Every time - every single time - I’ve purchased a major AAA game anywhere close to the release window in the past 10 years, it’s been a mistake. Pay a shitload more for a half baked, buggy, unfinished mess.

At this point I just don’t buy big time releases within 6 months of launch. Even when I’m certain of the game itself, it just ends up being a mistake.

Because the most evil people on the planet are universally convinced that they’re heroes.

…said some dumbass executive, while masturbating furiously at the fantasy.

They don’t all do this, though - research seems to use imaging and other observational techniques, self reporting isn’t the only source. Brain imaging is one, and I know they’ve demonstrated variance in automatic pupil responses to back up self report. I think they have also used it as a research control in other studies after that, but I don’t know a ton about it. [EDIT: as someone else pointed out it seems like they literally do include that in this case]

This is what I remember reading, I think, and that…advocacy? awareness?..site also has a decent running collection of assorted research. Seems like it’s not very well understood or studied, which makes sense when it doesn’t really affect behavior or quality of life.

something something her emails something something

So, China strategically fills the vacuum left behind as the US voluntarily flushes 75 years of work developing soft power down the toilet.

No kidding. Who could possibly have seen that coming aside from literally any human being on the planet who doesn’t work for the White House?

These fradulent motherfuckers are so far up their own asses they can see daylight again.

You can’t threaten me with a good time.

“We don’t all feel the same way about AI.”

Literally 95% of users: uh, yeah we kinda do.

Absolutely. There will be a fat donation, and then the EPA will mandate its ongoing use on all crops at 150% volume going forward. The Department of Health will issue guidance that it’s super not linked to cancer and safe to drink straight (bonus: this also cures the measles, which is good because they’re back “somehow”!) to intentionally undermine any lawsuits, and the USDA will cut off farm subsidies to anyone who doesn’t comply in practice.

Isn’t crony fascism grand?

I don’t think your mom has value. Guess I get to execute her if I want, and she doesn’t get to whine about it.

Then it may be time to go shopping while you still can.

God damn right.

*for the 1/10% deemed worthy of surviving by the Totally Benevolent Masters.

They just transparently cannot wait for the day where they genuinely don’t need poor people for labor anymore and get to kill off almost everyone else outside their aristocratic bubble.

No, it’s absolutely correct as you broaden it to consider the average adult costs vs the average child.

The real reason you see this is that your employer gets a SUBSTANTIAL subsidy for YOUR insurance via a payroll tax credit. They do not get this for your spouse, so you see the true cost for them.

Gonna be donated to the dumpster out back, more like.

Hell no, people can finally spell it.

Uh huh. Sure. Just like Epstein. We all believe you, just another convenient coincidence…

This is what they’re willing to fight to the death for.

Not indefinite extrajudicial detentions of American citizens. Not targeted legal persecution of political enemies. Not using military resources and drones on fishing boats. Not heavy handed censorship and retaliation on critical speech.

But try to gut the subsidies keeping private insurance solvent and propping up the Ponzi scheme we call a healthcare system, well that’s just a bridge too far.

They can find their spine when something they care about is under threat. They just don’t care about us.

And then not release a single game built for or exclusive to it until 2035. Hard pass.