KoboldCoterie

You're the hero the internet needs.

Yeah, and at that point I'll also just wait for a 50% off sale, whereas I would otherwise have been a day 1 purchase.

I feel like this happens a lot, honestly - there'll be a game I'm really excited for, and either it's got some shitty DRM, or it's a timed Epic exclusive, or whatever else, and then a few months later when I could be playing it, I've mentally moved on to other things and I end up just buying it much later on deep sale if at all.

There's a lot of games coming out all the time; if I get past that initial hype period around launch without buying a thing, it's 50% or more off, or I won't buy it at all.

It's really a shame, because I was super excited for MH:Wilds, but the confirmation that it will include Denuvo killed my enthusiasm completely.

Vampire Survivors' genre has been coined 'Bullet Heaven', literally the opposite of bullet hell. The fact that it has the tag on Steam is kind of meaningless. Monster Hunter: Wilds' Steam Page has the Dating Sim tag, but I'm willing to bet I won't get to romance a Rathalos.

allows the agency to seek civil penalties against those who knowingly violate it.

I hate that wording. Ignorance of the law isn't a defense, unless you're a corporation, apparently.

It also looks like this doesn't address the practice of offering incentive for actual purchasers to leave positive reviews.

if you have a more effective metric in mind, I’d love to hear it instead of just pointing out flaws

I mean, isn't the whole point of this comment section to discuss the merits and flaws of the proposal you've made? If we're not discussing the downsides, too, what's even the point?

That said, an ideal system would be a measure of the quality of content, not the quantity of content so, as another user has suggested, some measure involving net upvotes might be more effective. Yes, obviously a user can create multiple accounts to upvote everything and fuck with that metric, but I kind of doubt many folks would go to the trouble.

Maybe some combination of PCM and the average number of votes divided by the number of active users could generate some sort of quality metric. At the very least it might be a measure of engagement.

Spam Resistance: Creating multiple accounts to inflate MAU is easy. Generating meaningful posts and comments is harder.

Isn't this actually just spam encouragement? A community with a bot that posts 50 low-value posts every day will have a much higher PCM as a result, and that behavior is more obnoxious to users and moderators who have to see it and deal with it, vs. someone creating a bunch of accounts, which is largely invisible to everyone else.

Not unreasonably big, but my state started offering rebates on heat pumps some time ago, and the price of installation mysteriously went up by about the same amount as the rebate shortly thereafter. Quite a coincidence, that...

I'm in the same boat. The cost to run it would be comparable to what we pay now for heat + AC, but with a $22500-ish installation cost up front, and no chance of recouping any of that through ongoing savings. That's hard to stomach, as much as I'd like to.

I think what Musk is saying here is that billionaires have way too much money, and we should go back to an Eisenhower-era tax system along with 100% wealth taxes on anything over a certain reasonable amount to prevent this sort of thing from happening. That's what I'm hearing, anyway.

They're just being passive aggressive. "I know the way... but I'm sure as fuck not showing you, scrub."

It's becoming increasingly clear that this election isn't Harris vs. Trump, it's Harris vs. Vance; Trump is just Vance's front man / advertising platform.