I’ve realized I am really bothered by passive voice in cleaning with people I live with. “I am going to do the dishes tonight” - great “Eric, would you take out the trash tonight please?” - that’s fine! I probably would have taken it out if I had realized it was full. I’m an adult and this is my house, I try to...
That my family will never have any conception of cleaning as you go. They’re like that episode of Futurama where Fry had to teach everyone how to litter.
How would they incorporate the Vong into the new canon at this point, I wonder? I guess now that the Emperor’s really-really dead the story can pick back up the same way, just with our new bunch of heroes.
But your parents can’t just buy the toy. The only way to get the toy is through the element of chance - sometimes with a near zero win chance - by spending real world money.
The only reason it’s not de-facto gambling is that there are consolation prizes, but in most peoples’ view that doesn’t make it morally okay to push on children, nor does it make it completely not gambling either. It’s just gambling with consolation prizes.
You keep relying on the Chuck E. Cheese anology, but it simply doesn’t work. At Chuck E. Cheese the prizes are a bunch of toys that your parents could otherwise buy, and the fun is in playing the games themselves which pay out tickets toward earning those prizes. That is in no way the equivalent of gamble boxes in video games.
Gamble boxes contain prizes that can’t be bought outside the game, and in nearly every case contain prizes that can’t be bought with the “consolation prize” (i.e. “tickets”) that are dropped when you otherwise win nothing or very little compared to the actual prizes. And there is no inherent “fun” in clicking an “UNLOCK BOX” button compared to actually… playing a game in order to earn prizes. Not comparable at all, really.
If you’re going to try to convince people they’re not gambling (and you have quite the uphill battle to fight), you’re better off likening them to blind bag grab-packs of card games / collector cards / toys, etc. - Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, sports cards, blind-bag toys etc. That is their closest real-world equivalent. Many would argue that those are also a form of gambling, as well.
Well fair enough, that is a different conversation. I’m not ready to take a hard stance on how it impacts children, people with addictive personalities, etc. but all I know for certain is that it doesn’t feel right to include it in virtually every online video game, and it sure as hell got very annoying and tiresome very quickly years ago when it started.
With the recent password sharing crackdown, I decided to ditch my Netflix subscription and try piracy. What I miss about Netflix is scrolling through content and finding something to watch. With piracy I need to know exactly what I am looking for....
I don’t think OP knows what they mean with this question. The top two ‘serious’ answers are coffee and tea, which is just “hot water with shit mixed in”. Anything you drink is water with shit mixed in. Any answer that isn’t “water with shit mixed in” means you die, either within months or minutes. Most answers that are “water with shit mixed in” would still kill you fairly quickly if that’s all you ever drank.
Yeah, mostly I'm searching from / logged into lemmy.one, which as far as I know doesn't block anything. Trying to find communities on midwest.social for example, and even with the !community syntax it doesn't seem to find them. "Communities > All" is selected up top. Not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong or what.
The only possible explanation I can see for why the Apollo dev's number could be "wrong" is if reddit plans to charge on a sliding scale, i.e. the more requests, the more the price is reduced per request. Or the other possibility would be that they "negotiate" a rate with the app developer, i.e. "determine how popular your app will be based on the cost barrier to entry".
New to Lemmy. I can think of some specific, obvious communities that I'd be interested in (and have joined). But half of the fun I had on Reddit was from random subs I would never have thought to go searching for (and only found due to random comments/cross-posts/etc)....
Select "Communities" up top, then filter by "All" (not "Subscribed" or "Local"). Either browse the list for Lemmy communities, or search for words related to communities you want to join. The results displayed from ALL Lemmy servers that your current server is connected to (federated with).
https://browse.feddit.de/ - A Lemmy community browser. Not sure how or if it achieves anything different from the above, but worth a try as well.
What is your cleaning pet peeve?
I’ve realized I am really bothered by passive voice in cleaning with people I live with. “I am going to do the dishes tonight” - great “Eric, would you take out the trash tonight please?” - that’s fine! I probably would have taken it out if I had realized it was full. I’m an adult and this is my house, I try to...
Take-Two CEO: "We Ought To Be Monetizing 100% Of The Audience" For Mobile Games | GameSpot (www.gamespot.com)
Expand the Universe, you say? Far better to (lemmy.world)
Change my view: loot boxes aren't as bad as people claim they are.
Inb4 “sense of accomplishment” I’m not taking about obviously predatory practices here, more of the basic stuff....
Pirate Netflix
With the recent password sharing crackdown, I decided to ditch my Netflix subscription and try piracy. What I miss about Netflix is scrolling through content and finding something to watch. With piracy I need to know exactly what I am looking for....
Supreme court reinstates Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ restrictions for now (www.theguardian.com)
You can only drink one drink for the rest of your life, but it cannot be water. What do you pick?
And no "water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber" goofs. Water isn't allowed.
Subscribing to communities on other instances when they can't be found from searching All?
How does the search function work and why does it sometimes not work from different instances when searching All? In other words -...
Why can I find communities that exist from some Lemmy instances but not others?
How does the search function work and why does it sometimes not work from different instances when searching All?...
Developer of RedReader (a reddit app with 100k downloads on play store) is considering porting it to Lemmy or Mastodon (old.reddit.com)
The content of the reddit post:...
How do you explore Lemmy?
New to Lemmy. I can think of some specific, obvious communities that I'd be interested in (and have joined). But half of the fun I had on Reddit was from random subs I would never have thought to go searching for (and only found due to random comments/cross-posts/etc)....