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Huh, inflation doesn't quite get you there. Maybe if we calculate from the $300 console Nintendo released five years earlier, let me check . . . $424.58. That's much closer, maybe Nintendo only adjusts for inflation every 10 or so years.
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Does amazon generally participate in those? The top search results for a newly released product are stores. It was very late when I posted, I guess I just misread a 4 as a 9. As in I mistook 449 as 499.
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No, I rounded them all up a dollar, if I was off by $50 I apologize. That's the price that I saw in the first page of search results.
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The NES came out in 1985 for $200.
SNES in 1991 for $200
N64 in 1996 for $200
Gamecube in 2001 for $200
Wii in 2006 for $250
WiiU in 2012 for $300
Switch in 2017 for $300
The Switch 2 is $500
That's not inflation or production costs, that's boundary testing.
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This simply isn't true.
The reason the Switch lasted 8 years without a price hike is that the price is totally arbitrary, disconnected from production costs. Nintendo has happily sold their consoles at a loss because the real money is made selling dev kits to studios and taking a cut of game sales
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Yes, like with all fascists, his words have nothing to do with observable reality, he speaks only to indicate membership to an in group. He bitches about CoD being stale and TF3 being cancelled because he's heard the proles say these things and wants to be at the head of a populist hoard.
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I mean, Section 4 of the 25th Amendment is right there, and really specifically does this. It just requires the Presidential Cabinet to be extraordinarily brave, a least a little selfless and politically united in an act that undercuts their own power. So you can see why it's never been invoked.
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Well the sign was at the 2017 women's march. In that context I would take it to mean "I shouldn't have to fight for a right I've already had for 50 years"
"I don't want to fight for what's right" seems like an absurd way to interpret a woman who was actively protesting for what is right.
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Well it was a protest sign, they can fit about 10 words. There's no way to signal a profound understanding of of the world with 10 words on a sign.
Any discourse about the emptiness of a slogan on a sign is obviously motivated by more than a superficiality that is true of all signs ever made.
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Well then I guess they better do something to make a compelling game loop. A bunch of new characters aren't going to fall out of any butts in the next 2 months, so it would need to be something quick.
Do they have any compelling game loops over at Riot? Maybe with a bunch already made assets?
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So is your take that Riot Games can't afford to play a long game with a free-to-play title? As though they are teetering on the edge of ruin? I suppose I would sound insane if that were the case.
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Why are you talking like you have to choose one by losing the other? You can make a hundred of these in a month without talking to any modeller or animator. This does not take resources from character generation except in playtesting.
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It's a LoL fighting game. They should add itemization. Link currency production to building meter and let players buy boots of autoparry or some shit between rounds. Hell of a lot faster to make those than new characters, still gets you matchup depth and player expresion.
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Maybe they'll remake that WiiU Star Fox to have a normal, non-ass control scheme and release a Switch 1 and 2 version. I think it might be the last worthwhile game still locked in WiiU jail.
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Depends on how you define that. They're grotesquely underpaid, making about %80 of what an Eastern European dev would make and about half of what a US dev would make.
Smaller indie scene than is healthy, with around 6 companies sucking up all the air.
But their work is well loved.
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All internet newspeak is fascist coded. It's all about creating shibboleths to signal and exclude. If it doesn't start fascist it gets there real quick because the internet is mostly anonymous and mostly moderated by volunteers and that's a formula for nazi hangouts.
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When are you going to realize that centrist liberals lost the election. Kamala ran a centrist liberal campaign and lost. Your ideas are so deeply unpopular that even the threat of Trump couldn't dig you out of the hole.
You are the loser, and pretending it's somebody else's fault is mal-adjusted.
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I'm all for death of the artist, but it only works outside of critique when the author is dead. Until then you're handing money to an asshole and that's a moral statement.
If the person making my sandwich was an asshole I wouldn't want the sandwich, I just don't know the sandwich person like that.
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I think it might be easier to adapt a bad book than it is to adapt a good one. I think because bad books tend to have a lot of holes to fill with better ideas and nobody get's mad that you cut down a bad book. A good book is an embarrassment of riches to adapt because it's all important.
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Probably not, the dot matrix can be symmetrical. The solution here is to either find a chipless firmware seller to jailbreak your printer or to go to a printshop like Kinko's and pay in cash.
I'd go with Kinko's since even owning a printer is a bit of a scam unless you print A LOT. Hat on mask up
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He's a Republican US Senator for Florida who made his fortune in the 80s and 90s by buying hospitals. In the 2000s he was found guilty of massive medicare fraud and allowed to settle the case without jail-time for around 2 billion dollars. He's still worth hundreds of millions today.
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Yes, you have the moral high ground over the NFL, an entertainment program made by rich people to exploit poor people by having them beat each other until they are invalids.
What a profoundly high bar you have cleared, be proud.
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Breaking and Entering requires you to enter a building that you are not authorized to be in. They are authorized to be there, so there is no crime. A person is allowed to kick in their own door.
Stop doubling down on stupid.
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Arrested by who? The hired security guard with no legal authority?
Arrested for what? Entering a building they have a legal right to enter?
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It's to avoid people who search for the name of their cult leader. There are whole contingents of keyboard warriors looking to fight about these guys and misspelling their names is a good way to avoid a lot of trash engagement.
Once it starts others parrot the practice without knowing why.
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Also, that monkey wrench has LED lighting highlights, and I don't know how to feel about that.
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So . . . is this your cosplay for this set video? With that hair and mustache you can also do Freddie Mercury for some other event.
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That's because it mostly does. PS4 runs at 1080, PS5 runs at 4K. They don't know what resolution PC players are going to want, so it includes the assets to run at either. Resolution variance is a big reason for ballooning file size on PC.
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Where the other two examples are, I think, a very considered manipulation, I think Boris has just had that hair since he was 15 and is contemptuous of anybody who doesn't recognize it as a fairly common haircut for his cohort.
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The Chaplin mustache is a military regulation mustache. Facial hair needs to fit under a gas-mask, so mustaches can't extend past the nose. Hitler wore it to signal militance.
Boris's hair signals that he went to private school.
Trump's spray tan implies that he's nouveau riche.
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More than that, prisoners are considered residents of an area on census. Public grants that are alloted by population give more money to counties with more prisoners. Check out Fremont County in Colorado for the most extreme version of this public fraud. A tiny place with the best of everything.
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It's because she was always hateful. She despised every type of person she could socially get away with despising. This made her distinctly unpersonable, so she made no friends. Her first true interpersonal bonds were with transphobes, her whole social life is built out of hate.
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It would need to at least quintuple to feel appropriate. I'd heard they'd started limited tours to prevent carbon dioxide damage from people breathing on stuff. 100 pounds a head for 3 hours with the place is ridiculous.
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That's not an unreasonable amount of money, I've seen wedding venues that are worse.
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As far as I can tell the total cultural impact of solarpunk is a yogurt commercial and an apartment block in Milan.
I google the word and it tells me this is a genre of speculative fiction that emerged in 2008.
Is it? Is it really, google? Why is Dune on this solarpunk reading list?
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I really liked this, it feels like the completion of a trilogy that started in your cyberpunk articles. The last third is a beautiful call to action that lays all my niggling doubts to rest. You've won yourself a patron in the $5 tier.
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Bethke invented the word, but Gibson invented the genre. A world made nightmare by corporate deregulation and regulatory capture allowing companies more power than the state, written during the first term of the Reagan administration. Truly can't imagine why people thought that was leftist.
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It's not that encounter rates are too high, it's that there is an encounter rate. That engagement with randomness is a source of tension that will eventually wear out some player.
CT has bespoke fights, totally unworkable in a truly big game, but CT isnt't a big game, it just plays one on TV.
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I think its a quote, not sure from where, paraphrased "The next war becomes inevitable with the passing of the last veteran of the last war"
Capitalists did a lot to purge labor violence from collective memory, especially successful labor violence. No surprise they believe their own lies first.
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The Killdozer guy wasn't right in any sense, he was just a narcissistic wacko with a slightly more dramatic than usual murder-suicide plot.
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Shame and shunning are the tools people have to effect this deprogramming. Tools they are trying to use on you.
You can't enact a 72 hour psychiatric hold on Uncle Jimmy for belonging to all the wrong Facebook groups. All you can do is call him a creep and stop doing him any favors.
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Alright man, I get the headspace. For what it's worth, I like your work. It regularly makes me smile and I often learn something cool about movies, I appreciate it.
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Do you think that there's a right place to be or do you think appealing to an audience has inherent qualities you find distasteful?
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"You know 3 songs. Casting fireball for every occasion, you're like that guy who plays wonderwall everytime you see a guitar."
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Would you feel good about this idea if it were taking place in 2036 under a Republican administration headed Elon Musk and a robot controlled by the part of Aiden Ross's brain that saw Birth of a Nation?
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What does that mean? Are you saying we should have public libraries, or that the fed should have the exclusive distribution rights of everything?
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Do you know that you're calling for a monopoly? You're asking for all the media companies in the world to gather in a backroom and design God's Tollbooth. It's profoundly dystopian.
Consolidated platforms are theoretically convenient. There are very good reasons for them to not exist.
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My criticism is that the open world isn't very good due to a lack of biome diversity and (more importantly) a lack of landmarks. The ability to orient yourself in the world without opening a map is, to me, the difference between forming distinct memories of a place and not.
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No it isn't. The first reaction a person has to being giving an order is anger, every time. It takes violence to enforce authority, always.