There’s really no way I’m buying a PlayStation exclusive. Even if someone gave me a PlayStation for free, I’d hesitate.

Meh. Is it still going to have “you’re not high enough level to wear these pants” nonsense? Care more about that than cinematics.

Some are DRM free and can be backed up at your leisure. I’m pretty sure that’s up to the developer to implement or not.

It would be neat if steam let you sell a game back, but I’m not sure how to square that with “you have a drm free copy that’s trivial to copy”

A DM running a traditional game of D&D?

Probably. They could have used their wealth for anything but they’re like dragons. Do you mourn for dragons in stories of knights slaying them?

I don’t believe you. As they say, no one on the Internet knows you’re a dog.

Well, at the top of the hierarchy is probably capitalism. That’s largely why the climate is changing, why I don’t have a good job, why I need a good job to live a decent life, and so on.

More immediately, my water glass is empty but my cat is sleeping on my chest. I’m thirsty but Mr Meows is so content.

It’s just emotional chum for the right wing to stay frothy at the out-group. Even though many of them would benefit from DSA or further left policies, they’re drunk on group identity. (See also: every right wing accusation is a confession, “identity politics”)

More of an inference that an assumption, really. But go on. Did you read the article? Do you have any expertise on the subject?

Because it doesn’t seem like you’ve read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you’re making grand pronouncements anyway.

“People learn in different ways” may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive

That’s an amazing degree of hubris. Get out of here lol

It’s certainly better than “look at the pictures and guess”.

Go read (or listen to) the article. People who have studied this more than either of us have weighed in.

I was going to point out how heroic launcher is fine, but that’s not a store.

That’s not really Valve’s fault that all the other storefronts don’t care to support Linux, though.

For years, schools taught reading using approaches that de-emphasized phonics and encouraged strategies such as guessing words based on context clues. As reading scores tumbled over the past decade, parents, scholars and literacy advocates pushed for teaching methods that align with decades of research about how kids learn to read — largely by sounding out words.

Yeah that was a huge fuck up.

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ goes into detail.

But also our society doesn’t value education very much. Teachers don’t make good money, so many people who would be good at it go into other jobs. One of my recent jobs had like 3 ex-teachers in software. They were making like double for half the work. That’s great for them, but do we really need more tech setups that much?

I don’t want a 50% stake. I want all of it shut down and the resources directed to useful things. But I guess this is more feasible.

One time I was waiting near the train station for my old man to pick me up, and a kid thought I was homeless and offered me money. Confusing for everyone. Not homeless. Just had a gross beard and thrift store clothes.

We could definitely improve road safety by making less safe vehicles less easy. Without doing anything hard like changing infrastructure. Unfortunately, there are a lot of emotion driven large children who would get mad.

Exact same thought.

Though they’re probably mad they can’t use it for their particular brand of evil.

Violence isn’t the answer. It’s the question. Right now the answer seems to be “poor people and minorities”. We should change that answer.

But if you build transit then some people will be uncomfortable and it won’t be an immediate drop-in replacement! The biggest eyeroll.