I mean technically you own the house and the bank owns your loan (with house as collateral), but I do get your point about taxes. However, if the bank had to pay the taxes, they’d just wind up incorporated into the loan. And if the bank actually owned the home, you’d need their approval for any changes.

As for mortgage insurance, you can avoid that with a large enough down payment (20%).

As for the full cost of the loan, I thought that is part of the standard paperwork? If not, sounds like you might have had a bad realtor. You can also look up that info online with any mortgage calculator.

I thought that was only the rumored price. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a price revision before release up to $500, unless they had already priced tarrifs in.

Given the switch2 is going to cost more, definitely.

Also games are going to be $80 apparently :(

Definitely, and that’s why hard/strict laws or rules can be dangerous. Much like the famous “I know it when I see it” judgment on obscenity.

The biggest issue with this line of thinking is, how do you prove it’s CP without a victim. I suppose at a certain threshold it becomes obvious, but that can be a very blurry line (there was a famous case where a porn star had to be flown to a court case to prove the video wasn’t CP, but can’t find the link right now).

So your left with a crime that was committed with no victim and no proof, which can be really easy to abuse.

Edit: This is the case I was thinking of - https://nypost.com/2010/04/24/a-trial-star-is-porn/

Thanks! That helps a lot!

Outside of Maleficent, all of them have been shot for shot remakes (with one additional scene/song to make it “different”). And animation is just a better medium for magic and whimsy compared to what you can do in live action.

I was actually looking at a chart earlier today, and it’s crazy. They had declining sales going from NES->SNES->N64->GameCube.

The first time a home console beat the sales of the NES was the Wii, when they stopped chasing performance of the systems.

Not the same chart, but to provide proof - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles

Out of curiosity what do you do at the protests? Is it just standing around or something more involved?

I understand what you see wrong with my comment and hopefully can explain a bit better.

Basically the entire article is based on anecdotal evidence. I found that the root of each of their arguments really fell into a couple different areas. One being a misunderstanding on the long term impacts of Covid, the second being that the author is a bit behind the times (cost/use of textbooks was an easy example as it has been a major critique in college for over a decade), and the last calling out that the “average” student he interacts with may be getting pulled down by higher enrollment numbers.

For the most part my hope was to introduce some potential alternative interpretations to the things the author is seeing, that have some backing in statistics and research (although I know I did not provide them in my comment).

Yeah, I try not to make my posts too long. One person cleared him, but then still was flagged for El Salvador. Sounds like they’re not being too careful about how they’re processing people, which is just sad and terrifying.

Read the article, he isn’t jailed in the US, he’s in jail in El Salvador. He has no connection to El Salvador, so he’s being incorrectly incarcerated.

His family expected him in Venezuela where he is originally from. However much you might dislike someone in a country illegally, he shouldn’t be sent to a random prison in a random country.

Edit: This is the issue with not following due process. He was incorrectly identified as a gang member.

To me the authors critiques break down into three categories:

• Impacts of Covid: in academia we are still very much seeing some impacts from covid. Students are behind in a lot of ways and that gap is never going to be made back up in a single class.
• “Old man yelling at clouds”: he mentions his text books range from $40-100 for a class, but for all classes that can get up over $500. Additionally, many students know some books will be used once (I had classes that never used some of the “Required” texts.
• College as a employment pipeline: given they’re Gen they are prime for the group of students where college was sold as a pipeline to good jobs. This has pumped up enrollment numbers (meaning it drags down the average). Lower-mid schools will be most impacted by lowering standards driven by increased demand.

He’s not wrong that it feels like students are less engaged, but I’m not sure if not as convinced it is a shift in the populace as much as a shift in the average college student (both due to covid and increased enrollment).

Oh yeah, definitely.

Yeah, I was surprised given the success that they didn’t even spit out something to keep people engaged with the game. Seemed like even a small content update or doc would have pulled people in.

Hopefully it just means the follow-up will be even better.

They’re still moving forward with the sequel (at least according to the article), so if I had to guess they figured they missed the boat with the expansion and want to focus on the sequel instead.

Refactoring a code base is kinda like general maintenance for the application. Over time deprecated features, temp fixes, etc. start to be a lot of the code base. By cleaning things up you can make it more maintainable, efficient, etc.

That being said, for systems this large you usually fix up parts of it and iterate over time. Trying to do the whole code base is hard cause it’s like replacing the engine while the car is in motion.

Yeah, everyone giving it kudos doesn’t realize its actually even more restrictive than the previous setup.

Before you could:

• Have two consoles playing the same game (as long as both had wifi access).
• Have two consoles share a library when not in physical proximity.
• No time limit on sharing.

Admittedly you could only share games one way with that, so it really only worked for two people. So families with more than two switched are about the only ones this would benefit (maybe a group of friends in close proximity).

Make a fake account and just post random things so the government doesn’t think your lame when they check your social media.

This article and thread are talking about border agents, which operate under different rules/regulations than you local police officer.

While US citizens cannot be denied entry, non-citizens can if they refuse to unlock their phone. Even US citizens can have devices confiscated if you refuse to unlock the phone for them - https://www.theverge.com/policy/634264/customs-border-protection-search-phone-airport-rights. Because at the border, it’s been decided searches don’t require a warrant.