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Who thinks hostels are dangerous? lol I've stayed at hostels all over the world including places like La Paz and had a fucking awesome time every time. I could understand a single female not wanting to stay in a mixed dorm but other than that, they're fine.

First thing I would do? Without question a year-long holiday. I haven't had more than a few days off at a time for over five years.

I don't have kids and live alone in Tokyo. Space is limited so keeping things neat and tidy is a must. Also idk I just can't relax if I know there is still some small housework to be done (dishes, etc.).

If you have two year old I think you can be forgiven for a bit of chaos! Don't stress.

You can turn it on/off per site.

I have never purchased a single microtransaction. I don't see the appeal of having a green shirt, or paying to win (buying in-game currency that I can use to level up, etc.). The second one in particular just defeats the purpose of why I play games (to learn to get good at them and exercise my skill). Any game that prevents me from winning using skill alone is not even a "game" as I would define it.

DLC is different. These days I rarely buy games on release. I wait for the dust to settle with frothy g4mers complaining about review scores and woke characters, and for all the inevitable QoL patches etc. to roll through, and pick up the game later on at a steep discount. For a number of reasons, I only play single player games, so missing out on the initial influx of players doesn't bother me, and I have a mammoth backlog anyway. If the base game was cheap and I enjoyed it, then I'll think about getting DLC. My favourite game is Nioh 2, and the three expansions for that game are all very substantial. I paid $15 or something for the base game and then like $20 for the season pass later on.

I also dislike battle royales, but this one caught my attention way back when it came out on PC. I don't game on PC though so I've been waiting ages for this! I hope it gets a good player base.

Here in Japan iPhones are massively popular, more than in most other markets. I just Googled it: iPhones are 67%, Android 33%. That's crazy.

The reasons are: people think they're stylish/cool (in Japan this is SUPER important), they think they must be good because they're expensive, and they think Android is 'scary' because they've never used it before. They literally don't know that Android does everything iOS does, usually better/with more customisation, and that it offers way more control (you can make Android even more simple and basic than iOS if you tinker a bit).

To be honest, even talking about places other than Japan, 98% of people probably have never even stopped to think why they're on either Android/iOS - it's only the 2% of people like us who talk about it.

It is funny though that iPhone users here in Japan have so little idea about why their phones aren't working properly, and have to make actual reservations to have a 'genius' look at their phone and fix it for them. Usually it's just clearing cache or something. They also pay literal hundreds of dollars to have their data transferred over when they get a new iPhone, unaware that cloud storage is capable of doing all of this for you for free.

It's been out on PC for ages, there's gameplay everywhere.

Friendly fire is still in the game. Thank you, that's all I needed to know. Day 1 for me.

That's actually perfect, thanks.

In Japan, it's LINE. Garbage app but the entire population uses it so.

I get that, but without a way to sync them, it's really just a placeholder for a username. Oh well, hopefully lemmy.world remains stable and responsive from now on.