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You can host through Microsoft, using a service called Minecraft Realms, but the license agreement also entitles you to host your own server using whatever infrastructure you like, with certain restrictions on content and monetization (most notably, you aren't supposed to include things like gambling and lootboxes using real-world money or MTX currency that can be purchased with real money).

I'm all for piracy, but hosting your own Minecraft server isn't even piracy, it's explicitly allowed!

The beer can and the image on the mug look especially "melty." And his arm looks super smooth. And he has a wedding ring on both hands. And his leg starts out looking more or less like a leg but on the left end it looks more like a pillow.

I'm fairly confident it's AI.

I love TOME! I have all the DLC on Steam so I'm not sure about the website linking thing. The Doombringer class from Ashes of Urh'Rok is my favorite.

This is a great one! I'm terrible at it but I love trying out all the different equipment.

I'm not really part of the target audience. I already have a laptop that's slightly more powerful and I could hook it up to my TV if that was a thing I wanted to do. I don't need a separate gaming PC for my living room.

As a kid, Sonic and his friends were my favorite video game characters. I had all the Genesis games, and Sonic CD, and I collected merch and read the comics and watched the TV shows and drew bad fanart. (I didn't have an OC, I just made Sonic cross over with other characters I liked, like Mega Man.)

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for Gamecube was the last official Sonic game that I thought was really good all the way up until Mania released, which was a LONG drought. I have a complicated relationship with mascot characters these days because I resent that they're owned by corporations and primarily exist to weaponize my nostalgia, but the honest truth is that it works. I can't help but still love Sonic and his friends, even though I'm acutely aware that they mostly exist to sell me stuff I don't need.

Mine takes less than a minute.

The main point seems to be that individual reviewers don't have recognizable voices anymore, but honestly I don't really buy the idea that reviews ever "worked" in the way that this writer seems to want them to. Any individual number was always meaningless except for knowing whether a specific person liked the thing at a specific moment in time. Maybe some people were lucky enough to know a reviewer who reliably predicted how they'd feel about the product, such that they could just look at the number and be good to go, but IMO the "feature list" has always been the most interesting part of the review, and it hasn't gone anywhere.

I live in a neighborhood where every day I see more and more people who can't make ends meet. Shops and services are closing every month and the storefronts stand empty.

The bank near me has signs up in their window "Celebrating 250 Years of the American Dream!"

Read the fucking room.

Mumei!

Mozilla's DAU count has been dropping for years. There's all sorts of reasons for that. I bet you can come up with a few yourself.

I honestly cannot. I would expect DAUs to be increasing as Chrome becomes increasingly user-hostile and Firefox is the first stop for people looking to jump ship from Chromium-based browsers. Where are the users going?