Same thing happened with cable decades ago.

The public TV was full of ads and bad programs. Cable offered you pay them for no ads, good series and new movies. Then the prices rose, then the ads started, then the programs turned to shit as much or even more than before.

Streaming just went the same path.

No wonder his name was Samwise

His power only works in his forest. Outside it he would be no better than a common man.

And even him wouldn’t be able to destroy the ring by himself, even on his forest.

In the books Gandalf and Elrond dicuss having Bombadil take the ring, or hide it in his forest. It would just slip his mind and end up worse than before

Quote from the book

No,’ said Gandalf, ‘not willingly. He might do so, if all the free folk of the world begged him, but he would not understand the need. And if he were given the Ring, he would soon forget it, or most likely throw it away. Such things have no hold on his mind. He would be a most unsafe guardian; and that alone is answer enough.’

It’s illustrated so his voters can understand the book

This sounds like the perfect childhood

Especially the Israeli (transported to another world) genre relies heavily on that to quickly explain what you can expect.

Are Israeli anime like isekai, but with Jewish undertones and/or mythology?

Harder, better, faster, stronger

Didn’t see it in the thread, but aqueduct are pretty fire. They allowed empires to grow large and far away from a source of drinking water. Also improved sanitation allowing people to live longer and healthier.

The main difference I think has to do with how this is done. Marketing is much more aggressive. Think like Google ads where products appear in unrelated queries. Much more sensationalism and less information. While the article says gamers want to read actual reviews, comment on the game while being developed, etc.

I used a browser extension exactly for this when I still used Twitter. Best thing ever. Then manbaby bought Twitter and it’s gone to shit.

Basically all mainstream ones since the 2000s. Nowadays I skip trailers entirely to not spoil the movies for me.

They could spinoff to rare metals like gold or silver, or even gemstones like sapphire or ruby. 👀

But will it give me a card with my opponent in scantily clad clothing if I win?

It’s not about being worthy or not. It’s about pushing a new status quo of being acceptable to have MTXs on a 70 USD game.

I’ll take the obvious bait here. The issue is that paying for a full game should give you a full game. For now the MTXs are like you said, for small items and or game changing. For now.

If the gaming community accepts this, who knows what the next step will be? Maybe they’ll be kept small, but maybe they won’t.

Remember this is the the same industry selling horse armor, selling over 2k dollars of dlc in the Sims 4, shipping unfinished games after millionaire pre-orders, and selling dlc that fix day one problems that shouldn’t even be there. And they do this because the community never questioned when they were small enough problems.

From my very small knowledge, yes, beer was consumed at room temperature. In Germany it still is, for example. Also, beer had less alcohol and was much more like bread in that it was nutritious and filling than what we have now.

Your comment made me really nostalgic for the days of setting up pan parties, configuring hamachi servers, etc. Good old days

Wait. Dr is already winding down? Didn’t it launch last year?

Basically it’s just war with additional taxes and marketing needes

That’s an issue with the whole tech industry. They do something wrong, say it was AI/ML/the algorithm and get off with just a slap on the wrist.

We should all remember that every single tech we have was built by someone. And this someone and their employer should be held accountable for all this tech does.