Maybe see what player counts look like in a few months before making great and grand plans? People want a fresh take on The Sims, but maybe without the backlog of a hundred DLCs and other EA shittery. But, inZOI may not be it. Apart from the pervasive and distasteful use of generative AI, it may just not have that special something.

So give it a while, lads. Maybe it really will be a hit, but sales in the first week mostly just say that people wanted a fresh swing at The Sims, not that they really want what inZOI is.

Good. Since that’s the only feedback he notices, then good.

Pretty basic really. People keep calling him a Russian asset, compromise, a puppet of the Kremlin. So, he’ll scream and shout and rattle his plastic saber about how he’s totally going to fight Russia for real in an effort to placate the claims that Russia owns him. He won’t actually do anything of substance against Russia’s interests.

Remember kids, doing crimes is only a crime if you’re poor. When you’re rich and connected you don’t even have to try to hide it!

And if anyone calls them out on it, they’re immediately branded as “pedophile sympathizers” if not actual pedophiles themselves. So, not only do they get to be violent monsters, saying that they shouldn’t commit horrible violence without any sort of legal oversight (or at all, really) makes YOU the bad guy!

Godamnit, swing and a miss. Second time’s the charm.

They would for sure catch charges. The days of having to do something illegal in order to be convicted are behind us. If the MAGAstappo get their way the only remaining function of the judicial system will be as a cudgel against their enemies.

MAGAstappo. Be a real shame if armed resistance required them to show ID instead of just moving in the shadows.

Republicans would be the first ones to bend the knee to escape the purges.

They were completely fine with screwing everyone else over, fucking up the planet so long as the chief consequences didn’t hit until AFTER they died off, but now that their Social Security is on the chopping block they’re finally noticing.

Now if only he could “Fall out a window” and stop actively destroying the country, that’d be great.

Edit: Oh and they want to pay them below minimum wage!

Well obviously. Leave it to Republicans to encourage pushing children into the workforce to fill the gaps Republicans created, but then also insist that because children are poor workers they should be paid less.

It’s not even necessarily that people can’t afford the space, it’s just that the space is being required in the first place. Being able to afford it is just one facet of why I’m not setting aside a whole room for VR.

Ironic really, given how right here the cuntservatives are just chasing their own tail.

Now he needs to drive around in it while we all absolutely pray for the funniest thing in the world to happen.

Not just useless but actively unwelcome.

What if we just, like, gave you a little part of the measles? Like whatever’s on the outside of the virus, so your immune system can just know to attack that?

If only there was some way we could train our immune systems to fight off Measles without having to actually infect ourselves with it. That way an immediate immune response could keep the disease from ever taking root to begin with! I blame those fucking scientists for not thinking of this already, they’re probably too busy making fake climate change scare articles. ^/s

If the primary benefit was reduced electricity usage, then that’s not a function of crypto mining, that’s just less heating. You would get the exact same results with an electric heater maintaining the same temperatures. You have demonstrated that turning the heat down by a few degrees can save a noticeable amount of money.

You got some crypto out of it, about $13.50 worth, at the cost of whatever wear and tear and reduction in life your computer systems may have suffered, but in the end all you did was just put in a whole lot of effort to turn down the thermostat.

I live in a small town in Alaska, more than 300 miles from the nearest decently sized city. It’s been more than two years since I’ve given Amazon a single dime. You’ll manage if you care enough to try.