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Whats a game that everybody seems to love that you cant stand for one reason or another?

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It's weird, I liked a lot of the things they did mechanically: I liked that they filled a lot of "negative possibility space" where if I saw a boulder on top of the hill and decide to push it just for fun, the game acknowledges it. The freedom of traversal was also interesting.

But I really disliked how they did lots of mini-dungeons instead of some really in-depth ones. I was very disappointed in the first Legendary Creature what whatever they're called, and kinda switched off after that.

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Twitter US ad sales plunged 59%, and internal forecasts are grim, NYT reports

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There aren't clear rules by design

https://beehaw.org/post/107014

The issue as I see it with modern social media is the way in which rules are enforced. There are many good reasons to itemize specific behavior which is not allowed, but the downside is that extremely specific rules are easy to maneuver around. We’ve all experienced someone who’s a real jerk on the internet but manages to never get banned because they never explicitly violate any rules. I’m not sexist, they’ll claim, but happen to post a lot of articles calling into question modern feminism or criticize the wage gap.

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What games do you break?

While not exactly what you're talking about, I was thinking about it a bit ago and I think Vampire Survivor might actually be a good example of "game breaking" as a mechanic. You can get a good synergy of items that create a feedback loop, and use items on the map to get above the item limit and it feels like the fun you get from breaking a game. But, interestingly, it's balanced around that, and when the enemies suddenly jump in strength you don't feel so powerful anymore.

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CNN boss ousted after backlash over Donald Trump town hall

To me, definitely a good thing, being a mouthpiece for Trump, and it seems like he was making all sorts of bad decisions.

That said, I can understand a bit why. I'm certainly guilty of having paid attention to the news much more during Trump's presidency just out of concern for all the unexpected things that were happening. I'd assume (but haven't checked) that news numbers are down across the board since the country got a bit more stable.

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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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The power aspect is a lot bigger of a factor than I would have thought. I had an old computer I was going to use as a server for Foundry that I could keep up all the time, but when I measured its wattage and did the math, it would cost me $20 a month to keep on. A pi costs like $2 to keep running, so it paid for itself pretty quick

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Russian military receives Chinese armored vehicles

Looking at the Wikipedia and googling around a little bit, it seems that these are "new" with respect to the vehicles, but it is an old design. It seems(maybe?) that China was licensing the manufacture of them from Russia, so it's slightly ironic they're being sold back, but I don't know how common that is.