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Looking Glass Studios.

Complexity gives the games depth which allows them to hold interest. You can try something, figure out how to play the game that way, and then go and start a new character to figure out how to play the game another utilizing the knowledge you’ve gained from prior experimentation.

Some of the inventory management can be annoying at times, but again it’s an opportunity to employ knowledge as a means to identify the items that aren’t particularly useful to one playstyle and could be useful under another set of abilities/attributes or some set of combinations allowed by the game.

A game that only has one right answer quickly becomes a boring precision button pushing simulator to people who prefer more complexity, variety and depth in their gaming experience.

Not that one preference or the other is inherently correct, but hopefully it can be understood that different people want different things from their games.

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Being insufferable is a great way to become redundant. Doesn’t matter if you’re a platform or a person, rich or poor. Anything can be more trouble than it’s worth. And if you are given the chance to stop and think about it, it’s probably been true for a while already.

Here’s an empty bucket to yell into so you can hear your own voice. That’ll be $12/month. Thanks.

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This means we’ll need capture efficiency technology above 66% for this to be a net positive in terms of power generation.

For current fission nuclear power plants: “Nuclear power plant efficiency averages around 33%, which is comparable to other fossil fuel-based generation units. This means that 77% [sic, should be 67%] of the energy produced by a nuclear plant is lost and only 33% is converted into electricity. Some modern nuclear plants may be able to achieve 45% efficiency.”

from link: https://www.pcienergysolutions.com/2023/04/17/power-plant-efficiency-coal-natural-gas-nuclear-and-more/#:~:text=Nuclear%20power%20plant%20efficiency%20averages,able%20to%20achieve%2045%25%20efficiency.

Most mention of it has disappeared by now due to linkrot, but there was that sale of refurbs from spare parts back in the mid 2000’s: https://www.engadget.com/2005-12-13-sega-not-re-launching-dreamcast-only-selling-refurbs.html

Give it another year or two, as new mini boards come out and things get back to normal-ish. Evidently, as recently as last year they were saying production costs would still be too high: https://www.destructoid.com/sega-saturn-mini-dreamcast-mini-mega-drive-mini-2-famitsu-interview-retro/

Sega’s had a hard enough time. Let them enjoy.

The parking lots in that photo of NSA HQ seems huge compared to the size of the building. How big are their basements? Where do all those people work?

Meta analysis: researchers interpret results incorrectly. Here’s a bunch of results discussing just that (in fact meta analyses are usually carried out to demonstrate this fact):

https://www.google.com/search?q=meta+analysis+researchers+interpret+results+incorrectly

New platform? Who dis?
Seriously, it’s just a user database now. The brand is gone. It’s a new company. New URL. New direction.
Asking 50% of Twitter’s rates is way too high. Go back to square one, hoss. Start over. From the ground.
Hopefully no one buys his bullshit… or trusts them with their data.