What a case of “the beating will continue until morale improves.”

Absolute waste of tax money and resources, anyone advocating for this policy is an idiot and psychotic control freak that should never be allowed to opine on public policy.

Outdated values are driving this country back into the stone age. The body was designed to be horny as we go through teenage years. It’s nature. Rather than guide kids on the safe path, fools would forbid, outlaw, prohibit until they can’t control them after age of 18.

Here’s how this plays out… Kids are going to masturbate, regardless. They will dive deeper into the Internet into places with no restrictions and be exposed to really messed up stuff. Hey at least the parent can pat themselves on the back, right, they were good partners that did everything right by the book, even paying the kid’s therapist.

“What made you upgrade to the OLED?”

“Because I couldn’t smell it anymore.”

“What?”

A 12-month-year using this system has 354 days, which would drift significantly from the tropical year. To fix this, traditional Chinese years have a 13-month year approximately once every three years. The 13-month version has the same long and short months alternating, but adds a 30-day leap month (閏月; rùnyuè). Years with 12 months are called common years, and 13-month years are known as long years.

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How game b breaking are we talking about? Like slider set to 100 instead of 99, or are we talking about memory loop around, nuclear Gandi level of horny?

If you’re the game director and had so little sway to the producers /publishers, then you’re nothing but a “yes man” figure head. Maybe go back to dev, the executive role isn’t for you.

Otherwise, the only excuse is you initiated all these changes and you are completely out of touch with your customers.

LOL. To put that in perspective, let imagine it’s some $100,000 annual pay worker. This means Facebook just added 365 employees to their ranks, if they ignored this order completely.

They fire and hire people in the thousands, the penalty is a joke of scale.

With Elden Ring last year and TotK and BG3 now, I’m starting to feel that most Western studios, especially American ones, are just dead and run by parasitic C tier movie executives. Always rehashing the exact same IP / formula for each game, and some how doing a crappy job at that, while charging higher and higher price.

Gamers really need to be better consumers as well, and learn to detach ourselves from brand/studio loyalty. Your gaming time is highly desirable, don’t sell it cheaply.

The lesson to take away is that AAA != Good game. Never pre order. Play demo, beta. Only play if you’re time is respected.

Artificially designed grinds, limitations, time gates should be auto no buy.

For comparison, best I could find is Xbox Series X|S selling 21M units. Link. This means Sony outpacing Xbox by a 2:1 ratio, or market share is 66% vs. 33%.

Regardless, the FTC also argues that this manufactured categorization doesn’t matter because Microsoft’s exclusivity decision applied to “all future ZeniMax games.” While Microsoft said in 2021 that “some” future Bethesda games would be Xbox exclusives, no Bethesda non-exclusives have been announced since then.

In this case, FTC is right and they should be extra careful what Microsoft says, as evident, they will just do the opposite.

Wait, so if they match PS5 pricing, then what’s left for XBOX advantage over PS5? Bigger backlog of old games via game pass?

1. Reddit is the default and some of us have gotten used to lurking, since it was always big enough that someone else did the voting and top comments. I look at fediverse as an opportunity for change, and in return asking I become an active community member again. Post the latest you see, comment, explain, etc . At least up vote is the content is good.

2. As long as you are the mod of your /m/, you can make it clear that direct copy of Reddit is acceptable for your /m/. You’re reposting the link in fediverse, with the intention to initiate conservation here because of better moderation. That sounds fine to me. Even the mod can lead by cross posting from Reddit. Yes, It’s the content. Yes, Reddit is the biggest content source (for now). Don’t shy away from leveraging it.

3. Consider who we are and who you want to be. The assumption that power users, tech savvy folks moved over to fediverse more openly. I think that is true. Think if you want to start being the “first” of the Internet. That’s how digg was, that’s how Reddit grew, even 4chan made a name being the place for the hottest trash takes and going viral once in a while. So post here, and then cross post into Reddit. If they want to be the adult company a layer higher, then so be it.