You know, I see these at the 7-Eleven checkout every other day and never thought to try them. I think I’ll pick one up next time I’m in there and see how they are!

Oh, this sounds dope! I may have to order a couple of these.

I miss the sour Altoids. They were the perfect amount of sour without overpowering the actual flavor, stayed sour for a while, and still tasted good after the sourness had faded.

My apologies if I’m getting this wrong, as I don’t play Gacha games, but isn’t that worse?

It depends. I’m not sure how current loot box games handle it, but with most gacha games, there are determined odds for the prizes, so they have a “pity” system. So after a certain amount of pulls, you’re always guaranteed to get the top reward. RNG will make it so that you’ll typically pull all the way to nearly the end of that pity timer before you get the top reward, but you’ll eventually get it.

I’m not sure if traditional loot “boxes” have such a protection in place. I dunno if it’s any better or worse since they’re both pretty manipulative tactics, but it’s different.

I feel like the difference is the loot “box”, itself. Granted, I’ve not played any loot box games since Team Fortress 2, but in that game the box was an actual inventory item you could store and open whenever you wanted, and those items would always be from the same pool.

With Genshin, you’re basically just pulling from a singular, infinite loot box that rotates its reward pool. So you can’t, as a player, decide to open a Year 1 item when it’s not in the current rotation.

It’s a small difference, but I feel like that’s why we have separate terminology for “gacha” and “loot box” games.

I’m confused. I’ve played Genshin, and I don’t remember any sort of loot box system in the game. There’s a gacha system which seems to be what the article keeps referring to, but that’s very different from what I think the average user considers a “loot box”.

As long as you don’t let it expire, it won’t even register on any record-checks. Even then, it likely wouldn’t even be an issue unless you got pulled over without a valid license. If that never happened, then you’ll probably be fine.

Was kinda hoping for specs. I like the design upgrade, though.

IMO, the “free parking rule” is necessary for a healthy game of Monopoly. Otherwise, the game will drag on for hours with players just slowly whittling away at each other’s properties until eventually everybody has been completely bled out.

However, that’s an intentional part of the game design; the original Monopoly was meant to showcase just how agonizing unchecked capitalistic greed can be, so games that run a long time with Pyrrhic victories are completely intended. But if you’ve got a life to live, you need to play with a few house rules to speed things along.

If I didn’t already have crippling self-image issues, I’d have seriously considered it.

And you don’t need to provide them with it, either. A friend of mine does OF, and has had no such requirement to verify her social media. Unless this is a new requirement that existing members aren’t obligated to go through, or required for a specific feature of the OF platform, then I believe providing them that info is otherwise optional.

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I dunno that the “Prime” name is that hard to get. If a couple of YouTubers can name their energy drink “Prime” and get away with it, then I imagine Microsoft wouldn’t have much trouble using it.

Sounds like he finally ran out of that Microsoft money.

No. OP seems to be asking in good faith, and has been receptive to the answers provided. Genuine curiosity should never be condemned.

Then it’s probably time to wipe.

I don’t think they can do much at all, actually. They’re not allowed much wiggle room when it comes to being DMCA-compliant. They pretty much have to take every takedown request at face value, because DMCA requests are a legal process, and I imagine that any intervention on YouTube’s side could be seen as arbitration. I doubt they could do much to interfere with an impersonator, since even a falsely-submitted DMCA complaint is still a legal request that has to be processed accordingly.

The DMCA needs to be gutted.

Nintendo can do something, though. They’re the ones being impersonated, so they can actually take the guy to court.

I learned this about bleach a while back! I remember wondering why bleach felt slimy to the touch, even though it looked like it had roughly the same consistency as water. Turns out it wasn’t the bleach that was slimy, it was me. I am the slime.

lmao, we used to call them “Works bombs” as a kid, because we’d use The Works cleaner for it.

Yeah, I cheaped out and bought a bottle of a store-brand cleaner which I think may be the enzyme type. It’s made a bit of progress, but not much so far. :(