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It's not just new generations, these are basic marketing strategies that have existed forever. It's manipulative, people see a smaller number and think it's better, without even considering the value for a moment. Preying on the spur of the moment decision.

Nah, youre just being dense. Point was obvious enough and there was no direct blaming, just a general statement.

Good list here: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

Good combative comment, with great passive aggressive tones! Although the point of my comment was just to make others, who aren't already, aware of using the evil corpos and relying entirely upon them.

Sucks big time for the user, but why are we still using Google, Microsoft etc when other solutions exist? Always back-up to a different service and encrypt first. Don't put all your eggs in one basket, ever.

This only happened because of a charging smartwatch. You can't short it with just any metal contacting them. The watch burnt out the puck.

It is entirely avoidable from a design perspective, but it's not just like any metal will do anything.

This one can be let through the spam filters!

The next Xbox is supposedly going to be just that. Maybe they wont let you install another OS, but it will be pretty much a PC, where you can play PC games (Steam, GOG, etc) as well as Xbox games.

I mean in STS2, you can just get fucked from the seed. It's a roguelite though, not a roguelike. I get the whole, "unlock the full game" thing, but it doesn't mean I don't enjoy a subsection of it and would like an option to play that. Some things you unlock are just worse or so extremely niche that you'd never really use them anyway, they are just there to stop you getting the stronger stuff more often.

Sometimes you want a specific build as you are learning, but now you unlock some new thing that has no synergy with anything else or has some niche use and it's diluted the pool making it harder to build what you wanted.

I'd prefer games like this have toggles or some other mechanic that can allow upgrades without making the game harder. Slay The Spire is a good example, I love the game, but I'd rather not unlock some stuff. Or Gunfire Reborn, you have to roll stats on weapons, but then you unlock more weapons, so now you have a harder time finding the gun you want, let alone one with good stats on. Bad design imho.

Roguelites dont even make sense, I "progress" but now I have diluted my item/card/gun/whatever pool?? Upgrades should be upgrades, not new things imo.