Just not the house.
This could be intended to settle a disagreement between management people who don't see the trend of gamers finally getting fed up with the bullshit and others who don't call the shots but do have a finger on the pulse (or even feel that way themselves and know they aren't alone).
I'd bet good money there's plenty of developers and other gamers involved with a bunch of these companies watching decisions being made with horror.
Actually I bet management only allowed this to be a poll because they did notice the trend of gamers getting fed up and previous cash cows running dry, but they needed a poll because they don't want to believe that the thing they thought was the best way to fight piracy was hated by people who would otherwise be happy to spend money on it.
I always keep thinking back to a piece of software that took weeks to get running at a job where we were development partners and then when I decided I wanted to use it with a personal project at home, I had a pirated copy running within hours. All the DRM stuff just made it into a pain for legit users while those using pirated copies never even saw that after it was cracked.
And denuvo doesn't even stop sucking once you get it running the first time, it will be wasting CPU cycles and memory bandwidth until the publisher decides it's not worth paying the license fee for anymore.
Thought that robot one should have said "STAB!" until I looked closer.
The kind of brain damage that makes conservatism look good even if you are making below the average salary.
Yeah, I've bought enough drugs to know it's 28g.
Legacy media seems to be about as bad in faith as the Republicans are, they are just better at hiding it. But giving any legitimacy at all to Trump has shown their true colours.
The big ones are pretty much all right wing media, some of them are just targeted at people who find a rant about hierarchies of race, gender, or sexually to be in bad taste.
I have a conspiracy hypothesis that Putin played a role in 9/11 and Russian influence was behind at least some of the "coincidences" that gave some of the conspiracy theories credibility. Pushing those conspiracy theories might have been one of the early Russian troll farm missions, too.
He did say that the only reason a man would travel to Thailand was for underage sex tourism right after having travelled to Thailand...
Netflix reality competition shows are awful for this. Especially the Korean ones where they cut back to show like every single person's reaction to the thing before either showing it or ending the episode.
I'm already watching this shit, you don't have to manipulate me into continuing to watch it and dramatize every mundane thing. Or pad the time out.
Also Dan Brown.
Used right, it can be effective, but some shitty writers lean way to much on them.
Yeah, Dick Cheney has been on borrowed time since during his VP when he spent a while without a pulse and using a mechanical pump after his OG heart died.
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Fuck it, I'm going to pick a timezone on Mars and live by that. Bam, extra half hour every day! You can't control me, Earth's spin!
Oh, I thought it was so that people who had been away would know if there was a new emperor lol. Better for history since it's a clear record of what emperors ordered what roads built. Know what portion of them survived to modern times?
Those look better made than many roads today.
Imagine being one of the poor guys who had to carve the inscriptions on those mile blocks during any of the periods where Rome quickly cycled through emperors.
And the horses.
One riding along that road in the background, for some reason the wagon wheel is turned directly towards the viewer.
The other wagon carrying some sort of goods, originating from the road that fades to nothing.
And the horse that is calmly walking with its front legs while it's rear legs are both airborne, suggesting a gallop?
Oh also the person carrying a load of stones from a spot the road will be built to. Though maybe that was a part of the process if they layered different materials underneath the road, but it looks a bit deep to me.
Edit: Oops meant to reply to the other comment about the workers. Instead, this is the timeline I inadvertently chose. Hopefully it's a good one.
I think legalizing weed didn't make that much of a difference because the whole claim that buying random weed from a random dealer put money in cartel or terrorist pockets was a lie.
Not that there weren't any large weed organizations, they just weren't murdering people at the scale the cartels are or doing it to fund violence.
They'd also rely a lot on temporary workers since trimming was really the only labour intensive step, and then it would be sent out into a distribution network that wasn't so much an organization as it was a collection of independent or small scale distributors. Which in some locations might have been gangs, but I'd guess was mostly normal people looking to make some extra money.
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Yeah, I think they shouldn't have called them cell phones, they looked like just AM radios, which aren't that complicated. Just need a microphone (membrane attached to a magnet), amplifier (they used vacuum tubes), and an antenna (whose length would determine the frequency). Receiver is the same thing but backwards (with adjusted geometry on the mic/speaker, but they are electrically the same). If they had the vacuum tubes, copper wire, and magnets (which they could make more of once they had one), then I don't think that part was that far fetched (though I could be missing something big tbf). But a cell phone is a lot more than a 2-way AM radio, even if you're talking about a simple phone with no display.
Biggest issue I had with suspension of disbelief was when they used a vehicle without a road system. Roads came before cars in our history and had to be good enough for horses to pull carts. Using a two stroke steam engine to generate enough torque for offroading with those basic tires was a big hand wave IMO.
Oh also the whole using a celebrity impersonation to convince some of the other side that the US was back up and running was a weak tactic. Like I'm glad they had it immediately get noticed, but a better way to do that bluff would have been to just have other "radio chatter" going on to make it sound like they had joined up with others, at which point they could have talked about all kinds of technologies that might have taken the fight out of people from the modern era.
Another one that I found gave a kinda similar feel is Dr Stone.
Though instead of diving deep into fantasy mechanics, that one is based on real world physics (well, other than some characters having super-human levels of skill) and rebuilding a modern society from scratch.
I find them similar due to their attention to detail and using their environment to build up their capabilities. The overall plot is very different and DinD has a bit more charm. Not that Dr Stone doesn't have charm.
If I could choose which one I want to see one more season of right now, I'd pick DinD. If I could choose which one gets seen through to the end, I'd pick Dr Stone.
Those montages and deep dives into monster mechanics and biology are my favorite parts of the show.
I love that peeling away the layers of fantasy. It feels like a DnD campaign where the players wanted to get really weird with stretching the rules while staying within them and the DM enthusiastically agreed and joined the party with their dwarf that had been doing that for years.