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julietOscarEcho

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  • Trump, 79, Melts Down at Being Challenged to a Walk by Dem, 46

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  • Guess it depends how you define "bad". In my eyes a good business does well by everyone: staff get well compensated and have a good work environment, customers get a good product at a fair price, suppliers get their invoices paid, owners (if not a coop) get some ROI and their name on the door. Trump has only ever managed 0.5 out of 4, ergo bad businessman.

  • Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company

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  • Every UI is made for widescreen ratio right? So maybe one portait for reading is cool, but what else do you want it for?

  • Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests

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  • Although with the overt politicisation of BLS I think I'll be with you in trusting ADP more going forward. Going to be super interesting to watch any divergence from now on. I guess it could be that some of the YTD difference was some internal power struggle that was unwound by the revisions leading to Trump sticking his oar in, but I think that's a conspiracy theory until someone gives a quote to that effect.

  • Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests

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  • Still confused why you continue to emphasise estimate when ADP is also an estimate.

    I already emphasised the difficulty of real time stats, revisions are not shocking, but perfectly normal. I don't think anyone is that surprised (though we can agree that there are a lot of overconfident and less statistically literate professionals), the gulf between hard data and sentiment/alternative data (vibecession and so forth) was well covered and had to resolve one way or another.

    ADP was +104k in July, so by your previous logic we should expect upwards revisions in the BLS July number as the year goes on right?

  • Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests

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  • Ah an economist, say no more fam.

  • Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests

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  • What are you talking about? They're both estimates extrapolated from samples. I think most statisticians would prefer stratified sampling over one company's payrolls processing, but whatever. Maybe chuds would argue that ADP is so much more efficient/accurate because it's outside of the "swamp" of govt, it's certainly an independent data point. I mean I agree with you in that BLS is not reliable either. Real time economics is hard.

    If you honestly preferred ADP all along and will continue to espouse it's superiority when it next contradicts your view rather than confirming it (as it will because data are noisy) then more power to you.

  • Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests

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  • BLS jobs report was a beat, +140k jobs and unemployment down a shade. I agree with you on the themes but it doesn't help to cherry pick data.

  • Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests

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  • Oh shiiiit, do that and come back and talk to us when you get to the time travel level.

    Are we just in the phase of the medium where technology isn't the defining quality. It would be slightly weird to try to stay at the forefront of, say, novels without any regard for reading classics. Why shouldn't games be the same?

  • thats why

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  • Because she's cool. People shorten to initials for particularly noteworthy/successful people that they talk about a lot. I imagine it's a positive indicator for a politician, but interested to hear counter examples.

  • Amazing New Facebook AI Feature

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  • Do they send you hallucinations as if they were fact all the time? That's my current favourite.

  • Smithsonian begins removing exhibits, artifacts from African American History Museum

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  • Do you think sitting on your arse claiming there's nothing to be done is more or less demoralising than singing in the streets with like minded people?

    Maybe you work different than most humans, but I think the answer to that is pretty obvious for the rest of us.

  • 23-year-old D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights just got a new update thanks to the 'unpaid software engineers' of its unkillable community

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  • I can't help comparing it (unfavourably) to baldurs gate 1. The story just didn't hook me the same way.

  • BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever

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  • I haven't played a lot of souls, but elden ring death (both of non-boss enemies and protagonist) is super toothless. What made it more relevant in previous games?

  • BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever

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  • Omg yes. It was not just a corridor. It was a send up of every game corridor game that I had played to that point. Taking a design limitation and making it a compelling plot twist was exactly what made bioshock awesome. One of my top 5 gaming moments of all time.

  • Helldivers 2 and Marvel Rivals convinced me: Battle passes should never expire

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  • For me grind is when the gameplay loop is motivated by reward not exploration and plays out the same every time.

    Good gameplay can come from a feeling of freshness because there are lots of possibilities, because rng or because player options (say, slay the spire), or from lots of genuinely novel content (say, elden ring).

    It doesn't feel like a balancing act at all. I just want more of the latter and less of the former, but maybe some people really do play for repetition?

  • Finally, The Witcher 3 with the fat cut out: They're releasing a physical Gwent board game for true connoisseurs

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  • It had a single player campaign too! Deck builder pvp gets too sweaty for me, but I really like deck builder RPGs.

  • Xbox Fans Plead With Microsoft: 'Don't Forget About Us Physical Gamers'

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  • Couldn't find a good primary source to dig into it. But from Ipsos:

    "I believe the preference for physical discs amongst next gen gamers reflects the potential value they derive from the pre-owned market," commented Ipsos director Ian Bramley to MCV, "which is holding up the preference for physical - this is unlike the music and film markets."

    https://www.gamesindustry.biz/64-percent-prefer-physical-media-to-digital-distribution

    I'm sure there's a lot of generational and market segment differences. I never really understood "collecting" games. But I guess people do that in digital too with their huge steam sale backlogs!

  • Xbox Fans Plead With Microsoft: 'Don't Forget About Us Physical Gamers'

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  • I'm sure not many people care about physical vs digital per se. It's the arbitrary locks by servers, digital storefront, DRM etc. So that when you pay your money you have no idea what you are getting and what your rights are. Physical game media was a simpler time from that perspective (play in perpetuity, don't redistribute, cool cool that seems like a fair trade) and resulted in better pricing and experience for consumers.

    I'd accept "move on" if the argument was just "muh pretty box" (god knows there are plenty of ways to buy pretty boxes of vidya IP) but consumer rights are surely worth fighting for, or we get needlessly bled for ever more dollars.

  • BACK IT UP

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  • Even better than that. You take the medicine and it reduces everyone else's risk of getting sick, even the ones that refuse to take the medicine. It's the closest thing we have IRL to literal magic.

    As an immunocompromised person, thank you to everyone who gets vaccinated against communicable disease, you make my world a little less heinous to navigate.