The sanctions did impact Steam’s operations in Russia. Russian users currently can’t use any payment methods to buy games aside from Steam Wallet funds.

Good opportunity to install an adblocker then. I personally couldn’t stand browsing the web without one.

Tons of things. Instantly talking to a person the next town over, let alone the other side of the world. Turning on a light source whenever we want. Freezing a moment in time by taking a photograph. Etc

The pedant in me also feels the need to point out that the 1600s weren’t medieval though.

I’m sure that’s the case at some companies, but where I work, I can freely choose which tools I use for coding and whether or not to use AI, despite one of my bosses being obsessed with it.

I don’t hate the people who got cosmetic surgeries done on themselves, but I hate the culture that made them feel like they needed them. I also think it often just doesn’t look good.

As long as AI doesn’t take away our hands, it’ll always be perfectly possible to draw our own art, compose our own music and write our own code. And especially in the open-source space, there’s plenty of creative software not jumping on the AI bandwagon.

Even if that did happen, it wouldn’t defeat the point of the disclosures at all. In fact, people will appreciate it all the more if a game is made without any AI involvement and it will become a selling point.

Why do you want to get into a horror game in the first place, if you don’t handle horror games well? I don’t see how that could work, as shocking and horrifying the player is kind of the whole point of the game.

Angels are celestial (non-human) beings who are sent to earth by god as messengers. Ghosts are the souls of dead humans that haunt the place where they died. Besides being supernatural, fictional beings, they don’t really have much in common IMO.

At this point my phone from 2022 is way overpowered for every use case I have for it. So why upgrade? It was a bit different years ago, when new phones actually did exciting new things older phones couldn’t do. But now the technology has pretty much matured, and upgrades are incremental at best.

Farming is a factor for sure, but the kind of multiresistant bacteria being bred in farms are usually a bigger issue for the farms than for humans. Zoonotic diseases exist of course, but most of those bacteria do not infect humans and there is much less opportunities for diseases to spread to humans from a farm. Places like hospitals overusing antibiotics are far more dangerous for human health, as all the germs there are human ones and because there are a lot of opportunities for human to human transmission.

But as I said, it’s not that we should only reduce antibiotic overuse in humans. Overuse by farms is a massive problem as well. One doesn’t exclude the other.

Even if that worked, the problem is that we’re already overusing antibiotics and breeding all kind of multiresistant bacteria. We have to use them sparingly or we’ll run out of usable antibiotics in the near future.

You’re right, good catch. Canadian dollars makes sense.

Did the shop add a significant markup here or is this some non-USD currency? Otherwise that price is $30 more than even MSRP. Right now I could buy it for 50€ here, which is still probably too much but significantly less egregious.

According to the overview trailer you’ll meet federation troopers “occassionally”. I’m pretty sure Miles will only be around during the early game, but there will be other NPCs later on. Does sound like you’ll be alone most of the time though. I’m not a fan of what I’ve seen of Miles at all, but I do enough have faith in retro studios to be sure that they won’t give us a quippy sidekick for the entire game.

Society expects men to be “tough” and not show too many emotions. So men are less likely to have someone they can emotionally lean on and with whom they can talk about their feelings, even if they have many friends. Obviously it doesn’t mean that women can’t feel lonely. You wouldn’t go into a discussion about femicides and be like “Don’t men get murdered too? Wtf?”, right?

Degrading in terms of physical capabilities? Mental capacity? Hearing? I think you’ll need to be a bit more specific here if you want any useful replies.

That’s pretty much the opposite of what the comment they’re replying to was saying though. They were complaining about bikes going below the speed limit, so I guess they only want the Lance Armstrong types on the road and not the commuters.

If you’re going 1/4 of the speed limit and there’s no biking infrastructure, please stay off the road.

Why though? With American roads being as wide as they are, shouldn’t it be quite easy to safely overtake slower cyclists? I manage to do that even on narrow European streets.

Potentially it could also be something behind the screen. That could even explain the spot moving if there’s some sort of loose component inside the TV that has moved around over time. Pure speculation though.