If they’re just scraping tweets, it’s probably looking at mentions of a million and one regular guys in the US named Sam Fisher and not the character.

Then they come up with the rating system whose only enforcement is on the AO rating, and don’t bother to actually clean up their shit. As the post above yours mentioned, the problem is lack of enforcement anywhere outside the AO rating or even anyone involved actually caring. Devs and marketing teams push for M if they want to actually sell a game to kids above 7 years old, retailers will sell anything to anyone lest they lose out on the money, and parents who ask about it will just ask the kid who wants to buy the game and will lie about what the rating means. We can crab about movie ratings all we want, but at least most studios and theaters actually enforce the MPAA’s rating and parents know what movie ratings mean. Game ratings are basically like TV ratings, so irrelevant you wonder why they even bother.

Sounds like the community of every competitive (or coop campaign) multiplayer game I’ve ever been in. I prefer just to not play online multiplayer, I don’t have the time (or disposable income) to “git gud” enough to be able to even stand a chance against all the obsessed people who pour hundreds of hours into it in the first month and drive everyone else out.

Even the ESRB, another example of gaming industry self-regulation, hasn’t stopped gaming companies marketing M-rated games to kids or really slowed down sales or access to such games to underage players at all. If anything, they use the M rating as a direct marketing tool to kids: “your parents wouldn’t want you to play this so you totally should”.

EDIT: autocorrect is dumb

Ah, yes, the infamous “Capcom Test”, as a YouTuber I watch calls it. There are thoughts of making a sequel in a franchise, so Capcom re-releases an old game (or in this case, collection) to gauge interest, not thinking about the fact that people may already have other versions of the game and don’t need this one, then they cancel the sequel before it even gets off the ground if the re-release of the old game doesn’t sell enough, which to Capcom is often a stupidly high number. This already killed a Darkstalkers revival, we can only hope it doesn’t do the same for MvC.

Right, it would be the place he was rescued from (if a previous owner) that abused or neglected him.

Packers just know they put themselves in the exact same situation as in the Favre and Rodgers eras: they rely on an elite starting QB to band-aid the rest of the problems on an otherwise mediocre team. Without their elite starting QB, they’re absolutely cooked, they have little else. Publications keep overrating GB every year because they’re absolutely obsessed with QB play and Favre and Rodgers were good enough for the “we only care about our QB” strategy to work. We really have yet to see if Love will be at the same level overall, but all the sports media is buying into GB’s assertion that he is. Either way, they don’t jave much of a strategy otherwise, so for GB’s sake he had better be elite.

Not to mention the triumphant cry from the cat in front. 😂

Yes, it’s invasive kernel-level anti-cheat common in competitive multiplayer games now, because cheaters will mod their system that much for the sake of getting around the anti-cheat. Annoying from all sides.

That, and despite many devs being Linux fans, there does seem to be a (false) perception that Linux is the OS of choice for cheaters.

EDIT: Just remember, can’t play a game on Linux? It’s ALWAYS either the DRM or anti-cheat. Either way, corporate BS that hinders honest paying customers more than the people it’s trying to stop.

The newest updates for LibreWolf just implemented stricter/more secure DNS settings by default. You may want to check those to see if that’s the issue.

Most people don’t, or only throw something like 5 bucks at games like that here or there. But some F2P games are pushing 10 years or more in existence, so somebody’s paying to keep the servers running. The backbone of that industry is the small population of “whales” who spend their life’s savings to get the superior rare new cosmetic or in-game currency to gamble their life away to maybe pull enough copies to max out their waifu. Then they’ll use said cosmetic or waifu for about a month before the next super-ultra rare amazing once-in-a-lifetime hat or weapon comes along, or another waifu who totally eclipses their original one is released, then it’s rinse, repeat ad infinitum until the whale is flat broke and their life is ruined. But at least they maxed out their waifu and got to the top of the rankings in the leaderboard.

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Yeah, at least some in-game currency is really the least they could have done if you’re gonna pay money to just get the base game to begin with since it’s F2P (pay-to-win) otherwise. Complete waste of money even for people who play and regularly spend money on these types of games.

I’ve been a part of two different friends’ attempts to quit addiction to MMOs. A high school friend had a problem with Everquest back before WoW. His brother recruited us friends to help give him alternative stuff to do like movie and other game nights. We succeeded, and he was able to put the game down. Some college friends and I were not so successful in pulling one of my roommates away from WoW. Activision Blizzard have it literally down to the science of addiction.

Lightly half works for me on Plasma 6 following instructions on the qt6 version on GitHub. The window decorations and Lightly-related aspects of the plasma theme work, but I can’t apply the application style.

I dunno, the N64 had just as long a lifespan as the other consoles at the time. That said, the Game Boy was still selling like crazy (one word: Pokemon), especially with the Pocket and Color out in the N64 era, and the Game Gear was already effectively dead by then. I don’t know what Nintendo would’ve been so afraid of there.

It just wasn’t a problem to them and it was a problem for people they didn’t like (whom they call Nazis, various “-ists” and so on if they dare think differently from them). Now it’s flipped and it’s a problem for them but not the people they don’t like. Every platform needs some form of moderation, but that moderation can run the risk of being too harsh on certain groups depending on the opinions of the moderators. Dorsey himself admitted this was happening at Twitter (being too harsh on legitimate conservative views (not just real Nazis) because the mods didn’t like them) to Congress before it was sold, and he did little to nothing about it. Now the moderation seems to be at the whims of however Elon is feeling on any given day, and due to his own stances, liberals are now getting the brunt of it. It really would be nice to just have somewhere where only the very extremes of left and right, and any actual illegal content, would be moderated out and the mods could keep to that no matter what “side” they or ownership is on. But I know that’s just a pipe dream.

I have noticed a similar icon issue, where instead of the question mark the lock to show a secure/VPN network just does not appear sometimes. I check and see that apparently I am connected to the VPN, but for my own peace of mind I end up reconnecting over and over again, sometimes switching servers up, just to make the icon appear correctly.

Not at all saying the injury was “good”. And to me, Darnold seems like an ideal bridge QB: someone they could get for a short contract on a budget while they get JJ ready. It may not necessarily be pleasant to suggest the team is basically writing off a year before Week 1, but they’re clearly looking at the long term rather than the short term. It’s a pain that we Vikings fans will just have to live with this season, but we’re quite used to pain, lol.

I think I still have one of those. It was Logitech. I thought it was good unless I wanted to use the thumbsticks or triggers. I always thought the Sony design of putting the thumbsticks down in the lower-middle was really awkward, and for some reason, using the triggers on the Logitech controller sometimes felt a bit painful.