It seems like critics are turning more and more inward, and what they appreciate is increasingly esoteric. So the stuff they like is less accessible to the unwashed masses like myself because if you’re not staying up to date on the latest and greatest trends in the medium, it doesn’t make sense why they rate something so highly.

Yeah audience scores are my jam. Critics have failed me time and time again.

I personally do not, but I think it’s a personal decision. I have a background in working for homeless non-profits. If you have a desire to really help and be part of moving towards a solution, find a local group and donate and/or volunteer with them.

The reality of handing money to someone is at best it’s a band-aid, and more often you’re just buying that night’s substance of choice. No judgement there, if I was homeless and likely not receiving needed medical and mental health treatment, I’d be high and drunk as often as I could too. Hell, I’m high as often as I can be now. Nevertheless though, I feel comfortable choosing not to participate by handing money when asked and I don’t begrudge anyone who does.

There was a post on that other site a few years back where someone found a locked safe and posted about it. I wanna say they were asking for advice about how to open it (I’m fuzzy there), but it turned into this whole thing where it felt the whole internet was hanging on a cliff edge, waiting to see what was in it. People were guessing, making bets, giving advice, promising first born etc.

Nothing. There was nothing in it. It was empty the whole time. A little piece of me died that day.

Half a map

Bruh. I had almost managed to forget.

I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?

I mean, on the cosmic scale that’s the context for the story, both cars and robots are tiny ;) I’m sure the black hole will think they’re cute before gobbling them up.

That’s what you took from this?

Super cool, but "Jessup first posted on X, ‘The Everything App’ " is so cringe.

I am both the leaf, and the fruit flies who copulate on it.

This looks like my ex. I’m not even tryna be mean, it just does.

That was actually an interesting read. First one from a game journalist in a while lol. Crazy how much energy they spent on just one, rather small character.

Burn the witch!

Woooooo!

I look forward to waiting a few months after release to see if it’s complete and worth buying.

At the very least I’d try to clean up that fuzzy condition on behavior to anticipate any bad or inconsistent data entry.

WHERE UPPER(TRIM(behavior)) = ‘NICE’

Depending on the possible values in behavior, adding a wildcard or two might be useful but would need to know more about that field to be certain. Personally I’d rather see if there was a methodology using code values or existing indicators instead of a string, but that’s often just wishful thinking.

Edit: Also, why dafuq we doing a select all? What is this, intro to compsci? List out the values you need, ya heathen ;)

(This is my favorite Xmas meme lol)

Well played sir or madam. Well played.

That it’s silly to reply with disagreements for a question that’s asking for disagreeable opinions. 😉

Trip to FedEx the handful of times a year I need to print has served me well for years.