I “own” this on PlayStation. Will I still be able to download it after 17th?

Edit: I just read the article and it says that we will.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

My point is that you need to decide which games to play and that you have already judged a game when you decide not to play it.

You might not like the art style, or the gameplay, or the reviews or whatever but you have definitely judged it without playing it. The only other alternative is to literally download and play every game that you see.

If you can’t be bothered to actually try what you’re criticizing, you have zero business judging it. That’s not opinion—that’s ignorance.

If there are 700,000 games then you must judge games without trying them. Otherwise you’d be constantly playing games to see if they’re any good and would still not get through them all.

I use it to do things at the same time as other things. I can add something to the shopping list when I’m cooking or turn on the fan when I’m getting ready for bed without stopping what I’m doing to click buttons. I find that it’s really good for things that can’t easily be automated but you also can’t (or don’t want to) put on a physical button.

I actually use Alexa as I haven’t had time to investigate HA voice control but the principle is the same.

They are competitors on a personal level as many people only have the time or money to fit one of them into their lives. But by that definition cycling or golfing is also a competitor and nobody would write an article about how bikes outsold the Steam Deck.

Fuck off.

I’m sorry that I offended you. I was genuinely trying to be helpful in pointing out how what you said could be misconstrued.

But the ones that I have met expressed very overtly racist positions that were logically inconsistent in any other scenario: special pleading all the way.

I wasn’t, at the time, back around a decade ago now, telling my white liberal friends ‘all Israelis are racist because I met a few’.

I’m not saying that you were being racist. I’m saying that it’s very easy to come across as racist when pointing out things that you don’t like about a few people off the same race.

You are here doing the thing my former friends did: You are assuming I did and said things I did not do nor say, and are pearl clutching… because you’ve head canon’d in your own missing context and additional details.

I’m doing no such thing. I wasn’t judging you for your observations and I made no statement about whether I thought you were racist or not because I don’t have the information required to suggest that you are.

But did you read the entire article that is this post?

No, I didn’t need to because I was only making the comment that it’s very easy to be seen as racist when you talk about a race of people.

I’m pretty sure that 5 is a feature because the button that moved is usually replaced with a clickable ad.

Meanwhile, I’ve been anti Zionist my whole life, and every single actual Israeli I’ve ever met has been a racist, anti-Islamic Zionist… and when I point this out, almost every white liberal or self described lefty has called me an antisemite.

The problem is that there is a fine line between stating your observations of a few people and racism.

I’d guess that you haven’t met many actual Israelis…… certainly not enough to be a statistically significant sample. If that’s the case then assuming that your observations apply to the whole population becomes racism.

Sounds like SAP.

I don’t follow games before release so I wasn’t disappointed by missed promises and really enjoyed it.

The first that I heard of it was how buggy it was so I left it until people were saying the bugs were mostly fixed before getting it on sale.

I don’t think that the NPC behaviour was the problem but the fact that they promised more. The NPCs didn’t feel significantly different to those in other games for me.

I can only assume that interference like this reduces the chances of them electing “the right leader”.

In my opinion, Portal 2’s difficulty curve was off. It started in a good place and ended in a good place but was too easy for most of the game.

The two player section was fantastic though.

I’m not sure that the UK would listen if he tried it independently. I think that it would give a huge boost to the anti monarchy movement if he tried to actually use his power for anything non-symbolic.

I imagine that every law that mentions the monarch of England would become redrafted to be relevant like we did with the EU laws when we left.

I think that it will be a legal protection thing.

If you say that the car hit the pedestrians then that cannot be disputed.

If you say that the driver drove into the pedestrians then you could be sued if it was later proven to be mechanical failure.

Even if it was pretty obviously intentional you don’t want to leave that decision up to the reporter. You need to wait until you are 100% sure which would only come upon conviction.

I think that there is always an implied design requirement of the program shouldn’t crash.

I really liked the potential of Kinect as the first one had some good stuff for it.

I liked the fitness and dancing apps, I thought the Forza Motorsport integration was very subtle but good for immersion and the voice control of Mass Effect 3 was also immersive.

They were all promising improvements that could have gone somewhere with the second version. But then they fucked it up and it went nowhere.