conciselyverbose

~~Are you sure? I had been paying for a higher tier, but I remember they sent an email that they were changing or removing the search metering a while ago.~~

In US it's $5 for 300 searches or $10 for unlimited.

Do they even take first party stuff off? I haven't been paying attention to the library, but I was kind of assuming they were waiting until they decided it had sold what it would then put it in "permanently".

FWIW either way I prefer their approach to Microsoft's. I think expecting designing games expecting people to actually buy them is part of their ability to keep proper single player experiences without drowning it in GaaS. Admittedly I thought Microsoft's catalogue kind of sucked before Gamepass too, so maybe it's a coincidence. But while I'm actually currently subscribed to premium because I'm a Madden addict and $60 more on Black Friday for their catalogue wasn't bad, I'm perfectly happy paying for games on top of it if it means they're making stuff like the last of us and horizon. I still generally won't buy it day one (and will likely buy third party games on Steam unless they have issues on Linux or use the dual shock features well), but I like the balance they strike with their game design, giving games development time to really build immersive experiences, mostly without grubbing for extra cash (though the last of us had obnoxious purchases for the multiplayer). I'd be scared "day one subscription" would result in them breaking design to claw back revenue.

lol no one is claiming the users are turning it into clickbait.

Almost all clickbait titles are written by the website it's posted on. And 99.9999% of titles of an article about a game that don't include the name of the game are clickbait.

Sony's first party games aren't really broken on release. PC ports are more of a mixed bag, but they know and use their own hardware and tools well.

This article also doesn't say plus hurts their launch or early sales. It says people mostly stop buying the games when they get added to extra.

The next day? OK, they're responsible.

A week later, they have no responsibility left. Security holes happen, even in "highly secure" systems, because of how complex they are and how difficult it is to harden every possible edge case. But people not knowing the hole exists when you find and patch it isn't really possible, which is why they give advisories that "this is serious, you need to install it" in the first place. Every day after the patch is shipped increases your risk that bad actors have used the new knowledge to find a way to exploit the vulnerability, not through any failure of the vendor, but by the nature of what security is.

A hole existing isn't negligent. Leaving a known vulnerability, with a shipped fix, unpatched for a week on platforms that hold sensitive consumer information is. And it's a decent ways up the severity scale of negligence, too.

I listen to a constant stream of audiobooks when I drive (and the rest of the time).

I spent years looking for a correctly sized tortilla (I found one in a little Mexican convenience store once out of state for a wedding and it made it all the more frustrating for a long time lol). Then Old El Paso Grande tortillas showed up at a Walmart near me and I buy them by the box on Amazon now and can finally have burrito size burritos.

Anyways, those are like 80% rice, and rice is dirt cheap. I'm guessing it's 4-6 ounces of meat max. Unless you're using premium cuts of steak (which they aren't), no way it costs as much.

It does a way better job at most frozen food and leftovers than a microwave does, but takes longer.

Almost anything you'd deep fry can be lightly spritzed with oil and done in an air fryer instead.

If it's big enough for a pizza, you can make one from scratch instead of frozen. It's cheaper than anything but the cheapest frozen crap and a lot better.

The person you're complaining about made a perfectly reasonable and accurate post.

Correcting clearly false information isn't "gatekeeping", and even if he had been an asshole about it, you pretty clearly don't know what gate keeping means.

Yeah, I'd rather be deaf.

One subject I could manage (psychology/AI if it has to be nonfiction or mysteries if fiction counts), but not one voice.