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Essentially what the other person said, but KYC depends on the marketplace. See getmonero.com. XMR allows for merchants to skip KYC, which other cryptos don't do

I'm not a crypto expert, but from what I know it's one of the few currencies that have no kyc (know your customer) in order to use. The whole point of it is to have completely anonymous transactions and untracable/unmarked currecy. I used it once to buy a month of Mullvad vpn just to see how it works. I bought a giftcard with cash, traded the gift card for monero on a somewhat sketchy site, put the monero into an XMR wallet, and used the Monero to buy the vpn with wallet keys. It was a fun experiment but it was just too much time and effort to do it the right way to warrant using it 24/7

Idk, I think it depends on their angle

BREAKING: the entire moon has less crime than South Africa! That's 38 million sq km of no crime!
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For real, they picked the most barren places on earth (except Europe). Most of the land mass of Canada, Australia, and Greenland are deserted. Midwest US is all farmland. No one lives in Siberia

My lithsmus test for a good checklist is how they rate the Brave browser, Telegram, and popular VPNs. All three have marketed themselves as privacy friendly and secure, but all three are absolutely terrible if you do your homework on them. I've seen Brave or Telegram in the top tier on so many lists it isn't even funny

I find them really boring, especially in RPG contexts. The difference is night and day when you walk into a handcrafted dungeon that has situational storytelling, creative direction, and ambiance that conveys a specific feeling. Bethesda games do this exceptionally well, for example.

Handcrafting a world also gives meaning to exploration; when I explore a procedurally generated world I feel like I'm just walking around aimlessly, looking for just another treasure chest or enemy to fight. But in a hand-crafted world, there are specific things to look for, situational stories to be told, or even secrets to find that the creator hid. That's a lot more fun to explore than walking around in a glorified geometric algorithm

I hate that they tried to blame the developers here. I feel like they are just as exploited as the consumers. Many times have I tried to be passionate about my own work only to have it crushed and expunged by greedy upper management. I'd hate to be them working years on a passion project only to have it degraded by corporate grifters sending it into microtransaction hell

While some definitely are not traditional, my "secret" ingredients for bolognese are: leeks, hot italian sausage, and merlot wine. This works with any other regular bolognese recipe, just half the amount of onions in the original recipe and add the same amount of leek. Use a ratio of 1:2 ground beef chuck to hot italian sausage, and add wine mid-way through cooking the meats to deglaze the fond with the wine and cook out the alcohol

Microsoft is quickly becoming the worst company in gaming, which is saying something when you have the likes of Nintendo and EA. They bought up a bunch of quality companies making good games just to fire everyone and shut them down so their crappy flagship titles have no competition. Companies want to kill and destroy all games old, new, and even hypothetical so that their glorified slot machines get the spotlight. This is the beginning of the end for mainstream gaming. (Indie gaming is going strong though).

Genshin Impact in a nutshell