For those that can’t quit the content cold turkey, there are other avenues of consuming that don’t benefit Disney… 🏴‍☠️

Saudi Arabia has had a lot of success in improving their international reputation through ‘sportswashing’.

This just comes as a natural extension of this, seeing to but their way into the good graces of gamers.

If you’re referring to Patrice Désilets, he also worked on Brotherhood - which is commonly considered the best entry in the series of that generation.

But now knowing his full history with Ubisoft, it exciting so much why Revelations and AC3 felt like a step backwards…

Increase your upload ratio on any Disney properties you consume through BitTorrent, and no not positively discuss any of their properties online.

Rob them of revenue and organic marketing.

I would go out on a limb and say that due to continuity of Government, Gore’s administration would have likely been able to successfully prevent 9/11 from happening.

Though I think he would still likely end up a one-term President for whatever reason (akin to Bush Sr.) and we’d likely have gotten John McCain as president for a term before the GFC.

100% agree; the whole Touch Screen Everything UI like those found in Teslas are the absolute worst.

Having to take your eyes off the road to do literally anything to do with the climate system should be made illegal. Bring back tactile switches, FFS!

Those will die off soon enough, through forced obsolescence and an inability to compete with ad-subsidised junk that spies on you.

There’s an English idiom that states; “If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid”.

Something similar to that can be said about the German language’s ability to form compound words.

Now, could you please humour me and let me know if there is one word that could describe a person who is too afraid to swim in the centre of a pool, can only take hot showers, always forgets their gym bag, and takes joy in the misery of others? 😆

The Germans really do have a fucking word for everything, don’t they?

The party of Groypers, Oligarchs, & Pedophiles.

As a non-Trekkie, I found it enjoyable enough… ditto with Discovery (at least the first season).

I just picked those two because they were literally my introduction to Star Trek TV series, and I know both are quite divisive in the community…

I think that was the one that started in an ice zone, if I remember correctly? I literally couldn’t get past it because I find that aesthetic quite boring…

“Look at me, Morty burp I’m Clickle Rick!”

Understood; starting with Picard and Discovery first!

I played the hell out of the first Borderlands (including New Game+ across all expansions), but promptly bounced off 2 & Pre-Sequel because it literally just felt like more of the same and I was already sated.

BL3 and now BL4 are literally just more of the same, but with ever increasingly more egregious monetisation.

Riskiest click of my career!

Holy shit, I am so glad I looked that up!

I still have my X6, with the modular numpad you could stick to either side.

Although nowadays I only use it for my test bench at home. That thing was truly ahead of its time.

They’re good dogs boxes Brent

That’s definitely another workaround, for sure! I think our supermarkets here carry Steam gift cards - for example.

Though I imagine that those same payment processors could threaten to pull out of stores that carry Steam gift cards, and we’d be back to square one.

Additionally, it puts more burden on the end users to have to physically shop somewhere ahead of time - lowering convenience. Ultimately, as Valve themselves put it - piracy is a service problem. Any additional hurdles will deter some potential customers.

So in order for people to be able to spend their own money how they see fit, we need a new player in the field - either fiat (eg. via the EU) or reliable, low/no fee stable coin(s).