Not attempting stand-up, too

He does, too

Data hoarding

No idea, but one of the most recent (negative) reviews says:

you may wonder how its possible to make something more pay to win, non-functional, scummy and devoid of anything resembling fun than war thunder but gaijin manages to make lightning strike twice. if you are somehow able to take one look at the 2nd-to-none worst ui in gaming with less readability than mobile games, and continue to press the play button. you will be met with the most uninteresting cluster♥♥♥♥ of tanks and planes raping the handful of players and their army of bots.

lets also not forget the initial steam launch of this game, which was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews, was taken down because you couldnt get this free game on steam without also paying for a dlc(which by its nature is non refundable). Now the game has been re-listed under a different name specifically so that negative reviews and associated community news/discussions are lost to time and not carried over onto this page.

But I mean, it’s free to try if you have time to spare…

Same

Dark patterns are basically best practices at this point

Definitely worth it even without the community patches!

I did heighten the phrasing for comedic purposes. I mean essayists like Lindsay Ellis ;)

Love this game! Comes closer to the original Diablo gameplay than any other game in my opinion

But the original Ghost in the Shell is perfect! I just rewatched it this weekend and it still looks amazing! Why remake that?

+1 for Linux Mint

That’s an easy block if there ever was one.

I don’t think that holds true quite as much today as it did back when Voltaire said it. He was calling out authoritarian structures like the christian church if I remember correctly. While certainly still true in totalitarian systems like dictatorships, it’s a somewhat different situation in democracies for example. In a democracy you are generally allowed to criticize anyone. However, powerful entities like big corporations and the very rich might still abuse the system to sue you into oblivion.

Also this quote gets misused quite often by people who do not understand the difference between hate speech and criticism and by people who think being called out and criticized for their words is the same as being “not allowed to criticized” or silenced.

“By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” - Umberto Eco

Probably because there is less content