Also from not believing me. They were told what it was but they didn’t believe me, so they didn’t know what it was until they pressed it.

I’m sure Google profited more than $425 million by doing so.

This is just part of the cost of doing business.

If you told people “this button will shock you if you press it. It will hurt.” Some people will press the button.

I moved my MIL to Mint. It runs faster and she hasn’t had any issues accessing Internet and email.

Apparently I shouldn’t. But if there’s a list of soulslike games that do it, and a list of soulslike games that don’t, then it is not in fact true for the genre and is instead true for specific games.

Also, “hive”.

I loved Ender’s Lilies and it had save points outside the boss rooms. I do not believe the game would have been more iconic if I had to run through several rooms of enemies before fighting a boss again.
The joy of victory came from overcoming a difficult fight, not from avoiding a tedious repeat.

You’re pointing a finger at the Soulslike genre here, not only HK

I played some Elden Ring and as I recall there were check points next to the bosses.

Ender’s Lilies is a metroidvania listed as a soulslike and always has a check point next to the boss room (highly recommend it btw).

Fair enough. It isn’t that they’re better, it’s just that they’re less worse.

With all that being said: long live gaben.

I like Steam, I like that they aren’t being dicks and treat users well. That said: billionaires are not your friend.
There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.

How you modify cards is important. High blood costs are hard to play and need to be worth it. It’s been a while since I played but I found most success with keeping blood costs down, cards that return to hand when destroyed, and attacking multiple lanes. Stinky is also surprisingly useful at times.

My first successful run was as a result of creating a card that cost 0 and returned to my hand when killed. You definitely need to play a couple runs to build up a strategy and create some cards that go in the deck.

Science studying the phenomenon have called doors “memory erasers”. Your brain considers a different room the equivalent of a different environment, and tosses out the short term memory from the environment you’re no longer in (the next room over).

The effect is so pronounced it can be replicated by having participants go through a “virtual doorway” on a computer.

Sure, the 2 constants in the universe are Entropy and Enshitification. When Steam turns to shit I’ll go back to Piracy just like I did when Netflix went to shit.

My point is that companies don’t have to be shit about account sharing and family plans, and people don’t have to accept it.

Meanwhile on Steam my “family” consists of 3 adults with different addresses, last names, and credit cards, who have had accounts for decades and never lived at the same place.

We have full access to each other’s library.

They’ve been working really hard on their project based on the series Don’t create the Handmaid’s Tale.

It’s caused by psychotic power hungry narcissists willing to do anything to stay in control…you know, the type of people willing to do anything to obtain power in the first place

You know, the type of people who end up with the most power under capitalism.

Wouldn’t it make browsers illegal? They’re modifying the html code in order to present a webpage that is useful to the end user.

I remember the add that made me install my first add blocker. It stated playing the sound of knocking on glass and a voice going “Hey You!”. With a looped videoof some guy waving at me.

I have a similar story. People were fine with ads until they got too obnoxious and intrusive, and now the people making the obnoxious intrusive ads are crying that people are blocking them.

It would be much harder to block ads if they were more like newspapers and just a part of the page you were viewing, instead of imported from a different source.

But in order to do that the site themselves would be responsible for the ads they display instead of blaming their ad service, and they would lose out on all their tracking data.

So fuck em.

Maybe start with doing some research on the Internet yourself instead of asking random strangers from other countries to fix things for you.