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In some contexts (ex: vocal performances), the word may be pronounced 'thee' prior to words beginning with vowels, and 'thuh' prior to words beginning with consonants.

It'd be great if this worked well with podgrab[1]. I'll have to check if the folder structure it creates will work with this.

[1] https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab

To be fair, $300 in peanuts is a lot of peanuts!

I think there's a point where it feels like it's gone beyond simple price discrimination to leveraging hundreds of employees and millions of dollars to actively manipulate and exploit a player base that is often substantially comprised of children. I've watched developer presentations on how best to implement Skinner boxes and other gambling mechanics to help condition users and obscure exactly how much they are spending. That may be fair to judge a company poorly for.

For me personally, it represents the fact that the company is actively working against my best interests, and that feels bad. Additionally, completely selfishly, it makes me sad to see games that I would otherwise enjoy be distorted by this sort of monetization.

The problem with this is that games designed to be monetized this way are going to build their progression, reward-systems, cosmetic systems, grind balance, etc. around it.

So the players who are "paying what they want (mostly zero)" aren't getting a normal but free Diablo game, they are getting version of that game balanced and prioritized around the whales that /will/ be spending the money. The actual customers.

I'd rather pay than "free-ride", because I don't want incessant popups telling me how how I can skip the grind (that is tuned to irritate me) by buying a gems with my credit card.

I'm not as valuable to Blizzard/Activision/NetEase with my one-time-purchase though, and they know it.

This comment makes me sad.

Primarily because you are correct.

I think a nice addition at the bottom would be the addendum, "if the goal is maximise profit at all costs and there is no regard for their customer-base beyond how effectively they can be exploited."

I think a big part the problem is that of you include a cash shop of some sort in your game, the incentive immediately shifts to maximize the grind as much as your players are likely to tolerate. The more you can successfully push this, the more money the time-saving items you sell will turn a profit.

So any game that includes this sort of transactional mechanic has a strong perverse incentive to waste your time.

Several of the reports I've read indicate some p2w mechanics don't even unlock until higher levels, and so are not immediately apparent. How far in are you?

My approach with control was to max out two skills (floating, throwing stuff) and ignore the rest of the systems almost entirely. I upgraded the single gun I used.

Fortunately this was viable and the game doesn't punish you for not engaging with every facet of the varied upgrade/crafting/salvaging systems.

So that may be an option if you'd like to complete it!

I appreciate your contrition of contention.

Thank you!

Can you provide a source for the contact list scraping?

I currently use FairEmail, so that's a concern for me, but I'd not heard that it was happening in this conversation so far.

In this case, is 'uphill' referring to 'away from a gravity well'?

Seems unlikely, given how heavily they are relying on Usenet.

I, for one, appreciated this joke. :)

Is this possible right now, or close to possible?

Last I checked we couldn't really achieve that at meaningful scale.

(Or do you simply mean this sort of XR is useless until we get decent holography?)

I second this.

I opened a tab to give it a try, but backed out when I had to provide an email to see how it played. Assuming I enjoyed it, I'd then be motivated to make an account to keep track of my play.

I can vouch for alass working quite well about 70% of the time.

It's very convenient when it does.

To be fair, while he's clearly a bad presenter, at least I generally get the feeling that Elon is genuinely passionate about what he's presenting on, while Zuck generally gives off heavily polished PR speak vibes.

I definitely fine myself more engaged by Elon's presentations despite his performance.

I'm not sure if that counts as charisma, but it's not nothing.

I haven't seen it. What pitch would you give me as a possibly-interested viewer?

I just keep a "cook book" of common commands I've gathered from SO so I don't need to search each time to refresh my memory.

There are also some DIY versions of this, often in the form of ankle bracelets.

Lehpt Anonym, a 'biohacker' even planned to implant a similar device in their leg[1], though I don't know if they succeeded.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/12/transcending-the-human-diy-sty...

I enjoyed his main channel content, but found the first few episodes of the podcast to be a little rough going because they had a strong focus on complaining about the people complaining about their lack of safety measures. (Which just wasn't interesting listening to me.)

Have the more recent episodes moved past that? I'd like to give it another shot.

youtube-dlp, a popular fork, has support for downloading comments!

I think the output format is json, so not the cleanest to simply read though.

Just to chime in, Google will happily ignore your recovery email if your fingerprint has changed significantly. This happened the last time I moved, and it's very irritating.

Just as another data point, I use and enjoy NewPipe, but definitely experience the first two points listed above- I get crashes and failures to load not infrequently.

Perhaps a hardware issue, or NewPipe handles spotty connections poorly or something.

I'd like to second waffleiron's opinion.

I'd pay twice the yearly cost or more if it was a one-time purchase.

A subscription model is an immediate pass though.

Edit: Dev clarifies elsewhere that the license is perpetual and subsequent payments cover updates. If a nonrecurring payment option exists, then I would happily make use of that, and quite possibly return to pay for updates.

While not perfect, this is how I (and others) use Patreon.

I'm not sure it exactly fits your ideal, but it's closer than anything else I've seen to how I'd like it to work.

Can you elaborate on what makes it a good fit? I'm curious what your thought is.

I would have, at face value, considered the acquisition a bit odd given Epic's primary product.

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