It’s interesting to watch the cycle of bullshit that happens around every hyped game.

Years up to the release, people are full of wild speculation, impossible expectations, and excitement.

Months up to the release, suddenly every piece of news is blown massively out of proportion. People are now extremely overreacting to every minor piece of news like it’s going to end this game.

The internet is so boring when it comes to video games. Reviews have become useless because nothing is ever good enough. Online discourse is worthless because people are always focused on the weird parts of a game or it’s release.

We had a foreign exchange student from Switzerland living with us recently, and I can confirm that the German side of Switzerland thinks the French side as lesser.

Once I listened to a pest control guy and he said “I bet you’ve noticed a lot of wolf spiders in your yard”, to which I agreed.

He told me that their pest control dumps a shit load of pest control spray that should keep them away for a while. I asked, “but isn’t that where they live? Outside?”

He didn’t seem to understand how someone could belive that the spiders should be allowed to live outside.

The point being, if the public owns half of the company but the company is failing, now the public has acquired 50% liability of a dying business.

Like others said though, I’m sure taxpayers will be on the hook either way.

Does this mean we’ll all be bag holders when the AI bubble bursts?

Public sentiment about your brand is a currency and they cashed all of theirs in within the span of like a week.

Texas Tribune is pretty reputable:

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/texas-tesla-lithium-battery-plant-pollution-tceq-robstown-drainage/

That’s a level of lazy I can’t get behind, but I guess the market exists for a reason.

The days of having to constantly fiddle with your pc are pretty long gone. I built my current pc a couple years ago and have only had to open it for some minor upgrades (new ssd) and cleaning.

PC prices are definitely up though.

All you need is to talk to some younger gamers to see how bad CS cases can be. My younger sibling (24 now) was surrounded by case gambling growing up and I personally know some kids highschool aged that are keeping the trend going.

Valvd does a lot of good things for gaming but this is really not one of them.

They definitely did a lot of sponsored YouTube content. Iron Pineapple did a sponsored video. Seemed mid, not a $700 (ps5 + game) game.

I can think of an option but no one likes it because it sucks.

When are they going to prove that? This thread isn’t helping lol

He knows what he did!

First off, that was months ago now. Why would you spend your time doing that?

Second, that’s probably a terrible paraphrasing of what I actually said and without any of the context around it. I don’t think DEI is bad. I do think everyone should have equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexuality, and race.

Finally, I truly do believe there’s no such thing as stolen land though, at least in the context of the discussion from what I recall. Your unnuanced summary, “because everyone does it” , has been shortened to further push your attempt at making me look bad.

This is why I said blahaj is as bad as ml. Bandwagoning, echo chamber communities that don’t want to hear an opinion that isn’t fully in line with the Correct Opinion©™®. I don’t even think my opinions were that controversial.

I am banned from a bunch of blahaj because I said that they were as bad as ml once. Never made any transphobic comments (nor am I, for the record).

I was not surprised to see them so high up.

That’s a lot to go through for like $200.

“drag itself back into relevancy”

They still have some like a little more than 90% market share. That seems pretty relevant to me.

From that I’ve heard, Japan has been betting on hybrid and hydrogen fuel instead of full electric.

I’ve been heavily considering an electric recently and was surprised by the severe lack of japanese EVs.

I’m afraid I’d be unable to respond to all the questions since I can’t read!