A child will ruin your future! Why aren't you having children?

From the point of view of a single player, you're a cog in the machine. You're paying to have a second job. From a meta point of view, the game generates a history similar to real life history. Clans conquer large areas of the world before a revolution/war results in another clan taking its place.

It might not be the engine. Some companies just don't care much about optimization when they can just tell their players to buy better hardware.

Take GTA5 for example. It had a notoriously long load screen when starting up. Ranging from 2 minutes to 10 minutes depending on the read speeds of your storage drive. A modder ended up finding the problem. The code to load up the items in the game opened and read a file, but there was a bug that caused it to read through the entire file for each item loaded. The file was being read thousand of times. The modder changed one line of code and the loading time was reduced significantly. This was a bug that plagued GTA5 for years, caused by a single line of code, that the company didn't fix because their fix was to buy better hardware.

Oh good, I thought it was just me! I have an older card and can barely keep 30fps with everything set to low. Good to know even top of the line $1,000+ cards can't keep 60fps on max settings.

I wonder if they'll be able to patch that. I remember Starfield had framerate issues on launch but a patch fixed it.

Do you not keep a 6-sided die next to your microwave? I thought everyone did that...

The Queen's face and name has been on everything for decades. There are Canadians in their 70s who never knew anything different. That's just the way things were. It was tradition. That's how I saw it anyways. Anyone who complained about it was just complaining about a symbolic action we've all been doing for generations. Nobody is actually swearing their life to the queen--it's just a tradition. Then she died.

Now some random old guy's face and name is going to be on everything. If we're going to change everything anyways, then why not change it to something different? The argument that was seen as a small complaint before now makes a lot of sense. If we're changing the words to our oath anyways, then why not change them to words we can all agree on?

What is in the Charter is the right to safety and that seems to be what the defendants are arguing. That the prohibition is creating a safety issue and is therefore a Charter violation.

I was going to say. First Nations did not have some amazing peaceful utopia. They killed each other for resources too.

TImes described Hitler as "the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today." They didn't think he was a good person

These God damned addicts are getting high and riding bikes!

Valve wrote literal research papers on player experience and level design. The stuff they came up with have just become the norm in other games. For example, Valve found that players never look up without a reason to. They came up with ways to get the player to look up without directly telling them to with level design choices. Things like rays of light coming in from above, or ropes hanging from the ceiling.

It wouldn't be a STALKER game if it wasn't filled with bugs on release

Unless the rules have changed, scamming players wasn't only allowed but actively encouraged. The theme of the game is unregulated hyper space capitalism where players have little to no built-in protection from each other.

Groups can hide bases in space and players from rival groups would attempt to join up in order to find the coordinates and the best times to attack. Sometimes going as far as hanging out with the other players irl to gain their trust.

Market traders would claim to be running mutual funds that you could buy into and receive huge returns when in reality it was a Ponzi scheme.

Players would offer high paying contracts to ship an item to a player owned base. Once another player accepted the contract they'd be denied entry to the base forcing them to fail the contract and pay a cancellation fee.

In every way except for income and exchange rate. If you're converting most of the money you earn into Rupees and sending it to India, America is the better choice.

When looking up why he went to jail I also saw an article about how he's Russian and has complained that "politics" (sanctions) have taken his paycheque from him. Apparently that didn't go over too well, especially from Ukrainian devs who said "politics" have taken their loved ones from them.

Context: in 2020 he accidentally killed someone in a motorcycle accident. He has since been released.

Shaq was literally at the fight though...

The first round was the only hope Tyson had. By the third round he was just standing there eating punches. The fight ended with Tyson landing something like 18 punches in an 18 minute fight.

Hopefully people remember and learn from the Australian government who allowed water to be traded like stocks. The idea was that farmers and companies that needed water most would pay for water rights from people who didn't need it.

In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.