I used to get so angry at my dad for trying to pull that trick. I didn’t expose his lie but man was I not cool with being dishonest to save a few bucks.

That’s way too broad. Scripting is a pretty broad concept.

Oof. I don’t love the liberal government or anything, but I’ve got a feeling I’ll miss them when we’re under the conservatives.

People have tried to get me into Monster Hunter several times, with little success. There’s just a lot of work involved.

Lots of crafting and farming, and once you’re ready, the fight itself is a lot of work. It takes a long time due to large HP pools.

There are a zillion builds, and the story isn’t exactly deep enough to engage me despite the shortcomings. To me, it’s basically Elden Ring, but with the aspects I don’t like turned to 11.

I’d have expected ad providers to catch on pretty quickly that there’s cheating involved, no?

I think that’s right for a website where you accidentally clicked an ad and now it’s trying to convince you you have a virus and you need to download their virus to remove it. Or maybe for an ad pop-up where annoying you might increase the chances that the content makes it into your brain.

But for a news website i have trouble seeing the logic.

I’ve always wondered. Is there really a benefit to a ton of redirects like that? Like, do they gain anything by making it harder to back out?

Or is it just extremely incompetent website programming?

URLs aren’t case-sensitive though, so wouldn’t those necessarily have another kind of differentiator?

We regularly have that problem at work. Works on your development PC on Windows. Push to pipeline, get cryptic error messages. Once we were two people trying to figure it out for half an hour.

Case-sensitive file names. Why.

Oh spam email I absolutely get a lot of. But spam calls, thankfully, are a relatively rare occurrence.

All of those issues sound like things the game developers should figure out solutions to. If there’s a boring behaviour that results in boring gameplay and people can’t do much against that unless they have overwhelming skill… Yeah sounds like a problem that they need to solve somehow.

Because games should be fun.

Holy shit, I thought people were exaggerating when they said spam calls had gotten out of hand. I didn’t think it was that bad.