10 reviews is basically statistical noise.

What is there to be solved? It’s not a physical store with scant storage space. It has been solved by the store algorithm. Games that do well in the first week will rise to the front page and will get recommended to other customers, while crap will basically become invisible. Does it really matter that these crap games exist when you’ll rarely see them and the storage space they take up is insignificant to Valve’s bottom line. Like when was the last time you ever saw shovelware on the front page? If you see shovelware then the algorithm thinks you like that stuff. You can solve that by giving shovel ware in your library low reviews and by curating the queue.

Sure this will hurt some devs who made a hidden gem, but these devs would have failed in the physical retail space as well. Studios have the responsibility to do the leg work of promoting their own game. That’s not Steam’s job. The Steam algorithm will basically give each game some visibility during its first few days of release and if a game can’t generate sales momentum the algorithm will drop it and basically becomes invisible unless you search for it. Games that do well in that period get pushed to the recommendations. And no the threshold isn’t millions in sales it’s basically a couple of thousand copies in the first days.

Raising the fee would hurt devs on a budget, like devs outside high income countries and students.

Indiginous men were taken on star light tours by the cops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_killings

Educate yourself and learn a new skill that is useful for the job you really want, assume this doesn’t last long and that you might get fired or laid off one day. I remember a story on reddit about some guy who had outsourced his job to India. The guy only played videogames the entire day every day, after a few years the gig was up and he was fired. Dude had a hard time finding a new job since his skill set and knowledge base was several years behind of where his field had advanced to. Don’t waste this opportunity, sure play some games, fiddle around now and then but use most of the free time to improve yourself.

If I was in your situation I would just learn how to make videogames and then eventually try to release one on Steam made entirely during the boss’ time.

They don’t want their kids exposed to different cultures. Much easier to keep people bigoted when they never meet a foreigner.

As if people are even planning to visit. I’m not, not even when Trump is dead.

IIRC It will be a feature within the Disney+ app. So normal Sora can’t generate disney characters but Disney’s version can.

Edit: I was wrong, they are just going to feature fan made videos on Disney+

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-openai-sora-agreement/

it’s gold plated

The difference is that some mosques use some shitty ass loud speaker and the guy doing the call can’t hold a note. Like it’s fine if they only do it once a week but a daily call is just way too much. Like church bells are annoying too but at least the sound is way more pleasant. Seriously if Muslims in the west want to be more accepted they need to take into account that they live in a non-Muslim majority country and non-muslims do not need the call to prayer and many find it annoying as hell. Acceptance and tolerance is a two way street, can’t just force other people to accept your traditions if you aren’t willing to accommodate to their traditions too. Like even many churches in my western country have stopped ringing the bells frequently.

EU passports and ID already have the fingerprint stored digitally on them. If a EU nation wants to they can just get the fingerprint of every EU citizen that enters their country by air. Technically illegal but who’s gonna stop them.

lol the World Cup is gonna be yuge success bigly

Here is a Tom Scott video about it:

https://youtu.be/NUyXiiIGDTo
https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=NUyXiiIGDTo

Yeh I know twenty something year old women who can still look like they are 15 years old if they dress and do their hair and makeup like a 15 year old. Guess the reverse is also true.

IMHO “separate the art from the artist” only applies to criticism of art. Not to consuming the works especially in today’s world where artists get paid by the stream. Like saying you like the song “I believe I can fly” is separating the art from the artist. But if you listen to that song on Spotify you straight up give R Kelly and his beneficiaries, who have condoned his behavior for years, money. So at that point the artist isn’t separated anymore.

I’mma Lando, number one

A million dollar company is relatively a small fry. That’s what an average auto repair shop can make in a year in revenue. Small companies are way more likely to break labor laws and treat their employees like shit.

and where does the smoke pass trough when it enters the smokers mouth?

It was always two flags for the last couple of seasons.

Well in the past it used to be one flag and they did let celebs wave it. In 2018 during the Canadian GP Winnie Harlow waved the checkered flag a lap too early and thus the race had to end a lap earlier. It wasn’t her fault though, she was instructed to wave it. Guess they don’t trust the stewards anymore to not be distracted by the presence of a celeb. I mean I would if I was standing next to Ana de Armas