My hot take has always been that Xbox was a stupid project. They had windows. People play video games on windows. They should have made steam and something like steam machines 25 years ago.

Maybe they could focus on delivering quality products that customers want, instead of investing all their time and effort into expensive AI widgets people don’t.

Well surely you can agree that letting men into women’s change rooms

If the idea is that that’s a no-no because men are sexually attracted to women, then I must remind you that gay people exist.

If the idea is that men cannot be trusted, then there are many other spaces where men have power that should be examined first.

Skyrim. It was at best “fine” for me. I really dislike level scaling. The combat felt unsatisfying. I don’t remember the story. It’s not weird like Morrowind. The magic and enchanting was over-simplified.

But for many people it’s their grand joy. So I guess that’s good for them.

Did not expect caves of qud to be on anyone’s list, as I thought it was pretty niche.

I also really wanted to like the game, but it felt oddly empty. I wanted less lost in the wilderness, less static quests, more dynamic stuff to do and explore.

I have much respect for “it’s not fun for me” and less patience for “it’s bad”. Totally understand why you might not find the games fun.

I remember playing it at a friend’s house and thinking “quake is better”, but the four player local play on one game and TV was an overwhelming factor.

Obviously tastes differ. I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt it deserved the praise.

• The setting is original.
• Turn based with Parry/Dodge isn’t original (super Mario RPG) but it’s pretty satisfying here
• The stat/build system is fairly original and gives a lot of depth
• I thought the story was a solid examination of grief

i am too old to understand “hardcore” as a verb in that sentence. what?

Democrats aren’t especially left, so I’m not sure you can really look at states controlled by the democratic party as a fair comparison. The US doesn’t have much of a left. Many democrats are conservative, especially when its things close to home (eg: nimbyism, “i like black people i just don’t want to live next to one”, etc).

We have outliers like Mayor Mamdani who want to build more housing, but he’s notably a DSA member. He does have policies for housing which are more effective than “fewer regulations and the market will solve it”.

As such, if the argument is “Conservative controlled areas have fewer regulations, and thus more housing gets built”, that’s a very tenuous argument. The right wing ideology at play isn’t “We should build more housing” but rather the usual “No one tells me what to do” attitude endemic to right wing thinking.

Furthermore, conservative areas tend to be sparser, which makes for more room to build, with fewer restrictions New York City is already dense. Adding more stuff is going to be more difficult and complicated than adding another building to Tumbleweeds, AR.

Lastly, if you did somehow prove that “conservative solutions to the housing crisis are good, actually, and aren’t just deregulation and capitalist market solutions”, I guess I would have to update my statement to “Almost all right wing ideas are bad”. But as I’m not convinced this is the exception, I stand by my original claim.

Building housing isn’t a right wing idea.

“Public space in Paris is chaos,” right-winger Rachida Dati said recently

No right winger is worth listening to. I know nothing about Dati, but I am confident they are full of bad ideas.

Dati’s proposals for the city include making it cheaper to park and getting rid of the low-emission zone in the city centre.

As foretold.

Every right wing idea is bad, and people proposing them should at best be laughed out of the room.

People assume it’s all terminal all the time. I haven’t needed to open the terminal for months. It starts up. With the GUI I open the browser. Maybe steam, too. Do stuff. Shut down.

The problem is capitalism. Specifically, the consolidation of power in a small number of decision makers.

Break up the big companies. Stop letting them do mergers and acquisitions. You don’t even have to do something radical like dismantling capitalism entirely.

Even if you do manage to find good pizza in nyc the prices are beyond absurd for what you get.

I mean most places raised the price from $1 to $1.50 for a plain slice but I wouldn’t call that absurd.

A big slice with toppings is ~$5 by me, which seems reasonable for what’s essentially a meal.

It depends where you live. Most places in the US you can’t (safely) walk to anywhere, and many places aren’t open 24/7.

The real magic is I can walk to several open bodegas almost any time of day or night.

Fare changes usually are slower to change than gas prices for customers at the gas station. Bus fare in NYC is $3, and they can’t just change that day by day. (Unless our new mayor makes the buses free to ride!)

It might be more expensive as energy costs go up, but services aren’t supposed to be run at a profit. The value in a mass transit system is very high.

But there is probably an impact. Now I’m curious about how they decide the fares

NYC. $0. Walk and take transit. Sorry, I’m insufferable about this but it’s really nice.

Bad idea. Fertile ground for abuse, intentional or otherwise. As others have said, it’s hubris to think one or two untrained adults can do professional grade teaching.