I’m not supporting what you’re condemning. I’m just arguing that it’s not 100% black and white. I disagree with “all live service games bad.” I certainly agree that some are predatory and a problem, and the entire genre as a whole needs much more regulation.

I couldn’t really grasp spending that amount of money on a video game, even cumulatively, so no I didn’t consider it from that angle.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money. Ban the entire business model.

Is most of what I was referring to. I don’t mind things in games costing money, as long as the game itself doesn’t costs money. I also don’t mind live service games, at least in concept. They’re very rarely good games, but good examples do exist.

A lot of what I think you’re talking about is based on player trading, is it not? Maybe I don’t know the games you’re talking about. I don’t think Valve sets the prices for hats, and I don’t think DE sets prices for rivens. They’re tradeable, so a market forms. To be clear, I think paying $1000 for a hat is absolutely insane, but I also don’t see how it’s functionally different than paying an absurd amount of money for a trading card you have no intention of using.

Are there games actually asking $1000 for literally anything in-game? Not a player set price, to be clear.

I’m fine with it for f2p games. The monetization is sometimes awful in those, but it’s also sometimes perfectly fine. I just want one monetization model. Either have microtransations and ingame purchases(preferably that don’t actually effect the gameplay), or have your game cost money up front, and maybe have some DLCs. Pick one. No more $40 games with battlepasses and buyable skins.

TIL, from that article, that Starbreeze is making a coop D&D game.

That’s neat. I have incredibly low expectations, but maybe it turns out decent.

Sim Daltonism

Seems like a very cool program. Sadly Mac OS/iOS exclusive so entirely useless to me lol.

Ukraine also supports this genocide

Can you source that? I’ve never seen any evidence of that, I’m gonna be real.

Also, the ‘imperial core’ is crazy lmao.

Not really- from my understanding the issue with the sex trafficking charges were that there wasn’t any explicit proof of the two women saying ‘no’, or being coerced into it. You’d have the exact same problem proving sexual assault.

Am I missing context? What’s ‘thinners’? Is this a drug thing I’m too boring to understand?

It’s taller, but not as wide. An Alaska king is crazy. Way too much bed idk.

OP said they have an SSD as their boot drive, too, so that would explain why it’s not constantly going. I’m not sure why GPU usage would spike every time the noise happens, though.

Entirely possible it’s a fan bearing instead, but ime if a case fan is going bad you hear it 24/7. And since it’s not the GPU’s fan…

Mafia 2 is fantastic. Mafia 3 is one of the games of all time.

the noise I’m hearing is a more grind-y noise like a motorbike or propeller airplane that keeps going in and out

Do you have any HDDs? Because that sounds like a bad hdd.

The PRC has the political weight to make others pick a side, at least openly.

The DPRK, on the other hand, absolutely does not.

It depends some on where you are.

Where I live, driving is absolutely a basic skill. It’s just not realistic to get anywhere via any other means in a reasonable timespan. So you either have to drive or be driven basically anywhere. The scale involved isn’t kind to biking, and public transportation is nonexistent. It would take hours to get a taxi that would be egregiously expensive, uber isn’t even an option last I heard.

And this is from the perspective of someone that hates driving- it stresses me out because of the exact reasons you’ve mentioned. I’m in charge of a ton or more of plastic and steel sometimes moving at 70mph, and ignoring the physics based implications, these things are fucking expensive.

I’ve heard of them having newbie games scheduled on certain days. I don’t know how welcoming general games would be to a complete beginner, though.

I just limit how much news I get- basically just what pops up in my lemmy feed and a news show I watch a few times a week.

Being exposed to awful headlines 24/7 is almost definitely going to be rough on your mental health.

I don’t think you’re required to do it, personally, but I agree that it would be rude to not even hear someone out. Especially with someone you know even as an acquaintance. It could be anything from, “can you hold this for a second” to “do you mind splitting this $8000 timeshare with me?”

If it’s just a completely random person on the street, and their first word is “can you do me a favor” that’s different. I think it’s still rude, I just also think that when you engage with entirely random people being rude is acceptable sometimes. Especially if there’s an actual reason for you to feel unsafe- if you’re alone/it’s a shady area type thing.

This probably depends on the area, though. I’m from the southeastern US and from my understanding people engage with each other waaay more in public here than they do in- as a random example- New York.

TIL. Kinda cursed. Then again, lots of stuff about language is weird asf.

No. That doesn’t make you a bad person. Frankly, I think it’s awful that she’s asking you to, but I imagine she’s going through some things herself at the moment.

I think you have the right take here already- your relationship with your dad wasn’t the one impacted.

…can I get that granola recipe? That sounds fantastic.