I think the headline is poorly worded. Apple paid $20 a person to not have to respect their privacy. They did that because our lack of privacy is worth much more than $20 to them.

This isn’t 32000 in 1 wave, though. This is ~2500 a year over 13 years. Even the answers given at the beginning of the study could have changed wildly if the same people had been polled at the end. And even if not, 4 people per city is not representative of an entire city at any given moment of time.

What demographics in China did they poll each year? Did they poll people of different racial profiles? Did they poll uyhgurs? Were the candidates selected randomly or were the assigned by the government? If the latter, were they coached or paid? Any number of things could throw off that study.

That is by far the least satisfying study I’ve ever heard. 32000 people surveyed over 13 years. That’s essentially 3.5 people per city in China. How are we to take that as a valid survey?

I’d certainly be interested in how those Harvard studies were accomplished what with much of China not being on the Internet. 95 percent certainly sounds high.

Have you considered that the 3 he didn’t commute were chosen not because they deserve death, but are too dangerous to be set free?

The Boston Marathon bomber and 2 people who attacked religious ceremonies. These are people who are more likely to go on and try again. And each of their crimes resulted in multiple deaths the first time.

I love this game. It’s my current Steam Deck title I’m working through on trips. Absolutely gorgeous!

I didn’t actually know about Dave the Driver being a big publisher until just now. I felt that game was kinda under-developed for how hyper it was and now I’m even more disappointed.

It only has like 6 major areas and the levels didn’t have that much variety. Plus the side content is fairly under polished. I enjoyed it for the first 60ish percent but was kinda forcing myself to finish it by the end.

Tunic. This game is beautiful and sessions on a full battery can last a while without charging. Highly recommend.

My problem is that my top three are Ivy, Kelvin, and Haze. I set Haze to top and the others to mid. I almost never get Haze.

I finished it 3 times, so I’d say I’m pretty patient.

I wake up at noon because I’m depressed and went back to sleep.

It may not be the matchmaking, but the pool. Since the game is still in invite only mode, I believe, the limited pool means they could be doing the best the can with what they have.

If I had to pick, I’d say FPS. I tend to not like point and click gameplay, so the only MOBA I ever enjoyed before deadlock was Paragon. I’ve always understood the basics of MOBAs but LoL and Dota were just never for me.

But I’m also not huge into FPS games. There has to be some form of ridiculousness to a shooter for me to like it.

Deadlock brings some of that. I think the newness is leaving match making for people who would be in what ever tier I exist in a weird place of either being rolled or rolling most of the time. But that will get better.

My brain is fairly direct in a lot of these things. I’d suggest just numbering them so all that the numbers are presented to the team viewing them from their perspective.

Since the map rotates to the teams perspective, just start on the left with 1 to 4.

As a color impaired loser, any attempt to assign colors as a static for everybody will fail the goal. The only way to really address it is to let us choose the colors in a config.

This is because there are many variations of color blindness and no two are impacted the same.

Or, and I can’t stress this one enough as a good solution. Stop using colors as the identifier.

Is it generic? It seems pretty rich in Elden Ring when compared to most games.

Because he’d say no. Better to ask for forgiveness.

The PS5, while bigger than last entries, is hardly the size of a small fridge.

More like a floor air conditioner.

Long time fans of the 2d games really enjoy Wonder as the movement mechanics moved back to a faster feel from pre-New Super Mario Bros. My favorite will probably always be Super Mario World because the movement is the most responsive in that game and I also like to play ROM hacks for it and that community is wild.

New Super Mario Bros ended up with a sluggish movement by comparison and dominated 2d Mario for decades.

The big draw for many people in Mario is movement mechanics and that’s why Odyssey is so popular as well. The 3d platforming with Cappy just feels right. Like a missing extension that we never new we didn’t have.

Yeah. This was the face of an old man having trouble believing what he was hearing.

He looks like a walking corpse, but he seemed to understand what he was hearing and was just amazed by it.