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68mil Nintendo Switches sold.

19mil Breath of the Wild (Zelda)

21mil Smash bros

28mil Animal Crossing

The gamecube and the wii were reasonably cheap hardware with a markup. I haven't researched the switch, it looks no different to me.

*updated to sep2020 figs

Content sells the tech. The tech makes the most money though.

Microsoft is 1 tril bigger in market cap than Disney. Strange to use a Bill gates quote and then discuss Disney films.

Nintendo as a company makes more money on selling consoles, than on Zelda.

The article touches on this and could expand on it. No new tech launch is going to work without content, so in that sense it is king, but the money is in the tech.

Less formulaic now? Pop music is becoming more repetitive. [0] People like Max Martin producing an amazing amount of hit pop songs leads me to think it's more formulaic.

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjFwcmHy5M

Yeah I agree there's a barrier between the endless eight ball of streaming songs and the music you've downloaded onto your computer. Once you've plucked a song from the internet and put it into your collection it becomes reliable, you know why you saved it and what playlist it belongs and what activity you want to pair with it and what frame of mind you were in when you saved it.

Streaming/youtube is so ephemeral, even with history and playlists it's difficult to remember what you found so groovy about a piece when it could all be gone tomorrow. I rarely develop a fixed memory of a song until I've saved it.

I would let the things he did sit with is name and prevent future things being named after him.

White-washing your past after you make billions off the back of slaves he killed and his work, is just a little too much sting to bear. I don't think you should be 'forced to bear his name as a stain'. It's just reality for what your space agencies did and hiding it isn't a valuable addition.

I don't see where justice comes in. That's between friends. Companies expand and governments adjust them.

Banana republics are born from broken governments, which brings negative outcomes to the people. Governments that close off to the corporate world lack capital growth.

Companies don't spread values into other countries anymore than invading armies of yesteryear. The life and death that comes with corporate money is what it is. They may reveal underlying values and profit off them. Corps may discover certain business is not desired, but corporation values won't change the country.

The only values companies need to care about is the ones that will get them kicked out of their host country, or are shared worldwide.

There's a certain lack of credibility in this complaint when the space race and a great source of global unity was found in the moon landing off the back of the Saturn V. The Americans had the choice to erase werner von braun from significance and instead chose to benefit on a grand scale from his slave-built knowledge.

You're right Von Braun is part of the past now. He's apart of the Usa's past. It's difficult to hear complaints about his nazi past, long after all the hard choices about what it means were already made.

VB's work is inexplicibly stamped into space flight and trying to get rid of that influence now, is like having your cake and eating it too.

There's an attempt to refine the normal dog-human interpretative dance into a more formal setup.

Some people are using buttons to get the dog to reply in a context format rather than just gauging enthusiasm for a given task.

https://www.hungerforwords.com

I don't think higher order communication between adults is that simple either. There's a lot of inference and deriving from implication that is prone to error.

When it came out it was a pointless and mostly buggy grind-a-thon. Some played it to 'chill out and relax' and could have argued the $/hr was a positive ratio when 99.95% of people did not share that experience.

I haven't played it since launch, it made for a good internet historian video!

Some people spent hours in No Man's Sky too. The cost per hour only matters if you can put up with 'flaws'.

Most expected the latest and greatest, what they got was not that. Every hype/drop cycle is the same, but this cycle is filled with more valid complaints than normal, depressingly.

People felt burnt on Oblivion in 2013 because it was boring green forests and unappealing face design. That game pretty much worked for hundreds of hours of content. Cyberpunk can't even get the basic mechanics right.

Peterson had been talking about the difficulties of benzo addiction and the epidemic of addicts in the US before he got ill. He was aware of the risks and his behaviour shows us it is possible to get off benzos with a trip through hell and specialist treatment.

The peterson formula is to talk about a social problem empathically and with some expertise. Then he goes through the problem personally and models behaviour. Lastly he lectures people on what should be done. It's good at making people roar with outrage sometimes, but its mostly notmal teacher stuff turned up to 11.

Because the FBI accused him of being a hostile foreign intelligence agency and could skip a lot of restrictions in charging him. Assange argued he was a journalist and the USA law protects his actions in the US.

Banning topics frequently cuts losses on trends that are dying anyway. Nobody wants to see ghost town subreddits. It's good for the websites health to keep the place looking alive and clean.

Separating the effectiveness of bans from these trendy moments is difficult. Applying a ban on political discussions around 2015-2016 would have likely maintained toxicity.

People buy the dream. They know it's overpriced or premium. They don't care about a value proposition it's an opportunity to be on the leading front of the dream. When the product dies, the loss of functionality is less important than being dropped from the dream.

Apple gives people a dreamscape where they can transform their homes and workplaces into a creative paradise and share in a world without material tech problems. 'It just works'.

Replacing the current iphone with the next one is always attractive for the customer as long as it keeps everybody dreaming.

Most people in the past had kids because life sucked. We gained from having extra hands on the farm. More kids were better in a world with a relatively high mortality rate.

Your kid doesn't have to live in a utopia to be worth making.

Adding to parent, the premise of your game is very hard to change after you've started. You will think of new ideas that you will have to axe as you progress, so get a non-digital prototype you know has appeal. It will keep you on track.

That already happened to political groups. Money is life and death these days.

1. What concrete and specific thing did Mother Theresa fail to do for the suffering people when she visited the nun convention?

2. What specific and concrete thing did Mother Theresa do, to be called a murderer in the plane crash?

Most of Hitchens arguments are against the character of god, how he's so totalitarian and capable of causing suffering. There is little to respond to because it isn't based on arguing concrete realities. The game is based on arguing interpretations of events in the most negative light and using that as a reason to distrust the character of god.

God is a necessary concept and arguing how terrible is his 'character', is beside the point. We can endlessly rework history with a nominalist historicism completely devoid of the context that god occupies, to show how terrible god's ethos is and how his adherents are evil, but it is a pointless game in the end.

God isn't going away and this endless attempt by UK atheists like Hitchens, Dawkins, et al to have all the benefits of 2k years of Christanity without the theism is a tiring waste of time.

Hitchens is a christian athiest. He is a product of his context and all the secular humanism and gaping at the awe of space won't save you from the fact that the past 2k years were successfully led by christians in the west.

He was in a limo with dawkins and once said even if he had the most complete and destructive argument against god, that would end all arguments about god, he wouldn't do it. He was man who built his career on arguing the endless topic, religion. In his own words he chose this topic because it doesn't run out.

So yeah, preach to me about magic soap labels, if you think that's what god is, then you are welcome to it. I won't join you in nominalist hell and I won't lift you out of a well.

You are the person choosing your own interpretation.

I believe in science, what I don't believe is that people will listen to truth when it is presented. They are two different things. Science has lost its power to object to a higher cultural malaise.

If you understood what it meant for the virgin mary to be contrary, you would understand the words I wrote on the page and my meaning.

You were not correct, you didn't understand my post. Stop dreaming. There are real truths being expressed here.

I've listened to hundreds of hours of Hitchens. I liked him. I asked you for concrete refutations, which are implicitly based in science.

Tilting at windmills here..

I don't know what to say. Your post doesn't make sense. She didn't fly the plane into people by her own hands. She didn't order her pilot to murder people in a failed bid to take-off.

You reject the very concept of the religion you criticize. If you have a problem with magic soap labels then I can agree, I don't believe magic soap labes matter too. That's not what religion is.

I fail to see how attending a religious appointment is a crime. Did she skip out on handing out food? Did she miss her chance to pass out medicine? What concrete thing could she have done to save her people?

Your post is way over the line of sanity. Being angry that religion exists in the face of suffering isn't a valid criticism of theresa. Criticize the lack of solutions to the problem, by the people who were responsible. The rest is insane bleatings.

If only the virgin mary were contrary. Science has lost it's power. Someone will choose an interpretation that benefits themselves over the truth. It's normal. Too many tech people are coasting on the libertarian dream of the past.

God is an absolute, the source of all. The concept includes being responsible for the death of people in unfortunate circumstances. I don't see the idea that you are somehow above God because you identified that some people died in unfortunate circumstances.

I don't "forgive her". I say there is a truth you have thrown under a bus. She didn't self promote, she was serving a purpose under a larger story. People suffering and someone being unable to fix it, doesn't make them a sociopath for trying to give some meaning to inevitable deaths.

You and Hitchens are just grand-standing off the back of religion.

They do via proxy of government laws. The public vs megacorp is not a balanced relationship anyway and will eventually get regulated.

Who decides what information is

It's hard to pick a side when headstrong interpretations win out over likely truth. The jesus-like dream of truth died before I was born and now we're left with people choosing their own interpretations.

The article you linked under the shocking line 'Mother Teresa killed five with her plane', describes an incident where a plane was crowded around and unable to get airborn. Five people took the brunt of the propellers. No part of that is directly Mother Teresa's fault and you have to work hard to ignore the pilot's actions and everybody on the ground.

It isn't hard to find the truth for what it likely is, through research and a charitable view. Society has determined that using headstrong fear to ram your own interpretation through is better than the past and I weep everyday for what we have lost. This used to be a good planet, now every single marginally positive outcome must be torn from history and context to be presented as the evil "it is". Shame on you. I'm so tired of the politics du-jour shitting on 2k years of successful history. You can lie about the present, and the past won't go away.

Everybody who thinks they have a modicum of intelligence and still accepts balongia like these hellish recasts of the past deserves their inability to tell truth from fiction.

'Dark' people don't hide it as well as they'd like. When it becomes clear somebody wants to play the dark game, all the choices become restrictive. Someone who has gained a position of authority with those traits is usually not worth challenging because you have to play the influence game in the dark where the rules have likely been implicitly set up against you. Inspiring fear or exhaustion becomes easy.

Light people can choose to play this game, and they can choose to expand into a different space. There's somewhere else to shine your light and it's usually more saistfying to expand elsewhere joyously than influence in the dark with fear.

If 'dark' people display their traits and abilities, it's no longer dark. Immoral choices tend to reduce your options, not give you more.

Crystal green? Any kind of green

Dirty bomb started off well but the classes and maps they added later on slowly sank it. One of my favourite fps's.

Leisure time is hard to define recently. People are escaping, true relaxing used to come from a hard day's work that passed on the gift of life to someone else and you could rest easy, then finally throw a joyous festival together.

Today's leisure time is closer to busy escapism than relaxation, for the poor at least.