I doubt it was phonebanking that did it, that was just the ground level cover. Guarantee they made a direct financial threat against shareholders.

Nah, pretty sure the policy got implemented in the first place because the deep pockets of the ideological lobbyist group.

There was also a worldwide effort to fix any potential problems before they happened.

Any workplace with halfway decent IT will disable it by default.

Which may be about 50% of workplaces, but still.

For an update or two, at least. Windows features tend to get turned back on after updates quite frequently.

But scary robots will take over the world! That’s what all the movies are about! If it’s in a movie, it has to be real.

The Thin man did have the perfect marriage…

That’s probably an aspect, but likely there weren’t enough people talking about it because most who did though it was mediocre at best.

For a franchise this popular, a few noisy bigots won’t stop people from seeing it. If anything, it draws more attention to the show. You can see this with shows that are actually good.

There are now sixteen competing standards.

I do that, but then it freaks my cats out.

Admittedly if they weren’t sleeping on it, it’d be less of an issue…

This isnt anywhere near the level of mainstream game that most of these boycotts are focused on. It’s definitely a more niche audience.

The biggest thing is if streamers get in on the boycott. That’ll affect sales the most.

But they said they wouldn’t!

It was very much not an action oriented game. It was more about building resources and exploration. I can definitely see it not appealing to large swatches of the gaming population. Especially those used to the modern spate of action rpgs.

They’re literally selling faster than the original Switch, what the fuck are you smoking?

Wii fit trainer?

While he has super-speed, super-hearing, super-strength… he’s not omnipotent, omniscient, nor omnipresent. He still has limitations, even if he has less than the typical person, or even the typical superhero.

That’s basically the entire basis of The Sentry from Marvel.

What if Superman had depression.

Depends on how you define intelligence. If intelligence is only your max possible ability to process thoughts, yeah. Clarity won’t increase intelligence, just increase utilization of intelligence. But if it’s a more dynamic measurement, then intelligence would be improved by clarity of thought.

It would be nice if it were above politics. But what you’re attributing to nefarious deeds… is literally what politics is. Power players trying to leverage anything they can to accumulate as much influence as possible. Sometimes these come in the form of scheming plans, but more often than not it’s just manipulating any convenient happenstance that falls at their feet.

Sometimes people have ideas that just don’t work out. Even if the same people make another game, unless they just make a carbon copy they’re going to try and do something different. Sometimes it doesn’t work as well as the original, but at least it’s not churning out the same thing over and over and hoping people don’t notice.

Granted, Gamefreak has basically been doing that for 25 years, so what do I know?