Remember, if Valve actually lost this suit, which they almost certainly won’t, it won’t improve the videogame ecosystem. It will possibly make it worse.

Tiktok doesn’t cost thousands of dollars?

I’d argue that they aren’t so much atheist as they are fascist, as in, the leader is the god.

Woke is the new Red I guess?

McCarthyism’s back yo! Or, rather, it never really left.

Ironic but entirely expected

He has such an outrageous amount of wealth that he’ll never be poor. Not even if all his assets are nationalized. He’s probably squirreled away money in as many holes as possible. He will probably never see any proper justice for any of his actions.

The more people in a public place, the more likely you are to get argumentative people in the mix. There’s going to be someone who throws the first punch.

What I will always find funny is that pirated and cracked games run better than the actual ones with Denovo.

Reminds me of “Hysteria” which was effectively just the medical excuse to penalize women for getting “uppity.” Nowadays, there’s even one that the police have been using recently called “excited delirium” or something, which is what they try to compel coroners to use when they kill someone through unreasonable levels of force when those people fight for their lives.

Considering that there are swaths of the population to this day that barely consider (If they consider at all) certain other swaths conscious beings, I don’t have high hopes for us figuring out if an AI is.

The same people that pushed the Eugenics movement were probably the same people that got those into the law texts however.

Moron, imbecile, and dullard came out of eugenics IIRC. Does “lame” have that origin too?

I’ve heard it used to refer to injured or weakened legs, as well as the creature they’re attached to. As in, “the cow was lame because of its injured hoof.” I’ve heard it used to refer to something that is boring or disappointing. “That movie was lame.” or “That was lame.”

I wouldn’t doubt that there is some negative connotation for it though. Terrible people tend to take innocuous words and twist them to suit their schemes.

That’s my thinking too. It’s too removed from its roots to really have a negative context for most folks.

I do like using Whack yeah

I didn’t say all the debt, or even a lot of it. You even gave an example of debt that can follow your family.

Edit: this is also assuming you are in the US. Which isn’t the whole world.

I remember seeing an article somewhere about this. Effectively, there really bad diminishing returns with these game graphics. You could triple the detail, but there’s only so much that can fit on the screen, or in your eyes.

And at the same time, they’re bloating many of these AAA games sizes with all manner of garbage too, while simultaneously cutting the corners of what is actually good about them.

I’m partial to “Who’da thunk that was gonna happen?”

Does the distinction even matter in this context? Neither is good and neither should be permitted.

That’s the rub isn’t it. You’re not supposed to ever get out of debt. As long as you are in debt, someone’s earning interest on it. And that debt can even follow your family long after you are gone.