The UK would be the second largest economy in the EU. There isn’t a way they join without favorable terms.

I see said the blind man, as he picked up the hammer and saw.

I absolutely hated my first experience with modern dual stick controls. It felt so wrong compared to GoldenEye.

No Child Left Behind was replaced by Obama with Every Student Aucceeds Act. It’s mostly been about standardizing primary education so a kid doesn’t miss fundamental topics if the change districts or states in elementary school.

This was an obvious result from COVID closing schools. Every expert in child development was saying this would happen.

Lego is the best of the blocks/bricks. Nothing else is close in quality.

He cares about his fictional moderate Republican family.

There’s social security, which does give seniors enough to exist, but not much else.

I doubt it. Wow is still a massive cash cow. The other franchises also haven’t been mined of all potential value either.

He wants access to massive user bases for fortnite without having to pay anything to the platforms. That’s why he’s so intent on attacking Steam, Apple and Google. Steam would be a massive increase in revenue even with a 30% cut going to steam for epic, but mutual benefit isn’t in vogue at the moment.

Yep. You can’t outrun your fork.

Republicans are incredibly unpopular with pretty much everyone that doesn’t own and wear maga gear. Apathy can’t really explain a 30 point swing.

You can sell keys, but it’s still part of the steam ecosystem, so you can’t sell in game purchases without using steam as the processor.

It’s still the steam ecosystem when you sell steam keys. Why should a game be able to use steam to distribute their game that they sell for a free or reduced price then sell micro transactions without paying steam? If you don’t want to pay steam a cut don’t use their store or distribution.

On the plus side, the guard also killed a good number of the people they were supposedly protecting…

By what definition is the 30% cut high? It’s the same percentage for Apple, Google, and Steam. Brick and mortar is generally around 50%. Amazon is a large range, but 30% is roughly average or even low. eBay charges less, but doesn’t do anything other than facilitate the transaction. Epic charges less to small developers, but that’s also mostly marketing.

It’s not about the epic store being a success. It’s about getting fortnite on steam with little to no fees being paid to steam. Just like the lawsuit against apple.

Maybe having a guy that’s totally invulnerable to the most powerful bad guys is actually not great world building in the first place.

I wouldn’t say that. I’d say he did a great job adapting text to a visual medium. In the text just having the sword light on fire in preparation works. When you see it played out, everyone is going to ask why he didn’t take a swing before leaving.

Reddit has a weird obsession with wanting original content, but hate self promotion or any attempts to monetize. Except for porn, apparently that can be promoted.