But can they neuter it to make it near useless without a Microsoft account tagging along?

Congratulations! Remember to have extra diapers available at all times.

Another article speaks about Windows 11 requiring a Microsoft account to install it, no longer supporting local accounts.

The extra extra fun part is to then offer you the opportunity to pay for bigger storage!

As said in other comments, perhaps that is the point.

That other than a niche we specialize in, we’re pretty fucking dumb at everything else.

Ck3 with the plague mechanics does this. The base game has some default settings that absolutely wrecks everything once plagues get going and only having the DLC can change those settings.

This how you realize that there are people around that just want to blow shit up.

Well, if you think about it, they might want to do a Daggerfall with thousands of nondescript villages and dungeons, powered by AI.

Use it as a cassus belli and invade Germany.

Well, I’d say knowing this can add some stress to it, so it does have some significance in a tiny amount.

Only if you’re drinking too much.

Try them at the same time for a combo kill!

You can die of a heart attack if you overdo it.

If it doesn’t have Blackjack and Hookers, then it’s a shitty clone.

A thread of the problem is likely the publisher/developer conflict of interest. When the two can’t come to an agreement, the end result usually fails horribly in both aspects.

Neat stuff.

That part’s wild to me, when people are like “This villain in your story seems to have said and done bad things? So that means you agree with them, yes?” No! Of course not! It’s the literal villain in the story, man!

But there is no utilitarian point of art. It exists to express ideas and to tell truth. I think maybe a lot of people get upset because from their point of view, they are paying money, and they have this relationship where it’s like “If it’s not giving me what I wanted out of this transaction, then it’s bad.”

As admitted by some, Lemmy is a haven for outcasts who are insecure and in need of some sort of validation. They’re clingy about the things that provide it and touchy about things that threatens it, thus projecting an intensity in their interactions.

I see it as coping with helplessly living within an unfair reality. We need more zen in our lives.

Though language is an effective means of communication, it’s not perfect.

To use an example, there was a meme about a literature professor quoting from a book and telling students what the author meant by mentioning the curtains being blue in a scene. As they go on and on about the melancholy and sadness the author was known to experience at the time, Samuel L Jackson busts in through the door and yells “The color was blue because the curtains were blue, motherfucker!”

Or am I remembering it wrong? Anyway, language is open to interpretation and as such, people will interpret it openly.

It’s on point.