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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I googled but could not find source. I only found more memes based on this graph. Which isn't to say it's fake, could simply be in some research paper hidden away under a paywall. 15k sample is a very big study though.

The graph alone is highly problematic to make any argument though as it doesn't specify other critical axis such as age which would highly change the meaning of this graph. The older you are, T levels fall, but your IQ increases. So age alone can potentially explain the phenomenon we're seeing here.

My attempt to find the graph only resulted in many counter points, however.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Seems more like rules state everyone but cisgender men in the way they worded it. Trans-man would be included since it says anyone under the trans umbrella.

Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Anyone under the trans umbrella (eg non binary) is welcome

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

People should just ask AI. They'll humor almost anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought I already replied to this, but apparently not. Sorry for the late response.

The start menu no longer has the windows 10 tiles. It's just search and icons of apps you've pinned. Similar to phone app menu. You can put some into folders/groups together. And that's it. There's no further customization possible.

You can get third party solution to bring back more features such as Start11 from Stardock, but that means paying for an additional software and I've heard it gets buggy with windows updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Start menu is permanently lacking features. But besides that it's not a major change. There is third party softwares that puts back 10 style or other start menus, but heard there are issues with windows updates. Besides that just get shutup10 again and tick stuff off. Pretty much solves it imo.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (17 children)

I finally upgraded to 11 last week by accident. Apparently one misclick means straight to next version with no cancel. So after the upgrade first thing I did was get o&o shutup10 to kill the spywares.

P.s. I know I can revert. But that's also effort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah this is Lemmy so I can't say your votes turned out unexpected. But you're right, all this will do is make their job end quicker. There's no money to give, Ubisoft is dying as is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Patent troll means to get patents for purpose of litigation rather than to produce goods.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wouldn't work. This has nothing to do with Japanese customers or Japanese laws. These aren't even in Japanese courts. It's US patents.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Surprised it's still online. Doubly surprised it's still getting updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

People are still on EA Origin? They forced ppl to update ages ago. Surprising they even still had the Origin running.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

BG2 came out in 2000. It didn't exactly have a huge sales happening in 2023 either. It was largely considered as a shelved IP. Yet BG3 came out with massive success. My point is that you have no point. DA was (I would say "is" if veilguard wasn't such a horrible piece of shit) a strong IP with or without inquisitions long tail given from past sales alone. No one ever goes and says their best selling product ever is a weak IP. It's completely bollocks that you're framing it as a weakening IP. Clearly BioWare thought it was strong too since they've spent huge amount of budget into veilguard. You're presuming you know more than their huge investment and sales projection team about Inquisition sales.

Besides, how would you even know if Inquisition had a long tail or not? You have no figures, this game was released exclusively on ea platform at first and continued to be for a long time until it was finally released on steam. I know, because I remember begrudgingly buying it on ea origin. Steam's public data in this is hardly a meaningful pie. My 12m Inquisition data on sales was their Sept 2024 release info. Which I assume BioWare released to imply a long tail and and continued popularity to get more sales into veilguard. But let's not assume.

Btw, I didn't say you said it didn't have a lot of sales either.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2563385

 
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