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I'm expecting an animated show that uses the characters as props, basically like if Robot Chicken was a single setting show instead of a variety program

I do use alternatives, but I mention Google because it's what's relevant to the conversation at hand.

Cool, pedant. Addend "on google" to my comment then if you need, since that's clearly the context we're talking about here. I'm aware there are other search engines, but context should have made what I was talking about pretty fucking obvious.

Don't worry, I'm sure google will disable that soon in the same way they disable all the other search syntax that used to make searching a simple and easy task

Yeah fr; message good, meme bad

"No, I actually think he's a brilliant composer, I just said his music stinks"

no skill from the person doing it.

This feels entirely non-sequitur, to the point of damaging any point you're trying to make. Whether I paint a nude or the modern Leonardi DaVinci paints a nude our rights (and/or the rights of the model, depending on your perspective on this issue) should be no different, despite the enormous chasm that exists between our artistic skill.

Ah, I looked it up. I watched TNG growing up with my dad, but it was so distant to be very hazy in my memories.

DS9 was my Trek.

I don't get this reference.

Cheating sucks but a- people are still cheating in these games, b- there are just as effective anti-cheat strategies that don't require invasive access, c- cheating in a literal GAME is not enough of a real world issue to sacrifice real world privacy

I will never understand why so many people were just okay accepting all this invasive bullshit like Vanguard. There's so many games I just can't even consider because I refuse to implicitly tell game companies their unchecked behavior like this is acceptable.

These are fucking video games; there is no goddamn reason a glorified toy should have root or kernel-level access. It's wild to me the amount people who will accept anything, no questions asked.

I'm sure Hell Divers is fun, but it ain't worth it to me to find out.

Conversational language should inherently be different than journalistic prose. It was considered good form (really necessary form) for the vast majority of my life to fully define any non-ubiquitous terms in the text before using them. It only seems recently to me, and especially in games journalism, that they've decided to eschew the defining part of the process and just give the reference undefined.

Like it's okay, useful even, to say things like "Like ARK, Palworld utilizes X mechanic to achieve Y by doing Z." That's a great way to use a touchpoint for increased clarity to readers! But to just say "Palworld's combat is ARK-like," without defining what ARK-like is, is lazy and unhelpful to anyone outside the know already.