Hehe yeah, that is sort of what I meant. Gaming isn’t what changed. Affordability changed.

Simpsons created it. In the episode where jebediah springfields quote “a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man” is scrutinized for “embiggens” not being a word. They say it’s a perfectly cromulent word. Which itself was not a word, but given the context has a clear meaning. And people decided to start using it as a joke, and then enough people used it, it eventually became real.

Technically all words work that way, but this feels just that little bit more artificial. There wasn’t really a need for it, we have words for that context already, so it wouldn’t have naturally spread. But it’s still fun to have watched it happen over time, knowing it was probably gonna happen even though it shouldn’t have.

Edit: the details may not be exactly right, it’s been nigh-on 30 years now since I’ve seen that episode, but that’s the gist of it, from what I recall.

Gaming, is joining everything else at becoming harder to afford.

The ram in the system went from 200 dollars to 600 dollars. Not increasing the price of the console by 400 dollars would have meant scrapping it instead.

There is literally no choice, the ram would have been sold either way, just to someone else instead.

I don’t know what you trying to say should have been done. What else could have been done?

Ok, convince an entire crowd that they have nothing to fear and everything is ok and they can calm down. And do it quickly because the boy is being dragged around like a rag doll, which seems to be having the opposite effect.

The trouble and difference with the Harambe situation is that he was disobeying his handlers and riled up by what he thought was a crowd angry at the kid(he likely wouldn’t have thought the crowd was scared of what he might do, since he knew he was being helpful and didn’t have presence of mind to consistently realise others might have different opinions than his own). So he wouldn’t let go of the kid, and would have likely been defensive if handlers tried to come in and get the kid. He also was large enough that if they tranquilized him, he could have easily crushed the kid just by slowly passing out on him. They unfortunately had to take the only guarantee they had and shoot him at a moment when he was far enough from the kid that he wouldn’t fall on him.

Harambe also didn’t have any previous experience with taking care of kids, gorilla or otherwise. And believe me, that makes a huge difference. While the kid ended up mostly ok physically, he was dragged around by his ankle, through water and over rough terrain.

Nobody wants to kill a zoo animal. Especially not beloved ones. Especially not while they are trying to be nice.

That’s brave, walking around with exposed Trogdor tattoos around those guys. They seem like the type to pick on nerds.

Give Vedal987 the simulation, I want to see Neuro and Evil take on this challenge, ideally multiple times, add it to their weekly variety stream activity list. They would at least be entertaining while destroying the world, hehe. RIP BOZO, Earth.

I guess the goal is to develop weapons so terrible that you “wouldn’t wish them on your worst enemy”, thus solving the problem forever.

I think the fact that literally everyone else here read it as it was intended to be read and is trying to explain it to you might suggest that you probably did indeed misinterpret something. No one else thought this person was implying women belong in the kitchen… you are bringing something personal into this.

The pointless gendering is coming from Hegseth and what the army had already been doing prior. They are explaining why Hegseths new policy is leading to poorer performance in those areas because of the pointless gendering. It doesn’t matter what gender the people coming in are, it matters why the people were there before and are being removed, which was due to the previous pointless gendering.

Did they use a different crane to get that crane up there? Such a tiny crane to have up there. Surely the crane they would have had to use to put it there could just do whatever they intend to do with this tiny crane?

The refund policy is that it is an automatic “no questions asked” refund if it qualifies by being under 2 hours played or 2 weeks owned. If it doesn’t qualify, you can still get a refund, there just are questions asked then. Their refund policy is pretty much the gold standard.

Statues made by artist choice are overwhelmingly of women. Statues commissioned by the subject themselves are overwhelmingly of men…

Oh, we played starbound during it’s beta, I could have swore it never finished being made. I know it got worse at one point during the beta and then I didn’t think they ever fixed that. It was kind of dissapointing because it felt like it had the potential to be really good. We still played it a decent amount in the state it was in at the time. But it was definitely partially finished. We should check out what they did since 1.3 came out, I think that was the last we played, when mechs first came out.

Edit: looking it up, it seems like that was still basically the end of development, but there are mods now to return it to the original much more fun version of the game instead of what ended up being released. I could try playing it with those mods, I really liked the original version of the game in beta.

I would say there is no other game like it, except hundreds of other devs thought it looked easy to copy their success… and really, still… there is no other game like it.

Suppose it largely depends where they are from, gonna guess USA for you, hehe.

It’s beneficial to hang out with normal people too. Even if you have to use social skills to keep hanging out. You lose that link and lose a tether to reality.

Her job is to make sure he still has friends tomorrow.