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That's almost correct. The microtransaction is not a ferrystone (the fast-travel consumable). It is a portcrystal (a one-time additional fast travel location). You cannot buy ferrystones with real money.

Ferrystones are found or purchased rarely. It's a clearly intentional decision to force you to explore the world on foot and weigh whether the current danger is bad enough to use a precious ferrystone to get home or if you should try and push through.

The game certainly has problems, but the lack of fast travel is demonstrably an intentional decision to encourage the style of gameplay they envision, not some lack of functionality. This is exactly what mods are for.

What are you talking about? They show the headphone battery being replaced in the same image as the case. It's a little button cell that hinges out.

Surely they mean entirety as in "the entire monthly player numbers of every game on steam", not "the quantity of accounts that've ever been created"

I disagree? It skips to the highlight. If I came here to see the cool table, I wanna see the cool table, not the 15 minutes beforehand of the guy talking about tableology and his quest to find the optimal oak polish. Highlights don't skip automatically by default, so it harms nothing having it there for videos you personally don't want to use it on; if I'm in the mood to see a longform video, I will, and if I just want to see the cool thing displayed in the thumbnail, I will.

I also kind of enjoy the memey ones, like how most uploads of the beatmania song Second Heaven have the infamous SOMEBODY SCREAM tagged as a highlight. It's a fun little moment of "someone else was here before me for the same thing, and they left a trace", kinda like a dark souls message.

Maybe you might argue that should be a different category? But personally I think your definition of highlight is rather narrow

No, you see, you just get every citizen to pay a little bit into the bridge, and then everyone can use it. Maybe we put some of that money aside and establish a group of people to care for the bridge, upkeep and whatnot. It wouldn't be fair to just pick them arbitrarily, so we should probably hold some kind of vote. And, well, I guess the money will run out, so maybe we take a little more from everyone every year, just to keep it in good shape

Huh? That sounds like what? Gov--

Oh fuck wait shit i mean DONT TREAD ON ME

Now imagine it in, say, fog, or a storm, or any other low-visibility condition. You can see the vague outline of a car 20 feet ahead, and a blinking arrow pointing to the right, but not in line with where a right blinker should be.

Oh, my dear, sweet summer child, they're not talking about Skyrim. When people say "horse armour" they're talking about one thing:

In the year of our lord 2006, when Skyrim was still half a decade away. the Xbox 360 release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had a $2.50 "DLC" for two sets of horse armour, and it was roundly mocked for it. It wasn't the first microtransaction, but it was certainly the first one that set everyone talking about its absurdity. The conversation was absolutely about charging money for cosmetics. In fact the general tone was, perhaps ironically, the opposite of today's prevailing zeitgeist; this was a time when people were accustomed to spending $10-20 for a sizable "expansion pack" or "content disc", and the idea of dropping $2.50 for horse armour that didn't even do anything was absolutely ludicrous.

Before I quit, it was a pretty open secret that r/worldnews was a shithole, and the place to get news was r/anime_titties

I don't know if they've gone under too by now, though

My friend, you're on !MildlyInfuriating

An annoyance is still an annoyance even if there's a reason for it

Some of the smartest people I know are some of the dumbest people I know.

A historian who falls in with one MLM after another. A senior engineer who doesn't trust doctors because homopathy is the only real medicine. A dentist who thinks the moon landing was fake. A doctor who warns people off "seed oils" and onto a "paleolithic, mostly-meat diet".

Ime, people can get "too smart" for their own good, and start to believe they're qualified to speak even outside their own specialties. The smartest thing you can do is recognize where you're qualified, and where you're an idiot, and in the places you're an idiot, stay quiet and listen.

Sorry, did you think that was meant to be a defense of the man? Do you think his fanatics would ever describe him as "outrageously lax"? Read, mate, read.

No, it's not supposed to make it better. It's worse. "His tunnels are oozing with sludge" is mysterious, meant to draw readers in. The truth is, like every goddamn thing he's ever done, he's mismanaged it so hard and cut so many corners that he's caused yet another entirely predictable, entirely preventable industrial disaster.

I can hate Elon Musk and clickbait at the same time, mate.

According to the article, it's not the completed tunnels, but rather, the dig sites. It's mostly normal digging byproduducts (silt, rock dust, sand, water), but also chemicals for making/setting grout. All of that stuff is "normal", but the outrageously lax safety standards have let it build up rather than be dealt with.

"Elon Musk Tunnels Oozing with Skin-Burning Chemical Sludge" is a sensationalist clickbait take. "Elon Musk's Tunnels-In-Progress Full of Improperly Stored/Disposed-Of Dangerous Chemical Waste" wouldn't spark the imagination so hard.

assuming the combination doesn't have multiple actions

That's rookie stuff

Citra was free. It's only unfortunate collateral damage in the Yuzu switch emulator suit, since there was a lot of overlap between devs, and part of the settlement was that the Yuzu devs have to shut down all their emulation projects.

Yuzu was also free, but they ran a Patreon (reportedly taking in over a million dollars total) where you could get the early access builds for $7/mo. Most damningly, reportedly they distributed hotfixes to patrons run the ToTK leak before the game even released (i.e., before anyone could be hypothetically dumping their own legal copies to play). So a real triple blunder of taking money for an emulator, enabling piracy, and not maintaining even the veneer believing that people were only using it legally.

It should be noted that I don't think this is how the laws should be; I don't believe piracy meaningfully harms sales, nor do I believe it should be punished, but we have to be realistic about how things are; Yuzu would have lost in court, so we can only be glad they settled, rather than establishing legal precedent that would've decimated the emulation scene.

This sucks, but like, Bleem taught us this lesson almost 30 years ago: don't take money for an emulator.

Is it confusing? You can go to their page right now and every single game on the list is listed as "Not recommended".

Does it? The only logo I see is the SBI logo combined with a Metal Gear Solid !

it didn’t say avoid apparently

It originally did, but once someone ran an article on it, people adviced the admin that his current reviews might afoul of steam policies, so they went back and revised all the reviews be neutral statements that SBI was involved, linking a source for each.

However, all the ratings on this curator are negative non-recommends, with SBI involvement as the stated reason. So it's hard to paint it as just a neutral list.

That said, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. If you want to avoid a company's games, that should be allowed.