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I swear some days I see as many memes about the people posting memes as I see memes from those posters.

Corrected archive link - OP’s is missing a character so it’s not working

The context that it's a copay cap only is really important, and I see why it was vetoed - for not going far enough while a viable interim solution is already in place that gives the state breathing room to wait for a more complete solution.

I've been seeing a lot of misleading as hell headlines about this guy's vetoes lately. There was another one yesterday about him vetoing a bill that would have banned caste discrimination, but that one was because CA's anti-discrimination laws already covered discrimination based on ancestry.

The best time to learn emergency lifesaving procedures is before you need them, but the second best time is when you need them. Being old fashioned about this could cost a life.

If you have a quicker reference people should bookmark for such cases, the kind thing would be to share it rather than judge. Else, panicking people will inevitably go where they know they can usually get fast instruction about any other topic.

Mhm, that's one of the "very recent additions" I meant. The other being Memoria, but that's a sidequest.

Bit of a sensationalized headline, then. They're almost there, but not "entirely."

Article only mentions dungeons. Did they add it for story trials too? As far as I know that's only available for early 4-player trials and a couple of very recent additions. The Chrysalis, Steps of Faith, etc can still wipe a group of human players easily if their mechanics are ignored.

People can also apply the slightest semblance of critical thinking and realize most gaming journalism outfits, no matter their questionable quality, will realize they won't last long if there are true spoilers in the titles. Therefore this isn't really a spoiler.

Like they're obviously going to phrase things in ways that get more engagement, which is why it's a crucial skill on the internet today that readers need to think critically and not just accept headlines literally.

I'm not saying it's right, but jfc man, you have to develop skills to engage with the internet you have, not the internet you wish you had. I really feel no sympathy for people who thought this was a spoiler. At least this is a cheap lesson in gullibility instead of a costly one.

But then they wouldn't get so many clicks and reactions.

Everyone's malding over spoilers and not realizing this isn't an actual ending that's coded into the game, it's just a funny side effect of a spell that malfunctioned during the end boss.

Skyrim is more game engine than game with the scope of some of its mods.

Shoutout to that one mod that actually did grow up and release as an independent game.

Only bothered clicking through this because it was “found” and wtf? People knew about the Blood of Lathander super early (both wikis I know of had pages on it weeks before the Aug 31 stream this statement came from), and Astarion’s freakout if you blow him up in there is one of his most popular clips. And it’s definitely not two hours of gameplay unless you include all the creche business too (unless some of those fights up top are super hard on higher difficulties I guess, but if you’re blowing up Astarion you probably skipped them anyway). Surely this can’t be it lol

“Cozy” games warrant a label of their own because just browsing “simulation” or “management” returns as many Frostpunks and Overcookeds as Stardew Valleys and Dave the Divers, and while these are ostensibly the same genre, they’re targeting people who want wildly different things from their games. Even the existing “casual” label doesn’t fit, because that’s meant more for short-session games that you can pick up and put down, well, casually - these games can still be fast-paced and stressful, and you want a cozy game for a nice long zen session.

As for its rising popularity, I think that’s also due in part to how the gaming market adapts to the lives of its audience. Shit is stressful right now, and a lot more people just want to chill lately, so more of these games are getting made and growing popular.

Is there a word you think describes the category better, that you’d hate seeing less?

This. They should be going through insurance for this.

Of course, the insurance rates would rise, and they’d still be passing on that increase to the residents, but residents would be slightly less bitchy about it since the extra layers of opacity would make it seem like “just more of the usual greed and inflation.”

The fact that they even tried to pretend it wasn’t retroactive because they didn’t charge for old install counts. Like, does it charge games that were released under different terms? Yes? Then it’s retroactive!

I’m glad you had fun with it. Do accept that my inability to have fun with it doesn’t negate any of the enjoyment you got out of it. Respectfully, something this long instructing me of all the ways I must have played it wrong if I didn’t enjoy it as much as you comes off as a little condescending. I’m sure it wasn’t your intent, but like… I know I have the option to put it down or skip things. I know I can pay off bounties. I was there, these systems and ideas are not hard to find. But for me, the fact that I’m allowed to skip engaging with a system or put it down before I see all the devs put there for me to see is the opposite of a selling point.

For me, it’s like I ordered a meal at a favorite restaurant, the plate came out with portions three times larger than expected and gorgeously plated but with so little seasoning I couldn’t stomach it. Saying “you don’t have to eat it all” and “there’s salt on the table” doesn’t make it a good meal.

We find different things fun, and that’s okay. May we both have a good time with Mirage.

I love AC. Or… did.

AC Odyssey was the first one in the entire series I couldn’t push myself to finish. I used to love just bumping around eliminating every single map icon, but Odyssey was way, way too big, and having my zen ruined by bounty hunters all the time was exhausting.

I heard Valhalla was even worse. It was the first one I skipped after playing each one since the original (even some of the 2D ones).

It’s pretty much all he does unless he finds an Obra Dinn-tier darling.

Except for Gollum, he was weirdly defensive of that for a game that pulled every AAA anti-consumer trick in the book without at least the decency to be bland.

the black spots you get in clothes when you leave them in a wet pile for too long

We call that mold or mildew.

Not remembering a joke from an episode that aired 25 years ago doesn’t really rank high on most people’s shame-o-meters, my dude

Oh, I’m positive yours is by far the more common experience - I haven’t met anyone who agreed with me about it, haha. (But starting with “unpopular opinion, but…” is so tainted by popular opinions seeking attention that I couldn’t bring myself to say it)

And yeah, the puzzles were simple, but the world was cool enough (until the ending loljk’d it all) that I enjoyed spending time in it even doing the simple stuff.