I pay for a single netflix sub, crunchyroll, and a vpn service.

After netflix announced ads i’ve been more and more considering dumping them and just focusing on that vpn service. I have paid for years and years of streaming services but I can’t possibly comprehend how prices need to go up again and again, almost always by double digit percentage points. The cost of storage and bandwidth goes down over time, servers get cheaper over time… there’s hardly any first party new media that is worth watching so i’m struggling to understand why i’m paying more.

The most bizarre thing to me though are people who pay for live TV… why in the world would you ever do that in 2024 with all the better options out there?

Ubereats lets you set the tip after the delivery. afaik the others don’t.

Should be illegal to prompt a tip before services are rendered, including at those POS machines that ask you up front to tip even a small amount.

Opencritic average 89. It incorporates some bleeding edge visual technologies but imo visuals a good game does not make.

If you look at screens without said visuals though the game looks pretty sad.

For the nominations though I don’t know which it would win. It won’t get GOTY or best story against bg3. Best Art Direction would be tough against a game like Hi-Fi Rush, as would Audio Design / Score+Music.

I thought it was a pretty good year for gaming but a lot of the games i’ve found to be amazing aren’t even on the list. Seems like big names and big publishers only.

The problem wouldn’t be the studio making it, it would be the monetization imposed on every facet of it. Any possible add-on would be dlc or part of a subscription. They wouldn’t even allow them to do significant free updates unless it was tied to a paid product or hefty subscription fee.

I don’t really want Larian getting looped into being a WotC shill. I hope they stay independent and keep on making the best games they can make. Single player or small party story games never get old.

DNDBeyond is just another bullshit live service with subscriptions in perpetuity.

I get you probably don’t care at all about people who interact with your community but letting bots run free is something I really dislike. I suspect the majority of users feel the same.

Just takes one disgruntled person who is unhappy with you to flood your server without any captcha or other measures taken to prevent it. Might be still under the radar to a degree as of right now but that will not always be the case.