Well, between their incredibly abusive behaviour towards fans making content on YouTube even though that’s free advertising, the mess with the smash tournaments and them breaking agreements to side with some new band of assholes -

their previous efforts to destroy companies by patent trolling and their current efforts to undo Palworld that have pretty much only been prevented by them teaming up with Sony -

and their very heavy-handed protectionist approach to ROM preservation even though they keep taking away people’s access to their older catalogue, I certainly wouldn’t consider them ABOVE board.

Before sony’s completely ridiculous 2024 I would have firmly called them below-board, but enshittification really hit hard, jeez. (Dashes were for breathing pauses cus that was getting a little long. I was also going to mention an issue with them being a lot less transparent with whether or not they’d ethically sourced their rare earth metals vs the other big two, but I don’t remember quite when that was, just that it was discussed during the switch era).

Edit: tbc I still upvoted cus physical games ARE still important, but I forgot to mention that they don’t let you downpatch digital games so speed running, or even just wanting to play TotK with the dupe glitch, is forced to sometimes be way more expensive thanks to REQUIRING physical AND having to play offline forever cus I think it tries to force patches?

Especially since she would have had to be involved in the rerecording that doesn’t say ‘vote’. Though of course suddenly losing a million dollars in legal fees might have been motivational…

How often do they use mice and keyboards? I get what people who don’t use shortcuts look like to you all, but I know how many times I’ve had to help someone older who works with computers, including just straight up DOS-looking internal text prompt systems fine, remember how to highlight text on a phone to copy, or even be able to look up their apps without clicking on the homescreen ones.

Some people just really only get good with one tool at a time and don’t have the energy for more, and for the younger average person that tool’s gonna be the one they grew up with, the phone.

Related to that, it boggles the mind that Americans need a PRESCRIPTION for 2.1% i can just go buy that off the shelf up here.

If 50% of the estate belongs to your parents and there’s already a tax entity for the trailer, then in this example they would go to forced arbitration to draw up their portion of the land ownership and get their single family tax rebate, and the other half of the property would be the part that starts getting a vacancy tax. I’d imagine with a timeline like six months there’d be a whole lot of arbitrations in the short term to settle existing arrangements like this one. Honestly I’m curious what the land ownership looks like already for the trailer - if they can legally stay on the estate then there must be a portion of the ground that already legally belongs to them.

“House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) offered more of a defensive response, arguing that the administration “has acknowledged it was a mistake.”” THEY LITERALLY DIDN’T. You have one of the guys from the chats saying ‘look how insightful this chat is we demonstrated impeccable leadership and no one was hurt (because the journalist was legit and didn’t offer the info to America’s enemies’

I was about to say, the collapse of the hospital system under the burden of both measles and all the other reasons people will still need hospitals will multiply that percentage.