Thalestr

Forgive me for the pessimism, but I sincerely doubt that they honour any opt-outs. Meta has shown time and time again that they’d rather just pay fines as business expenses instead of abiding by law(s).

This. Numerous industries in the US make use of forced prison labour.

Goddamn, I wish we could act like our own independent country for once instead of just puppeting whatever the US does.

Appeasing shareholders and investors.

Microsoft has so many spinning plates up in the air right now and they have no idea how to handle them all. Eventually they’re all going to come crashing down and smash on the floor and it’s not going to be pretty.

Most of the beloved Arkane team had left long before the closure.

I do not have hope that this developer will make another good game let alone one that respects the TES IP or in any way lives up to expectations.

Not in Utica, no; it’s an Albany expression.

Discord and Tumblr.

I have several of the original Philips LED replacement bulbs, which were some of the very first LED bulbs available. Paid about $35CAD each for them in late 2009 and they’re built out of solid metal and weigh a ton. They’re still going strong and put out a lovely light.

Woo! Happy to help 😁

My sister got me a weighted blanket a few years ago. I love it and use it every night.

Best given was a laser distance measurement tool I got for my dad who works in construction. He uses it all the time and has for years.

Same here.

The title made me think they were responding to users that needed customer support, but no. This:

Meanwhile, when another user lamented the amount of loading screens, the support team replied imploring the reviewer to “consider the amount of data for the expansive gameplay that is procedurally generated to load flawlessly in under three seconds”.

is just pathetic. This is nothing more than low-effort damage control. Which, funnily enough, is rather fitting for Starfield in general. It’s not a terrible game but it absolutely fell flat on its face on its biggest selling points. Procedural exploration will always have drawbacks but No Man’s Sky absolutely smashes Starfield in this department and it came out nearly 8 years ago and made by a team a fraction of the size. And I don’t expect Bethesda to put in the same effort as Hello did and make Starfield live up to its promises

Yes. Especially when it’s only like 2 or 3 years after first release. It’s just double dipping at that point.

Gotta double-dip for more profit.

Bison steak. I’m not a steak person so it was likely wasted on me.

I… can’t remember! It was a while ago and I’ve since cleared them off my Deck D:

Had a good playthrough of Dishonoured 2 and Death of the Outsider on my Deck. They run extremely well on the Steam Deck and I found a control layout that I liked.

You can search my full legal (dead)name online and find absolutely nothing. Not a single picture, mention, or anything even remotely close or even in the same vicinity as me.

Obviously that’s not a benefit to everyone but it is to me and has been achieved by maintaining some level of scrutiny over the information I make available.