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They do, and they're saying it's not anything like good enough.

I don't think it was ridiculous at all, and I wholeheartedly believe this would negatively impact the giant space slugs from Empire Strikes Back. Can't you tell how serious I am?

Less harmful to Earth's environment, anyway. The environment on those asteroids is going to be all kinds of fucked up, hard luck for any giant space slugs that might be living there.

That's because you can still go outside. I grew too large for the basement door and am terminally online as a result.

RuneScape has become two games. Regular RuneScape is colloquially called RS3. The developer, Jagex, also maintains Old School RuneScape, which is a based on a version of the game from of a server backup made back in 2007. Both versions of RuneScape are free to play, but have much more content only available to paying subscribers, termed "members". Membership Bonds are a token redeemable for two weeks worth of membership, but you can also buy them from other players, meaning you can just buy them to sell for cold or you can get your membership by accumulating in-game money without spending IRL money. This is the only form of microtransaction in OSRS, but RS3 has a shitload, to the point that you can effectively buy skill progression instead of training it. RS3 is Jagex's cash cow, but OldSchool is more popular and has more active players. If RS3 died, the devs would likely try to railroad microtransactions into OSRS, so people like me see RS3's player base (especially the whales) as sacrificial lambs. "Paypig" is a term from the financial domination kink community, and I used it because like most RuneScape players I am a gross misanthrope.

I love the people who still play RS3 more than they love themselves, which is not at all. OSRS has zero MTX outside of bonds and it's all bankrolled by Jagex's income from the paypigs who keep "RuneScape" on life support.

Still waiting on that update-sized update

Accelerationist begone

I was a child when this was a thing. Looks like it came out in 2015 and settled in 2017. That is not recent.

Bro you are fucking killing me right now

I take it you don't remember the SuperFish scandal? Lenovo just settled the class action lawsuits not too long ago. I don't blame anyone for not trusting Lenovo after they sold PCs with built-in spyware that ran MITM attacks using self-signed certificates and hijacked their SSL/TLS connections. You really don't need a study for something that Lenovo admitting to doing.

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Simpsons called it: