I think their point is that in an economy that isn’t profit-driven, artists (just like everyone else) would not rely on their art/labor for survival.

Artists generally prefer this model as well, since they don’t have to tailor their art to anyone else’s tastes. We already see models moving towards this, like Patreon, where you pay the artist to produce whatever art they want, rather than buying a completed work. The next step is this being UBI (which is essentially a public patronage system), not private patrons.

During the iPhone 17 launch event, Apple revealed that its customers took 500 billion selfies last year, a massive figure that shows just how normalized the practice has become.

Selfies were often mocked when they were deemed the purview of Instagram-obsessed teenage girls, but these days it’s not unusual to see everyone from seniors to a gaggle of sports bros gathering around a single phone like an object of worship.

Yes, now everyone is Instagram-obsessed, not just teenage girls. The ageism and misogyny was wrong. The negative assessment of people being vain was not.

so in other words it’s automatically removing some of my image in order to fake being portrait or landscape?

Coolio. No one told you you have to play it.

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People who aren’t having issues don’t go online to post about it. Since we know the daily player count hovers around 29,000, those hundreds of complaints can still be a very small portion of players, who are experiencing issues.

Edit: Off my phone, so I can type more easily.

The other side to this is that differences between patches can be huge, so reports of a bug that everyone is having could be irrelevant a week later when the new patch drops, but unless you’re checking every post’s date and patch number, you could falsely conclude the bug is still present, or view those bugs as cumulative with bugs that are in the current patch.

The 4.3.x patches are some of the most stable, bug-free patches I’ve played. If you’re insistent on finding faults with anything, you can, and lord knows there are plenty of things to find fault with in SC, but bringing up issues like the ‘deadly’ elevators and doors from last year or older, is an unserious criticism.

I haven’t had any elevator issues in a while, though I know some people have with the freight elevators. Guild chat isn’t something I care about, since every guild/clan/alliance I’ve been a part of has always used mumble/TS/discord.

It’s not really that buggy now, and I don’t know what you mean by “game loops don’t consistently work”?

Based.

Un-sarcastic answer, it’s actually in a really good spot. The backend changes they put in over the past year have boosted the per-server player counts like crazy, they churned through most of their ship backlog, and they’ve been running a bunch of story events. Performance is way up, especially for client fps in high-population areas (15 fps this time last year if you were in a crowd, 35+ now).

PCG has been super negative on SC for years. Sometimes very justifiably, but many times not.

I love the double meaning in the title. We’re both content for consumption, and content with the situation.

The center-left is abandoning trans people, under the belief that it will inoculate them against right wing attacks. It began with commentators doing the “well I’m pro trans but…” line-toeing, and now it’s progressed to full blown transphobic fear mongering.

Calling the uncritical repeating of an unofficial claim made by the very people perpetuating a negative stereotype “careless” or even “negligent” is massively underselling what happened here. WSJ heard a rumor, saw money signs because they know conservatives are looking to scapegoat trans people, and fired it off. This wasn’t carelessness, it was opportunistic fear mongering for clicks.

So the LEOs trying to make it sound like the 3 down arrows were Iron Front were lying sacks of shit, no surprise there. Up Right Down Down Down is from Helldivers 2, for calling in a bomb airstrike.

He’s definitely had a stroke, which makes sense as to why his address about Kirk was AI-generated. Can’t have his base knowing he can’t speak well, that seems ‘un-manly’ to them.

This describes literally every pet system in any game where the pets can battle.

This is so overly broad, it’s insane.

Oh boy do I have a surprise for you…

But is Tamriel Rebuilt installed?

Googling the references, most likely

/s

If only…

(Mabinogi couple)

that’s where the hand on the throttle comes in!

a double-entendre all on its own!

We can’t create them either. Think of any system you think is perfectly rational, and then ask yourself by what standard its rationality is determined.