Calling it now. Next Borderlands game is going to have some referential jokes about this train wreck that are meant to be funny self-deprecation but will actually be transparent attempts as covering up how much Randy Pritchford is malding about this.
I'm honestly surprised we aren't seeing more public meltdown from him. Can only imagine what's happening behind closed doors.
What happens if my brother gets banned for cheating while playing my game?
If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.
I love that they worded it as the age old ban appeal reason. Always someone's brother on their account breaking the rules.
Rough going, but it's better than having cheaters just make a rotation of child accounts they can hide behind.
That assumes that anyone can reliably be a single issue voter their whole life, and that people somehow only have to live in the reality they voted for instead of the reality of whichever politicians actually won.
It's a very beguiling idea to simply blame the current problems of the world on negligence or a lack of effort by those who came before you. On strictly personal failings. It's also incredibly short sighted to do so, and often leads to repeated mistakes.
Inb4 "then they should have tried harder to convince their friends/family! They should have protested! They should have stormed the capital in violent revolution!" Keep moving the goalposts so long as you can keep blaming the previous generations.
It's a classic trap in business for newly hired managers: Come into a new to you situation, pick out the obvious as hell problems, insist upon the most logically simple solution. Ignore the history, company politics, confounding variables, and end up making the situation worse because you never understood how things got so bad to begin with.
In complicated situations, it is a trap to think that the obvious solution just hasn't been tried or investigated because no one as smart as you has been involved yet.
Now blame where blame is absolutely due. There's plenty to go around.
That said, very little of what the powers that be do is truly new. Blaming the older generations eliminates an opportunity for us all to learn from the past, identify patterns in history, and just makes it that much easier to keep us all oppressed.
A big takeaway I've found from elderly family members is that you absolutely cannot rely on inflation increasing at a standard pace. A fortune saved up 25+ years ago does not go anywhere as far as it used to.
Anyway, to try and cut my ramble short: We can sit around feeling smug about some perverted idea of "what goes around comes around", or we can try to learn from the knowledge aand mistakes of previous generations.
We'll all be old one day.
I would hope, but I've been burned enough to not assume big companies are doing things the sensible way.
And someone in your family at some point will take a picture of your kid and put it up on whatever the social media of choice is.
This is just called actually understanding your threat model and fully evaluating the controls available to you. Basic information security.
The most secure password policy in the world doesn't matter if your users just write them down on sticky notes on their desks. Security on your end doesn't matter if you're sending the data to an insecure destination.
Same concepts apply to privacy.
It's amazing how incentives at high levels can absolutely twist someone.
Rather than discuss or investigate the situations that lead to these hire/fire cycles, potentially find a better way, they accept it as inevitable and build off of that.
They get to take the lazy route and still have room to internally satisfy their withered conscience that they are somehow "doing good" by making vague attempts to offset the shit situation, rather than trying to eliminate said situation entirely.
Fucking hell why does this explain so much of the bullshit I am dealing with at work right now?
Please get yourself an actual IT team. This is basic conditional access policy configuration for an Azure tennant.
Microsoft has learning materials available on this. It's part of their free Azure Admin online learning courses.
Just a note, the collection title is a little misleading now that more games in the series have come out.
This includes Zero (prequel to the original series), Kiwami 1 and 2 (remakes of the first two), 3-5 remastered, and 6 (the original ending of the original series starring Kiryu). Seven meaty brawler games with absolutely cracked side content. Great stuff, good value.
That said, it does not include the new releases from Like a Dragon onward: Like a Dragon (turn based with a new protag), The Man who Erased his Name (side game with the brawler style of the originals, about original protag Kiryu coming back from "retirement"), or Inifinite Wealth (latest game in the turn based style, with a storyline crossover between the new protag and Kiryu, the old protag).
It also does not include the two "Judgement" spinoff games, brawler style games where you play as a detective in the same universe (these never got non-console releases).
Or any of the other even more obscure spinoff brawler games (most never saw release outside of Japan). Multiple "Yakuza but set in ancient history" games (one got a remaster released in the US), one "What if Fist of the North Star got a Yakuza brawler game" that is PS4 only (with a US release, hooray), and two PSP only games from Japan starring a side character in between the first six games (I think there are fan translations for these).
Just figured that might trip up anyone new to this great series that has a hell of a lot more games to it than most realize.
Don't worry, Google's own Messages app does the same thing as iMessage, but using a different (and on paper more open) standard that isn't compatible with iMessage (yet, I think the EU is forcing Apple's hand).
Where? Unless you're saying people need to pull over on the shoulder because someone wants to speed in the right hand lane.
You've missed my point entirely.
Blame absolutely is fair, but people can't vote on just the best options for SS alone, ignoring everything else. Also, as seen in recent presidential races (cough cough 2016), you can have a massive contigent of voter will just effectively erased by very thin margins or technicalities. On top of all that, voters can't directly effect what the policy makers actually do in office.
My point is, it's not useful to blame such a wide and diverse swath of people. Painting with such wide brush strokes only serves to create an us vs them situation that distracts from the actual policy makers, lobbyists, and news media complex with far more direct influence over all of this. Most of those people are boomers, but all boomers are not part of those groups.
The shortsightedness is thinking that new generations are the first people to go "Hey, maybe we need to pay into SS for enough money to be there. Maybe we shouldn't waste money on proxy wars on false pretenses." plenty of Boomers were shouting this from the rooftops as this shit was happening. Your objections and concerns are not new.
Basically, please stop talking about boomers as some singular homogenous entity. Please stop thinking that the situation we now find ourselves in is caused by some sort of lack of sense from older generations instead of politicians doing what is best for them at the expense of the general populace. Please stop blaming the average populace from before your time for the choices made by politicians.
Trump should be a burning hot example that politicians actions and the peoples' will are often very disconnected.
We do have to find a way to fix this. Taking time to dunk on people just as downtrodden as us is wasted effort that could be put towards trying to fix things.