I miss the early days of the web, when people didn't do this (as much). One sentence per screen? Bollocks.

"Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind."

as they say...

It really wasn't, and they had an apparently-non-binding statement that developers would be able to use old versions of the engine with old versions of the license perpetually. The new management abolished that good-faith statement and decided that, from this point forward, all versions of the engine use only the new license.

Where this is really going to hurt is games that have been out for a long time and are in their long tail. Even if you're selling for twenty bucks, but 100x as many people are reinstalling an old classic as are actually buying it new, you're losing money by keeping it on the market.

Nope, it happened a few hours ago.

For an update that's charging $30 for a better UI, it sure fell out of the "improve the interface" tree and missed every low-hanging-fruit branch on the way down.

One in four have "tracked or trolled someone online"? It's dangerous, even criminal behavior? Did a definition change behind my back?

If your online-only storefront sells a product, but blind people can't buy that product because your website isn't usable for them, that falls foul of some pretty sensible regulations.

If you're a physical retailer, and you have "online-only" special deals on your whiz-bang fancy website - meaning that blind people can't get the lower price that seeing people can get - that's pretty obscene.

There's been a sticker pack for years with one bait sticker that claims to need "Telegram Gold" to view, and the rest are just a rickroll mural.

Oh well. If there's no income stream, there's no service.

I'm pretty sure that student loan forgiveness is part of a package that includes tuition reform. It doesn't make much sense without it.

If tuition reform knocks prices down to a tenth of what they are now (like they were a few decades ago), I'd be pretty damn okay if loans were forgiven down to a cap in line with that amount.

Pay as you're able? Like, if you make just enough to barely afford a one-bedroom apartment an hour from work, maybe we don't make you pay, but after that you pay a little, and when you're buying mansions or boats you pay a lot?

We could divide those incomes into...brackets! Yeah, let's call them brackets. And make the high end pretty far out there but also pretty high. After all, if you run a company and your employees get sick, YOU suffer too. If your junior teammates have less financial stress, your team works better. You should be supporting them.

What should we call these payments? Maybe...maybe just call them taxes? Because we already have a system for that. It's called taxes.

I've got no illusion that it's free. Pretty sure most Dem voters don't have that illusion either. I'd be paying out a lot more than I'm taking in. But it's pretty goddamn worth it - hiring candidates who have a real education, churchmates who can get their cancer treatments, food service workers who can actually treat their flu... Pretty sure that's worth paying for.

I see a lot of parents trying to speak for their kids here. Let them speak for themselves. They're the ones who've seen what happens to people who get screwed by the system these days.

I graduated in '07, and economically, college was worse for me than it was for you & it's worse now for your kids than it was for me. I'm very happy to pay more taxes for this, even if I won't benefit. The general stance of my generation is "wow, things really suck for us, let's take the hit and make them suck less for the next generation".

If you planned to be responsible for a worst-case future, and it turned out better than you expected, YOU DIDN'T LOSE. It's still a shared victory.

Have you asked your kids how they feel about it? They might feel differently, since they've probably got friends who are a lot worse off. The world is a different place now than when you went through college.

I graduated in '07, and I've been working in computers since then, so I'm doing pretty well for myself. My loans are almost paid off, just a couple years left. I'd be _thrilled_ for my taxes to go toward paying off everyone else's student loans, because I've seen the injury caused by the system to people who work in less lucrative fields.

I think the fine details are a good subject for public debate (do you cap how much is forgiven? do you forgive private schools or just public? etc), but I'm pretty damn happy to pay more taxes even if I won't personally benefit. Society benefits.

Not everyone values the same features in the same way, and it's really really easy to make assumptions. Complexity vs simplicity, replay value vs. seeing everything the first time through, etc. Variety doesn't give an inherently better experience compared to something well polished. Really tiny changes to things like matchmaking can vastly change the experience, and really small UI stumbling blocks, can actually be a massive frustration; not because some users are dumb, but because they want something with literally zero frustrations in the limited time they can play. There's not even anything inherently wrong with players who really like shiny graphics. If that's what they enjoy, then good on them.

Even assuming that more accurate physics makes a more playable game seems pretty disingenuous.

can we maybe slow down our use for business reasons? I'd rather have moderate-speed sustainable growth, at slightly higher fuel prices that help drive commercial advances in solar and wind, than find out in fifty years that we've drilled out all the easy-to-get wells and don't have nearly enough commercial investment in other fuel sources to keep up our demand for energy.

Besides, petroleum has some pretty nifty properties besides energy production that I'd really love to keep having easy access to. Like, cheap plastics. Burning it for energy is kinda like using our limited helium reserves for toy balloons.

I don't think there's going to be any kind of peak oil civilization-ending disaster...just that prices will go up. But if they go up a little right now, they won't have to go up by a lot later.

Oh yeah...and from a foreign policy standpoint. We have a ton of oil here in the USA. Energy independence is nice, but it's not critical right now. Wait until Russia closes its borders, the Middle East falls apart and turns off their spigots, and Europe is begging for fuel at any price...can we maybe use our massive national reserves then instead of now? (needing to have the infrastructure in place ahead of time does complicate things I'll admit)