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Clip Studio uses a monthly subscription model for IpadOS and Android. I'd rather pay a one time fee than pay forever.

You can write off a private jet, which is terrible for carbon emissions, but you can't write off an electric car?

Regardless of political leanings, if one of the steps in your master plan is "receive pardon from glorious leader once they return to power", you might want to rethink what you're about to do.

I realized the only game I play online is FFXIV, which doesn't require PS+. I almost never play the "free" games they add to the service, and spend a non-zero amount of time browsing said free games in an effort to find something to play rather than something in my backlog. So I just canceled.

My membership is up in December and I doubt I'll even notice when it's gone.

You can customize them through the emulator (or Steam) to make the controls a bit more modern. I found a community layout for AC2 when I played in on my Steam Deck that made it feel much more like how AC6 plays.

For the three of us who bought a PSVR2, the foveated rendering they finally added with this update is fantastic. Still not as good as playing it on a TV, but so much better than the blurry mess it used to be.

The problem is, is that if you engage with anyone outside of the internet, they have no fucking idea what you're talking about when you call it "X".

It's so fucking stupid of a name. Even worse than Facebook changing to Meta.

You can ask people to call it "X" all day, every day, but you can't just change the name of your brand/product to a single letter, that people use every day for other things, and expect it to work out for you.

This reminds me of back in the original Xbox Live days.

Back on the OG Xbox, when Halo 2 came out, they gave out 3 month (maybe less, don't quite recall) trials of Xbox Live.

Cool, I'll sign up, play with my friends and randoms online for a few months. I just need to add my credit card. OK sure, no problem.

Fast forward 3 monthes. None of my friends play it anymore, they community is mega toxic, way more than you could imagine, and I see my first charge as I forgot to cancel.

OK, whatever. I'll just go into my account settings and cancel my membership. Why can't I find the option? So after researching it, I found out that you have to call their 800 number, Monday through Friday, between 8 and 5, talk to a live person and get them to cancel your account.

So I do that, and after wait on hold for a bit, I get this lady who tries to talk me out of canceling. She offers me a free game (if I sign up for a year), she tries to sell me a second account to practice on so I will play better on my main account, then she insults me for a bit before finally canceling like I asked. I still remember this call vividly some 15 years later.

And the best part? Next month I get charged again.

So I have to call again, have to wait on hold again. When I finally get someone, and I explained that my account was supposed to have already been canceled, he checks my account history to make sure I didn't play since I called last (which I hadn't, since I thought it was canceled), when he confirms that, he tells me that if I had played since then, he couldn't cancel my account, but since I didn't he would go ahead and take care of the cancelation for me.

I didn't touch anything Xbox for about 10 years after that.

I feel the problem is less the age of the senator (or representative) and more so how they have no term limits. Why do we have people serving 30, 40, 50+ years?

The longer they serve, the more likely they are to take ~~bribes~~ lobbyist money and donations from people that don't represent their constituents.

I can understand the argument of wanting knowledgeable and experienced congressmen, but there has to be a limit when their net worth is way more than their salaries.

There's nothing wrong with someone running for office without being a tenured politician. A primary or general election will weed out any woefully unqualified candidates, and if that doesn't, anyone truly terrible will be replaced in the next election cycle.

Senator Patty Murray of Washington famously campaigned as "a mom in tennis shoes" and had only been a teacher beforehand.

This is designed to be predatory. They want you to forget to cancel in time, because once they charge you, you will never be able to get a refund. And that's if they don't "forget" to not charge you in the first place.

That a lot of these that I see only have, or at least default to, expensive yearly subscriptions, make these even worse.

I've been a huge fan of the series for over 30 years at this point. I just wish the last twenty years were as good at the first ten.

I waited to buy every entry after FF10, and everytime (with the exception of XIV 2.0) I've been disappointed.

I really feel let down by XVI. None of the trailers made me excited, everytime they showed the gameplay I was betrayed, and when I played the demo I was bored.

All of the post-release feedback was so positive though, so I ended up buying it 2 weeks after it came out.

I still haven't finished my, despite having it for almost 6 weeks. It's just so bad. I was able to push myself through XV and I actually enjoyed the XIII trilogy, but this just feels like some Final Fantasy flavored (barely), easy to the point of inducing sleep, action game.