Especially with ear licking being a thing

Yeah no shit. Still helped.

Nah, it is good natured ribbing 100%. People who are alone for 28 years in a row either are completely inept at human interaction or don’t want a partner / aren’t ready for one. The first case is incredibly rare, in the second case you probably are secure enough in it to laugh with them. And at the end of the day - it worked to get the cousing to start laughing and stop thinking about how hurt they are.

Nah payday 3 flopped. They had stupid decisions that are fundamentally ruining the game and got rid of the people buying in early. It’s also unfinished as you mentioned. Can’t fully stealth heists - which a lot of people do in Payday 2 - the assassin gameplay and stealth are simple and really fun (when they work). The initial levelling system was bonkers.

It deserved what it got

If you buy a thousand dollar ship you get a second shop that opens with ten thousand dollar ships. I wish I was kidding.

I literally did everything there is to do in Elite, bar maybe the thargoids. Ultimately don’t have anyone to play with since my friend group bounced off it. I’m one of those freaks that fly 99% in FA off.

Yeah I wish I could get a return from the kickstarter.

Their kickstarter page does, promising both Star Citizen and Squadron 42

Meh, pretty low on scale of weirdness. Pizza employees remember regulars well. Friends of mine are vegetarian and also have some specific exclusions because they don’t like an ingredient. Each time she calls in now, when they hear her voice they immediately ask “vegetarian pizza with xx, without yyy, zzz, medium?” And all she says is “yup”, confirms the address and it’s ordered. Having a “quirky” guy call in with requests like these makes for a cool story you tell your new coworkers, a break in a busy day (“captain america called!”) etc. At the end of the day you’re not forced “to play the game” after all, you can just deliver and not interact.

Reminder bot at least had a purpose and had to be manually triggered by someone to act. I’m talking about the annoying ones, like the spelling bot, it just scraped as much as it could, looked for common spelling errors and corrected people. Good thing bots were getting banned left and right. People aren’t original. When on /freefolk the Bobby bot got successful via a meme, there were like 10 other copycats the next week, made by people who didn’t know that nobody called the character “bobby” unless they wanted to invoke it. So then, a bot would pop up for writing Tyrion, Cersei, Tywin, etc, which were used always, since it was a fandom subreddit.

Every script kiddie after a single class in uni knows how to make one. That’s why reddit had so many annoying bots that did fuckall but tried to be funny.

Just use parametrized queries and it would do the job for you?

Should have just taken charge instead of going with the techleads thing. They aren’t the lord and master, they are a developer like you with a little bit of responsibility tacked on.

It’s a really old one and gets eyerolls in tech at this moment, since it needs to be used so often

Nah, that’s just because your company uses the cheapest of the cheap.

They already are in control. Kotick is gone. But yet, shit like this still continues

It’s worth it full price. On GOG. Play it with a 4 player party on one copy. Then buy more copies once there is a sale / once you want to support the devs.

We had em and still did skins vs shirts when it was hot outside

Why spend millions on QA, delaying games, etc when people buy millions of copies regardless? You get an influx of cash that can sustain further development. If the game sells badly, you saved millions when you sunset the game without fixes. If not, you fix stuff, add content that was meant to be in the game and diehards love it.

People aren’t patient and they buy the next big thing. They don’t want to play a game half a year after release, they want it now. They want fifa 24 or whatever it is, not 22. You wait on Baldur’s Gate 3 - you got to play an excellent game way after everyone. What if the next Call of Duty is as good as BG3 was?

Obviously we all know that won’t be the case, but if gaming is what you do for an hour every week, you probably won’t do a lot of research.

Mattermost

Which should be obvious to Biden that it’d be a huge problem to continue unwavering support of Israel and that the enemies of the US will use it. At some point, it needs to stop and it seems like we’re way past that point already. Public opinion hates genocide and war. If the situation was reversed, with Biden calling for a cease fire from the start, only shills would be moaning about it and it would blow over. And now it only alienates more people, more countries.