It didn’t even make sense as a political move. I’d wager most MAGA folks had never heard of USAID or knew what they did, and it was at least helping the US’ reputation on the world stage.

Obviously the real value is the good it was doing all over the world, but for the Trump admin that couldn’t care less about that, it still made no sense to axe it.

Outrage? We’re just discussing it, mate…

They specifically advertise it as an “upgradable alternative to the Steam Machine”; with that in mind, assuming the name isn’t intended to evoke comparisons to Steam Machine is kind of ridiculous, no?

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See, this is what they should have been doing from the start. Actually add value for gamers rather than try to win market share through exclusivity agreements. This is how you complete with valve. Do more of this.

Who knew that Deep Ones were just mid-transition between human and frog?

Do you know what a duvet is?

Because gamers have a finite amount of time and money? New releases are literally competing for both of those.

Not to mention, some companies right now are abusing interview candidates to get free work with “trial project” type assignments, or “How would you fix this problem, if you were hired?” type of free consultations. If some candidates abused the companies in return, I’d call that fair play.

Look at this guy with his fancy bottom sheets.

Well, in America, we use football fields, so I presume Canada uses hockey rinks.

Well of course. You have to test it out and see if it feels like something you do. It’s the law.

The fact that they’re pushing for AI to be a utility when the fucking internet isn’t is just absurd.

The romance novels are also a good starting point, they stand out like sore thumbs and it’s easy to pick out the sets of 3 from the sets of 10 when they’re on the floor.

The fact that it goes in the psychology section makes it even better.

The book series titled ‘The Psychology of Prioritizing Gaming Over Tidying Your Room’ felt like being personally called out.

Yeah, that’s more or less what I was getting at. Looking at the descriptions as a new player, being slaves sounds awful and the note about ‘Tip: Get into a cage when you spawn to avoid a beating’ makes it sound like it’s going to be a constant fight for survival, not one where any time you get injured there’s a hundred guards lining up to bandage you back to health. You basically have carte blanche to train some of the more obnoxious skills to level (e.g. assassinate, unarmed, etc.) without having to worry about getting eaten by animals or having bandits steal all of your stuff, and by the time you inevitably escape you’ll have 30+ in a lot of useful skills (or even more if you decide to stay long enough to do it). I had a really rough time on my first few characters until I tried that start, and then I played that save for 200+ hours off of the back of that free Rebirth skill training.

It also has a weird noob trap built in, where the “default” start is actually pretty bad, and one of the ones that as a new player sounds horrible is actually by far the easiest (that being the two slaves in Rebirth.)

I’d be more concerned if someone isn’t worried about the future, to be honest.

It’s most likely the one you’re given each time you go for a physical (or at least, we are where I live) - it’s more like:

In the past week, how often have you…

• Worried about the future
• Felt that you can’t do anything right
• Had trouble focusing on common tasks
• Felt hopeless or depressed
• …etc

with options like “Never”, “Rarely”, “Most days”, “Almost all of the time”