None that I know of.

It was a planned official feature, but I think it rather touched small battlegrounds and not the main universe.

Unofficially, I haven’t seen any in the wild. Besides, the game’s economy and mechanics rely on rather very massive multiplayer.

Please normalize difficulty levels for soulslikes

Many want to just learn the lore, and those into hardcore gaming can still do that and brag about it.

Yeah, that exactly. Not a native speaker, huh

Star Citizen is an insane phenomenon to me. It’s a good game and a massive fraud at the same time, and one fuels the other.

Let’s give credit where credit is due - the game is incredibly immersive. The massive social element, ability to walk and explore things outside your ships and rovers, to customize them, to create all the inventive ways to make money and to prevent hostiles from doing the same is fascinating. It’s…believable, immersive, real. No other game has nailed it just so accurately, and I would invite you to experience it by yourself, but…

But once the player’s attention is caught, they become a milking cow. You want to develop in game? You have to pay up big time, lest you want all your ships and money go away with an update. They don’t go loud about their wipes, and most players face them when they’ve reached a certain point in the game - at which point they either lose all progress, or start to buy their ships for cash. For, like, hundreds or thousands of dollars per ship.

While this may sound bollocks to someone who haven’t played it, but the way it is normalized in the community combined with the element of frustration of losing everything in a universe player now cares about really drives folks to spend massive sums on the game.

Back in the pre-war era, I remember a person from Ukraine (a country with per capita GDP of ~$5000, or 1/16th that of the US) secretly stashing over $1000 to buy a new ship, adding to his ship park of $4000. His family (wife and two kids) haven’t been on a good vacation for years, and this amount of money would allow them to do so several times over in the southern Ukraine, but he bought some virtual ships. No, really. He was a clan leader, so he felt like he had to have all the nicest ships at his disposal, and his only grief was that he couldn’t afford the $8000 and $21000 ship packs.

The way community psychology works in the game is insane, and I believe a study could be made on how exactly was this all pulled off. Catch with a good premise, and make sure to never let the player go. I’mma be clear - what made me leave the game is not the sudden realization of its predatory practices, but simply the fact my computer started lagging heavily in the new areas, and me not having money to upgrade at the moment. I did consider buying a $400 ship just to have a decent hauler after wipes though, despite myself living in a not-so-rich of a country. Looking back at my Star Citizen experience though, I see how crazy it would be.

Elder Scrolls 6

Not Markdown as a whole, but I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold. Some also know how to cross the text. Not much more for a normie, though.

Thanks! That’s actually useful to enrich my speech

Alpine HQ

Exactly!

That’s a valid concern; however, there is a clear benefit to making a full ecosystem. End consumers love it and stay with it, and this might contribute to increased adoption of Linux as a whole. At the same time, plenty of people don’t like ecosystems, myself included, and for us the choice is not going away.

KDE, in my eyes, is in the best shape it’s ever been, and they really can afford to spread development efforts. Besides, new applications bring new developers, which may contribute back to the core.

That’s a valid concern; however, there is a clear benefit to making a full ecosystem. End consumers love it and stay with it, and this might contribute to increased adoption of Linux as a whole. At the same time, plenty of people don’t like ecosystems, myself included, and for us the choice is not going away.

KDE, in my eyes, is in the best shape it’s ever been, and they really can afford to spread development efforts. Besides, new applications bring new developers, which may contribute back to the core.

Average of DD’s means this 1% should drag their boobs on the ground like two bags

I know average≠median. But it would require quite a few women to have completely massive breasts, which is not the case.

Related shower thought: does the Pope take holy shit?

I don’t think Russia primarily features DD’s. Mostly B’s and C’s here, it seems.

The problem with it is, everyone defines “dicky” behavior differently.

This is not quite genuine.

Anarcho-capitalists generally don’t like corporations, either, they just believe that the state plays a crucial role in keeping them afloat, through patents, bailouts, and corruption. They commonly believe that without the state, the markets will generally revert to many small individual actors.

This is unlikely to be true, however, as the economies of scale by themselves heavily reward massive corporations, and private police and military will likely allow them to stronghand their opponents.

If we are serious about promoting left-wing ideas, we should take our opponents as they are, and not build strawmen for ourselves to ridicule.

Yes, by all means, it is time to sell. The upwards potential is unclear, while the downward movement can get you back to $30000. Most likely, you will not gain much more on this market at the moment, while potential loss is colossal.

Russia is one of the key destinations for piracy because of lenient laws and even more lenient police practice regarding it.

Always good to have some legal options, and the more they expand, the better.

Still, torrenting shouldn’t go anywhere indeed.