That's weird- I played BF6 with friends I would expect would have Valorant installed. Nobody had any issues. Maybe they uninstalled at some point. I don't exactly keep up with everyone's library.
I think I've done like three playthroughs, two I finished. It branches a lot with the dialogue and everything, there's a lot of room for replay value considering it's a relatively linear action RPG.
People have different tastes? I find Superman incredibly uninteresting most of the time. I get why people like him, and if it floats their boat I'm happy for them but it ain't for me.
Punisher is basically just "what if Batman had less of a moral code, and wasn't a billionaire in his off time." That's got the potential to be an interesting character, even if it's not for me personally.
Personally I usually just clean it with a paper towel, and put it away. Mine is almost exclusively a cornbread pan, though, so I'm mostly cleaning excess oil unless I fucked up and it stuck.
Occasionally I do give it a proper wash like you've said, but not very often.
Basically, the devs of Subnautica 1 were working on Subnautica 2 but got bought by another company- Krafton. Krafton promised a very large bonus to the lead devs assuming the game was released by a certain time. They were on track to meet that deadline, but Krafton was insisting the game be delayed and when the developers resisted that they got fired. Now the people that were fired are suing saying that Krafton fired them to avoid paying them the bonus rather than for cause.
I might have gotten some details wrong, I'm not following this incredibly closely myself.
Nope. At least, not that I've seen even slightly recently. I got into PCs ~15 years ago, and they were already becoming a lot less common then. It probably still exists in some niche way, that's usually how it goes. Maybe HP still uses them or something like that.
Sorry if any of this is stuff you already know: The beep is a POST code- power on self test. That beep when you turn on the computer is basically the computer saying, "everything started correctly, from here on it's probably a software problem."
If there is a problem and your motherboard can figure out what it is- bad cpu, bad ram, no video, etc- it gives a POST code via the little speaker. It's a nice troubleshooting tool, because a lot of the time the hardest part of the fix is figuring out what part is the problem.
Z-Library isn't really research oriented, but you could try it. I have no idea how much scientific content is on it, not why I'm there, but FMHY says it has 'educational' content just like Anna's Archive does, and I've seen textbooks on there before.
I'm not supporting what you're condemning. I'm just arguing that it's not 100% black and white. I disagree with "all live service games bad." I certainly agree that some are predatory and a problem, and the entire genre as a whole needs much more regulation.
I couldn't really grasp spending that amount of money on a video game, even cumulatively, so no I didn't consider it from that angle.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money. Ban the entire business model.
Is most of what I was referring to. I don't mind things in games costing money, as long as the game itself doesn't costs money. I also don't mind live service games, at least in concept. They're very rarely good games, but good examples do exist.
A lot of what I think you're talking about is based on player trading, is it not? Maybe I don't know the games you're talking about. I don't think Valve sets the prices for hats, and I don't think DE sets prices for rivens. They're tradeable, so a market forms. To be clear, I think paying $1000 for a hat is absolutely insane, but I also don't see how it's functionally different than paying an absurd amount of money for a trading card you have no intention of using.
Are there games actually asking $1000 for literally anything in-game? Not a player set price, to be clear.
That's weird- I played BF6 with friends I would expect would have Valorant installed. Nobody had any issues. Maybe they uninstalled at some point. I don't exactly keep up with everyone's library.