isekaihero

I spent like $2000 playing Star Trek Online. Lockbox keys, lifetime sub, all sorts of ships, items, and boosts. They introduced Mark XIV equipment with a gambling-based crafting system. You could spend dilithium (which you could buy with $) to have a chance to upgrade your equipment.

The straw that broke me? Their shitty customer service. I wanted to gear up an alt and give them the Jem'Hadar battleship with the Jem'hadar attack ship so they could launch the attack ships from it as fighters, which you could do if you had both. Problem was some ships were account bound, and some ships were character bound, and I lost track of which was which. I ended up claiming the box for one of them on the wrong character. Easy fix, right? Well not every MMO is run to the same standard as Blizzard. Craptic absolutely refused to help me. So I cut ties.

It was after that, when I experienceced withdrawal, that I read about gambler's fallacy and sunken cost fallacy and I really analyzed why it hurt so much to leave behind my addiction. I never went back, because I know that whole game is run like a casino. They do everything they can to hook you in.

Oh come on. This is every experience with linux.

It's actually gone very well. Lots of preorders. I saw videos of people lining up outside gamestop locations this morning.

It's almost guaranteed to be in the top 10 of best selling consoles.

I don't think Millennials will ever reach the same level of financial security that boomers had. It feels like I'm always treading water, only barely able to get by. I never have money to go on vacation, eat out, or buy a car. Everything is so expensive that I'm lucky if I don't go deeper into debt by the end of the month.

Stroehmann white bread. It's super-processed, light and airy plain white bread. The same fluffy cloud bread that my parents used to make PB&J when I was a kid.

I have to use smuckers PB and some orange marmalade though. I can't stand cheap PB and cheap grape jelly. It was fine when I was a kid, but just isn't appetizing now.

EAT THE RICH

big badonka-donkadonks

I love it. Cyborg girl art is hot.

Fine. Charmander it is.

Good now we can develop injectable anti-fat molecules to eliminate obesity. In the future, everyone will be thin and look amazing because we will convert our fat into pure energy.

Scientists get on top of this. Move this theoretical physics into applied science ASAP.

I just don't see a place for it in the market. Steam is the big daddy DRM store. GOG is the old school DRM-free store. Itch is the small time indie dev store. Epic will never be a general storefront like one of the above. The only reason to use Epic is to play one of their exclusive games, and in that case they're no different from any company that refuses to multiplat their games. Blizzard selling their games on the Blizzard store or Nintendo selling their games on the Nintendo store. It just comes down to wanting a larger cut of the sales, instead of paying someone else to use their storefront.