The joke I was trying to make is that it’s The Conversative party that’s supposed to be “fiscally responsible”, but the Liberals always do better. But it clearly didn’t land.

In anticipation of someone asking how this is good, I think cutting the deficit in half is good.

(From the perspective of less debt – I’m not necessarily agreeing with the measures used to reduce the deficit)

This is what happens when we elect the fiscally responsible party! Which, as always, is…

checks notes…

The Liberals?! What happened there?? /s

Aren’t Uber and SkipTheDishes still separate competitors?

So kinda like what a lot of Republicans want for the US?

but we were just very close platonic friends!! And I accidentally hit the buttsex button!

Why would inclusivity cause offense to any rational person?

It’s more than a flag removal by having deeper meaning than a flag removal.

As well, the game was cancelled. There may have been more censorship to come.

If the developers chose to remove it, that’s not a big deal. If they just decided “Eh, this is a fictional world in the future, there’ll be different symbols. It’s too on-the-nose to have the exact flag”, good for them. No big deal.

Nobody is upset about it being removed from a player’s perspective.

The issue that people have is the developers are being censored. And specifically, what’s being censored is something that represents a group of people are actively being attacked and erased in parts of the world.

I hope that this explanation helps you see the situation differently. There’s nobody who’s upset because “I wanted to see the flag”. It’s bigger than that.

That’s what I think. I miss physical keyboards on phones, and generally don’t mind a phone on the heavier side.

People absolutely hate bezels though, so it’d never fly with the flagship phones.

I like the idea of it, but I can live without it.

A foldable phone has the benefits of a tablet (screen size) and a phone (more compact), allowing you to alternate between the two at will. I can see the appeal.

It’s more accurate to say that the American video game market collapsed. Video games were still going strong in Japan, as they were (on computers) in Europe.

We absolutely are drowning in that level of garbage, if not moreso. There are some differences though:

• Buying a game (to know what you’re getting) is a much smaller commitment these days
• There are (as you mentioned) reviews to read these days. There weren’t reviews back then; at least not readily-accessible reviews. This makes it so much easier to know if you’re getting something closer to a gem or closer to junk.
• There are so many cheap options available, mostly because it’s low-risk to release digital games. You can get new full games for $20 these days. Back then they cost the equivalent of $100 or something crazy like that because of all the logistics around building cartridges, shipping them, and storing them.
• There are so many games to play, so it’s incredibly easy to find something else. Back then, you had a handful of games, and got maybe 3 games a year. If you got junk, you were stuck. If all you had was junk every time, you found different hobbies.

I mean, your own mentioning of looking for “mostly positive” reviews suggests that you intuitively know how much crap is out there. Start sifting through games without looking at review scores, and you’ll see how much crap is out there.

Also, there were all kinds of ET-level crappy games on the NES with Nintendo’s supposed “Seal of Approval”.

I appreciate that they’re not expressly against AI usage as a rule (at least based on that snippet you shared)

I agree with the sentiment that there used to be a ton of crappy old games, but I think each year, there are more releases in Steam and other virtual stores (e.g., the Nintendo eShop) than there were in e.g., the Atari 2600’s entire life.

The junk to gem ratio is much worse now.

Yeah, I have no idea why this needs to be a video

The Professor Oak Challenge is the worst (SFW) thing that the Pokemon community ever came up with.

Yeah, I was thinking that 1,830€ was just a normal ridiculous price for a graphics card.

…I haven’t shopped for graphics cards in about 6 years…

I think that’s incredibly idealistic. I imagine the customer more likely demanding better pathfinding.

Do you really think the person whose food doesn’t arrive will regret ordering from a robot and will then elect to stop ordering takeout?

I think they’re more likely to end up being against the people who got in between them and their food.

It’s insane that there’s so much backlash against someone’s method of transportation that doesn’t hurt anybody, doesn’t hurt the environment, etcetc…

I mean, objects don’t need to have genders! Lol