leveling up your build periodically from a randomly selected set of options

The bosses are also randomly selected

Those are neat and trendy features, but I don’t see how they make it anything like Rogue or its ilk.

These days when people say roguelike they just mean a game that divides its gameplay into short, disconnected runs instead of one long, continuous save. It unfortunately has nothing to do with whether a game is anything like Rogue.

That sounds great for when I need to get from the Jordan River to somewhere else by the Jordan River and less great for anything else.

I don’t think there’s an industry on earth where it’s normal for the low-level workers to be paid directly when the customer buys something. It being filtered through a bunch of business stuff is the norm everywhere I’m afraid.

Yes, but do you think they’d buy the shows from those production committees and other organizations if people weren’t interested in paying subscriptions to watch them? That’s like saying Bandai doesn’t get money when I buy gunpla from a store like usagunplastore just because usagunplastore already bought the gunpla from Bandai months ago and Bandai isn’t getting more money from that particular purchase.

Animators being horribly underpaid is a different topic entirely.

That’s without even discussing the fact that not a single penny users give them will end up in the hands of any of the exploited artists who actually made the shows

That’s quite the assertion. How exactly do you suggest they’re buying the rights to distribute the shows then?

given that there are still plenty of passionate fans who would have done it for free

I’d imagine this is a non-starter from a corporate standpoint. I know if I were in charge I’d be terrified of the idea of just trusting community-submitted subtitles to not have random slurs or something inserted. That said I still think it would be super cool if they’d let people source and use their own subtitle files; I now it’s possible because I have a tampermonkey script that lets me do just that.

you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle

No. Fuck that. My PC has a headphone jack, and I use it. I don’t have a bunch of extra USB-C ports on the front of my computer. Modern phones have plenty of spaces for headphone jacks. They could put it there, they just don’t want to.

That’s great and all but I’m not switching to Bluetooth headphones and I’m definitely not going to fiddle around with dongles every time I switch between listening on my phone and my PC. Phones are gigantic anyways; let my have my headphone jack. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all these smartphone manufacturers that ditched the old standard will happily sell you shiny expensive disposable wireless earbuds.

With how many things I log into on my phone I think I’d rather have no phone at all than one that’s too old to receive security updates.

Even in the page given as an example here there are two speech bubbles that are pushing their boundaries.

I still don’t see what prevents someone from just buying a different model.

So this just bans that “style” of rifle? Someone can just go buy some other semi-automatic rifle that doesn’t look as imposing or whatever but will still kill a person just as dead? I don’t really get what this accomplishes other than inconveniencing people who already own one of the guns this prohibits.

Most Utahns aren’t Mormon these days.

The problem is if the user asks the AI a question about the language they’re learning they’ll often get confident bullshit as the response and they won’t know it’s wrong because they’re still learning.

Yeah I dropped that one entirely.

Eh. I haven’t listened so much lately anyways since Chris started obsessing over Crypto.

It’s important to not allow “perfect” to become the enemy of “good”.

I use apps that aren’t available in my region for language study, so this could end up being a real problem for me.