I hope you can appreciate that this would be the move of a tyrant. You don't dissolve the cornerstone of law and order without actually destroying the foundation.
No matter how corrupt, this would be unconscionable.
Yeah, I'm sure this is actually the situation.
Honestly malls are thriving where I live, and I go regularly to extremely large crowds. I know it's a trend worldwide, but if all I knew was my local city, I would have no idea.
If you think the demand isn't there, you're out of touch. It's certainly true that many consumers are choosing digital content, but it's largely driven by it not having inconvenienced them so far too.
Everyone I'm seeing who lost the 3DS and Wii U stores, or lost access to all the games in their account, or even people who purchased media they can't download and access again is realizing how big this problem is.
Phone controls are trash though, touch screen is never good.
I mean, except it's not a conspiracy. The death of physical media is an actual tragedy because digital media is nowhere near as free.
It's to the point where much of the media I love is actually not available legally and officially for physical ownership, in some cases becoming actual lost media physically, and not available for purchase or even download anymore.
Companies absolutely want to control the consumption of media in more restrictive ways that they can control, it's not a conspiracy, it's the actual truth.
DRM, always online, digital only, subscription services - they are all designed to remove you further and further from being an owner.
Everything from video games, music, movies...all entertainment media is moving in this direction and it's an actual tragedy.
Do you know every law in your country / state / province? Honestly you're going to be ignorant of some law, somewhere, especially laws you've never heard of or thought of as a concept.
This is part of what mens rea was supposed to address, but I guess everyone likes to prosecute for the sake of being punitive.
I mean, even Google AI says it's not bad, and in concept I kinda agree. I've had bacon donuts before and it was legit
I took out a loan, but the service request was in my partner's name. It's my phone, but now I'm getting crazy crypto spam WhatsApp stuff in her name, along with home security spam and other spam I never got before. Since it's coming to my phone, in their name, either or both companies sold me / us out and we were getting calls within days.
You got voted down, but this is absolutely real. I speak multiple languages, but none with the nuance and clarity of context as I do English. I communicate with folks all across the world that are all English speakers, however, the variance in comprehension is so drastic that at times we're really not using the same language, even if we're using some of the same words.
If you emigrate to a country, it's a reasonable expectation that you'll learn the language. The United States doesn't technically have an official language, English is just de facto, but from a practical standpoint it's absolutely occupying that role, and will in perpetuity.
I can absolutely agree with the premise that being frustrated with language barriers isn't racism, it's an actual real and realized impediment to understanding.
Now the big controversy is trans people, but if it wasn't, it would be anti gay sentiment. Gay is seen as comparatively normal even by Republicans because of a few complex reasons, but can be reductively simplified as changes to the Overton Window and what could be described as 'changing goal posts'
The Jaguar lied with the truth, and I say this as someone who still owns one.
I've always believed that the Star Wars universe needs a faction that is cognizant that the cycle of Jedi / Sith is irrational fanaticism of ideology and the force is ideologically neutral.
I have always believed the force is always meant not to be balanced via organization, but balanced per person, that the truth is light side and dark side are just concepts and bad conclusions based on centuries of orthodoxy.
Honestly yeah, 1, 2, and 3 are amazing and never needed sequels.
Sorry for the poor title, but even when people talk about climate change, and know it's hotter for them, people don't actually seem to talk about the impact on the rest of the biosphere.
I can't tell if it's not thought about, or just not discussed as much because it is not 'relevant' to their lives.
I can barely function outside for a few minutes without being drenched in sweat, and some of it is probably poor health and not being used to it, but I can tell sl with certainty that I can't survive outside in this heat, and I'm living as a result of a trick or technology.
The animals though? Some of them are straight up fubbernucked. There will be mass animals die offs and people won't even notice.
I think about this from time to time, but most recently it's the Persona 3 remake that's got me thinking about it now.
The original game was dark, gritty, and I'm really concerned that they're going to downplay that for the more colorful 'mainstream' style in Persona 5.
I loved Persona 5, but 3 has my favorite aesthetic, my favorite 'feel'. I'm worried they now feel like the dark blue, and 'gun' motifs are more controversial now.
I'm also highly disappointed that the extra content from FES and portable won't be in it, that feels like half the appeal of a remake for this title.
I want to like it, but I probably won't.
Maybe I like bad games, or maybe Cyberpunk 2077 was never quite as bad as people say - I'm not sure because I unironically love Forspoken and think it's one of the best games I've ever played.
I did hate on the game hard at release, and a lot of it was well deserved, trying to play it on PS4 or Xbox One ( I picked it up on both ) was actually awful and unstable, I couldn't progress past the club at the beginning of the Street Kid life path so I eventually hung it up for a while.
I bought it at launch, and it was a bad launch, reminded me of the launch of No Man's Sky, except visually the game was stunning, and there was a lot more substance, but it was actually broken.
I ended up giving it a real try at the end of 2021 when I managed to get my hands on an Xbox Series X and it was a drastically different game. This was before the 'next gen' patch, but it had enough fixes and ran butter smooth on the Series X that I ended up getting enthralled.
Y'all this game is good. I had a great build that was frustratingly nerfed hard at the next gen patch ( RIP Overwatch ) but wow the story and world is so interesting, and I feel like this is this AI revolution story just waiting to be told in the background - it's good shit.
I haven't played since the next gen patch, so all that will be new to me along with Phantom Liberty so I'm looking forward to a drastically different game than I played a year and a half ago.
I think CDPR finally did it, or will have did it upon release.
I can't wait.