Probably signing up with Bluesky, even if slightly off-topic. The lack of algorithms means the only way to swim up is to post everyday at prime time in the hope to catch some exposure. Because quality posts with high interactions with likes will not bubble up from the crowd.
Stormblood has structural issues, but none of the fundamentally flawed writing at every single moment of Dawntrail. I hope 8.0 will make me forget this pain.
That is probably true, but doesn't mean much when gaming is such a mainstream activity.
tl;dr
"The grass has been cut as short as possible, and loose, dried grass has been removed from affected areas.
"Prior to tomorrow's sessions, the grass will be dampened, and specific response teams will be stationed around the track."
This is on-topic, because it happened at Microsoft's event.
For orientation you could use much subtler ways. There are models which look like a dumpster of random colors. For these it absolutely is only about cost savings, and I grew up from a time building 1300+ pcs models as a kid when Lego didn't even have the colors for "orientation" and never had an issue. There are enough methods for orientation which don't require using screaming lime and azure colors. There are enough shades of grey for that.
Lego's tolerances are pretty good, and so are a couple of other non-counterfeit brands. They might be a bit "stickier". Lego as an overall product is behind. The prices are not just high, rather borderline questionable. Color consistency is notoriously poor with certain colors, due to cost saving measures. They stopped using colored granulated plastics, and instead inject ink.
They charge premium licensing prices and deliver stickers while Cobi is able to print it properly. Cobi is pricey mind you, but they at least deliver. Lego has no proper lighting, which opened the market for Fun Whole. They butchered and killed their robotics line up of Mindstorns. Lego butchered their Technic electronics with compatibility breakage and forced app usage. Lego abuses the that brand to keep selling model cars with few functions. Lego abused the Technic brand to publish a Mars Rover which has a design failing suspension and zero chassis stability.
For cost savings, they fill the invisible insides with random colored blocks, drowning alternate uses.
Their product photos are misleading, with photoshopped headlights which don't exist and other trickery.
Lego has likely a way too big catalogue, sells perhaps not enough of most, and goes quantity over quality.
The truth is, there are very well designed sets, with prints, no random colors, at acceptably high prices and they are adorable. And I would and maybe will purchase them and have done so not long ago. It's the amount of crap which comes out. I often assume the Internet scandalizes Lego's state, and of course they do, but when I walk past my local Lego shops, I see terrible designs, at ridiculous prices.
If Lego would position themselves as a mainstream brand at medium prices, nobody would bat an eye. It's them often surcharging 50% above competition at lower quality which grinds people's gears really badly.
HQ Lego Alternatives:
Military, aircraft, small cars: Cobi. Technic: CaDa has licensed premium lines like the AMG GT One . Models with Lighting: Fun Whole, but can near Lego pricing, with higher quality. Kids: Buy used Lego sets, don't bother too much with lost parts, replace them on Bricklink.
And there is a few others. I listed only companies not ripping off duplicates. There is more good ones, and of course a lot of copycat companies.
Might be, because it affects threads only on their server, but it doesn't happen with the web interface.
Unfortunately comments don't load anymore with Sync. Sad to see no barebones maintenance on this software.
This should be illegal. As a person who was once false flagged manually by network attribution. Of course the anti troll flagging network was itself socially destroyed by time and is frequently cause of scandals while nobody cares for me.
Add certain language patterns and political stances and you have an excellent oppressive tool.
The behavior the study is referring to, is actually result of reddit's algorithms and human psychology. Often the contrarian view of whatever the post is about will automatically float to the top, no matter the topic, opinionated, factual or debunking, nature.