That’s not how any of this works…

The price point is static, $X for a console game.

It’s weirdly like socialism. A game like GTA knows they’ll sell a shit ton of copies for years after release. Likely on multiple console generations. All those customers subsidize each others portion of the development cost.

It’s economics of scale, the greater expected sales, the less profit margin the corporation will accept.

Niche games come with a niche tax. It’s not unique to gaming.

BG3 was insanely cheap tho when accounting for scale. It was easily 2-3 games worth of content for the price of 1 game.

And the reason it was able to achieve the scale it did, was people bought the shit out of it on presale.

I looked and checked, I bought it almost 3 years before it released. Because act 1 was already playable, and already the length of a regular 2020 full release.

Despite “never pre-order a digital good” being sound advice 99.99999% of the time, the studio and IP and it being 20 some years since the last entry made it able to fund its own development.

Expecting anyone else to replicate that absolute perfect storm that allowed for BG3 is just going to lead to constant dissapointment.

They can literally not do it…

Cops have an insane amount of power because they can just not do their job whenever they feel like it

It’s probably someone using a Twitter style interface.

For them one hashtag makes it get posted to a community. This is a little different, so maybe actually did it intentionally?

Pretty much a stink bug:

https://thepetenthusiast.com/stink-bug-vs-squash-bug/

I guess they eat enough squash people stopped mentioning the shitty smell, so good on em.

The claim Epstein boasted of planning to sell Andrew’s secrets to the Mossad, first reported by the US Sun, was made by Hoffenberg.

It’s weird everyone is so shocked that governments support Israel no matter what…

I believe there was also an issue in Roman Catholicism of the seal of confession

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/washington-state-child-abuse-catholic-priests-b2791985.html

The new law adds religious leaders and priests to a list of professions that can be criminally charged if they do not report suspected abuse or neglect, alongside teachers, doctors, nurses, childcare providers, and many others.

Previously, priests were only required to report if the suspected perpetrator was someone they had authority over, and were exempted from doing so if they learned about it through a “privileged communication” such as confession.

trump friendly federal judges are blocking that new law (in the state of Washington)

However a significant difference there is that was only for someone confessing with the expectation they weren’t confessing to a person, but to God. Hence wouldn’t confess to the crime if they knew they’d be turned in.

Mesrih applies when anyone (including the victim) is the one disclosing it, especially if it’s ongoing.

No idea about Jehovah’s Witnesses, but in general the more insular a religious sect is, the worse the problem is.

And no religion is more insular then one that requires it’s followers to call their own version of police where a religious leader gets to decide if actual secular authorities are involved. So not the only problematic demographic, but this is “stop snitching” to a whole nother level.

Not really, it’s going to be under-reporting certain demographics.

In orthodox Jewish communities they have their own “cops” (Shomrim) and it’s against their religious law to turn a Jewish criminal (especially of their own sect) in to any authorities who aren’t explicitly Jewish.

In Brooklyn, Shomrim has been accused of withholding information about suspected local child molesters.[14] One Brooklyn South Shomrim member acknowledged to the press that they maintain a file of suspected local child molesters, and some believe that this file includes the suspects’ photos and the make, model and license-plate number of their cars. But Shomrim does not share this information with police due to the Torah prohibition against mesirah (informing on a fellow Jew to the non-Jewish authorities).[12] However, another high-ranking member claims that the other member was misquoted, and that the list that Brooklyn South Shomrim maintains is culled from the New York Sex Offender Registry.[46] Members of the Williamsburg Shomrim always consult a rabbi before involving police in a crime committed by one Jew against another.[13]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shomrim_(neighborhood_watch_group)

Like, even if a normal cop happens to be Jewish, that’s not enough because the local police aren’t a Jewish organization.

Obviously other religions like Catholicism protects clergy, but it’s not a tenant of their religion that they can’t turn in any follower to secular authorities who are legally allowed to enforce laws.

In a lot of Orthodox communities, they don’t call 911, they call the Shomrim. If the victim is Jewish but not the perpetrator, then the Shomrim calls the police.

If the perpetrator is Jewish…

The crime isn’t punished or reported any higher unless a Rabbi decides to. So all types of horrible shit is swept under the rug.

Huh, I thought those were weeds and had been getting rid of them before they bloom.

I googled it and apparently they only bloom the second year

I’m almost positive outlook can be set up to do it on its own, I was just too lazy to Google how to set it up

It’s called a dead man’s switch and there’s not really anything complicated about it.

The thing is, it’s so so simple I doubt anyone has made a full on app to do it.

Like, the people who do that stuff aren’t the type to require an app to do everything for them.

The IDF will never be held responsible for their actions the Israeli government that ordered them should be

You see zero irony and n that comment?

Like, Israel spent decades going after anyone tangentially connected to the Holocaust…

It was just a couple years ago they prosecuted someone in their 90s who was forced to be a teenage secretary for a nazi.

And you’re legitimately implying:

The soldiers committing genocide were just following orders. We can’t judge them for what they’re actively doing , which is committing a genocide

This would be insane and quite a claim.

As opposed to surviving with only a slight limp and blood from wounds that stopped bleeding almost immediately with no medical attention…

Because that would be completely normal and not noteworthy

Anyways, do you need a new watch? I could sell you Big Ben for 20 quid, comes with a deed and everything!

Not just survived…

The article has a video that supposedly him after the accident. He has a slight limp and blood/dirt on him but not bleeding.

His proof is a plane ticket, but like…

It’s waaaaaay more likely dude missed his flight and is pulling a stunt compared to be virtually uninjured and walking into a busy area before rescue crews were out.

It’s like a 1 in billions chance if he was really on the plane

What’s actually bad about it?

Like, this is something you opt into and is only relevant if you’re watching their ad supported stuff, which I don’t know anyone who watches that over their own media on Plex.

And honestly, every “bad” thing I’ve ever heard about Plex has been the same thing, something that sounds horrible until you understand it

If you’re watching their “free” content and agree to that box…

The title made it seem waaaaay worse than what the screenshot actually says

Then the authors of the paper don’t know the scientiffic definition of at least two of these: symptom, condition, disorder…

Full article is paywalled, but I wonder if this is a translation issue?

They’re saying that because sleep depreciation cause a slower metabolic rate, it’s a meta olic disorder…

Which is crazy, because by that logic damn near every condition is a metabolic disorder, inclouding sleep.

I had to sign out to see those posts…

Which should tell you how effective the block button is when you have an issue with a single poster.

Waaaaay more effective than making a post about it.

It’s weird they’re in a European singing contest to begin with…