One of the reasons for this is that you already experienced a lot of games and there are less of those "first" experiences. Another reason is that AAA and AA has been very same-y for a while (I almost wrote 'trash', but not really, it's pretty cool how far technology has come). AAA doesn't try anything new, AA tries to be AAA. I tend to go back to older games I'm not familiar with and I follow the indie market, there are pretty cool niche games out there which sometimes bring back the spark of that "first-experience" feeling.
Nahdahar
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I guess I'm an outlier then. I've never really listened to songs for the lyrics, but the general feeling of the beat and melody, no matter if I'm depressed or happy. I often imagine a picture or a scene when listening to something. If I pay attention to the lyrics it's usually because of two extremes - either when it's so extremely fitting to the scene I envisioned that it surprises me, or the contrary.
I really hate all these programming memes that revolve around typos. Makes me feel like they aren't made by/for programmers.
A more accurate description would be: she bought herself those things knowing she will never use them and most likely going to be amortized when we finally leave and the next "rentoid" comes in, needing replacement anyway. She doesn't raise our rent despite the market and our contract allowing her to do so.
Regarding maintenance think about issues like replacing broken hinges, changing an amortized shower head, replacing sealing rings in our sink drain etc. So far (in 2,5 years) never had any actual big issue which we couldn't fix ourselves, but if that were the case we would call a technician and send her the invoice.
In our country our situation is a little different. Our government introduced a package which was supposed to help families build or buy homes, giving a large sum of money without having to pay it back, and giving the same amount of money again with extremely low interest rates. This has caused housing prices to double in a few years. But it didn't just affect the housing market, it affected everything that you might buy for a new home (building materials themselves, furniture, appliances etc) because one of the conditions of this package is to renovate, build or buy a relatively newly built house/flat. For example the bed she bought was literally the same I had at home, and its price tripled (I reiterate, fucking TRIPLED) over a couple years. Other factors like the pandemic and the war have also affected the market.
Due to being the #1 country with the highest inflation in the EU (yay!) interest rates also skyrocketed, which makes it pretty much impossible to buy a house/flat anymore with the inflated prices. This has caused an insane increase in the number of people who want to rent, there was a time where barely any flats were available on housing websites. The market reflected the increased demand, people started giving out rooms, renovating old homes to allow parts of it to be rented, people with a lot of money started building apartment houses, etc. And of course the prices (after "rentoids" sucked up the market) were going to be higher to reflect the higher demand.
Our landlady is pretty cool. If we want to buy something that can be an addition to the flat (like furniture or appliances or something) she gladly pays for it. So far in two years she paid for our coffee machine, rice cooker, balcony table and chairs, living room rug, and a new bed in my room. Downside of course is that if we move these have to stay, but honestly it's such a good place for about half the market value that we're not planning to do it any time soon. And of course if there's any maintenance required, we just send her a photo and a link with a price to a part that needs replacing or supplies that need to be bought and she pays for it, and I guess she's glad she doesn't have to pay for a technician, we just do it ourselves.
I opened it on Sync for Lemmy, my experience has been superb. It opened the full res img in an image viewer, zoomed in to the width of the image and I just casually had to continuously scroll down.
My problems with telemetry:
Scope: if you provide a service which is a "wrapper" for doing other things, I do not want you to collect usage data. Example: an entire fucking operating system
Opt-out by default (or completely unable to turn it off) even if the service or software I'm using is paid: I want to have the ability to say no. Communicate properly what you collect when I get access to the service, allow me to say no and don't hide it in 300 pages long TOSes. I don't want to become your free UX tester when I already pay for the service.
Telemetry-driven development: I absolutely hate this both as a user and a developer. We see there are thousands of users using a feature, but it's a low % in general, so lead decides we need to remove it from our product. I know that those x thousand people will be annoyed, and so am I when I'm on the receiving end of this.
Another reason that is not universal but service specific is making decisions that purposefully keep you on the platform, over optimizing the interface for maximizing profit.
This is just another way to keep up the mythical "infinite" growth. Just a little bump as things are starting to stagnate. More money to people = more business = growth.
I think this is the reason why capitalism will keep working properly. Can't keep growing if you can't find more people who can pay for your goods or services.
Or maybe I'm just too naive.