I am in every way anti-DRM, but it's ubiquitous. A lot of publishers won't publish on GOG for this reason. I agree that Epic is arguing in bad faith. The enemy of my enemy is convenient, nothing more, so I am not delusional about Epic but I still enjoy their actions.

TBH I usually forget to go look at the free games they are typically so underwhelming, though there have been some legitimate greats too.

There are only two features of Steam beyond buying installing games which I care about, and one of them sucks. I like that it handles updates for me, but that is also the bad one, because practically none of the updates are differential. I want them to make that easier so that publishers actually do it. I know that it requires significant support from publishers when they use packed data files, but even that is something that could be addressed. (If the files are compressed individually instead of using compressed archives, then binary patches are feasible.) The other feature is Proton. Anything else including friends, achievements, and even reviews is all optional to me. I enjoy some of those features, but I would still use Steam without them.

I see I'm still living rent-free in some heads.

U MAD [I'm alive] BRO?

And ammo. Yeah some people have thousands of rounds of ammo. The military has millions of rounds, and enough men to go with them to effectively utilize suppressive fire. If you do get in an old-fashioned firefight with soldiers they can simply outbullet you if for some reason they don't have an armed backpack drone. Which by the way they totally do.

What demographic? Poor and disadvantaged? You know events like these are held by white people where there's only white people, right?

You completely lost me right here, bro. OH THE BOOTYANITY TWERKING ON COP CARS

You get that the unemployment rate is literally designed to be a falsehood because it stops counting people when they have been unemployed for a while, right? The methodology used for it has no concept of who is looking for work at all, it's based on a fundamentally bogus assumption that people who haven't found any for long enough aren't looking.

Who has ever tried UBI? Make sure your answer is about UBI and not just BI for a test group.

Most of those guns are irrelevant, as guns don't kill people by themselves, and a person can only realistically use two at a time, and can only use one at a time well.

Plus, you know, the government has thermal vision, guided munitions, satellite overwatch...

Infinitely more would be removing yourself from the equation in a carbon negative way. I suggest swallowing seeds and falling into an early grave.

If people don't buy stuff eventually the corporation collapses. The principals can make a profit before then, but repeat this enough times and the whole boat sinks as it happens to too many major employers at once. Hence too big to fail, which is of course the result of failure to enforce antitrust law.

Same for crony capitalism.

If you didn't actually want it, then it's a waste of money at any price--but that sure won't stop Amazon from trying to manipulate you into buying a dozen.

Out of my antipathy for Amazon now I feel like I should consider buying something at one of the other websites mentioned there. Oh wait, Shein is a spammer. Forget that one. But maybe Temu is worth a look?

Specific anecdote about my last online purchase from Rakuten Ichiba (Rakuten Market as translated into English). One specific feature that was most important to me, but I couldn't spot it in the product specifications. However the review summary claimed it was there. Suspicious as I am, I also checked some of the detailed reviews to try to check for sure. But when it arrived, the darn thing was missing the critical feature. Giving the merchandise and the shop lowish reviews scarcely seems helpful or fair given that Rakuten should get most of the blame...

I think there are a number of factors that are destroying retail stores. There are solution approaches, but not with the big boys (especially Amazon) standing in the way. Especially effective to bribe the politicians to keep rigging the rules of the games ever more in their favor. Solution space? "Sorry, we can't get there from here."

No.

People keep trying to prove a link between any type of video games and crime and failing.

With a president who solves an existential threat by finding the best expert he can find, and using his own formidable political skills and charisma to run interference for that expert.

Seriously, Comacho was a meathead, but Iâ(TM)d vote for him.

Why not an 8.3 or a L10? Nothing prohibits making stupid fake engine noises instead of a whir or whatever, so long as they are not overly loud. But quiet is one of the joys of EVs.

It takes about 25hp for a car to cruise at highway speeds. In the US a big TT is 8 feet wide (possibly less a few inches) and around 11-12 feet tall. The overall height including the crap on top like a satellite dish has to fit under 13'6" to be sure it can clear "all" overpasses, this is the national standard. The front of it is sometimes up to 13' and just doesn't have anything sticking up on top of that part, especially in a 5er. Plus you've got a lumpy truck in front of it, and space between them, and the back is just a big flat rectangle with a square box bumper sticking out from it so you're pulling a big vacuum.