Nobody seems to have mentioned this yet, but Trunk or Treat for lazy and/or helicopter parents has cannibalized door to door visits.

The thing is, what they’re doing isn’t technically criminal. It just violates the terms of use of most social media sites and apps.

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But since the total sample size is much smaller due to language categorization, review bombing is much, much easier and impactful when it does hapoen for the speakers of the language the bombing is targeted at.

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outside

You’re clearly a bot

A sucker is born every minute.

Ya but they’re gonna keep happening until it becomes financially riskier to do a reboot than a new IP. Reboots will have to consistently flop hard.

The problem they describe will self-correct; the “market” will drive that. But it might not be pretty. The things below are already happening, but will be further instigated:

New AAA non-franchise titles will be less common because return is less likely amongst the sea of new games coming out. Investors will continue to gamble on them, but they’ll be fewer and further between.

Mid-budget AA games not in a niche will disappear. You’ll still have your city builders, your milsim squad shooters, your competitive RTS games, but you won’t be seeing many new AA action platformers, multiplayer CoD style shooters, block puzzlers, adventure RPGs, etc. They’ll either be bare budget / indie or mega budget.

You’ll see dev cost continue to be driven down to mitigate this risk, making quality suffer. Asset flips, AI, and outsourcing will increase for most studios that don’t get recurring revenue from live service games.

Indies will continue to be random breakout hits, but their studios will die fast because followups to their breakouts often drown in the sea too.

Being an employee in the industry will probably mean jumping from company to company where you might only stick around for 1 - 2 titles before a major layoff. Contracting will get more common.

If EA weren’t already so bloated and full of suits, I might imagine this would allow them to pump the brakes on their scummy moneymaking policies like the other publicly traded corps.

But like…would Jesus have been cool with that?

Currency is just a debt marker. Person from 3000BC watches their friend’s kids for a bit while thet go on a hunt. Gives em an IOU, maybe it’s some fun looking shells. The markers evolved over time for convenience and counterfeit prevention.

Government trying to take away our cornographic material

Or alternatively (historically), expendable peasants that you don’t want to finance painstaking archery training on.

It’s not exactly hard to operate a firearm. They are designed to be used by the lowest common denominator of person - total morons.

Loser: “This person is legally bound to me so they can’t easily leave even if they want to”

Chad: “This person has no obligation to stay with me, but chooses to because they want to”

Anti-immigrant sentiment in the US has been a thing for hundreds of years. It was commonly called “nativism”. Consider watching Scorcese’s “Gangs of New York” for a (fictionally dramatized) depiction of it in times past.

As for why mass deportations are possible today - - until the late 1800s, immigration to the US was essentially unregulated. The Chinese Exclusion Act and later systems of quotas and literacy tests introduced around the turn of the 20th century instituted the first national immigration policies.

I frankly don’t find it unfair or unreasonable that the US government’s executive branch has chosen to enforce existing immigration laws for political gain. Americans should change their immigration laws if they get upset when they’re actually enforced. If anything, the executive branch was utterly failing to enforce laws that representatives had placed and kept on the books for a long time. If you want more immigrants, make it easy and legal to receive more immigrants without tests, long wait periods, or country of origin quotas.

Life has been found deep in the Earth’s crust. Think about that in this context.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_biosphere

The conditions for deep biosphere life exist throughout the universe. While surface life is apparently very rare, most planetary bodies with a hot core and subsurface moisture should have some layer conducive to this sort of life.

Since we don’t fully how life arises from non-life, it’s speculation as to whether life really is uncommon or not. But deep biosphere life should easily be the most common form in the universe. Estimates for it on Earth put it at about 90% of our biomass of archaea and bacteria.

Constituents would have to unite and convince their house/senate members to repeal the 16th amendment. Probably would be a ton of grassroots support from both sides actually cause everyone hates taxes, and the voters in poor red states would be too ignorant to realize their state would get hosed.

But just overturning the amendment wouldn’t be enough. There’d need to be an alternative amendment related to taxation to specifically shift more responsibility to states.

Ten years from now, when you’re ready, you pull a Luigi. Go out a hero.