China has come out with rules for games that ban daily log in rewards, bonuses for first-time spenders, and incentives to repeatedly spend on games. They’re also forbidden from offering loot boxes to minors, allowing in-game items to be auctioned. They will have spending limits, and require that any items inside loot boxes must also be directly purchasable.
In response, Tencent has lost a bunch of value.
My only hope is that these rules proliferate globally.
I am under the opinion that anything negative that happens to this company is ultimately for the better of the entire industry and probably the world.
I find her characterisation in voice doesn’t translate to who she’s supposed to be very well.
It’s like Throgg.
Poor Throgg, the default Norsca lord lines he says in diplomacy are ironically more suiting for him than his usual lines
Just saw someone on the internet say Yrliet’s romance was ‘inconsistent’ because
When it’s starting in Act 2, she says “it’s fine if you’re screwing another person, I understand the need for physical intimacy, which I won’t provide you.”
And then in Act 4 she says “it’s not fine for you to screw another person, we should be exclusive”
As if that’s an inconsistency and not just…her feelings changing over time as the relationship progressed and she caught feelings harder than she expected.
The voice over mod for him is sublime.
Luke can’t move objects with the Force in the beginning of the movie, but he can move them at the end? uhhh plot hole that’s gonna be a ding scene does not contain a lapdance
Trying to convince leo to eat his left overs because his specific brand of cat food is expensive AF.
I wonder how this will affect certain gatcha games
He really should learn from my family (just not one of my uncles)
There’s leftovers
and four hours later there isn’t
I’d be happy if he went back and picked at it all day, but he doesn’t.
He demands new and I’m like; “that’s half a pouch of food going to waste, EAT IT”
Don’t give me hope…
(I say that, the one and only game I play is Arknights, and that’s arguably one of the most forgiving of them out there lol)
Peeve: Staying up late/early today for movie night with some friends across the pond but I ran out of things to do and have been listlessly clicking on random youtube videos for a while now only to go “meh” and move on to the next around 10min in
I should probably draw…
Should probably do alchemy/jewelcrafting on my human priest so i can make my own prisms for her IC backstory.
But effort.
Nobody:
Me: As a fanfiction writer, watching bigots seethe and reveal the real reasons for their dogmatic treatment of Tolkien’s texts (which really has nothing to do with their claimed noble purpose of protecting his artistic integrity) would already be reason enough to have queer and POC elves in my Middle-earth.
Okay. I hate being That Person. I really, really do. So I’ll try to write this post without being That Person.
Years ago, I didn’t understand why minority cultures refused to give up some of their customs that, to me, seemed pointless and arbitrary. Why did they have these particular hills to die on, when they could just adopt the obviously and self-evidently objectively correct mainstream social customs that I saw everywhere around me and grew up with?
And then I found myself at the receiving end of that, in a country that I then thought of as my own. Because of what I believed in (or rather, didn’t believe in), and because of whom I loved.
The problem with following a majority cultural tradition is that it’s invisible to you, unless you make a conscious effort to see it. From your perspective, everyone else has a culture; you just have “the normal way things are”. It might be perplexing to you, for example, why someone doesn’t want to go along with a holiday that’s rooted in a particular religion, especially one that still wields tremendous political influence in much of the world and often uses it for ill ends. To you, it’s just part of your yearly routine, and is associated with good memories involving your family and friends, and in modern mass culture it’s been stripped of pretty much all religious context other than the name and motto, so why not enjoy the festive mood for its own sake? Why can’t the other person just do this one little thing?
Except to them, it might not be a little thing.
As it is said: “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
I’m not trying to guilt-trip anyone, far from it. Enjoy the holiday if you do celebrate it! I don’t think it’s wrong to celebrate Christmas. As an atheist who isn’t qualified to talk about Christianity except in the most superficial way, I don’t think it’s inherently wrong to celebrate it if you aren’t Christian, either. What I’m cautious of is the peer pressure that inherently arises around mainstream cultural traditions.
Mainstream cultural traditions have great power as rituals of solidarity. And with that great power comes great responsibility. Celebrate them if you do — but be mindful of the power over minds that rituals wield, and use it responsibly. By which I mean — be aware that not everyone might see things the way you do, especially if they grew up under different circumstances.
Thank you, and happy holidays!
me personally, yes. not welsh, british, or european. just me. i am the only benchmark of normality. you all gotta catch up.
No wonder the world is in such a shambles 
they don’t call it Normal Island for nothing
I have tasted marmite.
But have you have the chance to smell Lynx marmite?