Yeah, I see that, too, but at least everything else is all smooth curves. The hard angle on the g makes it stick out as super different.

That font is awful. The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.

Content you can consume on the device is treated differently from purchases of anything else.

You would argue incorrectly. That’s not what random means.

You cannot use the central limit theorem in any context where the selection of the small sample is not random. It is not applicable.

It doesn’t matter. The core, foundational assumption that the entire thing stands on is the selection is completely random.

It does not apply, and cannot provide valid statistical inferences about the target population, if that is not the case. People who chose to vote are not representative of the population as a whole.

The central limit theorem, would allow for a sample size as small as 500 people randomly distributed to be an accurate representation of a group of trillions,

This is a completely mandatory assumption for the math to work.

The second there is any selection bias at all it completely falls apart.

Shockingly, your brain and productivity improve when you get regular downtime.

(Yeah I know most people want something shorter than a book. It’s a solid read though.)

lol the problem with Destiny is they turned it into a treadmill and stopped putting the work into character and level design.

Elden Ring can easily take more than 100 hours on your first playthrough, and different builds significantly change your play style.

BG3, similar deal. Subsequent playthroughs are probably going to be accelerated, but there are a bunch of different story choices you can make that feel different, the party members have their own story lines, there’s a special custom character called Dark Urge that’s intended for a later playthrough that has it’s own twist, and you can change the strategy of encounters a lot with different party constructions.

Rimworld calls itself a story generator because you’re going to fail and have people die and whatever, but every game plays out different, there are a good couple scenarios, and there’s expansions and mods you can add on top of that for variety.

Just the first couple that come to mind. I’m not near 1000 hours on any of them, but they all have a lot of content.

All the time.

Pretty much never intentionally, though. I’m just bad at keeping up with people.

I said it elsewhere but it felt like he meant for the final empire to be standalone, then was scrambling a bit in the well of ascension to keep the plot going.

But then some of the part I thought felt slow paid off in the conclusion, so IDK. I like the pacing in most of the rest of the stuff. It’s just the introductions. Like Tress of the Emerald Sea, for example, it took so long for her to actually start her adventure.

I love his work and bought physical copies of all of Stormlight, Mistborn, and just a couple days ago the pretty “premium” hardcovers for the secret projects, just to have on my shelves.

My one thing is that his introductions are almost always slower than I’d like. Though ironically he did better in the Wax and Wayne Mistborn arc and I like the Vin arc more.

Right now I’m way down a Brandon Sanderson rabbit hole, so I guess the Cosmere? I’d say Stormlight Archive, but Mistborn is really cool because they’re set at the inflection points in the planet’s history. The first arc is excellent, and it changes the world. The second arc is set in the future, with mythologies based on the first arc and scientific progress based on secrets uncovered in the first. The changes in the use of magic are really cool. There’s a third arc planned to be set in the future from there.

But the Cosmere as a whole shares some core concepts and characters can move across it, and that comes into other standalone works like (3 of 4) secret projects and a bunch of other stuff.

Not at random retailers anywhere in the world, but yes, if you get the same quality story for a third of the launch price, that matters.

It’s half the reason I never buy Nintendo games. Metroid isn’t inherently “worse” than indie metroidvanias, but it’s the same caliber game for twice the price (and the sales are less discounted by dollar value than the indies are on top of it). That does make it a much worse game for gamers, and it should get heavily docked for that.

Anything with microtransactions is cancer no matter how good the underlying mechanics are and should be completely banned from consideration.

Why wouldn’t it be taken into consideration?

Bad monetization and excessively high pricing change the experience for gamers. There’s not a lot of chance they’re willing to say “microtransactions make a game ineligible” like they should, but cash grubbing microtransactions change what a game is, and they can’t just not acknowledge that at all.

I’m not an Xbox guy.

But if the PS Portal was $400 and played PS4 games natively plus did streaming like it does now, I would have been all over it. I like my steam deck, but there’s a benefit to games hyper optimized to one system.

Every single thing you’ve said is factually incorrect.

There is no debate about that fact that people historically thought gods would strike people down for words; it’s abundant historical record.

And nobody anywhere near this thread said anything anyone could possibly interpret to mean that words are the same as physical assault.

I will always downvote comments using ridiculous nonsense to justify slurs.

No, they literally believed that using the name of gods could get you struck down, cursed, etc. by those gods.

And nobody is claiming words are physical weapons.

Both sides of your argument are wild mischaracterizations of reality and neither could plausibly be done in good faith.

No it isn’t. You’ve already acknowledged that many more words were historically viewed as damaging.

Acknowledging the harm of hate is more modern, but the evidence behind it is pretty much indisputable.

The context doesn’t matter because the literal only reason to use the words is to cause harm.

As part of its earnings call, Unity revealed that it’ had $1.4 billion’s year-over-year revenue for the quarter fell to $446.5 million from $544.2.

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