You’re not wrong, but your last statement is also quite telling of what these city council meetings claim to be, which is genuine public consultation, vs what they actually are, a token and ultimately silly nod to democratic process at the end when the decision-making is 99% complete.
World War II was also the most geopolitically complex issue on the planet.
There’s always a black flag.
Ads are already everywhere, nobody said anything about it being unimaginable. You have product placement (especially IP crossovers) in lots of live service games. That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to pay for an ad free experience. You can watch a movie on cable TV with ads every 15min, or buy the movie, or rent it, or stream it ad-supported/ad-free or go to the movie-theater with front-end ads. If you don’t want to watch Dune with a commercial break interrupting the middle, there’s an option for that.
Or the ads are incidental to the aesthetics of the activity, like sponsor ads on sports jerseys, in the stadium, and TV/stream. So what if the car chasing James Bond is an Audi because they paid for that.
I’m not pro-advertising, I do think “all major gaming experiences will be ruined with advertising” is a bit overblown.
Me too, but clearly there’s a huge part of the market that would rather put up with ads than go with an alternative
This is to refine existing F2P advert inserts so the timing is less abrupt. It is also for an ad-supported game-pass tier so they can inject ads into any game in the library.
Will it mean more developers/publishers choose to inject ads into games? Maybe. But plenty of games already have convenient spots for ads that don’t require this kind of tech, like match queuing, etc. and they don’t run ads.
What is this lawsuit trying to accomplish? It seems like a nothingburget
I remember thinking oh, they’re doing First Contact vibes, I enjoyed that for them. And the end credits music ever gets old hehe. But honestly, I don’t remember S3 much beyond that 🫤
Why is center-left in quotations? The center-left has always had a threshold on macroeconomic/corporate stability where they switch from pro-labour to union-busting… That’s part of what makes them center-left, especially the more neoliberal elements. Even the NDP has a complex relationship with labour. Part of that is because civil service unions will always be on the opposite side of negotiations from government by definition.
It’s a mid-deal. He’s not nobody, he’s a privileged artist who writes sappy music that a lot of people bop their head to. So this contributes to the overall sustainment of outrage over what Israel is doing to Palestinians. But it’s not going to move the needle on what’s happening even marginally and honestly it’s not going to change how audiences feel about the genocide one way or another. Maybe a handful of people will pause and question or pay more attention if they’ve been tuned out. It’s a mid-deal.
Banana ice cream is just blended frozen bananas at the most basic. Sure you can add some (non)dairy milk and sugar, but it’s still mostly just banana. And it’s delicious!
Planescape Torment, The Longest Journey, Max Payne, Mafia the city of Lost Heaven, BioWare games (KotOR, Mass Effect, etc), Persona 3/4, Dead Space, Alan Wake, Deus Ex… I mean storytelling over gameplay is Quantic Dream’s whole schtick, success/failure aside. Previous Naughty Dog games.
There’s a bit of a a conflation between cinematic presentation and storytelling. I literally grew up on story driven games well before TLoU. Homeworld was absolutely haunting with its understated dialogue, sweeping score, and timeless themes.
Even the year before TLoU, Spec Ops the Line came out, a deft and timely reimagining of The Heart of Darkness for the late Iraq war era–adding into it through the mechanics of the shooter genre. Talk about literary.
Ah, so municipalities should ration water to data centers just enough to cover sanitation and drinking needs, got it.
Most susages are also high in fat and salt, so I don’t know that eating them every morning would be a healthy switch. I’d feel heavy afterward. They are also high in nitrites, which lead to carcinogens… should be fine if eaten occasionally, or so I tell myself lol.
At the end of the day, it’s whatever works for you. And it’s worth trying different things.
Protein takes longer to metabolize into energy than carbs, hence you don’t crash like with carbs. Starchy veggies give you carbs, low-carb veggies don’t have protein or carbs so you’ll just be extra tired.
Who in this economy is eating too much protein?
Too much is like 3 large chicken breasts or 5 beef patties per day for a 150lb person.
This thread rightly points out all the excesses of capital-fueled social trends.
Less mentioned is that a higher protein breakfast ~20-30g vs traditional carb-heavy breakfast is actually helpful for more stable morning energy (less sugar crash), cognitive clarity, and reduced snack cravings especially later in the day. Search any of your reputable health sources and you’ll likely find something to that effect. I don’t believe it’s particularly disputed at this point.
People don’t depend on restaurant businesses for sustenance, thats what they depend on grocery/farming businesses for as you already show. People buy time, energy, and enjoyable experiences from restaurant businesses.
If I have a craving for tacos, this craving has to hit me at a convenient enough time for me to plan a recipe and shopping list (15min for my brain), go to the grocery store (30 min), put things away and clean limited kitchen space cause I’m always behind on chores (10 min), chop prep pico de Gallo spice and saute beef toast shells assemble garnish (60 min cause my efficiency sucks), clean up and pack leftover (20 min). That’s over 2 hours after a work day when I just wanted to turn off my brain and eat tacos, so now I’m even more exhausted. And I actually like cooking.
It used to be you could spend ~0.5x more for cheap takeout to save yourself the time, energy, and mental effort of doing it yourself. Now it costs 2-3x more. That cost increase is part of what people are pissed about.
The US environment, systems, and societies are not conducive to HSR. You will see widespread cheap electric flights before you see HSR. Here’s a good video explaining why: https://youtu.be/753xlF0EWsI
Basically the land costs way more, it’s viewed as business that needs to profit, not infrastructure you spend on, and you cant bulldoze over people as cheaply to make the necessary routes.