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@ThePrimeagen

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CD Projekt Red lead quest designer Paweł Sasko once said that a game designer’s job is to create fun, not take it away.

In The Witcher 3, players found a way to make easy money by repeatedly killing cows and selling their hides. Instead of removing the exploit, the developers added a powerful chort monster that would appear if players abused it.

The monster was much harder to defeat, but its hide sold for even more money. This turned a simple exploit into a tougher challenge with better rewards.

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time to be one of those tiny little voices with a dozen dead accounts following me lol

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reviving this account because my other account got ... idk what. can't login to it anymore lol. but that one wasn't tied to a real email address, but turns out this one was! and i totally forgot about it! so this will be a fine place to air my grievances about tech and politics

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"the land footprint of electricity" is a weird thing to be concerned about when your energy policy is wind and solar which do indeed take up a ton of land lol

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@AndyMasley it seems like the entire "omg dc's use so much water" conversation is couched in most people's lack of intuition on what constitutes "a lot of water"

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

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@JJ_McCullough for better or for worse there aren’t any actual requirements to be a senator. other than getting the votes, of course.

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@AliceFromQueens @dyershand

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i love how people are only recently starting to complain about slop results in search engines. have you actually been *using* Google for the past decade?? it's had garbage results for a long long long time.

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@FortniteLinux i bet more people play games on Steam Decks than ARM Windows devices

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@ManWithNoMercy @Pirat_Nation i agree, you shouldn't buy deluxe editions anyway, but to get mad over 2 days is peak retardation. both are true.

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@nan0werx @Pirat_Nation you shouldn't, paying for deluxe editions is stupid

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@XCFreshman @Pirat_Nation i fail to see how you're getting less. you get the game 2 days early, which is a dubious "benefit" no matter what way you cut it. it's a silly "perk". what does it matter? it's a single player game. 2 days doesn't make any difference whatsoever.

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@altryne @satyanadella definitely will not put the debate to rest lol. this information is out there, the people who are complaining about water usage refuse to hear it and they won't believe what Nadella is telling them.

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@XCFreshman @Pirat_Nation cuz the people who do business know that there are petulant children who absolutely must 100% have it 2 days earlier for ... reasons. and i can't blame them for taking those people's money if they're willing to be parted from it for dumb reasons.

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@_Greentexts @Pirat_Nation paying for deluxe editions is truly retarded anyway

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@bumpkinsTV @Karai_Dan why are most hollywood actors attractive? are you going into a movie and getting off to every attractive actor they put in a movie?

it's not about sex, it's about wanting something nice to look at.

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@jakozloski it seems like a lot of people round up to the nearest even