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  • What would you want done with your remains upon death?

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  • I don't care, I'll be dead. Whatever is cheapest and simplest.

  • A Playthrough Reborn: Rediscovering Final Fantasy XIV

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  • I quit the game more than once during the slog that is the post-ARR questline. I got to the point where I was just skipping all dialogue, then started paying attention again when I noticed new characters being introduced. Getting to Heavensward was great, both storywise and just to be in new areas.

    I heard later that they pruned that section of the questline down, and it really needed it.

  • How'd you argue against a person who says rich people are needed to provide jobs to the poor?

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  • Sure, rich people own the companies that employ the poor, but many of those same companies are investing heavily into AI and other automation so they no longer have to.

  • What is something you can't do with 100M dollars but can do with 1B dollars?

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  • Popcorn

    carrots & hummus

    plain greek yogurt & fruit of choice

  • What skills did almost everybody have 50 years ago, but few people have today?

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  • Physical hobbies are alive and well, but kinda niche when compared to things like video games or tv/movies. I got into model building a couple years ago, and there are plenty of folks who are into it. I would argue the hobby is bigger than it's ever been. Same goes for other things like r/c and tabletop gaming.

    Also, don't forget about 3d printing, which would definitely fit as a physical hobby. It also augments the previously mentioned hobbies, as well as many more.

  • How old did you get your driver's license? Did you learn driving from a driving school or from parents? (or some friend or relative?)

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  • Got mine at 18 in the USA. I took a driver's ed course though my high school that included a few after school driving lessons, and my state also requires 20 hrs of driving with a licensed driver.

  • Why is Reddit getting so ignorant?

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  • Sounds like you were shadow banned for something. Your account is still active and you can post, but no one sees them. A lot of people see this is cowardly, but many platforms use it because if you outright ban a bad actor, there's little stopping them from making a new account and continuing doing whatever it was that got them banned.

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  • Is "fediverse" not an adequate name?

  • Dragon Age veteran defends studio's attempt to make something different with Anthem: "BioWare's always been changing"

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  • Probably more floundering. An EA exec told them at one point that their demo was crap (and based on word from other devs, he was probably right), so they reintroduced flight, which IMO was one of the best aspects of the game. EA didn't force a new story or concept on Bioware, though. All that was Bioware's own fault between lack of leadership and staff burnout.

    A long read, but this article goes pretty in-depth on what happened during the development of Anthem: https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • Netflix cancelled the show, and after fan backlash, they ended up greenlighting a finale. While the finale was pretty abrupt, it was better than nothing.

  • Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show

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  • Maybe. Maybe not. Some Amazon exec thinks it will, though.

  • Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show

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  • This isn't for Fallout fans. It's for people who watch Netflix/Prime and saw the Fallout show. Reality shows are pretty popular on these platforms (Beast Games is #2 on Prime right now) so that's who they're going after.

  • Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show

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  • A reality show vault? Not even Vault-Tec had any experiments that were that cruel.

  • Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore'

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  • Hashbrowns scattered all the way was my go-to.

  • Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround

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  • "Anthem actually had the code for local servers running in a dev environment right up until a few months before launch," Darrah continued. "I don't know that they still work, but the code is there to be salvaged and recovered. The reason you do this, it pulls away the costs of maintaining this game. So rather than having dedicated servers that are required for the game to run, you let the server run on one of the machines that's playing the game." This, he added, could have worked alongside an additional move to add AI party members to the game, allowing people to play it like a single-player game.

    Ok, this is even more heartbreaking now. I loved the concept of Anthem and had a fair bit of fun with the game in its current (prior to shutdown) state and was hopeful that the "Next" project would overhaul it into something great. I still don't blame EA for their decisions in this case; Bioware fucked around for way too long during development and the overhaul project was most likely seen as too little, too late... or too expensive.

  • Those of you who cut off all comms with your parents, what would it take to mend things and reestablish contact?

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  • Nothing. My parents went through a nasty divorce that I was dragged through the middle of. During that ordeal, my mom made it abundantly clear how she felt about me. I now maintain a strict no-contact policy regarding her, for both my sanity and safety.

  • Anyone else having side effects while using GLP-1 prescription drugs?

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  • First and foremost, talk to your doctor ASAP if you haven't already.

    Personally, I'm on Mounjaro and I get diarrhea periodically. I get it more frequently when my dosage goes up, so when I get to the point where I don't have it anymore, I take it as a sign that I may need to have my doc up the dosage again.

  • Whats the worst baby name?

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  • Not specifically baby name, but I went to high school with a guy whose last name was Bohnert (pronounced like boner). Guess what his nickname was.

    It was funny whenever we had a substitute teacher and they would do roll call:

    "...Bahnert?"

    "It's boner"