1000%, its how they establish pecking order amongst themselves.

Like the rest of the world doesn’t consume violent media/video games/music recreationally…

turn off your brain

This has not been my experience with practically any Japanese RPG, haha. Each time I’ve tried to play a Final Fantasy game, I’ve gotten immediately turned off by the complex menus/rules, and needlessly long “click through” tutorials showing me every menu page with an accompanying small novel of instructions. Its not that I’m afraid of having to learn a game (I’m a big fan of Paradox games if that’s any indicator), I just find the presentation of it all such a slog.

Its so disheartening how well its working

Bingo

I will say, I would not want to be a software developer right now, but systems support is generally pretty stable (and less likely to be replaced by AI any time soon)

I almost added this as a point in my original comment, but you’re absolutely right, and its happening in other industries too (auto, for example). Its really tough to troubleshoot things you lack the permissions to fix.

I meant it a more general sense as anyone involved with the software development life cycle, but I see your point, good catch

The first step towards privatizing an industry is eroding public confidence in the existing program. They have absolutely no intention of improving the program, they just want to make it shitty enough that people stop believing in it. Once that happens, 45 will start shilling, and some lucky company will swoop in and take it over.

Textbook…

An unfortunate consequence of developers playing to the lowest common denominator of users for the last twenty years. Everything has been designed to be as easy and intuitive as possible for mobile, and troubleshooting skills have suffered as a result.

Not to mention that phones are crazy powerful and can do virtually everything these days, so fewer and fewer people are buying PCs.

If the general population is indeed “going backwards” in regards to tech literacy, it seems like demand for IT services is going to spike in the coming years. Good thing to keep in mind for young people choosing a career path!

My point is that, in the US, other organizations that accept charity have to produce documentation detailing their spending. Religious organizations should be held to the same standard.

Would be nice if we had some kind of visibility into that, huh?

Fine, here then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_religious_organizations

Nice! Glad you got it sorted, happy printing!

I guess we’ll just pretend the Vatican doesn’t exist

I started playing this game that popped up in the PSN game library called Arcade Paradise a few days ago. I downloaded it thinking it would be just another “arcade collection” type game, but it ended up being much more in depth than that.

Rather, its a somewhat simple management game where you grow a small arcade in the back of your fathers laundromat, but you can play each of the games you purchase. Further, you have to play the games and complete challenges in them to increase their fame/revenue.

All in all I’ve really enjoyed it so far. The decision to wrap the arcade games into a broader narrative and attach challenges to them was a really great decision i think. When I’ve checked out other arcade collection games, i’ve had a tendency to breeze through the catalog without spending much time in it before I’m bored. In this, you have to take your time with each game, and having challenges to complete does a good job of holding my interest and motivating me to get better at each one.

The games are all reskinned versions of classic games that most fans of the genre would be familiar with. Pong, Galaga, missile command, etc. I will say that the physics based games like Pool (infuriating) and Foosball (basically jmpossible) suck, but they’re easily ignored.

Overall, I’d give it a 8/10. It reminds me a lot of something that Devolved Digital would put out, if you like them.

When I refer to “generational trauma” I’m referring to the psychological and emotional affects of trauma that are passed down. For example, say a war veteran returns home but doesn’t get any treatment for their PTSD. They start a family and have kids, but physically abuse them. That child may then grow up to physically abuse their own children, and the cycle continues.

The War Thunder video game forums have been host to over a dozen military intelligence “leaks” https://taskandpurpose.com/news/us-military-sensitive-info-war-thunder-leak/

Gotta say I’m a bit perplexed by the negative reaction. Not sure what people expect from ‘shower thoughts’, haha, but such is the internet I guess. Perhaps the internet community is its own “genus” of personality that has independently evolved to the point where I can’t comprehend it. :D

I mean, the world would be a better place with more empathy, no?