I am fairly certain there are other live service games that are doing it right, but this is the only one I have played that hits all the right notes for me.

• The speed of content release is reasonable.
• There is monetization BUT none of it is FOMO because everything cycles back around.
• When they screwed up they did listen to the player base and made things right (balancing, fucking up the pricing on the crossover stuff).
• The additional content over time feels like an ever escalating war and not just pumping out content after release. Like even if they had everything ready to go before launch I would hope it wouldn’t be released more than twice as fast as it has.
• Starting gear is still competitive with all the gear released since.

Plus they gave us a cape for the review bombing due to the Playstation network fuck up by Sony. I am guessing it took this long to get Sony to agree to it.

HD2 hits the right level of content for me, as I don’t play the same game every day. It hits a pretty good balance of having something interesting every few weeks that I can spread over that time period enjoying.

They paid for their expertise, even offering a bonus that was clearly less than whatever their projected profit would be, and then tried to squander it because they didn’t listen to their expertise.

Publishers in all kinds of industries are risk adverse to the point of not trusting whoever they made deals with to follow through. This is totally on brand for publishers!

Being in low effort memes didn’t even give it away for them.

Spent years convicting the people that tried to directly overthrow the election and he just mass pardoned them. Republicans will just follow that precedent.

Oh boy, nothing will change for the better…again!

One developer at a separate company who played Subnautica 2 and requested anonymity because they signed a non-disclosure agreement told Bloomberg they enjoyed the game and that it “seemed way more robust” than other titles in early access.

Yeah, this is clearly the publisher trying to get out of paying the full bonus.

He absolutely understanding it. Russo said that a lot of people wanted the law enforced as soon as it was enacted, then gave reasons against it without saying anyone brought those issues up to him. Those are things he is bringing up, not residents.

He just doesn’t want to enforce the law.

If he gets another ‘term’ it won’t be from running for office.

So I just deleted a wall of text and will restart with a concise rewording as an example of avoiding having too much!

Keeping things involves a combination of taking up space, a time and effort cost to keep clean and to move around, and a possible monetary cost in some cases. While judging that cost isn’t an exact science, the core idea is that inexpensive stuff that you don’t interact with regularly costs a lot more to keep around than to replace if you need it in the future. Heck, some expensive stuff that takes up space isn’t worth keeping around either, but the hard part is making a decision to let some things go and cheap and cumbersome is the best to start with!

I share your love of keeping screws. In fact, I tend to keep the ones from prebuilt stuff or from things I enjoy taking apart and those are things where keeping a reasonable amount is not a bad thing IF you can keep them easily organized. I have a ton of them, but since I sort them as I go they don’t really add any extra effort over throwing them away.

Computer parts are similar, but larger! I have four or five motherboards from past computer builds that I should get rid of but keep thinking I will build into linux boxes but haven’t gotten around to it because there isn’t an end goal past doing it. But I have taken baby steps to limit myself to one tub of excess computer parts and successfully threw away all the duplicate cabling and stuff that is not needed because that stuff was only needed a few times and looking back I could have replaced them for a few bucks.

Well, at least the wall is shorter and I will leave you with a recommendation to NOT put anything in storage in the attic. Choose to reduce instead, because it is easy to forget anything you put up there, it is often a pain in the ass to get in and out, and it will get so dusty over time. Cleaning that forgotten stuff when moving after a few years or more is absolutely horrible!

Who still cares about either Clinton?

She will continue to vote Republican though, which is what matters since Trump can’t run again anyway.

Lower back pain.

Russo wrote that the issue is not unique to Cottonwood Heights, and they’re trying to better understand its intent.

The intent is for the bike lane to be clear of obstructions, dumbass.

Doing the Lord’s work!

Yup!

My workarounds are:

Keep things to a small enough number that I don’t lose something in the mess. That generally means single digit numbers of things near each other. Exceptions apply for things I am really, really interested in!

The best way to remember something is to put it between me and where I’m going, but only if it is the ONLY thing. So I can put something on the steps to the garage to remind myself to take it, but if my wife puts something there the system fails. I can put an object in front of a door, or on top of something I need, but it has to be interacted with in some way.

If I start to do something that involves going through a doorway or a place out of sight there is no stopping for interruptions. After a decade of consistency on part my wife finally waits for me to finish doing something when I say “not yet” as that is pretty much all I can get out without losing track of the things I’m doing that I don’t care about but needs to be done.

Knowing what I will forget and acknowledging it out loud has been partially successful with people’s understanding. No, adding something extra won’t help me remember names, it is just going to take enough repetition for it to stick and I’ll still say it wrong occasionally. Doesn’t mean I don’t care!

If a large number of refunds came from a single source it seems like Steam would be the one addressing the issue, not payment processors.

No, they should have zero say because they have weaseled themselves into a position that is the equivalent of a utility or whatever ISP are classified as. Their only involvement is whether they complete transactions between parties in a legal way.

That’s because the person wants the horrible things to happen and is just mad that Trump isn’t following through on the horrible stuff they care about.

I have ADHD and my daughter also has ADHD and it does seem like she isn’t trying even when she is! What I am trying to do is teach her ways to work around it when possible and how to phrase things to make it more apparent that effort was attempted.