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With digital platforms like steam where there are zero chances of a game not being in stock prepurchasing benefits are limited to the few bonuses they give out like exclusive skins and crap.

I have bought a game at full price over $40 maybe once a year but not a prepurchase unless they had a free beta before the game was released. Nearly all of them were multiplayer games where I had played the beta with friends and we ended up putting in hundreds of hours.

Sadly, not enough games have free versions to try out so most games I purchase for $40 or less.

They also sold far, far fewer units, made less money per sale, and were not nearly as profitable long term.

cold-emailing

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People who have had friends, family, or their own personal interactions with ICE just because they have brown skin don’t need to look at a screen to be fearful.

There’s a naked 10 year old Brooke Shields in Playboy itself, so this shouldn’t surprise his widow either.

Suspension of disbelief refers to fictional stories where you have to go with something that doesn’t seem realistic. That is a bit different than ignoring things that contradict reality, possibly due to confirmation bias, or cognitive dissonance where someone believes two or more contradictory things.

I must have forgotten that there is literally no middle ground between a verbal warning and execution.

Yes, they should get jail time for being in contempt of court because they are professionals and should be held to a higher standard than people off the street.

A person off the street should get a warning. Professionals should be expected to follow a judge’s orders.

It does matter who they are!

The judge said not to bring something in and they clearly ignored the judge’s directions and it is their job to comply with the judge’s directions. They are not some random person off the street.

…after prolonged sexual activity with aliens…

In the US we have a wide variety of ways to pay. Some have the waiter process it, which can be slow as dirt. Some have a little electronic thing at the table you can pay and go, like Red Robin. Some you walk up to a counter and pay when you want, like at a couple of local Mexican restaurants. Some you pay when you arrive and order, like Jason’s Deli.

These are all in a city of about 125,000 people in a central US state and within a three mile stretch of road.

I would just fire him now for being obviously incompetent. How can someone competent make such an unrealistic prediction?

It was actually true for white blue collar workers in the midwest during a few decades after WWII.

Defederating also blocks the users on Lemmy. Instance blocking at the user level just blocks the communities in Lemmy, you have to block each user individually.

Plus it was responding to prompts that would lead it to respond with that part of the training data, because chatbots don’t have output without being prompted.

It could be, but we all know it won’t be since the whole approval process exists to deny claims to increase profits.

Settle down youngling!

Most likely to avoid permanent bingo halls, aka casinos that just have bingo.

BG3 romances seem shallow and kind of transactional because it is a mix of characters who don’t know each other having a whirlwind romance in a relatively short period of time. They are easily comparable to the majority of romances in movies and books with similar circumstances.

The other thing that is always going to make romances in games difficult to do in more detail is a lack of real world senses that play a huge part in attraction. Smells, tone of voice, flirting based on what is cutrently happening are either impossible or extremely time consuming to implement in a computer game. Like you could luck into picking the right cologne for a character or something, but that is along the same lines as picking the right voice lines.

Not saying it is literally impossible to do, but it really is a monumental task to implement relationships that don’t seem forced or obviously mechanical in a video game. If they did implement one perfectly, the randomness of real life would make it nearly impossible to have a romance as there are so many things that can easily derail a relationship forming including just not being in the mood to reciprocate affection because of some completely unrelated event!