RubberDuck

I know… but plenty of writers of articles seem to use the term gamers to identify everyone that plays any game… so of you don’t identify your target audience good enough you run the risk of making something that on paper will appeal to everyone but in practice to no one.

And also successes of iterative games like fifa run on the fact that real world changes to for example teams players are in drive sales… Because the player base is invested in the real world sport… so they want this year’s game because now the players shifted teams. But a new iteration of other games will not have that external pull.

Well, gamers includes anyone sliding their finger on a phone screen now playing Farmville and stuff…and that is a looooooot of people. So that moves the needle on the average gamer a lot towards that end. And I think there is limited overlap between the people that use it as a time suck and the people that sit down and turn on their console/pc to play a game as a hobby.

So if the MBAs looked at statistics too much… you also get a warped idea.

It seems that stuff that gets people most excited are the inspired games made by creative people because they had a vision for their game…

A neil bison with a spliff

They can turn off the game when they choose to.

Google has to allow users to separate accounts on their services. It’s probably a popup that asks if you want to keep it all in one account or use a separate account for YouTube.

Air pollution is not the issue with nuclear. The issue is the mining of the nuclear materials, the enrichment and the nuclear waste (spent fuel and equipment used in the whole process).

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  Warning: numbers are only from light googling.

The world uses 25.000 TWh of electricity.
24.000Kg of Uranium per TWh nuclear.
600.000.000Kg of Uranium per year (if all nuclear).

At ~53cm3 per Kg that’s 31.8 billion cm3 or 31.800m3.

I wanted to visualize… so how many shipping containers is that. At 33m3 per container (TEU twenty ft equivalent unit) approx ~964 TEU containers… Actually less than I expected.

Or rooms of old people all sucked into their screen not talking to eachother

Mobile games are (mostly) pretty linear micro transaction hellscapes. But that is my opinion.

And I fully agree they (mobile games) have their market, which is fine for the people that play them. People can sit on the couch or on their commute and play some levels and spend the time.

The PC and console games are much more complex to create and draw in a completely different player base. It is more of a destination sort of speak.

Tossing these 2 on one pile means it is less clear how each of the markets are developing.

Yeah the conflation of mobile gaming with PC and console gaming is just bad. I don’t know how the cut should be made tbh but this seems silly.

On the other side, more and more midlife+ in online games like Helldivers, cod and such.

Star Citizen has entered the chat…

This! I don’t understand this whole schtick… as doing it on the background is probably just as easy. The problem for Sony is that this is considered PII as it is unique to a human being meaning in the EU it can only be processed for a good and explicit reason or with voluntary consent.

Now using the argument it is required in order to provide the service might work… but then they (Sony) cannot use it for anything else without exposing them to liability of fines at a percentage or global revenue.

Ha! I also turned off cross play as the function was nothing but causing me issues. Never looked back.

Can you help me understand what the first 6 questions have to do with the survey subject of moderation? They seem to collect personal information without direct bearing on anything.

I don’t think they mean services people subscribe to.

Well some of these will not require your daughter to think of her stripper name.

Well yes and no. Fascism is a form of authoritarianism and if your leader controls stuff…

Unfamiliarity with the real deal, and the horrors it will bring. Combined with the belief that because you are the “in group” it will not be detrimental to you, only the “out group”.

You do something similar, by expanding the scope of authoritarian rule (that determines the direction of society at large) with small scale power relations which by themselves are governed (and limited) by society. There is plenty that is not allowed in the example relations you give by societal norms (laws/tradition/morals).

Instead of banning tipping, the law should maybe require to include all costs. This should not just apply to stuff served, but anything.

I’m not your pal, buddy!

Thanks for that tidbit of background. Much appreciated. The location does seem hostile to anything other than cars… that’s a stroad for you.

All that space can easily fit a protected bikelane and pavement on either side with a row of trees on the separator between the bikelane and the carlane… such a waste.

Obligatory, stroads are stupid.