Things seemed pretty good in the pre-agricultural age of hunting and gathering.

Give it a few years. Maybe announce the developer, then go silent for years (not two decades though) while they work on it quietly. Don’t hype it up, don’t ask the devs for press updates. Let the massive success of BG3 fade a little from recent memory so the new developers can do their own thing with it without having to deal with the pressure of following BG3.

The worst thing they could do is push for BG4 too quickly.

I think you have the terrible take. Untrained people shouldn’t be self-diagnosing based on hearing a list of symptoms, the brain is too good at tricking itself and it is too easy to even give yourself symptoms you don’t have.

And I don’t expect any one doctor to know of every treatment that exists for every illness, because that’s what collaborative knowledge bases are for. A carefully moderated medical Wikipedia that can be contributed to by doctors and researchers.

But all of this wouldn’t make the pharmesutical companies as much money as peddling to hypochondriacs so instead we have ads.

Only if you can prove it!

It’s not a waste if you have unusuals, stranges, or the hallowed australium frying pan!

Left for Firefox when they announced this update. I still have to use Chrome when I work in Google drive since basic functions like copy/paste don’t work in non-chrome browsers, but even without this update the minute+ time it takes for chrome to open reminds me I made the right decision.

That’s the thing about capitalism, it doesn’t have to be a conspiracy to be evil. Capitalism will optimize for the cheapest option to acquire the most profit, and generally the cheapest option is also the one that’s the worst for the workers/environment/consumers.

Sadly in my experience the boots theory is no longer accurate as the $50 pair of boots fall apart as quickly as the $10 pair, especially when talking about electronics. There may be longer lasting devices out there but the price is so beyond my price range that it may as well not exist.

Updated for 2024, the boots theory would read something more like a $50 pair of boots lasts for one year and is mostly comfortable to wear, the $10 pair lasts for one year but is uncomfortable to wear, and the $2000 pair of boots is comfortable and will last many years but anyone who buys them will toss them after one year anyway when “the fashion” changes.

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You can thank Disney for that one.

He can only read surface level thoughts. Any deeper and we’d be able to tell, proving his existence, which would make faith irrelevant and lead him to disappear in a puff of logic.

I already have that unlocked irl, it’s called anxiety!

Your friend has missed 4 99% shots in a row.

No, they just create them and make them wildly successful so they have a backdoor in everyone’s pocket.

The challenge comes in being a scapegoat for when things go wrong (albeit a goat with a golden parachute) and a hype man for when things go right.

But as others have said AI won’t replace executives because it’s executives making the decisions to use AI, and no one with power will ever choose an option that reduces their own money.

YouTube music only, unfortunately. Unfortunate not because it’s the only expense of its type that I have, but because like so many Google products it’s a worse version of something they used to offer for free. And there isn’t a good alternative that I’ve found yet, and no music streaming service pays the artists anything worth mentioning.

Only at first.

Then every version will be ad-supported.

Will also accept being turned into land critters. Just as long as they are mountain dwellers.

I laughed at the meme, but I also bought branded merch from a brewery whose beer I don’t even drink (unless I’m already drunk) because I was in their gift shop.

When I just used a browser ad blocker I made a point to unblock sites that I wanted to support and didn’t use obnoxious ads. Unfortunately for them I now use a network ad blocker too and it’s more of a hassle. One of these days I might make a list of domains to unblock but at the moment I’m more concerned with figuring out how to block YouTube ads at the domain level.

My employer software has us log in with just our password, no username. I don’t know exactly what’s going on in the backend but I know I don’t like it.