m not sure steam deck would even be considered “high cost” since you can get a refurbished unit directly from steam for about half the price of a switch 2.

And even a brand new one is still cheaper.

Plus there are parts and instructions available on how to fix and replace pieces yourself should that ever be needed, unlike some drift issues from Nintendo’s controllers where they basically tell you to spend more money or get bent.

It’s a form of self care.

I don’t get paid enough to care about other people or my employer so instead I’m conserving my energy to take care of me and the things I care for.

Looks fine on voyager over here

Not with that attitude

Sir, how dare you.

Almost 100 billion revenue last year.

250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?

Yeah. That’s nothing to them.

The coffee isn’t even overrated, it’s just objectively not good.

I don’t think the current quick ID/age verification systems can be implemented in any sort of privacy respecting fashion, in part because all these verification services so far, at least as far as I dug which isn’t very far, appear be to some random third parties with dubious implementations that can be bypassed with random images or 3D models in game.

Can it be done down the road? Theoretically… maybe. We already have some online services that communicate with your bank or government account to verify your identity. What I’m guessing is the main hurdle in all of this is implementation time. It takes a lot of time to set up these sort of systems with these constraints in mind and then secure them to the best of whoever’s ability. Meanwhile policy goes like “look how fast they did the thing, we can slap something together in a month” and then it goes to the lowest bidder that can demonstrate any sort of surface level of competence. Which… often times none of the actual professionals who have any shred of an idea would guarantee.

As for the platforms… it’s always a good mindset to be ready to go if you need to and have things prepared (same applies for your workplace btw) but how it will impact instances that are outside of these jurisdictions, remains to be seen.

The children yearn for the… yikes.

Getting your games from Epic and GoG to work on it takes a bit of work but overall not complicated.

Also if you use an external controller, sometimes it will show the wrong platform glyphs. Personally I just deal with it while using a PS controller but you can just have it show generic ones if you prefer that.

Is 100% a proportion?

Cancel and try to redeem again, I sometimes end up in the dumb loop for no reason as well.

Good list.

Vampire the masquerade bloodlines also deserves a honourable mention

Not even a good use case either, especially when it spews such bullshit like “there’s no recorded instance of trump ever having used the word enigma” and “there’s 1 r in strawberry”.

LLMs are a copy paste machine, not a rationalization engine of any sort (at least as far as all the slop that we get shoved in our face, I don’t include the specialized protein folding and reconstructive models that were purpose built for very niche applications)

Steak. With garlic butter and thyme.

Idk if the high temp during cooking will ruin the THC tho.

Maybe only added after the steak is cooked?

Being strong is being able to face the emotions you carry, sometimes you may need some help with that, and that’s okay.

Running away, hiding behind a facade or bottling it till you get a heart attack won’t make them go away… well… maybe besides that last one.

Not sure if this applies to you, but when it just released early on, there were difficulties between versions and save games from earlier ones didn’t play nice after updates, so I struggled to get through act 2, but then I disabled the auto update and played through it pretty much flawlessly, granted I had to start a new save file.

Similarly - PiHole

At the workplace if anybody says “we’ve always done it this way” during a meeting where we tackle a problem, that means it’s time to change the hubris because it clearly doesn’t work for us anymore.