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It's a large market. Nintendo of America might even bring in more revenue than Nintendo of Japan.

Maybe Nintendo of America doesn't want international prices to be higher than international ones (adjusting for currency exchanges) because they're worried about Americans ordering them from elsewhere (losing NoA sales). And Nintendo in Japan doesn't care because Japanese gamers will pay anything for the next Nintendo console, lol

It's probably almost nearly 100% of emulator users who pirate games.

Even Nintendo pirated their own games before releasing them on the Wii's Virtual Console.

I imagine it's easier to catch uploaders than viewers.

It's also probably more impactful to go for the big "power producers" simultaneously and quickly before word gets out and people start locking things down.

Canadian here: What's the difference? /s

100% agree. Also 99% emulator users pirate games or do you dispute this part too?

Do you mean pirating games that are still for sale? Because plenty of emulator users only pirate old stuff that isn't currently for sale.

It's a bit misleading to say they're "random". These are all children whose parents told T-Mobile to track for them. They're seeing kids that aren't theirs.

The issue isn't that they're random kids from the population or random T-Mobile customers, but that they're kids that T-Mobile received consent to track and that information is being shared to the wrong people.

Obviously this is bad, but my point is that the data comes from somewhere. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but people need to be careful with what data they share with anyone or any organization.

Not sure how related it is, but in Canada, I'm seeing HDD and SSD prices generally being "on sale" for the regular prices from last year (same specs and everything!)

Even people who had great childhoods often spend "the other 8 hours" trying to be kids again.

You either gotta do it like the rest of us and find time for enjoyment between work and errand, or find a way to make money off your "adult childhood". Neither is easy, but you've been through a lot, so you're obviously capable of doing difficult things.

It might help if you schedule time for it. That way, you can say, "On Tuesday, I'm going to do these things I missed out on as a kid from 7 to 9pm". And then you play. Or whatever.

You need this, and everyone needs it, so don't feel bad about scheduling it. You're helping yourself heal.

I don't drive. Where I live, you can really only "not drive" in cities. And even then, it can be hard at times.

At the same time, I live within reasonable commuting distance of multiple friends and family members. I can walk to a few of them. I don't need to be closer to my community.

I might want to retire someplace quieter, but I like being able to hop on a train or a bus to get to somewhere fun, or to be able to walk across the street to a store if I need something. Heck, I can even easily get takeout if I don't feel like cooking -- I don't even need delivery.

When you reach "rock bottom" and realize it goes deeper because you've hid your head in the sand.

Tariffs that don't exclusively impact red states, I guess?

Yeah, and bathroom suggests that there are baths or places for bathing.

Water closet really is the right thing to call it!

Yup. I use whatever feels best, which is usually American words, British spelling (except for the -ze instead of -se for words that end in a "z" sound).

Also, there are our own Canadianisms, like "washroom".

This isn't using the meme effectively.

"Nobody wants to work anymore for you" would've been closer

MMOs are probably a good indication.

I think researchers (or just casual investigators) studied MMOs to see how people might react in a plague situation (I want to say WoW, but it might've been EverQuest).

They ended up discarding/writing off their findings because they figures that there wouldn't ACTUALLY be trolls who'd go around spreading the virus on purpose, and also that because the virus only had negative effects, no one would be doing actions that would nearly guarantee infection.

Of course, 2020 showed us that we really should've been looking at what people do in MMOs...

I think a professional headline would usually just lack the comma there. Headlines typically have weird phrasing (due to their terseness), but they're generally still grammatically sound.

I think "HackerNews owner hacked" would be a headline, rather than "HackerNews owner, hacked".

"Have I Been Pwned owner pwned" seems to be on par with "Headline English" to me

It feels awkward to me. I don't think it's grammatically correct. To me, it doesn't add any clarity, especially when the comma could've been the word "got" or something, lol

Not necessarily. If someone is genuinely socially liberal, they won't like politicians that dehumanize minority groups. They won't necessarily want to pay to protect them, but they'd generally be in favour of laws to protect them, etc.

I am not fiscally conservative, but I've met people like this. Pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, probably even pro-churches-paying-taxes.

But cutting funding to education to lower taxes? Sure. Anti-public transit (unless they're smart and know that public transit can be more efficient). Anti-international spending. Stuff like that.

But I live in Canada, where we actually do have a "Centre-ish" party that's generally fiscally conservative to an extent, but socially liberal. And our right-wing party isn't quite as big on the dehumanizing aspect. Banning abortion isn't really on the table, and banning gay marriage is generally an unpopular opinion for even the right-wing political leaders.

Why is there a comma in the, title?