3465 € in 21 years at today’s prices for 287 games. Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 € that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.

3,6 € per game, 49 € per year.

Given the tears, the emotions and the joy I got repeatedly from all those (mostly indie) titles, it’s well worth it. Praised be GabeN and all of Valve!

Also, considering what else you can do with a powerful PC vs a PS5 Pro, the additional investment is sound. Even just in gaming, modding would make it worth in a short while.

In February 2025, the most played PlayStation 5 games by monthly active users (MAU) were Fortnite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II/III/Warzone/Black Ops 6, Grand Theft Auto V, EA Sports FC 25, ROBLOX, Minecraft, Rocket League, Marvel Rivals, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege, and Monster Hunter Wilds.

You can play all of these and more at PS5 Pro equivalent graphic settings (not that you would notice the difference anyway) with a PC you can easily build for less than the cost of a PS5.

Gentle reminder that you can always build yourself a gaming PC for less, especially now that thanks to Proton 75% of the top 1000 titles run on Linux.

Damn! You are a tough cookie. Do you go to the barber?

This is actually my very favorite kind of reasoning to oppose to conspiracy theorists. I don’t use food though, because people rarely think of death as a consequence of tampering with food: I use air travel.

“So you say I shouldn’t trust anyone, I see… So you don’t fly anywhere?” “What has that anything to do with it?” “Do you realize how many different people are involved in running checks just to keep you alive at any given moment of a flight and even in the airport?”

Usually these people drive everywhere and are borderline against the existence of public transport, so using trains or subway lines doesn’t work.

Oh didn’t know they were AI generated. I thought it was just the work of underpaid UI designers, kind of a silent protest

Try talking in them anyway, maybe something general that you can crosspost to all of them at first. I had luck with talking into eternally silent Elite: Dangerous communities.

The beauty of a place without algorithmic feed is that things can surface way more easily.

Also, I wanted to use the Public API calculate a recent activity/users ratio to identify the silent communities that would be more worth interacting with.

There is no reason for the Muslim-majority countries to react with a religious argument instead of strong and even violent political and civil action.

Israel needs Hamas and other Islamist groups to legitimate their actions.

I lived 41 years on this Earth, born a Catholic, always been fascinated by religious difference as a child, only to see religious people being always at the root of the biggest scandals, massacres and inhuman actions in the world.

Religions are the most common and ancient method with which elites split humanity in groups and pit them against each other for their own gain, apart from being used to exploit young, disabled and other vulnerable people to gain money, power or force them to sexual acts and other atrocities.

An inquisitive rational person who is also genuinely religious defies all of my experience and any logic argument that I know can be thrown at it.

A religious cult wants another religious cult that it got labeled as unstable terrorists all over the western world to do the one thing that triggers everyone to think that terrorists attacks will escalate potentially all over the world and that therefore action against Muslim countries and governments is required, because of at least 24 years of pedantic racist propaganda.

I know the details follow no logic but it’s religious people governing all over Israel, USA and the Arab countries: no logic to be found there.

Exactly what Israel wants. Religious people should be closed in prison islands to let them kill each other.

I collect all the stars since GTA III.

I also play everything on Easy because I have a life.

Show this to Varoufakis.

Good enough. Now tell me where it is made and you can call it perfect.

I take the (you may call it Stoic) decision not to think about what I cannot affect. 23andMe is not a good company, it is tied to Google etc. and they are sloppy with security. I am not even trying to justify myself not taking my data away from there earlier, that is my fault, and I have been stupid and lazy.

That said, their Privacy Statement is quite clear about what should happen and none of the exception listed there apply, also because genetic data is anyway Art. 9 data.

I will act at the best of my possibilities and not concern myself more than needed with how bad of an actor anyone may be in the US (it is a bit overwhelming as an exercise, especially nowadays).

What I meant is that “this Privacy Statement will apply to your Personal Information as transferred to the new entity”, so by itself the sale of assets is not a reason to exclude any data from anything stated there.

I am deleting my account as soon as I get transferred all the data, but what happens when I request the deletion is still valid whether or not they sold the assets.

And genetic data of any kind is absolutely covered by GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-34/

Oh well, Augustus was probably bisexual as well, rumored to be a bottom (which was the only thing Romans kind of picked up on) and he was well-known for his serial adultery, although I guess Markie would see this as something cool, while Augustus actually wrote laws against this behavior himself.

A merger or liquidation is not a valid purpose to store personal, and especially Art. 9, data, as covered by the legal basis of legal obligations, according to GDPR. So, if you are in Europe, they would have to delete it.

I just passed by the settings page and requested all my data. When I receive it, I will delete the account which, according to their full privacy statement, requires them to discard my sample, delete my data AND opt me out of 23andMe Research.

What I could easily see happening is that if that particular subset of users is demonstrated to be high spending, or if the AI wrapper products that appeal to them are going to prove to be, then this result, no matter the direction of the correlation, is going to be disregarded.

I want Steve Levitt to stream himself playing this!