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I go to the library to borrow movies, still fun.

Disagree, free loading customers still help their customer base. They are still seen as potential customers and normalize having epic store client, legitimizing their own walled garden. It's similar to any free-to-play game. All the customers that pay $0 technically cost the company money, but it's worth having that dead weight to build a player base to get the whales in. Just by installing and having an epic account will inevitably draw other people in that will spend money and lure in investors and developers. They're not dumb.

Really don't think of it from an individual point of view, but as a whole.

Not really, you cost Epic money but give them more users. Which is what they want. Only get free games from them if you want to support Epic.

There are studies that have shown staying indoors leads to bad eyesight. Combination of lack of UV and focusing on close up things. So there is some truth to sitting close to the TV is bad, even if it was only by accident. https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/analyst-comment/time-indoors-shortsightedness/?cf-view

But also, glasses exist. It's not a major issue.

As a fuckcar crowd, I moved from a rural location to the city. Because, you guessed it, fuck cars.

Yea I travel a bit, and I like talking about how they travel to gleen what kind of person they are. Like big cities? Do they take transit? What kind of activities? Lodging? Adventurous with food? Planned /spontaneous?

But at the same time, I typically move on to non-travel based chat pretty quickly. So I agree with the spirit of the comic.

I would say the vast majority of micro transactions are cosmetic or time unlocking. Not adding much novelty.

Also the context of this post is about gifting kids on Christmas, so no, not necessarily "up to you". I guess there's an argument to just give kids whatever they want, but I don't think think that leads to the best development outcomes. You can't force kids to do anything either, but there does exist a middle ground.

Not sure why novelty is in quotes, it's a quantifiable measurement based on differences. Anyway, novelty has shown to have a wide range of mental benefits. This is a pretty good overview, and if you want to dig into specific papers they're listed as well.

Even if you want to ignore any potential benefits of novelty, generally when you have a new experience for the first time, you will have more fun that you typically do. The downside is some new experiences may not be fun, but that's very low risk in the context of gaming.

I think it's a little different. With new games comes novelty. Sticking with a single game and just buying cosmetics doesn't provide nearly as much novelty.

I don't think this is a children only issue either. Its a trap adults fall into as well.

It's way more likely they have an informant in the chat or the phone itself is compromised. End to end encryption doesn't protect the "end"s.

But sounds like there is still a bug, KDE settings shouldn't segfault with malformed reports/descriptors. Might want to write a bug report or do PR yourself.

As a counterpoint, your salary is mainly a reflection on how much profit can be made by your skillset/location at a given point in time. I'm not a fan of tying people's worth to their profitability. It's devoid of any type of ethical concern.

If we as a society tie profitability to societal good, then I'll be on board.