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NORTH // NCL.48 // The World At Large 2024
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I mean, tarot is fucking stupid as well.
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Forbidden Door 2024 predictions
(sh.itjust.works)
Zero Hour
- Kyle O'Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Strong vs. Private Party vs. Kings of the Black Throne
- Tam Nakano & Willow Nightingale vs. Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe
- The Lucha Brothers & Mistico vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, Titan & Yota Tsuji)
- Saraya (w/ Harley Cameron) vs. Mariah May (w/ Luther & Toni Storm) - Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Women's Tournament Quarter Final
Main Card
- Hook, Katsuyori Shibata & Samoa Joe vs. The Learning Tree (Big Bill & Chris Jericho) & Jeff Cobb
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & The Acclaimed (w/ Billy Gunn ) vs. The Elite (Kazuchika Okada, Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson)
- Hechicero vs. MJF
- Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi - Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Men's Tournament Quarter Final
- Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
- Toni Storm (c) (w/ Luther & Mariah May) vs. Mina Shirakawa (w/ Mariah May) - AEW Women's World Title
- Mark Briscoe vs. El Phantasmo vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Lio Rush vs. Jack Perry vs. Dante Martin - AEW TNT Title Ladder Match
- Mercedes Mone (c) vs. Stephanie Vaquer (c) - AEW TBS & NJPW STRONG Women's Titles
- Jon Moxley (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito - IWGP World Heavyweight Title
- Swerve Strickland (w/ Prince Nana) (c) vs. Will Ospreay - AEW World Title
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Hulk Hogan may have stopped wrestlers unionising...
(sh.itjust.works)
...but today, on International Workers' / Labour Day, what is your excuse to not join up?
Graphic by Equity, the UK Actors' Union.
Building maintenance can absolutely be a job, which is wholey separate from being a landlord.
How do they know if the source of data is hotspot? I'd imagine there is a way to stop your phone grassing on you.
Yknow what, I've never really noticed the parallel with losing fingers before. Cool.
OK, so pay for it.
Pretty simple really.
I don't want to be all old man yells at cloud, but back in my day popular games were played a lot because they were primarily enjoyable for the story, the achievement of completing a particular level or boss, playing against friends, etc. And sure, you'd have the odd bad parent trying to claim their kid was addicted to Counterstrike 1.6, but it was broadly speaking nonsense. The vast majority of games were offline, or had very limited online modes built around direct competition with other players (FPS, sports games, etc), and publishers would get all their money from the initial sale, with only a few games having expansion packs, most notable The Sims.
But in the early 2010s a few things changed:
- broadband internet became ubiquitous in markets with high levels of existing gamers
- distribution of games swapped from physical media to downloads
- 'everyone' had a pretty powerful computer in their pocket making it much more accessible
- a bunch of people in the industry started reading about positive psychology - the idea that you can create habits through rewards - and apply them to video games to increase playtime
- those mechanics turned out to be very powerful in driving particular user behaviours, and started to be targeted at monetisation models - and so we got loot boxes, etc
So we went from a situation where video games were fun for the same reasons traditional games, or sports, are fun, to one where many video games include a lot of gambling mechanics in their core gameplay loops - loot boxes being the obvious one, but any lottery-based mechanic where you spend real money counts - in an industry with no relevant regulation, nor age limitation.
It is definitely possible for people to get addicted to these mechanics, the same way people can get addicted to casino games, or betting on horse racing, especially when for some games that is literally what the developer wants.
They do in the UK - where are you?
I agree that pornhub, et al, should be liable for abuse their platform distributes, but how on earth is AI meant to help in sex trafficking?
How the fuck has this become a left/right culture war issue?
I can understand Apple refusing to do repairs under warranty, or even invalidating a warranty, if someone has broken their phone after digging around inside without knowing what they are doing, but bricking a phone the person owns through a software lock is absolutely insane and stinks of attempts at service capture and fighting right to repair laws.
Yet another reason I'll never give them a penny.
Fairphone gang rise up!
I think these people may, possibly, fuck.
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hellothere
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If you want to watch shows while travelling, get the fucking train.