riscy

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Comment · 9 months ago
Part of the motivation for these protests was the inflation making it hard to afford everyday living. Not working means even less money.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Any failure that causes a loss of control or communication with the satellites, especially as a result of attack or software update rolled out to many of them that contains a latent bug.
Comment · 1 year ago
How do you convince those pre-diabetic people to use a GLP-1? There was quite a bit of backlash about the one-time injection COVID vaccine when it was mandated.
Comment · 1 year ago
For a simple version bump, I feel like brew is fine. Or do you have other tooling updates in mind?
Comment · 1 year ago
You should go to the casinos yourself and find out! As someone who's made it to late game Luck Be a Landlord, you will feel right at home!
Comment · 1 year ago
> I'm not trying to be mean here, but it feels like you have no idea how a slot machine works...

It has every aspect of the slot machines I was playing just 2 weekends ago at casinos in Reno, but without credits being deducted from my balance per spin. Instead, in this game, you must pay lump sums from your credit balance to the Landlord after N spins. It's thinly disguised gambling with fake credits, but with a "Gamble now, pay later" twist.

EDIT: my mistake, it appears from the video you also pay one credit per spin, in addition to the rent.

Comment · 1 year ago
>The cost per spin is the thing that makes it gambling.

The "landlord" aka casino is constantly requiring that you pay `X credits within N spins` or else it's game over. That is just moving when the subtraction of player's credits happens from every spin to every few spins. It's effectively X/N credits per spin, per "rent" notice. That's a core game mechanic.

You realize you're trying to argue that this is appropriate for children, where the whole game is they pretend to be a gambling addict trying to make their ever-increasing rent payments (which children don't have) by taking spins at a video slot machine.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s why replica guns are _required_ to have bright orange tips on the barrel: so other people (like police) know it’s not real.

If this game is centered around a Vegas-style slot machine aesthetic & animation, people will think it’s gambling.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
US tariffs were put in to prevent Chinese cars from competing here too.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, Hezbollah is a political party and militia rolled into one that uses terrorism achieve their goals. But there are no good guys here.

Likud is a terrorist organization that killed thousands of Palestinians through the IDF. Not to mention Frenchmen, Americans, and Arabs. Their forces recently bombed schools, refugee centers, and other "safe" zones in Gaza. They've fired indiscriminately at reporters and humanitarian aid groups. The party's espoused policy is against statehood for Palestinians and instead encourage settlement of their territory, even through violence.

Comment · 2 years ago
Hezbollah is a political party that holds seats in Lebanon’s parliament. It’s bizarre to paint them with a broad brush.

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