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https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/whats-the-why-so-serious-meme-and-how-did-it-become-associated-with-the-jonkler-the-jokers-iconic-quote-and-beatbox-meme-explained

I love the game, but I'd like to point out that baldur's gate 3 does have a single microtransaction, it gives you a custom dice skin, a tie in item from divinity original sin and a bunch of low level potions. It costs 12CAD.

Who buys them?

• People who dont game buying a present who just go "oh deluxe version, not that much more expensive, lets treat them"
• wealthy people that just pick the priciest option
• people with completitionist tendencies
• streamers and wannabe streamers for whom the extra cost is a trivial operating expense
• children and others that dont understand the value of a dollar
• people whose primary draw to the game is the photomode
• "i like game, I want more game therefore I pay more" (yes this logic is terrible when applied to microtransactions)

Depends on how old the game is and how big the DLC is IMO. Rimworld, for instance, has quite a few DLCs now, but they are all well worth it if you like the base game. OTOH if a game just has cosmetic DLC or the DLC is coming out super near release that's a red flag.

I think they are using facism units

Here's the actual source, I don't think the article really adds anything

https://gist.github.com/Kaldaien/c66bf3dca62a5ac63785714f686e60ad

Enter Monthly Subscription Game Libraries and DRM-free → Exit Steam

I strongly disagree with this paragraph, as we saw with Netflix and video streaming monthly subscriptions are a trap which allows a massive increase tot he cost to the consumer and a noticeable drop in the quality of the content in a way steams model simply does not.

or even worse when you have to wait for the voiced dialogue to finish before it lets you continue.

I’d much rather be pickpocketed than shoot.

People listen to thousands of hours of rain or whale sounds, no one thinks "chill beats to study and vibe to" is high art either. I think that is the main market this is competing with not your favourite band or whatever.

Even if we intentionally released as much co2 as we could all life on earth is not at risk. Remember that there's a fair amount of life that is virtually unchanged since the paleozoic period when all that co2 was in the air. Beyond that there's stuff that hangs out in volcanic vents, rapidly evolving life that can adapt even to rapid change, bacteria, molds, mosses and algae. And who knows maybe there's even a small adaptable mammal or 2 that gets out and evolves enough for a second attempt at sapience.

Don't get me wrong the climate disaster is truly a unique and devastating extinction event, but humans are not so powerful as to leave the earth a completely lifeless rock.

Would this data get screwed up by VPNs?

+1 for the etrike, (I have a emmo tropic C myself) I find cars respect me way more in it and I can pull way more awkward loads not having to worry about balance. I found an electric anything ends up giving me way more exercise than a regular bike, since I'll attempt trips I otherwise wouldn't because of steep hills or heavy loads.

Be careful the first time you go on tilted ground with it though. My instinct as a biker was to keep the bike perfectly upright, which obviously isn't how trikes work. I turned into the slope and ran into a wall. XD