It cannot be front and center and normal at the same time. It cannot be the main part of a character's identity, else it will always be perceived as "special" and "extra", but not "normal". Devs can make whatever game with whatever chars they want ofc, but the result is what we're seeing with ubisoft.

I'm just ranting at this point.

funny, given that most gamers seem to agree with me, according to sales numbers. Noone wants this shit in games. Perhaps we're not the problem.

Yup.

Bullshit. Normalization means not making a big deal out of it, which goes contrary to the woke standard of putting it front and center.

Because things like black protagonists with hip-hop music in the background make no sense in a feudal japanese setting and people are sick of games being abused as vehicles for morality preaching.

An example from borderlanfs two could be Sir Hammerlock, who was introduced as a normal (for borderlands) character early on and later in a side quest was revealed to be gay in passing. That's the kind of 'representation' you want for lgbtq to be "normalized". In modern games, his story would be one of struggle against straight white oppressors at the end of which there would be a five minute long cutscene in which everybody turns to the camera and informs the player that being gay is normal and that prejudice is bad and that straight white people are inherently evil. I'm overexagerating (spelling?) of course, but you get the point.

That sounds so cool, but I wouldn't want to house a lot of strangers in my home and I also wouldn't want to sleep in random strangers' houses.

1. fire all DEI consultants
2. get rid of woke writers
3. stop making everything live service
4. give devs more time to optimize
5. don't overmonetize your games

literally all they need to do. If you make games that people actually want to play, then people will buy them. And if you want to have lgbtq characters, then do it like borderlands 2, that game got it right in 2012.

Steam only charges that for larger developers though iirc

Sinkholes can be negated by manufacturers using static, hardcoded dns addresses. Be careful and check traffic regularly.

great to see!

you get those in any culture without doubt, yes. But I doubt they are as numerous as people think.

Really? Literally noone I've talked to believe themselves to be superior, they instead usually talk about migrant crime, low migrant employment and "we don't have enough for ourselves". The first two are based on official, government provided statistics, the latter is based on feelings derived from our stagnating economy. People don't see any benefit from the european migrant crisis, only downsides.

mozilla has joined the enshittification train. Ditch them until they reverse course.

I've not looked into it, but it's probably pitched as a feel-good way of supporting artists.

It absolutily isn't. Get your head out of the sand.

Friend of mine has a Merc that detects oncoming traffic and auto-adjusts the high beams to not illuminate other cars and it works really well. But there is always a short delay, so for half a second oncoming drivers get to enjoy the power of the sun.

I was talking about myself. Telling someone else they didn't understand the joke while failing to understand theirs myself

whoosh

You do understand that greentext guy is actually white and the people he's living with are his family, right? That's the whole joke here.

No. AMD and Intel have a bunch of legally binding agreements that allow each other to manufacture CPUs that are essentially 100% compatible architecture-wise. You can install any OS on an Intel CPU, replace that CPU with one from AMD and expect things to work just the same (talking compatibility, not performance) and vice versa. The 64bit extension for the x86 architecture was created by and is patented by AMD. Intel are able to use that extension in any of their processors without paying royalties, but AMD are the owners of that specific technology. The contracts between these two companies also dictate that those contracts need to be renegotiated in case either company gets bought out, which makes me think that qualcomm would only care about buying intel because it would allow them to essentially permanently deadlock all negotiations and thus kill the x86 architecture, immediatly handing the entire CPU industry to ARM and, going by market share, themselves.