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When did the (first) golden age of PC gaming end?
  • Its pretty easy to find a dark age for pc gaming. There was a period of time, during the PS3/Xbox 360 era, where publishers were writing off PC as a platform. There were tons of console exclusives and the games that did hit PC were often bad console ports.

    Still even in that period, there were PC games for people to play. If you were following game trends or interested in most of the games shown off at E3 those years then it was a dark age. If you were playing World of Warcraft or Team Fortress 2, you probably didn't notice.

  • Olympic Breakdancing? Yes. Paris 2024 games.
  • Men can generally do more power moves than women because of a difference in upper body strength. This makes it tough to have mixed gender head-to-head competitions. B-girls using power moves at all is a rather recent development to the scene.

    B-boy and B-girl is the term breakers like, so I would expect them to fight hard against changing that.

  • [MacRumors] Apple Has 'Very Serious' DMA Issues, EU to Enforce Rules 'Soon'
  • Apple's main problem is that making it unappealing is actually against the rules. When you read some of these regulations, it's hard to see how Apple's legal team came to the idea that they were following the rules. It feels like the executives just decided that they weren't going to go any further in opening up the ecosystem until they are forced.

  • Presidential party preference post WWII
  • The republican party has been pro big business since the late 1800s. As the other person has mentioned, you can see the parties' modern economic stances by the 1930s. The Civil Rights movement just shifted them to the Business and Racism party.

  • Does anyone know what this flag means?
  • That depends on what you mean by not hurting anyone with that belief. You can believe in whatever you want if it honestly doesn't hurt anyone else, but that's not usually how it goes. Just leaving a comment saying you dislike trans people is hurtful. Imagine scrolling through a comment section and seeing random comments where people say they hate that you exist.

    How can you reconcile believing they have the right to exist with not liking that they exist? How is that functionally any different?

    Isn't it even more "equal" to accept people's right to have opinions you don't like?

    See the Paradox of Tolerance.

  • Does anyone know what this flag means?
  • Yeah that's my point. It seems like the person is saying that it's crazy to believe that the #savethechildren bumper sticker is anti-trans. It's a really common right-wing 'trick'. You make up a phrase implying gay or trans people are after kids and then go "it doesn't say anything about that on the sticker, I guess that says something about trans people if that's where your mind went" when called out on it.

  • Hot Potato License
  • You can't just ignore the second part of that sentence which gives the right to make commits to all citizens of earth. That would include the person who wrote the last commit.

  • Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy
  • They did change one thing. You used to be able to get electricity at wholesale prices from certain providers. When the rates went crazy during the 2021 storm and people's crazy bills for turning on the lamp blew up on the news, they shut down that option.

    These rate surges do hurt customers, but now it's in the form of rate increases when their contract expires.

  • Woman Stuck in Tesla For 40 Minutes With 115 Degrees Temperature During Vehicle Update
  • It's not a secret door handle, it's a button with a picture of an open car door on it . The problem is that the emergency latch is closer to where a normal door handle is, so people looking down for the handle see it first. The button is just a little further forward and a little higher than people expect, so they always miss it.

    It's still a bad design.

  • Best place to start

    I've been wanting to get into Star Trek, but I'm not sure the best place to start. I'm sure there's a wide range of opinions.

    Some shows 'get good after season 1'. I'm a little worried that I'll end up picking a star trek show with a weak start and then dropping it before the parts people actually like. I vaguely remember reading these sort of comments about TNG.

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    www.rockpapershotgun.com Literally every QA employee at Xbox is working on Starfield, says Phil Spencer

    It sounds like Xbox really wants Starfield to be as bug free as possible, as apparently every QA staff member is working on the game.

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