LwL

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[–] LwL 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess houses build themselves for free now

And just building government sponsored free housing for everyone is great and all until you think about the fact that different people have different requirements and if you remove the landlord scalping from the picture it doesn't actually save any money since it'd just be paid for by taxes.

[–] LwL 4 points 1 year ago

Das Mädchen is actually easy as it is a diminuitive which are always neutral (granted, no one uses the root word anymore so that may be hard to identify in this case).

Outside of rare cases like that there are no actual rules, only things that can help guess, and anyone saying otherwise is simply wrong.

[–] LwL 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The general thing with mental illness classification is "does the behaviour have a severe negative impact on your life?" (I know "severe" isn't well-defined either though).

Something like Social Anxiety Disorder is probably the easiest to understand what's meant by "severe". Everyone has some social anxiety (and those that don't are usually socially oblivious) but most people don't have that anxiety stop them from completing necessary everyday tasks like making an appointment for a haircut or going to the grocery store (and make it take a lot of effort to do so when circumstances eventually force you to). It doesn't require the extreme case of some people that can't even leave their house out of that fear, but it has to have an impact.

Not sure if that helps in any way, in the end a professional diagnosis is the only way to really find out.

[–] LwL 1 points 1 year ago

Competitive arena shooters have always seemed the worst to me, so if cs2 has more women that's really good to hear. I think in a combined ~1k hours of csgo and valorant (haven't played either in years though) i can count the amount of times ive hears women speak in vcs on my hands, and I'm not sure if it was ever not followed by some stupid sexist comments.

Definitely seeing many women in other genres, just waiting for more to reach pro level so we actually see mixed gender or sometimes all women teams in professional esports commonly. As it stands it also still seems like a few too many people would immediately blame any bad performance on being a woman, and no one really wants to deal with that kind of public response.

[–] LwL 2 points 1 year ago

I have the opposite issue, so yes. I don't particularly enjoy having to constantly pay attention to every enemy, but I enjoy learning a boss fight for an hour or two. I've also played a few games where dealing with random enemies felt harder than dealing with bosses due to sheer numbers, and it would help with that too.

So I don't think it's really a design problem. If you know exactly what you want your game's experience to be, then don't add it. But I'd argue for most games it isn't integral to the experience how the difficulty of normal mobs vs bosses compares, and people have different preferences for it.

[–] LwL 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, from what I can find their operating profit was in the negatives every year.

Not sure how much of their costs go to the label vs. Server and employee costs, though. It's possible they take more of a cut than retail stores do regardless. Bandwidth isn't cheap, and software devs aren't cheap either.

In any case, the artist sees very little of that money.

[–] LwL 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...does it? I make more than 10x that as QA in germany, work 40 hours a week (with 30 vacation days, no idea what vacation standards are in india) and cost of living is around 4x what it is in india.

Even with what I hear from the US that still seems worse since you just make far less money relative to cost of living, as I'd imagine US salaries are higher than here if anything.

[–] LwL 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are a lot of things ppl seem to ascribe to adhd that aren't (and also it often depends on the severity/frequency whether it's normal or not) but also symptoms for different mental afflictions often overlap and distinguishing between them can be hard. So it's very possible something is related to adhd, but someone experiences the same issue without having adhd.

I have no idea if this particular issue is related to adhd though, but doesn't seem unlikely.

[–] LwL 3 points 1 year ago

Well then what should they do instead, enlighten us? This has nothing to do with being gullible, it being a free marketing gimmick is in no way opposed to it being wholesome and a nice thing for the cats owner.

[–] LwL 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Liking starfield does not imply being part of "the bethesda army" lol

I'm pretty sure the majority of people that like starfield like it for the precise reason that they got exactly what they expected.

[–] LwL 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pasta is a type of noodles.

[–] LwL 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Partially, but plenty of anime targeted at adults are also set in high school. Because japan romanticizes high school as, unless you go to university after, it is the last time before retirement where you aren't stuck in their hellish (but at least slowly improving) working conditions.

Very similar to the tweet in the OP really.

Personally even with the relative lack of free time i prefer working over being in uni, and high school was hell on earth that I only managed to cope with through video game addiction.

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