GoG doesn’t have a lot of new games for one. It’s still copyright violation to distribute the game to others as well. It’s generally easier to just buy the game from GoG than find a link to download the game. You could get the files from a friend and that could work for a few games, but paying gets more convenient if your library is bigger than your hard drive.

American magic.

There’s levels to it. True quality isn’t worth it, absolute garbage costs a lot though. Some level that mostly works is the sweet spot.

Board games. Catan junior, Loopin Chewie, Robot turtles, Tsuro, Abracada…What?, camel up.

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It’s not just Internet nerds. That’s a basic rule of literary analysis asa whole.

Jackson’s changes are generally improvements to the story or at worst understandable compromises for a different medium.

There’s nothing quite like today. There’s things that are similar, but social media has really made things worse.

Populism is rising because things haven’t been great for a lot of people for a long time, and it’s too hard to ignore anymore. Globalism and free trade were massively oversold to the masses, it hurt wide swaths of people that have been ignored for decades. People that feel disenfranchised will vote for change regardless of the change proposed.

Social media has escalated everything as well. The echo chambers are enormous and essentially impossible to avoid. Many traditional institutions are also extremely weak now that would have forced more interaction between people with differing views and limited extremism. Social media also does a great job in conflating the size of various groups and beliefs, a few dozen people can make a community seem as large and impactful as a few thousand .

Healthy is relative. A handful of fruit is generally fine. Eating a few pounds of grapes in a day is probably a bad choice. There’s also a lot of people that conflate fruit with things that have fruit in them as about the same.

Fable 1 was the best one in the series.

A tonneau cover still lets you load a pallet of something or a scoop of something in the back.

Sweet home Alabama predates werewolves of London. I’d say it’s all based on sweet home Alabama.

https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/queen-bee-women-pay-a-price-for-not-promoting-other-women/

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2020/01/21/why-women-dont-always-support-other-women/

There were several generations of women that killed abusive husbands in ways that looked like accidents.

Studies have also shown women in power tend to block more women from being promoted to positions of power.

The use of Nazi to refer to pretty much anyone living today is a poor choice. It both waters down what Nazism actually was, but it also makes sit easier to dismiss any criticism as hyperbole. Letting Nazi be diluted to really bad person you don’t like us bad for everyone.

Indie games are overrated, it’s still mostly crap. I don’t blame people for waiting for absurd popularity to bring actually good titles to the surface. It’s still the same general problem, I have a the time for maybe 5 games per year, and that has to compete with my existing backlog, favorites and new titles. I’m not risking that time on Indie or AAA titles without some good evidence it’s worth it.

It is to a very high standard. There’s been 14k games released this year alone which would be a .01% miss rate for malware games. If you compare against all games to account for updates that add malware after submission it’s basically 0 at .000001%

Malware creation and detection are billion dollar industries playing an eternal cat and mouse game with each other. These programs don’t just instantly try to steal every file the second they run.

Steam does scan for malware, which is why this is news. It’s notable that a game got through that was malware. You haven’t heard about other stores because it’s not worth the effort in targeting them. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most stores use the same vendor for malware scanning.

There’s baggage with Nazi that doesn’t really apply and it hurts the argument. The Holocaust is the big one, there’s nothing remotely on the same level happening, lots of regimes have rounded up a particular minority, but systemic extermination is extremely rare. Maga also seems more isolationist than expansionist.

There are strong parallels that can be drawn, but at there’s also contradictions. It doesn’t help that Nazi has routinely been used as a placeholder for super evil and go to for exaggeration. By using Nazi you allow your criticism to be dismissed as hyperbole. Until Trump invades Poland with Russia, it’s probably best to use a different term.